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Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10

! The house has adopted the resolu- ! ton providing for the appointment of ] it's members of the committee by the house itself, rather than by the speaker as was originally provided Without awaiting the official notifica- tion as to the action of the house. the senate committee on public lands has decided to report the resolution in such a form as to authorize the selec- ton of the house members by the speaker Unquestionably this action was taken with the intention of com plinenting the speaker and it will be reported to the senate.
 Speaker Cannon, it is said, feels that it would be impolitic for him to take advantage of this condition and over ride the expressed order of a majority of the house. and it is probable, there fore, that the senate will take such action as will steer clear of a con- troversy with the house. It is now said that the speaker himself would the committee. In case this course prevails. the republican members probably will designate their repre- sentatives in caucus, and it is said that in that event the insurgents will participate in the caucus proceed ings.
 No matter how the general situation may shape itself the controversy be- tween the secretary of the interior and his antagonist is expected to be the principal topic in congressional cir cles during the week. Officially the question will not a gain come up in the house until after the senate has acted. Discussion of Question Begins Tomor-
 row.
 The senate committee on public lands will report it's resolution to- morrow and it is probable that dis cussion of the question will begin not later than Tuesday So great is the interest in the subject that it is not to be expected that the resolution will be adopted without debate. Indeed, it is now expected that the discussion will be animated and somewhat per sonal
 With the resolution adopted by the senate and a final agreement arrived at as to exact terms between the house and senate, the investigation will pro- ceed. Tn the meantime every effort will be made to prevent it's involving the administration in too general way.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
This Week will Decide Whether There is to be
 Prolonged Struggle.
SITUATION SAID TO STILL BE CRITICAL
Although There Indications of Pacific Tendencies at Work-Pians o Restrict Much Possible the In- terior Department and Forest Service Investigation Present Situation to the In quiry.

Washington, Jan e.-The present week probably will decide whether there will be a prolonged conflict, in volvinE the president of the United states. within the ranks of the repub-
 can party in congress. Conditions have been tending in that direction for some time, but instead of adding ro the impulse the dismissal of Mir. Pinchot apparently has had the effect of causing a halt It has prompted zeuators and representatives to con- sider the possibilities of a continua- rion of the controversy and present Indications are of a more pacific ten deucv than those of a week ago
 Pirehot Has Many Admirers in Con-
 gress-
 There is no denying the fact. how ever. that in some respects the situa riou remains critical MT PinchOt has a large number of personal friends and admirers in both houses of con- -rsss who would be inclined to take ua his cause if favorable opportunity should present itself, and if they could do so without endangering the peace of the party and their own political welfare On the other hand. many are saving that the personal fortunes of nressrs- BallinEer and Pinchot are of little importance compared to the great question of the preservation of -arty harmony and those who take thfs view are urging the necessity of rrerentirzg any sharp conflict in con Eress on the lines of difference be- tween the secretary of the interior and former chief of the forest service. Whether or not the conservative counsel of this element will prevail VIII depend upon the course of events in congress during the next few days.
 Forest Service Investigation.
 There is no doubt that the investi- Ezrson of the interior department and of the forest service will proceed along rHe lines indicated by the Jones' Humphrey resolution: but 1t will be compstent for the investigating com -nfrtee either to broaden or to mar TOW the inquiry If the advice of many ns the leaders Is followed, however. this inquiry will be restricted as much as possible. especially now that as an oficial factor MT. Pinchot is removed from the dispute
 Speaker Cannon's Position The question will receive it's next attention on the floor of the senate. The present situation is this:
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
ROBBED BY WOMAN FOoTPAD
 WHO OPERATED IN TAxIcAB Chicagoan Held Up at Point of Pistol
 Lost Watch and Money.

Chicago. Jan. 9.-A woman robber held up Tony Lenzo last night as he was walking under the Rock Island railroad viaduct at Fifty-frst street, took his money and sped away in a taXicab.
 The woman was walking when she approached him, said Lenzo. As she drew near she cried out as if in fear, and then fell as if fainting. Lenzo gal 4ant1y stepped forward and stopped down to give assistance. As he did so he found himself confronted with a revolver. The woman laughed and rose, bidding Lenzo to give his money to her.
 T was a little slow" Lenzo told the searched my pockets with one hand, while still holding the revolver in the other.
 Now, beat it down the street. she said, when she had cleaned out all 7 had, taking my purse and watch. I did not look back until I had gone half block Then I stopped and watched her. She hurried to the west end of the viaduct. entered a waiting taxicab and away she went"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
FEMALE ANIMAL TRAINER
 NEARLY KILLED BY LEOPARD
Saved by Assistant Twisting Aninal's
 Tail Around Bars of Cage.

