Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-09

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 Fire Which Swept the business, dis trict of McMechan, West Virginia, Saturday morning, caused a loss of $75,0oo
 Carlo PistoIf, the Newly Elected mayor of San Stefano, near Paler- mo, Italy, is learning to read and write at the request of the town.
 pr. William J. NeaIon. of Philadel- phia, has just learned that he has been left $30,000 by Philip Sheridan, of Cal ifornia, whom he befriended IA years ago.
 Another Avalanche of cold storage eggs were thrown on the market at Chicago Saturday and the price dropped from P to 19 cents whole- sale.
 Jacob H. Schiff, the New York fin ancfer, will be one of the first wit nesses to appear before the house money trust Investigating committee this week.
 A Painting by the French Artist Hugues Merle, entitled The Old Mans Story, has been presented to the Yale Art school by the Adee family of New York city. Max H. Roth, New York represen- tative of Chicago manufacturing concern was run down and instantly i killed Saturday by a speeding auto mobile in New York.
 More Than 10000 Skilled Workers | in the navy yards throughout the 1 United States, were Saturday placed | under the protection of civil service. i by executive order of President Taft. | A Bill Authorizing the government to take over the farm and homestead in Kentucky, where Abriham Lincoln was born, was introduced in the house | Saturday by Representative Johnson. Glsnoarnock Victor, named as the | worlds champion steer at the Inter- national Live Stock exposition in Chi cago, was sold in that city for 50 cents a pound The animal weighs 1880 pounds.
 Christmas Trees and Christmas Massachusetts this year as ever be- l fore, notwithstanding the em Jargo l placed upon interstate shipments by the government
 Recognized As An Anarchist of in- | ternational notoriety, Edward Lag bin, a hunchback three feet tall, will be deported from San Francisco on | the strength of information received from Washington.
 1 George Kendall of West Lebanon, N. | H., farmer, is under arrest charged with murdering Joseph Osgood and seriously wounding Mrs. Kendall at the Osgood home. His wife had been keeping house for Osgood.
 Merritt, McNeaI, and William Ben ton, Jacksonville, Florida, druggists, l arrested several days ago during the post office departments crusade for alleged illegal use of the United States mails, were exonerated by the federal grand jury.
 President Taft Saturday promised Representative Berger of Milwaukee to commute the sentence of two years Imprisonment imposed on Harold A. Otey, a private in the 136th company Coast artillery, to expire Christmas morning.
 Make a Bonfire of Your Hats; 1 throw away your corsets, and wear | trousers instead of these ridiculous tight skirts is the recommendation of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the wo- mans suffrage leader to the Equal Suffrage club.
 Mrs. Virginia Davis, of Muskogee Okla, left her three year old baby alone in the house all night. When she returned in the morning she found | that rats had killed the child. She was arrested charged with manslaugh- ter. in the second degree.
 Melville B. MendeIl, lawyer, after rescuing his wife and son from theil burning home in the borough oi Queens, N. Y. early Saturday morn ing, lost his life in an attempt tc save his' fourteen-year- old daughter Lillian. The girl also perished.
 Joseph Ettor, Recently Acquitted after trial for murder in con l nection with the strike riots al Lawrence, Mass, arrived at Little Falls, N. Y, Saturday to take charge of the strike in the textile mills con ducted by the Industrial Workers ot the World
 With Several Ribs Broken, Rev John P. Coulahan. pastor of St Md, is lying in Washington hospita as the result of an automobile col. lision in which the offending car ant its occupants ran away without stop ping to assist the clergyman.
 
 A White Plymouth Rock Hon or display at the Western Wisconsin Poultry show, and valued at $200 wa: worth twice that sum Saturday, as the result of swallowing a s2O0 ruby which dropped from a setting in { ring worn by Chanes V. Keeler ot Winamac, Ind, one of the judges.
 A Petition for the Formation of { company consisting of Governor A J. Pothier and other citizens of Rhod, Island, for the purpose of purchasing the franchise of the Southern New England railway, was filed with thu Massachusetts secretary of state Sat urday. The measure will come be. fore the next legislature.
 No Matter How Much Loss a per son suffers because 8 letter carriel 1 delayS oeliVery or mail, d. policeman fails to walk his beat, a fireman ne glects to answer an alarm or watel company omits to install fire plugs the sufferer cannot recover damages Such is the statement of Justice La. mar of the Supreme court.
 Severe Criticism of the New York New Haven & Hartford railroad il contained in report made to the In terstate Commerce commission b, Commissioner AcChord, upon the ac cident oh October 3 at Westport, Conn in which many persons were killet or injured. Commissioner McChort holds that the accident was clearh 'layoids