Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-09-06

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Frances Great Fleet was reviewed
| by President Falleries in the roadstead
| at TouloE.
The Annual Meeting of the Trades
| Union Congress has begun in New
| castle, England.
Three More Bodies of the seven men
who lost their lives in Maumee bay,
| near Toledo. O., We're recovered.
Secretary OF Commerce and Labor
| Charles Nagel took luncheon with
President Taft at Beverly yesterday.
Since the Beginning of the present
year the total number of deaths from
cholera in Italy has passed the 10000
mark.
David Rockefeller Smith, cousin of
John D. Rockefeller, died at his home
at Warrensburg. Mo-, yesterday, aged
81 years.
Rev. c. M. Surdam, a well known
Methodist minister of New York, drop
ped dead in a railway station in Flem-
ingville, n. Y.
The German Foreign Minister gave
a farewell luncheon in Berlin in honor
of the retiring American ambassador,
DR.. David j. Hill.
ToadstooIs Were the Immediate
Cause of the wiping out of the entire
family of Michael Loprete of New
Rochelle. N. Y. yesterday.
Alexander Mcleod of Winnipeg, Can
ada, fell from an aeroplane at a prac-
tice field at West Pullman, near Chi
cago, and broke his neck.
The United States Navy will adopt
the 16 inch gun if foreign competition
warrants it. At present this country is
the only one to use the Ia inch gun.
William Brisan of Worcester, Mass,
is in a serious condition in Philadel-
phia hospital, as the result of three
days confinement in refrigerator car
Louis Disbrow, driving a Pope Hart
ford, made new worlds record at Old
Orchard Beach, Me, yesterday after
noon, going 25 miles in Is minutes %
seconds.
The Annual Convention of the Polish
Knights of Alliance of America opened
in Detroit with the greatest attend
ance of delegates the order has ever
had at a convention.
The Comptroller of the Treasury
yesterday issued call for statement
of the condition of all national banks
of the United States at the close of
business on Friday, Sept. 1, 1911.
United States Senator Lorimer of
Illinois had a narrow escape from
death Monday, when an aeroplane
driven by August Kuzick knocked off
his hat at High Lake, near West CHI
cago.
Ticket SoaIpers Selling Seats for
the Gotch- -Hackenschn1dt wrestling
bout reaped one of the largest hal-
vests ever recorded for a similar event
In Chicago, according to the venders
themselves.
The Action of President Taft on the
Arizona statehood bill, eliminating the
recall of the judiciary, was denounced
as an attempt at the bribery of the
people by Senator Clapp of Minnesota
at a banquet.
Recent Advances in the Freight
rates on rice and rice products from
Houston. Tex. to New York and At
lantic seaboard ports. generally, were
attacked yesterday before the inter-
state commerce comm isSion.
Railroad Men Say the Erie and Pitts
burg express would not have been
wrecked Monday night at Dock juno
tion, Pa, if Engineer Jones had been
minute later. His friends claim he
was dead before the accident.
Standing Over the Graves of his wife
and daughter in Forest Hills ceme-
terry, Boston, Christian Rauch of 420
Laurel street, Manchester, n. H., end
ed his life yesterday by sending re-
volver bullet through his right temple
Despondent Because He Could not
find employment caused Rudolph Pick
ard, formerly a foreman in woolen
mill in Harmons, Me-, to commit sui
side by hanging himself to bedpost in
lodging house at Lynn, Mass, yester-
day.
According to Unofficial information,
the dreadnought Delaware fired her big
guns at the repair ship Panther. mis-
taking her for the old battleship San
Marcos, in the long-range firing tests
in the Chesap cake bay several days
ago.
When Five Year Old Reuben Mar
shall was knocked down and run over
by a junk wagon yesterday at Lynn, |
Mass, the driver did not stop to find
out how badly the child was hurt, but
rapidly drove on. The boy died an
hour later.
A Result of a Recurrence OF
scurvy, a malady which he contracted |
while confined as a prisoner of war in |
Libby prison, in 1s61-62. Samuel A. |
Cooper, a former senator and state |
representative, is dead at his home at |
Conn.
John H. .Cusack of Brooklyn, who.
was John L. Sullivan's hacker when |
the former champion was defeated at |
New Orleans in 1892 by James j. I
Corbett, died yesterday at his. home |
in Brooklyn. He lost $6S.oo0 on Sulli- |
van in that fight.
Paul GeideI, the BelIboy from Hart !
ford who slew William Jackson, the !
New York broker, was sentenced yes |
terday by Judge Grain in general ses-
stons court. New York, to serve not |
less than twenty years nor more than |
life in state prison.