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Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
STRENGTH OF VARIOUS
 GLASSES OF NATIONAL BANKS.
Comptroller of the Currency About to
 Undertake an Investigation.

Washington, Jan. 15-A investiga- tion of the relative strength of the various classes of national banks is about to be undertaken by the com trOiler of the currency. Bankers in general expect the result will be high 1y important, at is probably will have much influence in determining the question of the advantages and disad- -vantages of so-called ''branch bank ing,'' a warmly contested point among inanciers nowadays.
 For the purposes of this inyestigst- ton the banks will be classified &C., cording to capital. When it is con- cluded the comptroller expects to know whether the average $25,000 na- tional bank in a small town is rela- lively as well managed and in as sound condition as the S5.g0O,000 bank in a large city.
 Statistics of the comptroller's office show that shareholders in national banks have received dividends averag- ing g per cent. annually for the last forty years. and that surpIusseS have been general, increasing until last year they were equal to 64 Der cent. of the capital employed.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Having Been Missing Thirty Eight Days He
 Reached the Metropolis Sunday
COMES BACK CALM AND SMILING
Denies All Talk Graft far He is Himself Con- cerned-Says He Knew Nothing of the Agitation Caused by His Absence-Has No Intention of Re- signing His Poston-Tes of His Trip.

i even followed me all over Europe. You begins to wear after a while. You know that saying about the constant dripping of water wearing away the stone."
 Whereabouts a Mystery for Weeks.
 When the subject of his protracted trip was brought up, Hyde grinned. For weeks his whereabouts had been a mystery, and the idea seemed to please him. He smiled as he talked the trip over. but he continued reticent when pressed for somthing on the banking situation. About all he would say was that he did not learn until Friday last of the closing of the Northern Bank of New York and the Carnegie Trust company, Then he turned about and hurried home.
 Hunting Ducks in the Caroiinas.
 MT. Hyde said that part of his time had been spent on his houseboat and part in hunting ducks through the Carolinas. He left Camden, N. J., on his houseboat December and worked south. stopping at various points, and he did not read a newspaper or com- municate with New York.
 Learned the News in Florida.
 From Southport, N. C., he went by houseboait at Jacksonville, Fla. Last Thursday he reached St. Augustine, where his family joined him. They had started for Palm Beach on the house. boat, he said, when he was overtaken by Dan Smith, brother of his secrer tary, near Daytona, who explained the situation in New York to him.
 "Hy1e was greatly surprised to hear of all that had been going on. and it was not until I mentioned the bank failures that he permitted me to show him a newspaper" said Smith today.
 Decided to Abandon Trip.
 He said that many. times he had thought of resigning his public office. He declared that reporters and detec- tives, even entered his law office and rummaged through his papers. taking letters and other documents, just what he did not know. When the situation was fully explained he decided to aban- don his trip and to go right home, though he laughingly remarked I don't suppose could have prevented the failure or that I can reopen the banks. Those who have their own ends to serve and the financial power must decide those questions"
 Hyde appeared to be in good health, but friends who were with him declar- ed that he was far from well and hint ed at an operation being necessary.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
SUPPOSED DEAD WOMAN
 WALKED INTO BOSTON MoRGUE
And Settled Disputed Question of Iden-
 tity of Body on Slab.

Boston, Jan. 15.-When a Worcester man, accompanied by an undertaken apreared at the morgue in Boston to- day to claim as dhis sister the body of a young woman foundadead on the water front Friday morning, he was met by two women who also claimed the body as that of their sister. The mystery of the womans identity was believed solved yesterday, when Wor- cester people claimed to identify the body as that of Mrs. Lillian Hastings Today the Misses Donohue of Ran dolph personally identified the body as that of their sister, Miss Mary Dono- htIes
 While the rival claimants were dis cussing the matter, Mrs. Hastings walked into the morgue, finally settling the dispute, and the body was given to the Randolph parties.
 The death of Miss Donohue was at first believed to be. the result of foul play. but the medical examiner later declared it to be due to natural causes.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Chinese Oppose Burning of Bodies
CREMATION WILL PREVENT REC.
 IGNITION IN FUTURE LIFE.
BuB0NIC PLAGUE IN HARBIN
Some Houses Contain Dead Bodies of Entire FamiIies-Heroie Death of French Physician.