New York, Jan. 9.-The sharp teeth and claws of Clayton, a trained leopr ard, nearly cost the life Of Mrs. Pauliue Russelle, his trainer. today, bud Che length and strength of his tail saved her
 Clayton was ugly and would not pore form. Mrs. Russelle prodded him Wifm an iron bar and called to her assistant for aid. In the instant Of turning her head to call, the leopard leaped. Ha bore his mistress to the ground and stood over her, growing and laahine his tail It was then the quick witted assistant. reaching into the cage. grab- bed clayton's tall, took a double hitch around the bars of the cage with its and rescued Mrs. Russelle.
 The woman was badly torn and at the hospital it was said tonight thah her recovery was doubtful. The attack occurred in private training quarters.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Thomas M. Waller.

Mrs. Charlotte B. Waller wife Cz former Governor Thomas M. Waller, died at her home in New London Sun day night at o'clock after a short ill., ness from pneumonia. Mrs. Waller was 70 years old and leaves besides her husband, a daughter and five sons. They are Mrs. William Appleby, of Minneapolis, Minn-; Tracy Waller. New London; Martin Waller Missouri :; Judge Charles B. Waller, New London Robert K. Waller, New York; John M. Waller, New London. She also leaves a brother, Adam B. Bishop. of New London, a dentist.
 Mrs Waller was the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles Bishop of New Lon don and came from one of the old fam lilies of that city.
 She was a woman of quiet and re- tiring disposition. but widely known. and her death will come with sincere regret and surprise.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
PLANS BALLOON TRIP TO POLE, pr. Fielding Offers to Attempt Flight
 if Assistance Is Given.

San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 9.-Dr. Frederick J. Fielding of this city of fers to build a hydrogen dirigible bal loon capable of carrying several per- sons and all the necessary outfit, and sail for the North pole, provided some responsible persons convey his outfit to a point in the far north and supply a scientist to take observations
 Dr. Fielding, who is an experienced balloOnist estimates that such a bal loon, with engine and gas generating outfit. will cost him about s15 5.000. He says that the bag must be capable of lifting about 5000 pounds; that a gas tank must be carried to replenish the bag for the return journey and that he needs three or four months for preparation.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Death of One of Two Survivors oi
 Original Colts Band.

Meriden, Conn, Jan. 9.-Augustus T. Leonard, one of two survivors of the original Colts band of Hartford. died suddenly this morning at the home of his sister. Mrs Elizabeth Warner, of 45 Grant street this city, where he was visiting. Death was due to heart disease Mr. Leonard was 78 years of age and had roomed in the Hartford Trust company's building in Hartford for the past thirty years. He was born in Yalesville and worked for years in the Colt armory.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
AGED FARMER KICKED
 TO DEATH BY HORSE. Was Taking Sleigh Load of Children Home from Sunday School.

Washington, Conn.,, Jan. 9.-While taking a sleigh load of children home from Sunday school today, Merrill Fenn, an aged farmer, was kicked by one of the horses and killed
 Fenn was sitting on the front of the sleigh driving when the sleigh slipped to one side of the road, frightening the horses, Nlich ran away. In endeavor- ing to sfNp them one of the horses kicked FelS1 in the head, throwing T m between the runners of the sleig1, in which position he was dragged for a quarter of a mile before the sled tipped over. When picked up Fenn's skull was found to be crushed and his tody frightfully bruised. The children es- caped without injury and the horses were captured a mile erog.. where tho accident happer 1.
 Fenn was 66 years old a farmer, and leaves a wife, son and daughter.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
BEST MEN NO LONGER ARE GOING INTO THE PULPIT. The Pulpit is Effete, Says pr. Felix
 Adler

New York Jan. 2.-''Is the pulpit effete?' asks pr. Felix Adler, the iec- turer and author. tonight, and an- swered. "Yes," to his own question. He continued:
 Formerly, views on important sub jects were headed by the clergy. Now we read the views of bankers.
 "The best men are no longer going into the pulpit. The age is practical and men want visible results In turn the influx of inferior men 6imin- ishes regard for the pulpit"
 Dr. Adler believes that in more eth 1cs, less theology and fewer diffuse discourses on general subjects lies the cure of the clergy's plight.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
MAYOR oAYNoR APPOINTS
 HEALTH COMMISSIONER
Independent Succeeds Or. Thomas A.
 Darlinston--other Appointments.

