Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-02
Capitol Hill Notes

Execution Date Set-The Cover
nor to-day fixed the week beginning
July 21 as the time for the cleo
trocution of Lewis Page, of Fayette
county, and William Evans, of Dau-
phin county.
Jitney Cases Up-The Public
thirteen jitney operators in Pitts
burgh to cease operating until they
secure certificates of public con-
venience. Complaints against the
drivers had been filed by the Pitts
burgh TaXicab Company. Com
plains against fifteen others
teen Others were held up pending
were held up pending action
on their applications for GER
tifcates of ublic conveniences. Three
other cases against jitney men were
| dismissed. The Commission to-day
fixed September Is as the time for
arguments in the Wilkes Barre
Railways case, hearings in which
were concluded June 25. The New
Parryville Consolidated Gas Com
pany operating in the borough of
Lehighton, filed a new tariff with
the commission, effective July 81, in
! creasng gas rates from $3.50 to So
per 1000 cubic feet.
Teachers Opinion-The Attorney
Generals Department to-day noti-
fled the State Department of Educa-
ton that continuation school teach
ers appointed by school boards and
paid by local manufacturing con-
Germs, and clerks and stenographers
10 county superintendents of schools
are not eligible for membership in
the State School Teachers Retire.
ment Association.
Treasury Statemcnt-Accord to
a statement issued to-day by State
Treasurer Kephart, the State Treas
urcr began the month of July with
a balance of $500, SS7.15, as COM
pared with balance of $9,022,-
2S5.S4 at the beginning of June. To-
day there is a balance of $5,897,-
1SS.UT in the general fund. During
June the total receipts were $3,-
: %24,SS59O and the disbursements
S3,426.5 $500. The balances in the
various funds follow: Sinking.
e $65S,320 26; school, S95, ,459.49; mo-
S tor, s9S7,521.5S; game, $194, 4,2S6.06; ;
bounty. s25O,72O.46; insurance,
$277,765.91; manufacturing. $751;
= 01S,ST. The receipts of the general
| luna were SStpi-i o lo.fot anu lliC
disbursements $2,5S8,S00.10. The
largest receipts in any other fund
e came itom motor license fees, $267,-
!. COG. 30 The disbursements of this
$ fund reached S779771.50.
a Papers For Thaw-Requisition
= papcrs for the return to New YORK
State of Harry K. Thaw, of Pitts
= brrrk now in a private asylum in
l Philadelphia, were received at the
t Office of Governor Sproul to-day
t from the Governor of New York.
Thaw IS wanted for an alleged as
I sault mnon Frederick Gump, 16-
! vear~old Kansas City school boy in
I the Hotel McAlpin, New York City.
The rc0uisition papers were imme-
diateIv turned over to Attorney
a General William l. Schaffer and he
' will arrange for hearing before
. expe6 tion papers are acted upon.
, Durirr tbe Brumbaugh administrd-
> ton efforts were made to get Thaw
: out of pennsylvania and Attorney
. General scbaffer wants to study the
decisions of former Attorney GEN
eral Rrowr in the case before fix
, ing time for the nearing.
Tcmpleton in Town-rhomas w.
. TEN pleton former Congressman of
r Luzerne county and recently ap-
i pointed Superintendent of Public
! Sproul, paid his first visit to that
E department to-day ana conferred
t for some time with I,siia rstiliFing HE Super
2 lntendent Shreiner Wh'ie Mr.: Tenn
! pieton said he would not discuss
appo .ntments or changes in the per-
sonnel of tbe Office until he had dis
cussed the matter with the Coy
ernor. it became known that Mr..
= shreiner will be appointed arst dep
: uty of the department for for the pres
, ent and will continue the duties he
has been familiar with ln super
vision of the proposed cohstruction
work in the Capitol Park lextension
zone. A second depu.yl VIII De
named to assist in the e.SStlon or
the proposed memorial p,Ege ana
the new office building for Mch the
LEGISLATURE appropriated moley' the
cn:e rged force of the uedortnent
; Will require use of the fornSt main
Office of the Health Departnfent ad-
Joining the present onhce' the
ihlpcr:ntendent.