Peking, Jan. 15.-Reports from liar bin say that the Chinese there are vigorously opposing the summary dis position of the bodies of those who have died from the bubonic plague. The authorities do not dare to burn them, the people desiring that they re- main intact so that their ancestors may recognize them in the future life. They also oppose the burning of houses, some of which contain the dead bodies of entire families. Some of the corpSeS have remained in the city for days, but they are now being taken to the open country, where trenches for their interment have been prepared.
 Charges of Burial Alive.
 It is reported that the Russians in Harbin are not concerning themselves with the Chinese section, although they are dealing drasticaily with the Chi neSe within the Russian city. The Chinese newspapers are raising an outcry and bringing forward serious charges of persecution and burial alive Members of the legations. who con- stantly recommend meas ures to the government, are suggesting a censor ship of the press.
 But One Per Cent. Recover.
 The plague is of a very virulent type. Death usually ocsurs within for ty-eight hours and not more than one per cent. of the cases have ended in recovering. Dr. c. b. Meany, French physician who gave himself up to the work of combating the disease, died heroically.
 When he realized that he was att tackled by the plague he isolated him self in his room in hotel, drafted his will and wrote farewell letters. He begged his friends not to notify his wife of his illness and died alone.
 Fighting Spread of Disease.
 Already the doctors recognize the hopelessness of attending to those stricken, and they are devoting their energies to fighting the spread of the contamination. It is feared that some of the Manchurian villages have been entirely wiped out. The intensity of the cold weather has caused the people to. remain indoors, thus fostering in- lection.
 Foreign Doctors Volunteer for Service.
 The danger of the plague getting a foothold in Peking is considered slight. as train service to and from the 1n- fected districts has been stopped. An American educated woman doctor has gone from here to Harbin, as also have severak other doctors.
 The doctors have been inoculated and are equipped with special costumes and masks. The. government is insuring each foreign volunteer for Sz0,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
CHARGED WITH
 MURDER AND ROBBERY.
-Ephraim Dorous Arrested by State Police and Deputy Sheriff, Together With Annie Lambert and Mrs. Wat son--Hearing This Morning.
Special to The Bulletin. )


 Hampton, Conn, Jan. 15.-State Po- liceman Robert T. Hurley of Hartford and Deputy Sheriff John H. Pitts of Hampton arrested this afternoon Ephraim Dorous, an Indian, on the charge of murder and robbery They also placed under arrest Annie Lam bert, who lived with Dorous, on the charge of robbery and being an accom- plice. while the latter's sister, Mrs. Watson of Elliott was arrested as a witness All were held without bail, and will have hearing Monday morn ing before Justice of the Peace Fred erick Litchfield of Hampton at Clark s Corners.
 Dorous is charged with the murder of Albert C. Neff on December 20. the deceased having been found dead at Dorous' house that day, the accused was an inquest at the time, but it was held by Coroner Bill that death re- suited from alcoholism.
 Since then it is understood that ad- ditional evidence has been secured suf- ficlent to warrant the arrests which have been made. At the inquest it was the testimony of Mrs. Neff that her husband left home perfectly sober with $13.10 in his pocket. When he was found he had no money in his pockets His body was found in the Dorous shack 300 feet from Clark's COEucTS, where uo uau been duTlng the day and at which house all three of those arrested were. The Lambert woman lives with Dorous and Mrs Watson, sister of the Lambert woman, testified at the inquest that she went there to spend the day with her sis ter Nef when found had bruise over one eye and had been under the influence of liquor that day. He was |s27 years of age. and leaves his wife and had some property. Dorous, it is said. has been in trouble before. and served time in the Brooklyn jail for being connected with cutting Naffair He married a woman named Brown, of Chaplin, and lived in Brooklyn She died under somewhat peculiar circum- stances
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
HIGH PRICE OF GLYcERINE
 BLAMED ON PANAMA CANAL. Price Has Now Reached S24.33 Per
 Long Ton, Highest Recorded.