New York, Jan. 9.--Afayor Gnyu0r tonight appointed an independent lu politics to succeed Dr. Thomas A. Darlington as health commissioner. The appointee is Ernest J Lederi0s who resigns positions az consulting sanitary engineer with the state and local water supply boards which paid him 31b,000 a year, His position ag health commissioner carries salary of only half that amount
 MT. Lederle is an expert chemist and A graduate of Columhia but mot n doctor of medicine. He WaH heud oG the health board under Mayor Low
 The mayor also appointed Charles E. StoVer. prominently identified with settlement work and park improve ment, to succeed Henry Smith na phric commissioner.
 A third appointment announced to- night is that of John J. Murphy t0 succeed Edmund J. Butler as tenement house commissioners
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
KINGS DAUGHTERS.
Norwich City Union to Be Addressed by Mrs. B. T. Raymond of Provi- dence Tuesday Evening.

At the annual meeting of the Nor wich City Union of the Kings Daugh- Iers, 10 De held Tuesday evening in that there will be a large attendance, and without doubt there will be many present from surrounding circles. From New London it is expected there will be a dozen or more, as the members of the three circles there have been in Vited.
 The feature of the meeting will be an address by Mrs. Bernard T. Ray mond of Providence, state secretary of the Rhode Island society. Mrs. Ray inond is of charming personality and is an able speaker. She will be re- called by those from here who attend ed the state convention in New Haven in October last.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Census Supervisor Hunting for Emu
 merators.

Boston. Jan. 9.-Although there are 5000 applications for the 2,OOO posi- tions available in this state for emu meFators in the forthcoming census, Massachusetts. in common with many other states, is still looking for prom ising material, more than 400 districts being without applicants. In some cities there is an abundance of appli- cations, in many cases an average of three for each position, but in others, notably North Adams, Pittsfield, Fall River, Chicopee, Holyolxe, Springfield, Northampton and Fitchbure the cen sus supervisor is hunting for candi- dates for the job. according to state ment issued tonight
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
FIGHT AGAINST WHITE" FLOUR.
Fund of s1oo.ooo Raised to Defeat the
 Governments Contentious.

Washington. Jan. 9.-H is just to please the eye. No good can come from making flour white" declares Chemist Wiley of the department of agriculture.
 Several cases are proceeding against millers now and I do not betray any confidence of the milers when I say that the fight in this case is made chiefly by the men who are selling the machinery. The bakers of the United States were always opposed to bleach ed flour.
 This wheat four case will be fought by the best talent in this country and the most celebrated lawyers. fund of SIOO,OOO I understand, has been raised to defeat the governments con tentions We would not be surprised if that trial would cost us five or ten thousand dollars"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
WAGES RESTORED
 BY H. c. PRICK COKE co.
Notices to Be Posted in All the Coke
 Plants.

Pittsburg, Jan. 9.-The H. c. Prick Coke company is the first of the big industrial plants in this section to re- store the wages which were cut as a result of the business depression of 1907. Tomorrow morning a notice will be posted in all the coke plants an nouncing that the higher scale of wages will go into effect Jan. 16. This step is in line with the promise of President Thomas Lynch to restore the cut when the business would warrant it. More men are at work in the Con- nellsville coke region at present than there has been in the last three years, and the notice of the advance of wages will come as a surprise to the work men.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
S30,ooo,ooo Holding Company to Swal-
 low Gas interests.

Cleveland. Jan. 9.-Plans for a hold ing $3O,000,0OO company to swallow the East Ohio Gas company and the Co., iumbia Gas company, whose aggregate capital is now about S2l,0O0,0O0 were announced here today by M. E. Daly. president of the East Ohio company, following a trip to New York
 Mr Daly said that a new and at present unidentified interest will break into the company thus formed and will affect it's interests in West Virginia. The plan for the holding company will probably be ratified on Thursday or Friday of this week, when directors Of the East Ohio company meet.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL
 TELLS OF KIDNAPPING
Says Two Men Took Her Captive and Kept Her Five Days on a Boat.


