Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

S11zAs'sz@2 ports o m n &
here tell of little damage done by
the weather in counties which were
hard hit by the early frosts of last
September. Some fears were en-
tertained for fruit crops, but the
lower counties had no trouble.
From accounts there are many
fruit trees which will begin to
bear this year because of the syste-
matio planting of orchards in recent
years and the reports on the bios.
SONS are very favorable. Reports
coming to the State Department of
Agriculture are also telling of extern
sive planting of potatoes among
gardeners and on truck farms and
that there will be large areas on
general farms devoted to corn.
10 DISCUSS Observation-Disclosures
attending cooperation of the Penn
sylvania and United States Govern
ment in employment matters, par
ticularly with reference to the de-
mands for special avocations, will be
taken up at Washington with Secre-
tary OF Labor Wilson and other Of
hcials by commissioner l.. r. Pal
mer, of the State Department of La
Dor and Industry. He will also take
up matters connected with employ
ment of women in munition facto-
ries and ordnance plants.
Increases Filed-Notices of in
creas of stock or debt have been
filed with the Public Service Com
mission by half a dozen of the cleo
trio companies, while the Cambria
and Indiana railroad has given no.
tice of addition of 100000 of COM
mon stock to the $1,200,0OO now
outstanding. Other increase notices
filed were: Edison Electric Co., Lam
caster. bonds, S115,0 900; Bethlehem
Electric Light Co., Bethlehem, bonds
$4,000; Metropolitan Edison Co.,
Reading, bonds, $4S,5O0; Harris
burg Light and Power Co., Harris
fburg, bonds, $4,000; Shenango Val
ley Electric Co., New Castle, bonds,
$4,000; New Castle Electric Co.,
New Castle, bonds, $11 900; Montola
Water Co, Osceola Mills, bonds,
$4,000.
Care of soIdiers.-In an opinion
given to-day to DR.. L. NJ. Green, su-
perintendent of the State Insane Hos
pital in this city, the Attorney Gen.
erais Department establishes proce-
dure to be followed in maintenance
of insane soldiers sent to the institu-
ton. Under an arrangement made
with the United States Government,
insane soldiers who are residents of
Pennsylvania are being sent to the
hospital from camps, and the super
| intendent asked whether counties
wherein soldiers resided at the time
| of enlistment are to be liable for
their care. 1t is suggested that in
order to determine the question Pc
| titiOnq In chn he
ed to the courts of the proper county
| and that there is no objection to
receiving patients and instituting
| proceedings afterwards.
Club PrOtests.-The Duuuesne Club
of Pittsburgh, has filed a complaint
with the Public Service Commission
against the action of the Equitable
Gas Company, of Pittsburgh, in
placing it on the elective industrial
list, wherein it reserves right to
withdraw or curtail gas service. The
| complaint is the first of the kind to
be received.
After "Nick."-Governor Brumbaugh
has issued a requsition on the New
York authorities for return to Phil
adelphia of Nicholas Ritt, wanted in
that city in connection with the
Fifth ward cases.
State Must Pay.-The State Com
pensation Board to-day handed down
nineteen decisions. in the majority of
which it dismisses appeals. In the
claim of Belle II. Bryan, Carnegie,
against the state educational author
tiles compensation is awarded
against the commonwealth for the
death of her husband, w. S. Bryan,
who was injured while on his way
to make an address in Pittsburgh by
Df I.a Il
ent of schools of Allegheny. II is
held that at the time of the acci-
dent he was in the course of his
employment.
To Return Monday. - Governor
Brumbaugh, who left the Capitol on
speech making tour to-day, will re-
turn Monday.
Senator Burke Here.-Senator w.
], Burke, of Pittsburgh, one of the
O'Neil candidates for Congressman
at-Large, was here to-day on his
way TO Wilkes-Barre.
Charter Grnnted.-The charter for
the Harrisburg Terminal Co. was
granted last evening.
No Purchases.-The State Forestry
Commission did not authorize pur-
chase of any additional land for for
estry reservations to-day
NOrthamptOD's Share.-Northamp-
ton county will receive $l5,450.O3 as
its share of the appropriation for aid
os counties for township roads. 1t
goes to second class townships and
is for 1911.
Smallpox and Typhoid. = State
health authorities have to-day sent
an engineer to investigate a. small
outbreak of typhoid fever in Girard-
vile. Schuylkll county. UP to the
present time 1t has not been deter
mined how many cases there are.
One new case of smallpox was re-
ported from the borough of Juniata,