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III VILLA CHASE
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STATE NEWS
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SANK SOI Si
Wilson Will Negotiate Agree
ment on That Basis.
PURSUIT WILL CONTINUE
Baker Announce That No Change I
Contemplated In Plan Persh
ing Report Two Killed
At Parral.
Washington. President Wilson has
decided to Inform General Carranza,
In response to his request for with
drawal of the American troops from
Mexico, that the United States will
negotiate for an agreement along
these lines:
The United States Government Is
willing to agreo to fix a limit on the
distance tho American troups now In
pursuit of Villa shall proceed Into
Mexico, and to make that limit not
much farther south Uian the troops al
ready have proceeded.
"The United State Government Is
willing to give assurances that the
American troops will be withdrawn
within 'a reasonable time,' or as soon
s It la definitely established that Villa
las reached a point where he can b5
dealt with better by the Carranzi
forces."
Pursuit To Continue.
The President's adviters are said to
lave agreed on such a course In the
belief that It would make stronger tho
chance of catching Villa. A reply to
General Carranza is said to be virtual
ly completed and Is expected to go for
ward In a very short time.
Meantime tho pursuit of Villa by
th American troops will continue.
Secretary taker sharply outlined this
In a formal statement.
"The status of the expedition Into
Mexico Is as It was at the beginning.
In cordial co-operation with the do
facto government of Mexico," he said.
"That co-operation continues and tho
expedition continues. There has been
no change In the orders and none Is In
contemplation."
Secretary Baker and other officials
laid atress on the fact that co-operation
of the Carranza troops was re
garded as an Important element, and
tlie negotiations for an agreement with
the de facto Government will be con
ducted with the Idea that such an
agreement would rtrengthen Carranza,
at home, and at tho same time make
the tatk of catching Villa easier.
The lines of communication of
American t-oops following Villa al
ready have lengthened to the point
where sending supplies has become d.f
flcult. and It Is realized h ere that !t
would be extremely hazardous for
them to go much farther.
COURT SUSTAINS MULE.
Would B Untrue To Tradition If It
Failed To Kick.
Frankfort, Ky. "The khklng pro
penslty of a mule as a matter of com
mon knowledge," held the Court of
Appeals here In reversing a verdict of
$300 dainagfia awarded J. M. Pratt
against the Consolidation Coal Com
pany. From the testimony it appears that
Pra't, an employ of the comrany, was
kicked by a mule when he smirk the
animal with a whip ns he stooped be
hind It
"The mule would have been untrue
fo itself and false to every tradition
of Its breed It it bad kept its heels on
the ground," said the court, "and an
employe rannot court danger by invit
ing a mule to kick Mm and then re
cover for consequent Injuries." It tsa.i
brought out that Pratt had never be
fore driven anything hut oxen.
DOG GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE.
Accused Of Killing Sheep, Animal's
Ca'.e Was Tried In Court
Marlinton, W. Va. In the Circuit
Court here, Judge Charl-3 S. Dice pre
liding, the case of Mrs. Hannah
Dolan's dog, convicted in a justice's
court of having the sheep-killing habit,
was heard on an appeal. Judge Dire
sustained the Justice's decision and his
sentence of death will be executed.
FARMERS UP AGAINST IT.
New Yorker Report Unprecedented
Shortage Of Labor.
Now York. Farmers and market
gardeners In New York and nearby
Slates are suffering nn unprecedented
shortage of laborers, says John J. Dil
lon, State Commissioner of State
Foods and Market. Authorities say
there has never been such a demand
for farm help and so limited a supply
ail at present.
GIRL MURDERED IN HOME.
Deaf Father Was In House, But Knew
Nothing Of Crime.
Columbus, Ohio. While her father,
who Is deaf, slept upstairs, Lillian
'.Schwenker, aged 19, was dragged from
her home and thrown In a cistern In
the rear yard. Her mother and sister,
returning from a picture show, found
the bouse ransacked. They followed
trail of torn clothing to the cistern,
where they found the body.
BOMB FALLS NEAR CZAR.
.Hurled From Austrian Aeroplane
Lands Few Feet From Emperor.
Petrograd. Czar Nicholas had the
narrowest escape Wednesday from In
Jury or death be has experienced slncsj
the outbreak of the war. A bomb
hurled from an Austrian aeroplane at
the Russian Emperor, who was review
ing troops In the little town of Iwantx,
nn the Bessarablan frontier, fell a few
yards from where the monarch stood
k and wounded a young Russian private
standing guard.