 Kept Her Five Days on a Boat.
 New York. Jan. s.-Telling a story of two strange men who had seized her during the rush traffic hour Mon day night. bundied her into a cab. and taken her blindfoIded to 2 boat on which she was kept five days and mfstreated, Florence Edwards. 1G years old. Of Van Cortland avenue and Woodiawn road. who was miss ing from her home since Monday morning. turned up yesterday at a Third avenue department store. where she had been employed as a sales girl.
 The girl was discharged from the store on Christmas eve. but did not tell her parents. She left her home on Monday. saying that she vas go- ing to work as usual Yesterday she applied at the store for mail. The special policeman of that place. know took her to the East Sixty-seVenth street police station
 To Captain Hughes she said that after visiting a salesgirl Monday night she was seized at Fifty ninth street and Third avenue at 6.45 o'clock by two strange men who threw a cloth over her head and despite her cries. hustled her into waiting cab. She said. until she found herself aboard a boat with the two men.
 One of them, she said. was an Ital- ian; the other wore a cap like that of a tugboat captain. She could not de- scribe the boat other than that it was a steamboat with a small room and wheel in front and three small living rooms aft. During the five days of her imprisonment, she said, she got little to eat. Yesterday at noon, she said. they put her ashore at the foot of Fifty seventh street and the East river and gave her 50 cents.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
LADEN SCHOONER
 RAN INTO HURRICANE
Reduced to a Dereiiet in Five Houra
 Grew Rescued.

New York. Jan. 9.-The steamer AL tai, from Central American and West Indian ports brought Into port to~ night the master and crew of Che foun# dered three -maated schooner Kettle Champion, which became WnteriogEod i'm latitude 3s, longitude 70. on Decem~ Der 27, when four days out from NOr- folk, bound for New York
 Five hours were suficient to reduce the Kettle from an able vessel Co m helpless derelfct. At four o'clock iu the morning of December 27 she ram into a northeast hurricane. Al nine o'clock her main and mizzen maBtd were both gone, hor cabins hntchem and everything movable had been washed away and she was leaking be= yond the capacity of the pumps.
 phe Kettle was laden with lumber and did not sink. Her captain and crew lashed themselves to the davita and wheel and stuck it out for 2A hours until they were picked mp bg the steamer Sarnia, which carried them to Insgua where they traua- ferred to the Altai.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Intoxicated Policemen to Be Served
 Like Any Other Offender

New York, Jan. 9.-Hereafter police men who get drunk and use their clubs on citizens will be arrested locked up and taken to police court on regular complaints just like any other offend CT. It has been the custom in such cases, and they have been quite nu- merous, to take the obstreperous off cer's shield from him and relieve him from duty, but Commissioner Baker, in view of case a few days ago, has issued the new order to commanders of all police precincts.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
ELoPlNo HElREss AND
 HER LOVER STILL MISSING.
Now Eleven Days Since They Diasp-
 peared from Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Jan. 9.-Although elev- en days have elapsed since Roberta Do Janon. the 17 year old heireRs. ma Frederick Cohen, the middleaEed wait CT. disappeared from the Bellevue StratfOrd hotel their Wherea bouts ig still a complete mystery Despite tho many reports spread broadcast last week that the girl has been found. her relatives still deny that they have dis- covered any clue by which they cnn trace her. The police force having run 10 the ground all possible out-0f- town clues. are now working on tho theory that the waiter and the Rirt are concealed in thls oltY.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
DENVER THIRST QUENcHED
 WITH MOUNTAIN WATER
The City "Dry" Sunday in Strictest
 Sense of the Word.

