Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-04

ihere Were 10000 People in attend
ance yesterday at the opening day of
the Brockton fair
Disorders Have Broken Out in the
province Of Hupeh, China, and the Chi
nese soldiers have deserted.
The Mark Twain Monument commit
tee has chosen a site in Riverview
park at Hannibal, Mo. The monument
will overlook the Mississippi river.
The Last of the Big Land Drawings
kota was attended by 10000 persons
feaser to take up farming sections.
The Body of William Carroll, 40
years ole. IAN oysterman, was found in
the Providence river near the Point
street bridge, Providence, yesterday.
The United States Treasury gained
in strength during the month of Sep
tember, almost every feature of the ma
tional governments. finances showing
BY the Will of the Late Edward
Murphy, Jr., former u. S. senator from
New York, the entire estate, estimated
at many millions of dollars, goes to
Mrs. Murphy.
United States Senator Isaac Stephen
son is on trial in Milwaukee before a
subcommittee of the senate on the
! charge of having secured his election
by means of bribery.
Owing to the, Fight Between soldiers
and citizens at Salem, N. j. the enlist
ed men at Fort Mott. near there, have
been forbidden to enter the town un-
less permission is obtained.
The Job of Being Mayor will be the
subject of an address at the Art In
stitute, Chicago, on Thursday night
by Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor Of Hume
well, Kan.
A Subsidiary of the American To-
bacco company has filed a petition in
New York with the United States cir
cult court asking that the trust be en-
Joined from interfering with it's busi-
ness.
Aviator C. P. Rodgers will not be
able to resume his attempt to fly from
coast to coast before Thursday, as a
result of the wreclSing of his biplane
Monday shortly after his start for Chi
| cago.
While Watching a Fire yesterday,
at Canaan, Me-, DR.. L. M. iShean drop
ped dead of heart disease The fire de-
stroyed Roscoe Eart's lumber mill,
store and four dwellings, all valued at
$4,000.
The Cruiser Cincinnati has been or
dered in, commission at the Mare Is
land navy yard, not later than Novem-
ber Is, to relieve the New Orleans. or
dered home from the Asiatic station
for repairs.
A Voluntary Partnership Petition in
bankruptcy was filed yesterday by
William 3. Hanson and Matthew Han
:sconlz doing a manufacturing business
at Fall River under the name of Han
J scom Brothers.
A Wreath With Broad Ribbon of
| black was placed in the name of the
American navy by the caskets of the
| Liberties dead in the arsenal at Tou-
| lon, France, by the naval attache of
| the American embassy, yesterday.
The Directors of the Shaw Stocking
! company of Lowell, Mass, have voted
T to reduce capital from $4,000 to $780,
600, and thereafter to- increase it to
$450,000 by the isues of s270,000 new
stock at par, to secure new working
capital.
At Leroy, N. Y, the Rev. Herbert w.
Howard, formerly pastor of the Meth
edist church at East Bloomfield, N.
z, was expelled from the ministry by
the Genesee Methodist conference. The
charge against Mr.. Howard was i'm
morality.
In the First Six Months of Chicago's
| first court of domestic relations, Judge
Charles Goodnow has been able to
patch up 1.23G cases of domestic trou-
bic without a trial The judge list
ened 70 2,4S4 cases and married 64
couples.
An Advance of IS Cents Ton in the
freight rate of coke from the Connells-
vile region in Pennsylvania, to South
chicago, was declared excessive by the
Wisconsin Steel company, in a petit
tion filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
Imprisonment For Life was the SEN
tence imposed on Clifton p Thompson.
the cclored youth of 20 years, who was
convicted of the murder of Mrs Min
ka Fine in Providence on January Z
last. There is no capital punishment
in Rhode Island
A Conference Between Governors
Harmon of Ohio and Hadley of$A1is-
Souri, will be held in ST. Louis in ref
erence to asking for a review of the
decision of Federal Judge Sanborn,
pertaining to the regulation of rail-
road passenger and freight rates.
While Or. Henry ElgIn webster,
confessed slayer of one of his wives,
Mrs. Bessie Kent Webster. sat in his
cell at Oregon, ILL.,, calling for his first
wife. Mrs. Zoe .Varney Webster, the
body of his victim was buried yester-
day at Calvary cemetery, Chicago.
Captain Peter c. Haines received his
pardon yesterday and left Sing Sing
prison free man, for the first time
since he killed William F. Annis, in
August, 1908. Accompanied by his
father. General Peter c. Haines, retir-
ed, he took a train for New York city.
A Breach of Promise Suit in which,
a colored lay preacher, Edward Fill
oft of No. 141 Warren street, Newark,
and Sarah Walton, of No. rs Warren
street, Paterson, n. J., are the princi-
pals, has been started in a New Jersey
courts Mrs. Walton is a widow and
celoreG. She wants $50. Zoo damages.
EFFORT MAY RE MADE
TO FLOAT THE MAINE.
Engineers Believe 1t Feasible by Build
ing BuIkhead.