Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-09

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 As Result of Swallowing a pea nut, James Purcell, two years old, is dead in St. Luke's hospital in New York city.
 A Second Gift of s25,o0o to Brown university from John D. Rockefeller, IT,, was announced yesterday. The fund has now reached $S15.000.
 Mrs. F. D. Grant, widow of Gen. | eral Grant. sailed for Russia with her | daughter, the Princess Cantacuzine. This will be her first visit to her l daughters home.
 An Epidemic of Typhoid in Corning, N. Y, near Albany, is being investi- gated by the board of health. It is thought that an impure water supply 1 is the cause.
 Senator James J. FrawIey Must Pay a lumber bill of $4, ,296 instead of the | New York Fire Fighters Co.,, in which he was interested and which gave fire fighting exhibitions at Coney Island.
 The Poindexter Resolution to inves- tigate labor conditions at Lawrence, -hAfhoosJ VI oo oQOpACu BS llG OullGu States senate. The commissioner of | labor is directed to make the inquiry.
 A Commission to Investigate co-op- erative land mortgage banks and rural credit unions in foreign countries Is proposed in a resolution adopted by the United States senate.
 Rev. Francis S. Lippitt, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascen- sion, Rochester, N. T.. has received a call to the pastorate of All Saints Memorial church, Meriden, Conn.
 Rev. Asbury Krom of Connecticut was elected a director of the Congre- gational Home Missionary society at the annual meeting at Toledo, O., yes- terday.
 The Membership of the Connecticut agricultural society which annually conducts the state fair at Berlin, is to be increased by statewide cam paign.
 The Approval of Governor Foss was withheld from the bill providing that veterans of the Spanish war should receive certain credits in civil service examinations.
 The Management of the Hudson, | Mass, worsted mill has brought 500 men from Baltimore to take the places of operatives who struck last month for higher wages.
 Directors of the Denver & Rio Grande railway Co. finally approved yesterday the plan authorizing the is sue of $25,OOO,0OO seven per cent. ad- justment income bonds.
 Republican Members of the Senate finance committee have been holding meetings daily for several days, try ing to agree upon a sugar bill, but so far without result.
 Negotiations Have Been consum- mated with the French government by | Postmaster General Hitchcock for the establishment of direct change of postal money orders between the Unit ed States and Martinique.
 The Seaview House. a cottage, an ice house and two stables were de- stroyed in an early morning fire at York beach, Me. which threatened to destroy a large part of the Long beach section, yesterday.
 A Marine Aboard the Cruiser Mary land was arrested yesterday, charged with robbing Mrs. Philaneder c. Knox wife of the secretary of state, of dia- monds valued at more than $2.000 during their recent trip.
 The White Star Liner Oceanic sailed from Southampton, England. for Cher ! NT W-,.lr aI,-- cry lifeboat was lowered into the wa ter and tested before the vessels de- parture.
 The Bremen of the Grand Trunk railway will send deputation to the central offices next week to demand 8 20 per cent. increase in wages, The engineers were recently given a 10 per cent. increase.
 While on Duty in the Engine Room of the Joy line steamer Tennessee, at Providence, Samuel A. Tinkham of FaiPhaven, Mass, chief engineer of the beat, was stricken with heart failure. yesterday, and died instantly.
 
 Gov. Pethier Yesterday Received a petition signed by 100 residents of the town of Warwick. R, l., asking that Sunday baseball be stopped at Rocky Peint, where the Providence Interna- tional league team plays on Sundays.
 The Duke of Sutherland Arrived in New York with the wooden eagle which was carried on the yacht Amer iea which in 1851 wen the cup which now bears the yachts name. The duke will present the emblem to the New 1 York Yacht club
 The Attempt of the Master Plumbers 5 in New Haven to break the strike of the jeurneyHen plumbers by bringing in eighteen strike breakers, resulted in the calling out of the carpenters and electricians at work on tive new buildings iR process af erection.
 flax Annen5erg, head of the circu- iation department of a Chicago morn , ing newspaper, is under arrest charg- ed with attempts to kill Charles Stricker, said to be a pressman, de- ] elared that Annenberg had fired sever al shots from revolver at him. Five Hundred Members of the In- Gustrfal Workers of the World re- mained out of work yesterday at the 5ferrimac Manufacturing companyss mills, marking the beginning of the second strike in Lowell. Mass, in the past few weeks.
 Arthur Rosworth, who was found guilty of the murder of Miss May La , beff at Essex Junction. Vt, last June by jury in the Cmttenden county superior criminal court, was sentenced to be hanged at the Windsor state prison QQ- January 24. 1913. <