Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-11
APPEAL TAKEN
NLOCAL CASE
Ross Case Taken to Board bv
the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company

The Pennsylvania railroad has en-
tered an appeal to the State Com
pensation Board from the award of
Referee Chester W. Cummings, of
Lancaster, allowing compensation to
the widow and daughter of Robert
f. Ross, 1885 North Sixth street.
Harrisburg, who was found dead in
stock car in Marysville yards on
May SO, 1918. Ross was a car mark
er and entered a car to release a
calf whose head had been caught
between bars. Death is supposed TO
nave been due to heart trouble SUI
perlnduced by eXcrtions in trying to
loosen the calf. The question at is
sue is whether the mans death was
due 10 eXertions in behalf of his en-
ployer.
An order has been made by the
Board refusing compensation 10
Mary MaryanoNic. widow of an en-
plqye of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, Steelton, who had been sep
arated from her husband and re-
celVed no support from him. but di-
recting that 500 burial expenses be
PAID to personal representatives of
the deceGse
An appeal in Sweet VS.. Swift &
Co.. Harrisburg. has been dismissed.
The Governors office to-day an
nounced approval of the resolutions
recalling the Wallace third class city
code amendment bill: Ramsey third
class city bill to permit suspension
OF policemen: Davis bill increasing
fees OF witnesses and jurors. provid-
ing for clerks for Philadelphia or
phans' court judges and the Blakely
township school district bill which
provides a salary instead of a per
diem pay scale.
The Adjutant Generals Depart
ment to-day announced that Major
General Charles VI. Clement, of Sum
bury, who commanded the Pennsyl-
Nania National Guard when it enter
ed Federal service and was in COM
mand foT time at Camp Hancock.
mad eeen placed upon the National
Guard retired list at his own request
with rank of major general. General
Clement entered the Guard as a pri-
vate in Company +. Sth Infantry,
Sunbury, September 5, 1877, and has
peen continuously connected . with
the militia. In the Spanlsh-American
war he was lieutenant colonel of the
l2th infantry and commanded that
regiment on strike duty. He became
orlsadier general in command of;
the Sd brigade in 1910 and major
general in 1915, commanding the
Guard at the Mexican border.
The Attorney Generals Dcpart-
ment will take charge of the State S
end of the action brought in the
Federal courts at Philadelphia at the
instance of Postmaster General Bur-
leson in the telephone rate situation.
NO statement of the plan to be fol-
lowed was issued to-day. Chairman
Ainey, of the Public Service Com
mission, which has been insisting
upon charges approved by that body,
is in Philadelphia to-day.
Daniel Hunihan. sergeant alarms
of the House, suffered a severe cut
on the back of his head to-day while
sorting bills in the House sergeant
alarms room. He slipped on a piece
of paper and fell against a steel case.
The only matter of upstate inter-
est that developed in the hearing on
the Philadelphia charter bills at /
Philadelphia yesterday was the sug-
gestion by City Solicitor John P.
Connelley that a commission be
named to study the legislative needs
of the city.
The Valley Railways case will be
heard again on April %.
Governor Sproul continues to inn
prove at Hot Springs. but is still for
hidden by his doctors from attending
to any work.