Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-19

The Chicago City Council has pass
ed an ordinance fixing the price of
gas at an average of 10 Us cents per
thousand cubic feet for the next five
years.
Resolutions Endorsing the Work of
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley and urging that
he be retained were adopted by the
building trades council of Pawtucket,
r. l.
Weather Generally Favorable to the
growing crops prevailed during the
week just ended according to the ma
tfonal weekly weather bulletin of the
weather bureau.
Because of Cholera in Italy, Seere-
tary MacVeagh has cabled orders to
the revenue cutter practice ship Itasca
at Marseilles to strike the port of
Naples from its itinerary.
Mail Advices from Haiti State that
several prominent Germans have been
expelled from the country on the
grounds of alleged support given by
them to the revolution.
Health Authorities in Massachusetts
and New Hampshire do not view with
alarm the cholera situation in New
York nor do they see any threatening
danger to the rest of the country.
The Family of the late former May
or Tom L. Johnson, it is expected will
soon leave Cleveland, O., and locate
permanently in the old johnson home
stead in the Shore road in Brooklyn.
Her Mind Unbalanced as a Result
of the intense heat of last week. Miss
Annie Leslie 90 nJ of Pod
bank, n. j., was committed to the
Rhode Island hospital for the insane.
A Resolution Asking Governor Foss
to veto the so-called Ellis bill, to reg
ulate the milk traffic of Massa chu-
setts. was adopted at Worcester yes
terday by convention of Massachu-
Setts farmers.
Maj. George o. Squire, who was in
charge of the signal department of
the Tnaneuyer division, has just re-
turned to Washington from San An
tonic, enthusiastic over the possibili-
ties of the wireless telegraph in time
of war.
Charles Hickman, Who Was TO have
been hanged at Beaver. Pa. yester-
day for the murder of his wife. Mol
lie. in February. 1910, collapsed in his
cell in the county Jail during the
night and died yesterday morning at
8 o'clock
James Franklin Collins Has Resigned
is assistant professor of botany and
curator of the herbarium at Brown
university to accept a position as for
est pathologlst in the bureau of plant
industry, department of agriculture, al
Washington.
Major General j. e. SIetzer of Cleve-
Ian, for ten years head of the Uniform
rank of the Knights of Maccabees of
the world, was unanimously reelected
to the office at the convention of the
supreme division cf the uniform rank
at Cleveland.
Unaccounted for Eruptions of large
quantities of water. steam, sand and
small rocks to a height of several
hundred feet from the hot spring in
the Norris basin in Yellowstone Ma
tional park have been occurring dur
ing the summer.
Rescued With Difficulty by the keep
er in charge of Rear Admiral Robert
E. Peary's dogs at Eagle Island, Me,
Margaret Neal, the ten year old
daughter of Prof. Herbert V. Neal of
Tufts college. was horribly bitten by
Old King. the leader of the pack.
As a Result of Using Kerosene Oil
to kindle fire in her kitchen stove,
Mrs. Mary Mccarthy of Newport, r.
L, was fatally burned. and her hus-
band, John \. Mccarthy. received Sc
we're burns about the face. hands and
body, in trying to save her life.
Senator Warren, Chairman of the
senate finance committee, and former
chairman of military affairs. predict
ed after talk with President Taft
yesterday that artfllerymen to man the
fortifica tions on the Panama canal
zone would be sent south within
year.