Gov. Stuart Thinks it Would Aid
In Beating Beef Trust.
FAVORS BORLAND INQUIRY
6uggests the Establishment Of Gov-rnment-Owned
Slaughter-House
and Market A a Mean: Of
Correcting the Trouble.
Washington, D. C Governor Stuart,
of Virginia, who rulses cattle when not
engaged with executive duties, told a
House subcommittee that stock rais
ers had lost money In tho last year
largely because of lack of competition
among beef packers. He testified In
favor of the Borland resolution to in
vestigate tho packing industry to de
termine if tho anti trust laws are being
violated.
"In tho 30 years that 1 have been
raising cattlo I never have had more
than one bid on a single bunch of
etock," said the Governor. When that
condition obtains year after year thero
U only one conclusion to reach about
what the packers are doing. If pro
ducers in r.iy country had surrendered
four-fifths of their cattlo land they
would be better off."
The Governor ha.3 cattle on 30,000
acres of laud. He Insisted tho resolu
tion was not comprehensive enough
In Its scope.
Representatives cf Swift & Co. who
have handled some of the Governor's
eattle differed with him over the prob
able profit the company derived. The
Governor estimated their profit on a
1.300-pound steer was about $25.88,
while the packing company represen
tatives figured about $1 65. The vari
ance In figures, tho Governor Insisted,
was one good argument for a thorough
Inquiry.
Chairman Carlln sought to inject
the Interests of the consumer Into the
Inquiry only to find that the cattle
nnder discussion were of a much high
er grado than the average man eats.
"Tho consumer Is Interested chiefly
In old cows, stags and bulls, I should
say," the Governor remarked. "This
meat Is slaughtered by rabbis for the
Jews."
"Does that mean." Representative
Carlln asked, "that the Jews of thU
country get the best cattle?"
"Yes, that's about It," said R. C. Mc
Manus, an attorney for the packers.
Ten rer cent of the beef sold by
Swift & Co., he said, was killed by
rabbis.
The Governor suggested that the es
tablishment of government-owned
slaughterhouses and markets whore
the producer and consumer could meet
would go a long way toward solving
the troubles of both.
NO PROOF OF MUNITION PLOT.
Boston Federal Jury Attribute Re
ports To Scheming S'euth.
Boston. The Federal grand Jury,
which for several weeks has been in
vestigating a reported conspiracy to
destroy New Englnnd plants engaged
In the manufacture of war munitions,
reported it had found no evidence of
such a plot The results of Its Investi
gation were contained In a special re
port, In which the jury attributed re
sponsibility for the rumors to a private
detective who sought to obtain employ
ment for himself through the "fear
that would be instilled into the em
ployes of the concerns."
R. HARDING DAVIS DEAD.
Noted Author Stricken While Taking
Phono Message.
Mount Wisco, N. Y. Richard Hard
ing Davis is dead at his farm, six
miles from here. Ho had been trou
bled with heart disease for a long time.
He dropped dead while standing at the
telephone receiving a telegram sent to
him from New York. When Mr. Davis
did not reappear, after going to the
booth or re.-pond to calls, Mrs. Davis,
formerly Bessie McCoy, the dancer,
cnt to lnvestlcate and found him
lying dead on the floor beside the tele
phone. MARSHALL TO RUN.
Senator Lewi Says He Is Not Candi
dateMay Be the "Keynoter."
Washington. Vice-President Mar
shall again the running mate for Presi
dent and Senator J. Hamilton Lewis
temporary chairman and "keynoter" at
the Democratic National Convention U
the prospective arrangement, accord
ing to many Democratic leaders gath
ering here for the meeting of state
chairmen. Senator Lewis announced
that talk of his possible candidacy for
the Vice Presidency had been dispelled
with the determination of Marshall to
run again.
KNOX OUT FOR SENATE.
File Paper With the Commonwealth
Secretary.
Harrlsburg. Ta. Philander C. Knox
filed papers at the office of the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth certifying
that he Is a candidate for the nomina
tion for United State Senator on the
Republican ticket His name will go
on the ballot for the primaries, which
will be held May 16.
ALLIES ASSURE HOLLAND.
