Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14

county court when the Board grant
ed rehearing. but dismissed.
The Board says that the company
was notified as provided for by the
act of assembly of all the various
steps in the proceedings, that it had
full notice of the referees award
and that it failed to take an appeal
within the proper time and ignored
the proper methods of procedure,
relying upon the affidavit which 1t
had filed"
The Compensation Board refused
to grant compensation in Hutno VS..
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co.,
Coaldale case, where claim was
made that the husband of the claim
ant had been fatally injured while
driving n team of company horses
in n parade. The Board holds that
no one could carry the liability OF
this corporation into a patriotic pa
rade which had no connection with
the charter purposes of the cor
porStioa.
Compensation was disallowed in
SendrowsSi VS.. Mt. Lookout Coal
Co., Exeter case, on the ground that
N-ray photographs failed to show
any injury to bones claimed. The
Commission holds it has no juris-
diction because of Interstate COM
merce in Reilly VS.. Erie Railroad,
Susquehanna, and knorr VS.. Central
Railroad of New Jersey, Mountain
Top, and dismisses appeals on the
ground of no grounds shown, Nc
Nulty VS.. Lackawanna Railroad,
Scranton: Danish VS.. Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Co. Lansford, and
orders payment made through 1tal-
ian consul in Diano VS.. American
Sheet and Tin Plate Co., Pittsburgh.
Arguments in complaint of the
city of New Castle against the in
creased fare and the service of the
Mahoning and Shenango railway and
light company and the compary's
for approval of n ten
cent fare We're consolidated before
the Public Service Commission.
City Solicitor James A. Gardner. of
New Castle, objected to the ten-cent
fare and attacked the companys
service. Ralph j. Baker appeared
for the company.
Medical officers have been sent by
the State Department of Health to
aid in the fight against spread of
diphtheria in the Shamokin-M Mt.
Carmel and Monessen districts where
large supplies of anti-toXin have
been sent.
Fewer cases of hog cholera have
been reported to the State Depart
ment of AgriCulture'S bureau of ami
NAL industry this fall than usual, ac-
cording to State officials. The quar-
antine against any shipments of hogs
from seventeen eastern counties
which was in force during the
greater part of the summer is be-
lieved TO have been the cause of the
few reports this fall.
The State Board of PardonS will
have three pleas for Commutation
of the death sentence before it when
it holds its October session to-mor-
row. These cases were continued
from the September meeting. They
are from Northampton, Dauphin and
Fayette counties.
Although the season for fishing
with spears and gigs in Pennsyl-
Vania streams under the special de-
vices" license expires on October 81
numerous applications for the Ii
cenSes are being received daily at
the Department of Fisheries. The
department will require returns from:
the fishermen within two weeks of
the close of the season.
Attorney General William T. Schaf-
fer has named J. B. Colahan. Jr.. Phil
aGelphia attorney and former presi-
dent of the state Bar Association,
to act as special deputy attorney gem
eral to assist the State Welfare Com
mission in the investigation into al
Legations of rent profteering in
Philadelphia. Mr. Colahan served as
member Of the Tener Workmen's
Compensation Investigation Commits
sion and has had much experience in
legal matters pertaining to real
estate in Philadelphia.
DIR. 4. j. GcrsOn, one of the Phil
adelphia educators we'll known here,
has been selected as head of the Will
liam Penn High School in Philadel-
phia, to succeed DR.. w. D. Lewis, ap-
pointed second deputy superintendent
OF public instruction.
The latest story is that Col. John
c. Groome is to be director of pub
lie safety in Philadelphia. The head
OF the State Tolice is mentioned for
the office whenever new mayor is
about to make up his cabinet.
General John w. SchaII. of Nor
ristown, former head of the Ma
tional Guard, is i'll at his home.
The Superior Court has upheld
Judgment of the Public Service Com
mission in dismissing the petition Of
the Consolidated Telephone Company
for an order to be made by the COM
mission for connection of its lines
with the Palmerton Telephone Com
pany. The opinion pointed out that
while the Public Service Commission
has the power to order telephone
companies to connect their respec-
tive lines in order that a continu-
Gus line of communication may be
formed between different localities
not reached by either company alone,
nevertheless, the Public Service Com
pany law of Pennsylvania clearly in
dicates that it was not the legisla-
tive intention that all telephone COM
panies should be compelled to connect
their lines so that every subscriber
o. each of the companies could freely
communicate with the subscribers of
the other companies.
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