Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-05
Condensed Telegrams
Mrs. L. k. Letter Gave a Ball in honor of Miss Helen Taft.

Mrs. L. k. Letter Gave Ball in honor of Miss Helen Taft.
 William Ekerson, who weighed over 300 pounds, died at Elizabeth, N. J.
 The Widow of the Late Congressman Beriah Wilkins died at the age of so years.
 Mrs. Gertrude H. Arnold was mar ried to Richard Gland Lee of New York.
 Wreckase of the Lost British steam CT Axim has been found in the Bay of Biscay.
 Representative Charles Adkins was elected speaker of the Illinois house Wednesday.
 Rev. Dr. Daniel w. Faunce, former 1y of Washington D. C.. died in Prov fdence, R. l.
 Mexican Federal Troops are press ing the rebels into the Ojinaga dis trict. desert.
 Miss Edna Finch, formerly a trained nurse, has joined the police force of Milwaukee, Wis
 The Ministerial Association of Bris- tol. Tenn, has agreed not to marry eloping couples
 The War Department Has Authorized a new flag to be used at army re- cruiting stations.
 Two Shocks Were Necessary to elec- trocute Samuel Austin, colored, at Sing Sing prison.
 Capt. Henry Merritt of the Mallory line, who spent 63 years a t sea, drop ped dead in New York.
 The Supreme Court Sustained the right of the government to sue for un- paid Spanish war taxes.
 Champ Clark Has Declared Himself in favor of six years term for pres ident and three years for representa- tiveS.
 Fines Asaresating s3,1oo were inn posed on six New Workers for violat ing the district law against bucket shopping.
 President Page of the American As sociation for Highway Improvement says bad roads have cost the public nearly $300,000,000.
 The Supreme Court Decided that amendments to the railroad rate law making the initial carrier liable for loss Of interstate shipments was cou- stitutional
 w. Fred Allen, Last Year the 7resi- dent of the National Curling club of America and long identified with curi- ing in this country and Canada. died at his home in Utica yesterday after noon, following brief illness.
 The Annual Woman Suffrage Bill, providing for submitting to popular vote an amendment to the constitu- ton giving women the ballot was in troduced in the New York assembly yesterday afternoon by Senator New comb.
 Mrs. Hettie Jankins, a Colored Wom- an born in 1793. is dead in Lancaster, Pa. She married three times, was the mother of twenty-five children and out lived her husbands and with one ex- ception, all her children. The sole survivor is a son residing in Lancas- ter.
 With the Democrats in Control of Both Houses, the eighteenth general assembly of Colorado convened Wed nesday. George McLachlan of Denver
  the senate. Senator William H. Adams of Conej9S county was elected presi- dent pro tenn.
 Following Contest of the Election Of Certain Members of the Ohio legs- lature which is now in progresS at Cincinnati, Judge German in the crim- inal court Wednesday charged the new grand jury of Hamilton county to in vestigate the alleged traffic in votes that has been brought up in the legis- lative cases.
 Frank c. Deerng and Frank w. Nutter, both of Saco. Me. yesterday were appointed by the supreme court as receivers of the Saco Savinen bank, which was closed on December 12. They furnished bonds in the sum of S100.000 each Two commissioners. whose duty it will be to assist the receivers in their work. pass upon claims, etc.. were appointed. BATHTUB TRUST CASES UP,