No Intention, Dutch Are Told, Of Vio
lating Neutrality.
The Hague. The Dutch Foreign
Office was assured by the French
Minister that neither France nor any
of the other allied nations has any In
tention of violating Holland's neu
trality. These assurances were called
forth by the war preparations of Hol
land and the reports from Berlin that
one of the Entente Powers Is prepar
ing lo strike at Germany through Holland.
MEXICANS ATTACK
U. S. TROOPS
American Cavalry Had Gone
Into Parral.
ONE KILLED, ONE WOUNDED
No Objection Mad To Them Coming
Until They Began To Search for
the Bandit Chief Flrtt Made
Target By Snlpert.
E! Taso, Texas. American cavalry,
led by Major Frank Torupklns and con-fit-ting
of 150 men of tho Thirteenth
Cavalry, believing Villa was being har
bored In Parral, entered that mining
town to snrcb for blra. In a clash
with citizens of the town, all Villa
sympathizers, more than 50 Mexicans
were killed. Tho Americans lost one
man killed and one wounded.
Major Tompkins, whose command Is
reported to have entered Parral, Is the
American commander, who at the head
of a small body of American cavalry,
chased Villa and his whole band across
the border at Columbus and for a num
ber of miles Into Mexico, following
Villa's attack on the American town.
American scouts going In advance
of the cavalry column had found evi
dence that Villa but a short time be
fore had been in the vicinity of Tarral.
The scouts had been told by Mexicans
that Villa was In Tarral and was being
hidden there by the people with the
knowledge of the small Curranza gar
rison. '
Villa Search Started Trouble.
Tho Americans entered Parral with
out evidences being shown by the peo
ple of the town or by the Carranza sol
diers there that their presence was
resented, the advices Eay, and It was
not until Americans began searching
for evldonce of Villa that the excitable
townspeople began to show animosity.
Later, as the Americans were leav
ing I'arral In response to the request
to do so made by the town officials,
Mexican snipers from windows and
housetops began firing upon them. The
rerlous clash enme later when a con
siderable body of armed citizens, fol
lowing the Americans, opened fire. The
fire was quickly returned and the
Mexicans fled, leaving many dead and
wounded in the streets.
Furral people, Mexican and Ameri
cans, have learned through private
sources that it was cnly when the
townspeople thought the Americans
were leaving that any general disturb
ance occurred. Mexicans say their In
formation Is that the people of I'arral
thought they were going to occupy the
town as a base
Villa unquestionably was in Tarral
shortly before the American troops ar
rived there. Whether he still Is there
In hiding or has loft for the south, as
Parral people say, has not definitely
been determined.
There Is nothing In private advices
to Indicate that the Carranza soldiers
In I'arral took part In the attack on
tho Americans. One report says there
were two separate clashes before the
Americans finally left Parral and that
in the second encounter with the
populace the Carranza commander
sent his troops to disperse the crowd,
which rapidly was being mowed down
by American bullets.
WOULD LIMIT U. S. FORCE.
Carranza To Insist That Thousand
Cavalrymen Make Up Expedition.
Mexico City. The Mexican govern
ment will Iw-'in with Inflexible deter
mination that any armed expedition of
the United States which enteri Mexi
can territory In the guise of a punitive
expedition must be limited to 1,000
men of one service alone, cavalry, ac
cording to a statement made by Juan
Neftall Amador, subsecretary of for
eign relations. During the absence of
Gen. Candldo Agullar, minister of for
eign relations, in Quere'.aro, Subsecre
tsry Amador Is In charge of the For
eign Office and is conducting its course
In International affairs.
CHIROPRACTOR ARRAIGNED.
Charged With Murder Of Woman Ho
Treated.
Sherman, Texas. Dr. David B.
Teem, who conducts a chlropractice
adjustory here, was arrested on an In
dictment charging the murder of Miss
Aline Walker. The indictment say
that Teem caused her death by "roll
ing, pounding, beating and pressing
her In a grossly Ignorant manner."
Radium is valued at nearly $10,000,
000 a pound.
y
FOR DEFENSE
Pursuit of Villa to Go On Until
He Is Taken.
PREPARED FOR DIFFICULTY
Warning la Sent To Troop In Hill.
Scout Set To Watch Mexican
Fore Under General
Gomez.
San Antonio, Texas. From Colum
bus, N. M., to points near the Chlhua-hua-Durango
state line, American
troops have Increased their vigilance
against attacks from any quarter.
