Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-16

two years, according to records of
/ the State Department. Three have
been issued thus far this month.
making forty-five the total of 1918.
In the two preceding years the Gov
ernor issued thirty. Many of the
! proclamations related to war ac-
tivities and were issued by request.
Records of the State Department.
which have just been closed for the
/ fiscal year, show that the Governor
issued 19s acquisitions during the
year ending December J against 2S4
/ in the previous year and that 252
this year as against 500. Between
, December !, 1915, and December l,
1918, the Governor signed 81 death
warrants and issued so respites
against 40 warrants and 25 respites
in the previous two years. In the last
two years sentences OF death were
commuted TO life Imprisonment aft
er action by the State Board of Par
dons.
The state issued 1SS pardons in
the two years ending December
last, 76 being in the last year. In the
previous two-year period 164 were
issued.
Institutes On-State farmers in
stitutes, which have been in pro-
gresS since the middle of November.
will be suspended the latter part of
this week, until after the Christmas
holidays. Attendance is stated at the
Capitol TO have been very satisfac-
tory and interest to have been very
marked in such topics as land drain
age. fertilizer and farm labor. This
week institutes will be held in Mid
die Spring, Cumberland, Landisburg
and Millerstown, Perry, Shirleysburg.
Huntingdon, Hustontuwn and Cedar
Grove, Fulton; Irwin, Scottdale and
LiEonier. Westmoreland: Sweden
Valley ana Gerania, Potter; Haze1
and Baxter. jefferson: New Mahon-
ing. Carbon; Scotia and Canadensis,
Monroe county.
Big InCreasc.-Thousa of dol
lars in new issues of bonds and
stock are represented in announce
ments Just made by the Public Ser
vice Commission OF the filing of GER
tificates of notification by utility
companies. Among the notices filed
are Germantown Steam Company.
Philadelphia, bonds. 100000; Nh
hoEing and Shenango Railway and
Light Company, New Castle, bonds,
$3.50. 600; Chr.stiana and CoGtesville
Street Railway Company, Lancaster,
common stock, $4,000; Pittston and
Avoca Street Railway Company,
Wilkes Barre, bonds. Sc, 600: Wilkes
Barre and Plains Street Railway
Company. WilkeS-B bonds. SS,-
coo; Philadelphia Electric Company,
Philadelphia, bonds, S1.500.000;
Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad,
Pennsylvania Gas and Electric Com
100000: Metropolitan Edison Com
pany. Reading. bonds. s119,000;
Citizens Light and Power Company,
oil City. bonds $4,000; Citizens
Traction Company, Oil City, bonds,
$4,000; Lake Erie, Franklin and
Clarion Railroad Company. Frank
lin. bonds. $4,000; South Pittsburgh
Water Company, Pittsburgh, bonds,
$4,000
Got Good ResuIts.-Results of
vaccination 10 protect cattle against
the sickness known as shipping fe-
yer or stockyard pneumonia have
been so satisfactory in reducing
losses of animals that the State Live
bulletin form. They were conducted
at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
yards and other places by Drs. J. 3.
Hardenbergh and Fred Boerner, Jr.,
OF the state service. In three years
sixty-one infected herds containing
1881 animals, had 204 deaths prior
to vaccination. In forty-one of the
herds the disease was checked with
out further losses and in forty-five
no deaths after week following
vaccination. The mortality prior TO
vaccination was 1913 per cent. and
after I. per cent.
Eleven Homicidcs-No less than
eleven cases involving homicide OF