Denver, Jan. 9.-Denver was "dry'' in the strictest sense of the word to- day by the voluntary action of hotel men and saloonkeepers The purchase of a sandwich or a meal did not serve as an excuse to get liquor and hotel guests in their rooms were forced to queDch their thirst with mountain water.
 The action taken today marks one of the efforts of the saloon men to counteract the movement to vote ab- solute prohibition for Denver at the next election. The hotel men say the Sunday closing will be permanent
 As an effort in the same direction the Business Mems league has advo- cated restriction of the saloon district and the establishment of a S1,50G an nual license.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
A SANE AND SAFE FOURTH,
 WAR ON THE HOUSEFLY
And the Abatement of the Smoke
 Nuisance.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Another altru- istic campaign is about to be launch- ed from Washington, General head quarters have been established here in the Union Trust building by the American Civic association, and Rich ard E. Watrous, it's secretary, who has been placed in charge, will urge on congress the enactment of legislation of much public interest. One of the objects sought is the creation of a national park at Niagara Falls.
 President Taft became a member of the association when he was secretary of war.
 The regulation of bilIboards and the abatement of the smoke nuisance are part of the association's programme. It also wages war on that disease carrying pest, the housefly, and it has undertaken a campaign for a safe and sane Fourth"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
ITALIAN VILLAGE DOOMED.
By Immense LsndsIide-Inhabitan
 Have Moved to Safer Ground.

Parma. Italy. aJn- Son the hills between Parma and PiacenZa which are about thirtv-six miles apart. an immense landslide is slowly moving. It is two miles apart in length, half q mile in width and it's depth is esti- mated at 75 feet On top of the slide is the village of Scopolo. recently oc- cupied by a thousand people. It is doomed 10 destruction and the inhab ifants have evacuated the village. transporting their valusbIes and the furnishings and altars of their church to safer ground
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Fire Loss of $75,ooo at Pennington,
 New Hampshire.

Pennington, N. H., Jan. 9.-Two bus mess blocks on Main street in the cen tral part of this village were burned today and several nearby structures were damaged before the townspeople aided by firemen and apparatus from Rochester, could control the blaze. The Wilson building and the Barker block, containing the telephone exchange and several stores, were destroyed and the Farnin gton Savings bank building was badly damaged. The total loss was S75.0OQ
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
ST. LOUIS RAGMAN
 LEFT A FORTUNE OF s6o, 900.
Key to Safety Deposit Box Found in
 His Effects.

St. Louis. Mo-, Jan. e.-A fortune of Soo,OoO Tn good securities awaits the heirs of Jeremiah Moynfhan, a ragman. who died on Friday ArparentIv in destitute circumstances, Moynfhan was to have been buried in the Potters field today, but the public administrator found a key to a safety deposit vauIt in his effects. The safety box contained the bonds.
 Moynihan was 80 years old He liv ed alone, and so far as known had no relatives in this country
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
STATE HOSPITAL TRUSTEEs'
 QUARTERLY MEETING
Will Be Held Tuesday at the lnsti- tution-Bids for New Work to Be Considered.

The quarterly meeting of the board of trustees of the Norwich state hos pital will be held at the institution on Tuesday. Besides the routine matters to come before the board. the bids for the new work will be opened. The building committee will look over these and submit them to the board and it is possible that the contracts will be awarded at the meetin. The new buildings will be two wards lab oratory and fire station, the plans for which have been in the hands of con- tractors for the past several weeks. At present there is no construction work under way at the hospital.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
s1o.ooo lnesndiarx Fire.

New Haven. Conn. Jan. 9.--Bire. thought to have been of incendiary origin. today destroyed two wooden buildings of the Gore Menan company at Orange. entailjng a loss of $10.0OO. The larger of the buildings was used as lodging house for the men engaged on the water works and the smaller building was used as a st0rehouse.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Madame Louise Homer Suddenly
 Taken III

New York, Jan. 9.-Madame Louise Homer. the well known contralto. was taken i'll today on the eve of her de- parture for Boston. and is now in bed with temperature of 103 degrees. Her physician said tonight: We shall not know for a few days how severe the illness is, but we hope it is to be. nothing more than a severe attack of grip"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10
Negroes Plotted to Wreck Passenger
 Train

Macon Ga, Jan. 9.-Because Dan ieI J. Matthews. a young fireman of the Central of Georgia railroad re- fused to give four armed negroes a switch key, he was tied face down ward on the main line of the Central road early this morning, and now lies in a critical condition at local hos- pitai, being knocked from his perilous position a few minutes after he was attacked, by an outbound passenger train
 The negroes were plotting to wreck a passenger train