Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-18

Governor Glasscock of West Virginia has declared martial law in the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek sections of the Kanawha coal field.
 In a Speech at New York Saturday night, President Taft declared in favor of single term of six years for presi dents of the United States.
 The Plant of the Van Camp Packing company at Indianapolis, was partially burned Saturday morning, the owners estimating their loss at about $400 900.
 Mayor Gaynor Has Written a let ter tO the heads of the various city departments, asking them to see that their employees paid up all of their debts.
 Senator J. w. Bailey of Texas an- nounced that his resignation will not go into effect until after the coming | session of congress, as he wants to make one more speech.
 Nine State Policemen, assisted by the local police, swooped down upon two alleged gambling houses in the foreign section of Thompsonville yes terday and made g arrests. 
 Former United States Senator Will l liam Lorimer, who was operated on for appendicitis at Chicago Saturday, was yesterday pronounced to be resting | quietly and on the way to recovery. Edwin F. Meyer, formerly chief | clerk of the stCrekeeper of the Puget | Sound navy yard, Was,acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government in the purchase of sup plies.
 Former Sheriff William Bowen was | shot and killed and Henry SkidmOre was shot and fatally wounded in 8 street duel at Filzen Ky. yesterday. 1 The cause of the shooting is not | known.
 The State Department has received | from the American embassy at Con- stantinople telegram giving a re- assuring report Of safety of all Ameri- 1 cans as Ccnst stantinople and the i'm mediate vicinity.
 Although Surrounded yesterday in a railroad yard at St Louis by thirty policemen, Al Whitfield, a negro, who had killed Patrolnan Arthur N. Hud- dleson and wounded three other police- men, eluded his pursuers.
 The Body of James Murdock of | Springfield. Maine, aged %, was found Saturday beside the road leading from the numbering operations of his fla ther, Melvin MuE lock. on Pleasant lake. He was fro zen to death. President elect Wilson, Mrs. Wilson l and Misses Eleanor and Jessie Wilson | left New York for Bermuda shortly after two o'clock Saturday afternoon on the steamship Bermudian. They will be gone until December 16.
 Fire Which Started from an over- heated furnace partly gutted the office of Comstock Cheney & company at Ivoryton, Conn, and for time threat ened the big ivory factory yesterday afternoon. The loss will not exceed $1,0OO.
 Col. Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the Massa chusetts progressive party state committee compliments the pro- gressives of Massachusetts for taking the first mass action for the continu- ance of the fight for progressive prin- ciples.
 | Fifteen Witnesses from California who were to have testified at the trial at los Angeles had the McNamara brothers not pleaded guilty to causing explosions there will be examined by the government when the dynamite conspiracy" trial is resumed today.
 Miss Christine Olson. a maid em- l ployed at the house of Mrs. J. H Whittemore of Naugatuck, was seri- Fp,4 II--lt1 the explosion of an alcohol lamp yes- terday. She was working over the lamp when the explosion occurred.
 A Gold Medal Valued at $1ol0oo. pre- sented Gen. '. g. Grant on May 10, 1869, and which disappeared the fol- lowing day, has reappeared in Omaha in the jewelry shop of D. w. Stan colt. who says he purchased It from a stranger the day after 1t disap- peared.
 Gottfrled Hugg, until recently first sergeant of the Twenty com | pany, coast artillery, and Charles w Caton, private in the coast artillery shot themselves in an attempt to comI init suicide because they had been dis ciplined for participating in a poker I game at the PreSldlO.
 The Dismembered Body of six year old Joseph Josephs, for whom a coun- try-wide search has been in progress for more than a year since he was kidnapped from in front of his ia ther's store in Lackawanna was found packed in a sewer in a house in Lackawanna, Pa, Saturday. 
 Papers Were Served Saturday in suits instituted by Bank Commission CTS F. P. Holt and Norris S. Lippitt against twelve directors of the Wind sor Locks Savings bank for amounts aggregating S390,000, to determine the liability of the directors for the alleged embezzlement of the banks secretary and treasurer, Alfred w. Converse.