Making an appropriation to the Reading Hospital, in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Franklin City Hospital. Making an appropriation to the Shenango Valley Hospital, of New Castle. Making an appropriation to the Home for Aged Veteran and Wife, located in the city of Philadelphia. Making an appropriation to Charity Hospital, of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, located at Norristown. Making an appropriation to the Carbondale Hospital, of the city of Carbondale. Making an appropriation to the Christian H. Buhl Hospital, at Sharon, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Epileptic Hospital and Colony Farm. Making an appropriation to the South Side Hospital, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the Western University of Pennsylvania, for the use of the Reineman Hospital, of Pittsburg. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity Hospital. Making an appropriation to the Taylor Hospital, in the county of Lackawanna. Making an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society of Franklin county, for the purpose of the maintenance of their Hospital at Chambersburg. Making an appropriation to the Rosalia Foundling Asylum and Maternity Hospital, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Old Ladies' Home, of Philadel phia. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. Making an appropriation to the Hamot Hospital Association of the city of Erie. Making an appropriation to the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hos pital, at Johnstown. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital for the Southern District of Pennsylvania, located at Harrisburg. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Polyclinic and Col-' lege for Graduates in Medicine. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the State Hospital of the Northern Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania, at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Western State Penitentiary. Making an appropriation to the Mercy Hospital, of Pittsburg. Making an appropriation to the commission for the selection of a site and the erection of a State Hospital for the treatment of the insane, under homoeopathic management, to be called the Homoeopathic Hospital for the Insane. Making an appropriation to the Medical and Surgican Department of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, at Pittsburg. Making an appropriation to the St. Mary's Hospital, of Philadelphia. Making an appropriation to the Mary M. Packer Hospital, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Home for Infants, located in the city of Philadelphia. Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Making an appropriation to the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Women, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Making an apropriation to the McKeesport Hospital, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Women's Homoeopathic Association of Western Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Titusville Hospital, at the city of Titusville. Making an appropriation to the Warren Emergency Hospital, of Warren, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Allentown Hospital Association, at Allentown. Making an appropriation to the Butler County General Hospital, located at Butler. Making an appropriation to the Elk County General Hospital, of Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Clearfield Hospital. Making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the DuBois Hospital, at DuBois, Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases, at Philadelphia. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane for the Southeastern District of Pennsylvania, located at Norristown. Making an appropriation to the National Farm School, at Doylestown. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the State Institution for Feeble Minded of Western Pennsylvania. Making an appropriation to the Hospital Department of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, of Philadelphia. Making an appropriation to the Almira Home, of New Castle. Making an appropriation to the St. John's General Hospital, of Allegheny. Making an appropriation for salaries of officers and employees of the Pennsylvania Reform School, at Morganza, Pennsylvania, and to pay for permanent improvements, etc. To provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, judicial and legislative departments of the Commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and the support of the public schools, for the two fiscal years beginning June first, one thousand nine hundred and three, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and three. May 16, 1903. Making an appropriation to the American Art Society of Philadelphia, for the purpose of encouraging American art. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, January 3, 1905. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: In conformity with law, I have the honor herewith to transmit the reasons for pardons granted by the Executive from January 1, 1903, to January 1, 1905. SAM'L W. PENNYPACKER. His Excellency William A. Stone, Governor: Sir: In the court of quarter sessions of the county of Chester, on April 29, 1902, George D. Russell was convicted of the crime of larceny and was sentenced by the said court to pay a fine of ten dollars, the costs of prosecution, and to an imprisonment in the county jail for a period of nine months. The principal reason urged in support of the application for pardon is the extreme ill health of the prisoner as certified by the inspectors of the prison in a unanimous request for his pardon, and by the statement of the prison physician, who certifies as follows: "As the physician of the above named jail, I am acquainted with the condition of George D. Russell, confined in said jail, and I hereby certify that he has tuberculosis pulmonaris, is losing in weight about two and a half pounds per week, and if his confinement continues it is possible he may not live until the end of this month." January 8, 1903. (Signed) JOS. SCATTERGOOD, M. D. The statement of the prison inspectors is as follows: "Russell has remained in said prison, and while therein there has developed a marked case of consumption, and his condition is as indicated by the certificate of the prison physician, annexed hereto. While it is true his sentence will expire on the 29th day of this month, his condition is such that it seems necessary to secure his discharge at the earliest day possible. This suggestion is not alone to secure freedom for him, but to remove from the prison this source of contagion." In view of the extreme condition of the prisoner's health the Board is of the opinion that a pardon of this kind will be justifiable. and an act of mercy, and therefore recommend that a pardon issue to the said George D. Russell. J. P. S. GOBIN, Lieutenant Governor. W. W. GRIEST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. JNO. P. ELKIN, Attorney General. JAMES W. LATTA, Secretary of Internal Affairs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Executive Department, Board of Pardons, Harrisburg, January 15, 1903. His Excellency William A. Stone, Governor: Sir: In the court of oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the peace in and for the county of Lebanon, at September sessions, 1898, Harry W. Brubaker was indicted for the crime of rape; he was tried and found guilty, and on September 5, 1899, he was sentenced to pay a line of $5.00, the costs of prosecution, and to undergo imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary for the term of six years. The applicant was at the time of his arrest a resident of Reading, Pa., and had lived there for the last ten years. During 1897 and 1898 he was engaged in the business of peddling medicine through the State of Pennsylvania; prior to which time he had traveled for a Philadelphia spice house. About the middle of August he was pursuing his vocation in the vicinity of Schaefferstown, Lebanon county, and visited the house of the Fetters. It is alleged in the indictment that he then and there did make an assault upon the person of one Lizzie A. Fetter, the wife of a man who was at work some quarter of a mile distant. The alleged victim of assault could speak English but very little, but asserted that she was not hurt, but only frightened. The applicant upon his trial, and ever since, has firmly denied that he was guilty of the crime of rape upon this woman. After his conviction the case was appealed to the Supreme Court and the judgment of the court below affirmed. At that time the applicant was out upon bail, and in the month of May surrendered himself into the custody of the sheriff of Lebanon county. The reasons upon which the application for a recommendation of pardon is based are as follows: 1. Because the evidence in the case did not warrant a conviction of rape. 2. Because the sentence imposed by the court was excessive. 3. Because the physical condition of the applicant is such that further confinement will jeopardize his life. The applicant had not before been charged with any crime, and bore a good reputation in the community where he lived and worked. The evidence produced at the trial is filed with the papers in the case, and it would seem that at most said evidence pointed only in the direction of adultery. The applicant has been severely punished; and for the reasons above set forth the Board respectfully recommends that a pardon may now issue to the said Harry W. Brubaker. J. P. S. GOBIN, Lieutenant Governor. W. W. GRIEST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. JNO. P. ELKIN, Attorney General. JAMES W. LATTA, Secretary of Internal Affairs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Executive Department, Harrisburg, February 18, 1903. His Excellency Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor: Sir: In the court of quarter sessions of the peace in and for the |