Washington. Jan. 15.-The Panama canal is partly responsible for an in crease, amounting tS over 50 per cent. in the price of glycerine, according to to the United States consul at Birm- ingham, England. In the past eighteen months the price has been gradually going up until recently it reached $24.33 per long tone, the highest price ever recorded.
 This increase in price is reported to be due largely to the scarcity of fats and oils from which glycerine is made as by-product in the manufacture of soap and the increased demand for glycerine for the manufacture of ex- plosives The great quantities of such explosives required for the Panama canal are partly responsible Tor the advance, although other great engi- neering works have had their infiu- ence.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
TRIAL OF MURDERERs
 OF STANLEY MITCHELL
Begins Today in the Webster County Mo-, Circuit Court

Marshfield, Mo, Jan. 15-The trial of Walter A. Dipley and Goldfe Smith, charged jointly with the murder of Stanley ketchell, the champion middle weight pugilist, will begin tomorrow in the Webster county circuit court.
 Ketchell was killed Oct. IS on the ranch of R. P. Dickerson, about fifteen miles from here.
 Dipley, who admitted the shooting, said it was done because of Ketche1rs attentions to Goldie Smith.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
HoNDuRAN REVOLUTION.
Trujilio Captured by Insurgents After
 Hard Skirmish.

Ceiba. Honduras Jan. il, via New Orleans, Jan. 15.--Trujillo was captur- cd by the revolutionists Tuesday after hard sk1rrnish with the small squad of government soldiers. The govern ment lost seven killed, including the mayor, De Plaza, and twelve wound ed.
 left Cefba this afternoon for Neuva Armenina, 28 miles east, where they expect to meet the revolutionary army, which Is said to have left Trujillo Tuesday evening on a march toward Ceiba-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
General TumbIing
 Of Food Prices
ACCORDING TO CHICAGO CON-
 MISSION MERCHANTS.
COLD STORAGE STUFF
Aggreeatina Millions of Pounds of Eggs. Cheese, Poultry and Butter to Be Thrown on Market.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-Millions of poJln1s of butter. eggs, cheese and poultry held in cold storage warehouses here Will be thrown on the market before
 May l, and general tumbling of food prices is expected at once, according to commission merchants.
 Commission Men Facing Failure. < Numerous Chicago commission men are said to be facing failure as re- suits of their efforts to maintain an artificial price on the necessities of life. The inability further to uphold
 this price is said to be due to a com bination of circumstances, chief of
 which are the open winter of 1911 and the banner crops of 1910.
 Three commission men failed in the last week as result, it is said, of
 holding great quanties of butter which
 they purchased at an average price of
 3l cents a pound and are now unable to market for more than 27 or 28 cents
 a pound.
 While the wholesale prices of but
 ter and eggs have dropped within the last few weeks. there has been as yet no decline in the retail prices. Some
 of the produce which now is to be un-
 loaded on a falling market has been in warehouses for as long as five years.
 By means of the cold storage houses commission men have been able to maintain an artificial price not only to the consumer, but to the producer, it is said No public warehouse report is ever made here, and the exact amount of produce in the hands of Chicago firms cannot be estimated. Thirty two
 warehouses are said to have 44,000, ,000
 pounds of butter, eggs and poultry. Men familiar with the market condi- ton today declared it would. be in- possible to say whether that figure represented the total or whether it was only a small percentage of the en- tire amount.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

New York. Jan. 15.-Charles H. Hyde, New York city's chamberlain, who had been missing 3s days, came back to town from Florida today, jaunty. calm and smiling. Of the clos ing of two banks containing $S00,00O fn city funds, of which he was tn 3 custodian, he would say nothing. Of the graft investigation. now adJourn- cd, he talked more freely. Briefly, as far as he was concerned, 1t was all ''oosh-- Tfre committee 1t will be re- called, desired MT. Hyde as a witness, ale was present at @ meeting where it was alleged s500,08o corruption fund was raised in an attempt to defeat the anti- betting bills at Albany.
 Remained Away on Account of Health.
 All this and moro, MT. Hyde denied. The committee had ample time to get him before he left New York, he said, and he remained away solely on &C., count of anis health. Spending most of his time on houseboat, he was out of touch with the world, he declared, knew nothing of the furore caused by liis absence, and did not learn until Friday Inst of the closing of the banks. Then. he said. he hurried back to his duties. prepared to be at his desk to- job. Suggestions of resignation he met with emphatic negatives.
 Graft Stuff is All Bosh.
 "This graft investigation stun is all bash" declared Hyde. q left this city because of i'll health and for no other reason. For three months before I left the investigation committee was in session I was about the City hall ev- cry day, but I never had any sugges- ton from any member of the commit tee that I was wanted
 Everybody else was suibpoenaed who was wanted Nobody approached fnc. had no reason to assume that was wanted. And as to the alleged corruption fund, why. don't even know the people they said I met with to raise the poodle
 Will Not Resign at Present.
 T intend to continue i'm the faithful performance of my duties as city chamberlain. I have no intention of resigning now"
 Do you mean that you may resign later 2"
 "Oh, we'll, cannot say what shall do later" he replied-
 Tt is not my intention to resign, though have wanted to resign for six months on account of the nuisance of detectives and reporters. Why, they
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Seventeen Year Locusts Due This
 Summer