Word that Carranza bad requested
the opening of negotiations looking to
their withdrawal went up and down
the line of communications and for-
I ward to the camps of the detached cav
alry columns that have penetrated
the hills and mountains beyond Tarral
In their search for Francisco Villa.
It was assumed that the command
ing officer of the American detach
ment was Major Tompkins, who, it was
believed, might be having difficulties
In getting bis report of the incident
back to General Tershlng. Major
Tompkins had with him no field wire
less and a courier would have been
necesrary for the transmission of his
report.
That a conflict between American
troops and Mexicans other than those
of Villa's organization hnd occurred
was regretted at headquarters but con
fidence was expressed In the ability of
the commander of the detachment that
entered Parral to explain the Incident
satisfactorily. All officers of the expe
ditionary column have been cautioned
not to' provoke conflict with peaceful
residents In Mexico, or with troops of
the de facto government, and officers
nt headquarters here do not believo
that the Incident at Parral will alter
the attitude of the men in the field.
Until ordered to act othorwlse Ccn
eral Pershing will continue uninter
ruptedly and without material change
of his plan of pursuit of Villa, but he
also will be expec'od to carry out Gen
eral Funston's orders, to look closely
after the guarding of his lines of com
munication and Investigate carefully
all Mexican troops movements in his
vicinity, whether they be tho move
ments of Villa troops or those of the
do facto government
WANTS VILLA HUNTED DOWN.
Troop To Stay Till Then, Says House
Resolution.
Washington. Another McLemore
resolution bobbed up In Congress when
the Texas Representative Introduced a
measure providing that the American
force now In Mexico must not be with
drawn untill Villa has been killed, cap
tured or forced Into exile. The pre
amble of the resolution charges that
Carranza has placed obstacles In the
way of the United State Army and
has thereby Impeded the capture of
Villa,
GERARD IN GERMAN Y. M. C. A.
On Committee To Supervise Work In
Prison Camp.
Berlin. James W. Gerard, the
American Ambasador, has accepted
membership on a committee beaded by
Print Max of Baden, formed to super
vise the work conducted by the Toung
Men's Christian Association In the
prison camps of Germany. A similar
organization, headed by a grand duke,
exists in Russia.
KILLED WHEN TRAINING COLT.
Aged Man Thrown Against Tree
When Animal Bolt.
Luray, Va. John F. Austin, Sr., 55
years old, was killed near his home In
Shenandoah when riding a colt Ho
was trying to control the animal by
means of a halter. The colt be
came unmanageable, throwing Austin
against a tree. He lived only a few
minutes. He is survived by a widow
and five children.
PHYSICIAN ATTACKED BY COW.
Animal Break Chain and Two Rib Of
It Victim.
Martlnsbnrg, W. Va. Dr. George D.
Swlmley Is In a eerlous condition at
bis borne, near Bunker Hill, aa a re
sult of being gored by a cow. The
animal, which was chained because of
Its ugly disposition, broke its chains
and charged on' the physician. Dr.
Swlmley was knockod down and was
rescued after he had sustained serious
Injuries, Including two broken rib.
mm
READ
Interesting Defense Made In
Latest German Note.
DID NOT SINK THE SUSSEX
Note Arraigning Germany For Act Of
Submarine To Go Forward
( When All Evidence Haa
Bsen Compiled.
i
Parla. Fragments ot the missile
which damaged the cross-channel
steamer Sussex, which have been
banded the American naval attache,
will not reach Washington before
April 12.
A report Indicating; tho character of
the fragments already has boen cabled
the State Department, but the ccular
evidence furnished by tho actual frag
ments Is considered of such Im
portance that they aro being forwarded
to the United States. .
The American Embassy Is guarding
the fragments from Inspection, but It
is understood that several of the pieces
aro not merely shattered bits of metal,
but bear certain Inscriptions which It
Is bellovod constitute damaging evi
dence of the character of the ciissllo
and where It originated.
Give Germany' Side.
Ilerlin. Germany's reply to the In
quiries of tho American Government
regarding the steamers Sussex, Man
chester Engineer, Kugllshman, Bcr-
wlndvale and Eagle Point, signed by
Gottlieb von Jagow, the German Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, has been for
warded to Washington by Ambassador
Gerard.
