Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-22

rich American collector.
Jesse Bines, Chicaso's Only Negro
Banker, was married Tuesday to Miss
Eudora johnson, said to be the wealth
lest colored girl in that city
The stilIwelI Constitutional Amend
ment providing for woman suffrage
was reported by New York's senate
Judiciary committee yesterday.
Charges That Srbe of $1,000 was
offered to withdraw two bills created
E sensation in the New Jersey legis-
lature, lin session at Trenton.
1t Has Been Decided to Hold the
annusl state field day and parade Of
the Connecticut Total Abstinence Un-
ion in Waterbury on June 10.
r. G. DiegIe, former sergeant at
arms of the Ohio senate. must serve
three years in the penitentiary for
completely i'll legislative bribery.
A Dog Playing with a String at
tache5 to the trigger of a gun in a
trap for prairie wolves. near Dugald,
| Manitoba, shot and killed another Cog.
- Oil w dS TaSSeQ Dy the tNllOu6 ISL
and house yesterday requesting con-
gress to secure a lightship to be placed
one mile north of the north end of
Block Island
Former Sheriff Eben N. Perry, one of
| the best known temperance men in
Maine, is dead at the home of his
! daughter, DR. H. B. Perry, at North
ampton, Mass.
Mrs. Josephine CandiaIaso, believed
| to have been the last member of the
once numerous tribe of Tule Indians,
died at the county hospital Santa
Clara, Cal, aged 49,
The Threatened Coal Strike in Eng
land has caused numerous inquiries
to be made in New York from English
! companies relative to the possibility of
! obtaining American coal
The Mexican Government has agreed
| TO pay an indemnity of SS,100000 to
| the Chinese republic for the death Of
| so Chinese at Torreon, Mex, during
the revolution last July.
Another Bill to Limit the Service
Of president and vice president to one
terday, this time by Representative
Curley Of Massachusetts.
EIihu H. Geer, Aged 72, Secretary
Of the Hartford Printing company and
publisher of the city directory died
suddenly at his home in Hartford yes
terday, from heart disease.
Burglars Entered the Home of J.
Seeley at Montreal early yesterday and
while the family slept upstairs carted
away the dining room furniture and
four trunks full of property.
James 3. Duke, the Former Head OF
the American Tobacco company, sailed
yesterday for England, where he will
become the president of the British
American Tobacco company.
Because of the Severe Storm along
the southern coast, Secretary Knox
will board the cruiser washington al
l'Key West instead of Palm Beach, Fla
He will embark tomorrcw evening.
Hiram C. Gill, Elected Mayor Of
Seattle two years ago and removed by
the recall in less than a year, finished
at the head of the poll in the nomina-
ton primary for city officers Tuesday
An Amendment to the Pariament's
reply to the speech from the throne
alleging that the government had moi
fulfilled its pledges to reconstruct the
house Of lords was rejected by a vot.
of 324 to 291.
The Treasury Department Preparee
to surrender the $4,000 excess duties
collected on the 100000 pearl neck
lace of Mrs. William B. Lee3s of New
York in accordance with the supreme
courts decision.
Considerable Insurance is Carried by
the cotton dealers of Texas in Hart
ford insurance companies. What loss
es the companies will be called upor
to pay as a result of yesterdays con-
flagration in Houston is unknown.
Senor CalVo, the Costa Rican min.
lister at Washington, received a cable
cream last night from San Jose, th-
capital Of Costa Rica, with the singl,
word Earthquake" in it. He fears
another catastrophe has taken place.
One Trainmsn is Dead, four Others
injured and several passengers wer,
hurt in a head-on collision that oc
Cured in a binding snowstorm on,
mile west of Lowder, Ill, yesterday be
tween a Chicago, Burlington and Quin
cy passenger train and a heavy Goa
/, train.