New York, Jan. 15.-This is the year for the IT year locusts to appear. They are due along the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to New York, but Dr. Raymond l.. Ditmars, curator of the Branx Zoo. said today that he believ- ed the Hudson river would check the pest. ..f do not believe the swarrns this year will cross the Hudson said Mir. DirmaIs today. The locusts will pr0Daply migrate north as far as, Ny aclx, while llle interior of New Jersey will be hit heaviesr in this enighbor- hood. I think rfe damage that will result viii not be If any great mo- lncnts
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Record Exports of Iron and Steel Man
 ufacturos.

Washington, Jan. 15.-Exports of iron and steel manufactures of a great CT value than ever before were sent from this country during the calendar year 1910 according to figures compiled by the bureau of statistics of the de- partment of commerce and labor. Ex- ports of this class for the last year aggregated $200.000000, forming prac- tica1ly one-fourth of the total of man ufactures exported during the last year, valued at $S3o, ,560, ,000.
 In addition to this iron and steel shipments to Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska aggregated about $12,000, ,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Festivities Incident to Vale Prom
 Week."

New Haven, Conn.,, Jan. 15.-The fes- Yale university, which had their in ception Saturday evening with tine presentation of I'll Ventaglio by the University Dramatic association, were suspended today. This morning the guests of the week attended chapel, where the sermon was preached by Rev. J. Douglas Adam of East Orange. N J. In tl1e afternoon there were many automobile parties. followed by dinners at the country resoats. Tomor- row will De held rfe teas at the chap ter houses of the several fraternitIes the concert of the Glee clNb and ger~ mans.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
OPEN AIR TREATMENT WITH GRATIFYING RESULTS. Condition of 49 Children After Year in Open Air School.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-How forty-nine children. predisposed to tuberculosis, were treated 8 year in the open air with gratifying results to mind and body is told in detail in a report of the Elizabeth Mccormick open air school, issued today by Secretary Sherman c. Kingsley of the united charities of Chicago.
 Of the thirty children in regular at tendance st the school from January 70 Juno. 1910, twenty three completed one grade, three completed two grades and one completed three grades. No home studying was permitted. There WAS an average gain in weight of four pounds.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Mrs. Edith Mslbsr Examined by Men.
 tai Specialist.

Albany, N Y, Jan. 15-alrs Edith Melber, who was arrestsd Friday in Rochester, charged with the murder of her i've year old son. was today exam insd by spoci2liet in mental diseases at the reeuest of rhe d1strlct attorney, wno expects to present her case to tise grand jt1ry tvtso<reR
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Saved by His Collie Dog.

New York, Jan. 16.-After breaking through the ice on a pond at Bloom field x. J., this afternoon. Frank John son. F years old, would have been drowned but for the prompt action of his collie dog Rex Rex dashed to where his master was struggling and slowly pulled him out of the water onto soli6 ice. The hog chen 'crAEled
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

Four Trustees of the Washington Savings bank of New York, of which Joseph G. Robin was president. were indicted for perjury.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
OBITUARY.N
Mrs. William Paret.

Baltimore, Md, Jan. 15.-Mrs Will liam Paret. wife of the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Baltimore, died to- day at the Johns Hopkins hospital of cancer of the stomach. She was 59 years of age. Mrs. Paret was Miss Sarah Hayden, of Windsor, Conn, and when she married Bishop Paret in 1900 was the widow of Henry T. Haskell of Chicago. She was also the bishops second wife. Mrs. Paret died unaware of the fact that her husband is very i'll of pneumonia, as she has been in a state of coma almost from the time she entered the hospital four months ago.
 The condition of Bishop Paret was said to be decidedly worst this even ing, last night having been a bad one for the aged sufferer. He has not been informed of the death of his wife,
 c. J. Erdman.
 Allentown, Pa, Jan. 15.-Former Congressman c. J. Erdman died at his home here tonight after 8 lingering ill., ness, aged 64 years.
 He served two terms in congress and was the author of the Erdman act which applies to arbitration in labor times in the past year to settle labor troubles.
 Mir. Erdn1an was a graduate of Get t5-sburg college of the class of '65, He was admitted to the Lehigh county bar in 1867 and was a leading lawyer up to the time of his illness. He was president of the Allen Mutual Fire h. surance company, the Allentown and Coopersburg Turnpike company and for years of the CopIay Cement com pany.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
ceusI. AeoidsntalIy Asphyxias.d.