The note denies that the Sussex was
attacked by a German submarine. The
Investigation covering the Sussex case,
says the note, was extended to all ac
tions undertaken on March 24 the
day of the Sussex Incident In the
channel between Folkestone and
Dieppe. One steamer was sunk, the
commander of the German submarine
reaching the definite conclusion that
It was a war vessel. A sketch of this
vessel, together with photographic re
productions of a picture of the steamer
Sussex printed In the London Daily
Graphic, were Inclosed with the note,
the difference in the two craft being
Indicated.
The steamers Englishman and Eagle
Point wero sunk by German sub
marine after they had attempted to
escape and timo was allowed for the
withdrawal of those aboard.
The steamer Berwindvale was pos
sibly sunk by a German submarine,
while definite dotalls with respect to
the Manchester Engineer are lacking.
and therefore there baa been no suffi
cient basis for Investigation of this
particular case.
To Frame Indictment
Washington. Admission by Ger
many that her submarines recently at
tacked three merchant ships carrying
American citizens and that one of
them torpedoed a vessel In the vicinity
of the point where the channel steam
er Sussex was damaged by an explo
sion has simplified the task of the
State Department In preparing for the
next step of the United States In the
issue over submarine warfare.
Following the receipt of the latent
German note, It became known that
the United Slates would continue to
compile information Indicating that
Gorman submarines are operating In
violation of the rules of International
law, and that very soon a communica
tion, designed to bo the final word of
the American Government on the sub
ject, would be forwarded to Berlin.
The State Department virtually has
completed the collection of facts relat
ing to all attacks on merchant ships
since the Lusltanla. Further evidence
In the case of the Sussex forwarded by
the American embassies at London
and Paris Is to arrive on the liner St.
Paul. It Is understood that Instruc
tions to Ambassador Gerard, accom
panied by the Information gathered by
tho department, will go forward soon
thereafter.
TWO DIE OF ANTHRAX.
Contract Disease While Handling In
fected Hide.
Philadelphia. James McCauley, of
Manayunk, and Alexander Gremerk,
two workers In hides, died In Muni
cipal Hospital from anthrax, according
to Dr. A. A. Cairns, chief medical In
spector. The men contracted the dis
ease through abrasions on the faces
while handling diseased hides. Dr.
Cairns blames the lax Importation law.
MILL BLOWN TO PIECES.
Explosion At Du Pont Work Kill
Man and Injures Other.
Scranton, Pa. One man was blown
to atoms and several were Injured
when the press mill of the Du Tont
Fowdor Company, at Du Pont, blew
up. The dead man was David Warner.
The explosion blew the mill to pieces
,nd smashed windows within a radius
of several hundred yards.
Tho trial of T. S.( Bradbury, grand
nephew of President Taylor, who with
Mrs. P. O. Jenkins Is accused of slny
Ing Mrs. Jenkins' husband, was begun
at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Nine thousand carpenters, truckmen
and laborers employed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, have
bnon granted a wage Increase of 1
cents per hour.
J. P. Stevens, Imperial potentate of
the Order of the Mystic Shrine, direct
ed 5,000 from the relief fund to be
liven to the AuguBla, Ga., fire suf
ferers. A civilian military encampment simi
lar to the one hold at Plattsburg wlU
be held at Fort Terry, N. Y., In July,
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
John Wesley Beers, a Pennsylvania
Railroad brakeman, was killed In th
Enola yards when thrown under a car.
He leaves a widow and two children.
Mary Elizabeth Davis, two years old,
only child ot Mr. and Mrs. David
Davis, of Wyoming, died after swal
lowing some liquid nail cloansor.
Nearly a hundred thousand dollars'
worth of building permits were iHsued
at HarriBburg Thursday by the clt
building Inspectors.
Depositors of the closed First Na
tional Bank of Unlontown, of which J.
V. Thompson was formerly president,
wore pnld a ten per cent dividend.
While ascending a slope at the
Susquehanna Coal Company's Richard
Colliery, Alphnnse Welsh, nineteen,
was killed between the roof of the
mine and top of the car.
Edward Albright was arrostod,
charged with violations of the Harri
son Drug Act Albright Is the third
alleged dope dispenser arretted In Har
risburg In two days.
