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Fourth and final accounts of H. Wells Buser, committee appointed to inquire report and handle the estate of Peter M. Hummel, who is mentally unsound and who has since died. Mr. Hummel lived in Steelton. The two other accounts is the sequestrator's papers submitted by George R. Barnett for John S. Ricker, now dead, and the first and final account of Henderson Gilbert, sometime president and later acting as liquidating trustee of the Harrisburg Board of Trade. The report shows the total assets of $11,832.41, liabilities of $6,030.66, leaving a balance of $5,801.75. The Board of Trade has been succeeded by the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. Digging Drainage Trenches.-Work on the digging of the drainage trenches at the almshouse quarries preparatory to the installing of the stone crusher was started to-day. Enough stone lies within the bosom of Mother Earth at that point, it is estimated, to last ten years at the full capacity of the crusher. Miss Bressler Resigns.-Miss Nellie G. Bressler, stenographer and clerk for the Board of Public Works for several years, has resigned and will leave the city's service on October 1. May Build the Bridges. - Permission to construct the bridges over the Swatara Creek between Middletown and Royal, was granted the commissioners of Dauphin county yesterday by the State Water Supply Commission. Similar permission to construct a bridge over Conewago creek on the Aberdeen road near Aberdeen was also given the supervisors of Conewago township. To Sell Share of Stock.-At a public sale to be held on the farm of David Etter, now dead, about a mile and a half northeast of Hanoverdale, on Saturday, September 5, a single share of stock in the West Harrisburg market house company will go under the auctioneer's hammer. Receiver Chandler Filed Account.The fourth account of Percy M. Chandler, receiver for the Tradesmen's Trust Company of Philadelphia, was approved by Additional Law Judge McCarrell and referred to Eugene Snyder and Henry S. Borneman, the auditors. Auditor Cassel Absent. - President John W. Cassel, of the Board of County Auditors, was not on duty today and it could not be learned whether or not the head of the board remained away because the County Commissioners yesterday refused to pay him a portion of his salary on account. It is said that a surcharge against the commissioners for exonerations will be alleged by the auditors. Assignee's Sale.-The property 912 North Third street, belonging to the estate of J. A. Kramer, was offered late this afternoon for sale by J. H. Seltzer, the assignee.
