Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-15

sion for the coming week and in
addition there will be arguments
heard. Monday and Tuesday will be
devoted to consideration of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit lease in
executive session. The argument
Monday will include the Pittsburgh
trolley fare increases, Birdsboro
stone, Milton Brick and Clearfield
county coal rate cases, involving
thousands of dollars. Wednesday
there will be heard the Derry town
ship grade crossing cases, which are
on the William Penn highway in
Dauphfn county and which will es-
tablish precedents; the Philadelphia
Suburban Gas and Electric Co., Har-
risburg Gas, Boyertown Electric, Mt.
Carmel Electric and other rate cases
with the White Deer Mountain water.
case from Northumberland county
which involves service. Thursday
the Overlook Steam and Phoenix
Vile, Valley Forge and STAFFORD
Street Railway. Philadelphia Subnr-
ban Gas and Electric Co. cases will
come up for hearing with the Chester
city lighting contract. The Wilkes
Barre railway cases will be heard
at Wilkes Barre Friday.
Compensation RuIing.-The State
Compensate ton Board in dismissing
an appeal of the Lehigh Valley rail-
road in the claim of c. E. Smith,
Weissport, refuses to declare an
engine which the man was repair
ing engaged in interstate commerce
The engine is found to have been
assigned Mt the will of the manage
ment to handle inter and intrastate
commerce and says Had this en-
gine been engaged in interstate
commerce and on that particular
trip become disabled so that it had
to be taken from the train and a
workman was injured while making
repairs for the purpose of continu-
ing that trip, then such workman
would have been engaged in repair
ing a utility of interstate commerce,
but when this engine had finished it's
days work and had been placed in
the defendants round house, it
was engaged in neither interstate or
intrastate activity at the time of the
accident" The board acted on over
Il dozen cases.
New Major j. Walter Wilde,
Hazleton, was to-day appointed a ma
jor of infantry in the Reserve Militia
and e.atsh assigned %S, to the Second RFegiment
compensation Board has awarded
compensation at 81 week from June
20 to August 27 last year to Harry
=. ALUM, QUO oOuln front
Steelton, for injuries received to his
left hand at the Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending Company Works.
Harrisburg Charter - The Ben
nett Musical Institute of Harris
burg. was chartered to-day with $5,-
600 capital by Nellie ]. Bennett, G.
w. Bennett. Harrisburg, and Eli B.
Better, East Hanover.
Harrisburg Notary Miss Clara /.
Miller has been appointed a notary
public.
Hargest William NJ. Har-
gest deputy attorney general. was
the Flag Day orator at Sunbury.
Early Meeting - Daniel Il. Lafean,
state banking commissioner, expects
the committee named Yesterday to
formulate plans for the organiza-
tion of financial institutions under
state supervision is to meet within a
few days.
Smallpox Again - AS the result of
an investigation by the County Med
lcal Inspector of one case of small
poX in Potter county several other
cases have been brought to light. A
ten-year-old girl living in Oswayo
borough had been i'll with smallpox
for some time and upon the dfscov-
cry of this case the medical inspec-
tor found another case in Shingle-
house borough. In following up the
second case he found one in Sharon
township and one in Hebron township
the same county.