Charles Jones, aged twenty-three, a
brakeman for the Pennsylvania Rail
road, was found dead In the Harris
burg yards. He was hit by a loco
motive. Dr. Benjamin Eby, druggist, of Har
risburg and Now Cumberland, died
from a hemorrhage brought on by a
bristle from his toothbrush, which
lodged In his throat
While Robert M. Welsh, of Harrls
burg, was being taken to the hospital
after being thrown from his motor
cycle and receiving several fractured
bones, some one stole) his motorcycle.
Dr. Cheesman Herrlck, president of
GIrard College, haa accepted the Invl
tatlon of President Hans to deliver
the formal commencement address at
Muhlenberg this year.
Chief of Police Thomas Zcll, of Har
rlsburg, has urged all children, to tie
bells to their roller skates, so that
drivers will bear them coming around
corner.
The prews mill of the du Pont Fow
der Works at Mooslc, blew up, killing
one man, David Miller. Two other
men, James T. Brown and Charles
Mauer, suffered slight Injuries from
Dying debris.
Jurge Groman announced that the
addition to the Lehigh County Court
House so far has cost $273,000, all paid
out of current Income, and there Is on
hand $30,000 to pay the balance when
due on May 1.
Figures .compiled from official
sources show that the production and
shipment of coke in the Connollsvllle
region during the first quarter of 1916
amounted to 6,600,000 tons, or at the
rate of 22,500,000 tons a year. This
will exceed by 2.500,000 tons the rec
ord years of 1913, In production Is
maintained, which Is Indicated by the
rale of coke for second quarter de
livery at $3 a ton.
President James Buchanan, one of
tho nine Presidents who were Masons,
was made a Mason 100. years ngo and
plans for an elaborate contennlal cele
bration were made at Lancaster, by
l,odge No. 43, F. & A. M., of which he
was Worshipful Master in 1822-23. He
waavthe first District Deputy Grand
Master of the Lancaster district Presi
dent Buchanan was made a Mason on
December 11, ISIS, and It Is probable
tho celebration will take place In De
cember. Molasses as an appetizer for beef
cattle was recommended to farmers at
the annual convention of cattle feed
ers at the Pennsylvania State College.
It was shown that the sweet syrup
stimulates digestion, Influencing the
cattle to consume larger quantities of
rough feeds such aa hay and clover.
For the last year State College had
scientifically fed seventy-two head of
beef cattlo In seven different lots. One
Important result was the finding that
silage and other rough feeds are much
cheaper In producing beef than aro the
concentrated foods, such as corn and
bran.
Following the lead of Mayor Arm
strong, of Pittsburgh, who rerontly
sanctioned spooning In the city parks,
Mayor Ezra S. Meals, of Harrla-burg,
gave his O. K. to the practice Insofar
a the park of the State Capitol aro
concerned. ,
Methodist ministers from central
Pennsylvania gathered In Harrlsburg,
to attend an executive session of the
Conference Board of Trustees. The
distribution of annuities amounting to
nearly $100,000 was the principal busi
ness of the meeting.
Miss Mary McIIale, nineteen years
old, was the ringleader of a mob which
burled atones, bricks and clubs
through the windows of a trolley car
at Minors' Mills, according to State
Troopers. She was taken -Into custody
by the constabulary when ' they
charged Into the mob, and her cap
ture, followed by .her screams for belp,
brought bunj'.reds of sympathizers,
men and wo.nen, who fought with the
troopers. , The rioters gradually dis
persed id the Stat policemen again
drew faeir clubs and rode down th
crowi Many persons were Injured.
PERCENTAGES FOR
ATTORNEYS BARRED
Workmen' Compensation Board p,
recta Insurance Carrier To Pay
All Claim Direct
Harrftsfcarg
The Workmen's Compenslon Boare
directed that the following letter
aant to every Insurance carrier lns
Ing -against workmen' compensation
liability within the State:
"It has come to the attention of tbt
Workmen's Componsalon Board thai
In certain cases where componsatloi
baa been paid under agreements oj
awards to the attorneys of olalmanti,
the attorneys have retained or Induce
the claimant to pay to them exorbitant
fees or unduly large percentages ot
the Installments paid without havl&j
had their fees approved by the hoori,
as required by Section C01 of the Com
pensatlon Act
"The board emphatically dlsa
proves of such practice on the part ol
the attorneys. In order that this ma)
be impossible In the future, the board
requests you to pay all compoaaallon
due, either under an agreement or at
award, direct to the persons entitled
thorelo, oven though such person bn
represented by nn attorney record, vm
loss the attorney shall furnish to yoi
the board's approval of his claim tm
legal services and expenses.