Reading. Pa. Jan 15s--The bodies of Amos Swan and his wife. Hannah, of Lancaster. Pa, who have been living in thig city for 1 few weeks. were fbu&d today .in thefr apartments, a The oo.s1te had been >spfy xiatcI l,y ilhim- ono11xsk x;,.s. supr~ssc<1sy b3 accident.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Drowned in Attempt to Aid Wound. ed Deer.

Ware, Mass, Jan. 15.--Ehorts to sue cor wounded deer which was float ing down Swift river on an ice cake cost Stanislaus DoDolek, 8 Pohsh mill worker. his life today. When he saw the predicament of the deer Dobolek rushed on to tite ice, which cNve way beneath him. John Skaza, c fellow countryman, was nearly dfpwned fIl endeavoring to rescue Ddbo1ele. The deer had been sho< by unlnuuD pAr- ties farther up the x1ver.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

pr. Charles J. kipp, one of the most celebrated eye and ear specialists in America, died from pneumonia at Newark, N J.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

Railroad Communication throughout the Portuguese republic is at a stand still because of the strike of the en- ployes.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

Twenty Thousand Men. employed in the morocco trades in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del, and New England will be idle during the month of Au- gust next.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Cab1ed Paragraphs

Madrid, Jan. liking Alfonso re turned here today after visit of near 1y d week at Melilla.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Condensed Telegranls

Arapel Gocze, whose foreign bank suspended in Pittsburg Thursday, kill ed himself at Connellsville, Pa.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston

petitioned the legislature for an act limiting campaign expenditures to $10,000 by political committees and 5000 by candidates.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16

Paris. Jan. 15.-Advices from Bada- jose, Spain, five miles from the Portu- guese frontier. say that the Portuguese government has acceded to the de- mands of the garrison at Eivas, which mutinied recently and demanded in creased pay. It Is reported that the authorities of the town of Campo Major, nine miles northeast of Elvas, urgently requested the Lisbon govern ment to despatch two battalions of troops to that place. No reason for this request is known and the govern mont refused on the ground that, troops could not be spared.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
5O Masked Men Stormed Jail
MOB THREATENED TO BLOW UP
 THE BUILDING.
THREE NEGROES LYNCHED
Early Sunday Morning at sheIbyviIIe, ky.-A Dozen Guns Pointed at Dep uty JaiIer's Head.

Shelbyville. Ky, Jan. 15.-Fifty masked men early today stormed the Shelby county jail and lynched three negroes two of whom were charged with insulting white women and the third of whom was under sentence to be hanged for the murder of a negro woman. The bodies of Gene Marshall >and Wade Patterson have been found, but that of the third man, James West, is still unaccounted for, although he was seen in the hands of the mob with a rope about his neck.
 Two Bodies Recovered.
 According to Ernest fIornback, a deputy jailer, the mob within an hour and quarter surrounded the jail, negroes away, leaving fourteen others in the same cell from which three were taken.
 The two bodies recovered were found about a quarter of mile apart. That of Marshall was hanging to a bridge over the Emminence pike near the jail and that of Patterson in Cedar creek. Patterson, it is said, attempted to es- cape from the mob and was shot and his body thrown into the creek
 According to Hornback, the mob threatened to blow up the jail unless the negroes were given up.
 'aThen the mob started to beat up the cell locks with a sledge hammer 3 he continued. About twelve men had their guns pointed at me. demanding the keys. I insisted I did not know where they were. Finally they broke the cell door open and took out West, Marshall and Patterson"
 Throwing Kisses to White Women.
 Patterson, it was charged. insulted two white women during the holidays and Knocked down both of them. Vests alleged crime was that he had often been seen throwing kisses to white women. He was chauffeur. Marshall was sentenced to hang for