Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-13

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It is Proposed to Increase the Ger
man army by two new corps.
A Large Part Of the Palace of the
Archduke Frederick, in Vienna, was
burned and many valuable paintings
burned.
Damage Amounting to a quarter Of
million dollars was caused by the hre
which destroyed the Halifax Herald
building.
Representatives of Arsenal Employees
had a conference with Secretary Stim-
son with reference to the speeding
up at the arsenaIs.
The Plant of the Grafton Wood
working company and five dwellings at
Grafton, w. Va, We're destroyed by fire
yesterday, with q loss of s155,000.
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio de
clares economy in the conduct of the
federal government and tariff reform
should be the issues of democracy.
Oliver Lawrence, a young Bridgeport
man, left there yesterday to walk to
San Francisco. LaWrence's idea in
making the trip is to see the country.
Charles Simmons, a Brakeman, OF
Bridgeport, was struck by a passenger
train at Ansonia last night and an arm
fractured He was taken to a Bridge
pert hospital.
AdVices to Dun's Review this week
from leading citizens of the United
States are of a somewhat mixed char
acter, with the weather both stimulat-
ing and retardlng trade.
The Piano Manufacturing Plant of
the knabe Bros Piano company in
Norwood, Ohio, was entirely destroy
ed by fire yesterday with loss OF
S20O,900, covered by insurance.
AS Result of the Raids made by
United States revenue officers on Chi
nese places at Hartford Wing Lee was
held in bonds of $1,000 for trial on the
charge of violating the revenue laws
Lecompte Davis. Attorney for Bert
Franklin, the Mcnamara detective
charged with jury bribing, said posi-
lively yesterday that his client would
make no confession to obtain clemen-
cy.
Samuel Gompers and the executive
council of the American Federation Of
Labor urged the house committee on
labor yesterday to report a bill Great
ing a department of labor with cabin
ct rank.
Official Confirmation of the resigna-
tion of Robert Bacon. American am
| bassador at Paris. reached the White
House yesterday, when President Taft
received a personal letter from Mr..
Bacon.
Brakeman Enoc Wright of St. AL
/ bans was killed in rear end collision
| Of two sOuthbound freight trains on
! the Central Vermont railroad, three
miles north Of Randolph, VT, yester-
/ day.
Luigi Donate Ventura, an italian of
noble. birth and of ability as a writer
and lecturer, committed suicide at San
! Francisco by shooting himself through
! the heart in fit Of dependency, duo
to family troubles.
Four Aviators, Sworn in as deputy
! sheriffs, few into the mountain coun-
/ try around Calabasas, Cal, yesterday
/ in search of two men who wounded q
deputy sheriff in a fight at San Fer
| nando Wednesday and escaped.
A Verdict of Not Guilty of man
! slaughter was returned in the case Of
Earl D. Bean of East Corinth, Me-,
! who was charged with fatally shoot
ing Ralph w. Emerson. q Z year old
hoy, at Liberty, Me. while hunting
deer.
A Favorable Report on the Reilly
| bill, which provides an eight hour day
| for letter carriers and clerks in al!
/ first and second class postoffices, was
| decided upon yesterday by a sub COM
| n7ittee of the postoff1ce committee OF
! The house.
Three Italians Became Involved in a
quarrel at New Canaan last night at a
boarding house and Rosario Trieati is
under arrest charged with stabbing
! PetrO Procaceini and his brother
Tony. The condition of neither of the
| wounded men is serious.
| Captain Robert A. Bartlett, COM
mander of the Arctic steamer Roose-
velt during Pearys successful dash to
the north pole and now visiting in San
| Francisco, hopes TO induce CaIiforni-
ans to finance an expedition in search
Of the south pole.
T. Frank Wells, WiIberforce Seully
Rufus ]. Ireland and George w. Daliy
must stand trial in Wyoming on in
dictments charging them with conspir-
/ acy in 1905 TO iefraud the govern
ment out Of 1850 acres of coal lana
/ belonging TO the United States.
Harry Williams, Whose death in a
hot bath at the New York city farm,
colony, on Staten Island, so frfghtene;
the attendants that they fed. with feai
Of being charged with homicide, was
due TO natural causes and not TO scaId.
ing, according to Coroner jackson,