N. Q. P. Appointments.
Dr. Coorge E. McGlnnls, Held ho
pltul, No. 2, Philadelphia, haa boet
appointed by tho Governor aa captali
of medical corps of the National Guart
and assigned to the Phlladolphlt
company. National Guard Beadquar
ters also announced today retirement
of Lieutenant Colonel Harry Vf . Plerct
Wllkes-Barre, as colonel; Captali
Charloa If. Ward, Company L, Firm
Infantry reappointed; Captain WD
Kara J. Sterret, Company B, Four
teenth Infantry, assigned to eommant
ambulance Company No. 1, Pittsburgh
and Second Lieutenant George W. Ei
wards, Battery A, appointed first lle&
tenant
Fifth Borough Convention.
Over 400 reprefiontativee of near))
250 boroughs of the State attended thi
annual convention of the State Asso
ciation of Boroughs here. Nine ad
dresses were made on various nsatten
pertaining to administration ef th
smaller municipalities, Including oat
by Governor Brumbaugh, who recom
mended that the borough code enacted
at the last session of the Legislature
be allowed to stand the test. Th
Governor paid a tribute to the enter
prise of the boroughs and to the niaa
ner In which they were working out
their problems.
Rate Authority In Service Board.
The Municipal Home Rule League,
In annual session, adopted resolution
urging that the Public Service Com
pany law be amended so that public
utility corporations cannot raise rate
without express authority front th
Public Service Commission and legis
lation, which would prevent annexa
tion of small boroughs by larger ones
or cities. D. I Starr, Bellevue, war
elected president; T. F. Croetwalt.
Hanover; James K. Jackson, HarriB
burg, vice-presidents; E. Clay Whit.
Bellevue, secretary, and J. Hlmer
Saut, Norrlstown, treasurer.
Trustees. Of Pensions Named.
Governor Brumbaugh appointod th
following trustees to administer
motbors' pensions: Lycoming Mrs.
William R. Peoples, Jersey Shore; Mr
Jamea Boak, Hughcsville; Mrs. S. &
Henderson, Montgomery; Mrs. Howard
Choyney, Mrs. A. L. Pepperman, Mrs
Charles J. Cumnilnge, Mrs. Newton C.
Hathnra, Wllliamsport Venango Mrt
O. B. Bleakley, Mrs. Mary D. Campbell.
Franklin; Mrs. Thomas Utlca, Mici
Gertrude Hasley, Emlenton; Mrs
August Morck, Mrs. E. R, Boyle. OH
City.
Roderick and Buller Reappointed.
Governor Brumbaugh announced,
the reappointments of James E. Rodo
rick, Hazleton, as chief of the StaU
Department of Mines, and, of Natha
R. Buller, of Pleasant Mount, Wayn
county, as commissioner ot the De
partment of Fisheries.
Mr. Roderick has been head of th
Mines Department since 1809. Com
missioner Buller became the executlv
officer of the Department of Flshert
In 1911.
Must Pay Tax Penalty.
Auditor General Powell was Ib
formed In an opinion by Deputy Attor
ney General Hargeet that he has no
authority to waive payment of a pen
alty of fifty per cont placed upon trust
companies which fall to pay State tax
under the Act of 1907 within forty
days.
Halts Work On State Aid Highway.
Construction or Improvement of a
State aid highway on a State highway
within the limits of a borough Is not
permitted under the law, according to
an opinion given to the State High
way Department by William H. Kel
ler, Drputy Attorney General. The
opinion will halt pieparatlona of the
dopartmcnt to dojconstructlon and Im
provement work in several borough
through ure of State aid money. It If
held that this work must bo paid oo
of State main highway funds.
Poverty Keep Fountain Unset
Because of lack of funds to set up
the fountain "The Dance of Eternal
Spring." by the Philadelphia scluptor,
Giuseppe Donato, It Is more than like
ly that it will remain In a warehouse
this summer, Instead of permitting th
three pretty maldena who make up th
group to flirw their pretty ankles 1"
the breeze. ThlB fountain was the
subject of long litigation between
Donato and M. S. Horshey. who fln1
ly presented It to the city of HarrU-burg.