Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-15

culture and commerce says the world exposition which was to have been held at ToIio ill 1917 has ben abandoned. The Month So Far has been the hot test in Paris since that city has been keeping a weather bureau. This spring is the dryest in the city for the last 250 years.
 Gen. Joseph A. Duncan, u. s. A., commanding the department of Texas, died at San Antonio, Tex, yesterday morning of heart failure. General Dun can was 5S.
 At Least 20 Lives Were Lost, 15 vil- lages destroyed, a great area of tim Der burned and 1000 cattle killed by forest fires sweeping the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
 An ordinance prohibiting the carry ing of any flags other than those rec ognzed by the United States govern ment was passed by the Seattle city council Monday night.
 Several hunudred strikers at the Merrimack Manufacturing company and members of the Lowell, Mass,
 
 and eleven arrests resulted.
 Mrs. Catherine Dunn, who cut the throat of her IS months old child in Lynn on April 30. was sent to Dan vers insane asylum yesterday by or der of the municipal court.
 Robbers entered the farm house of Mrs. Minnie Mack near Secaucus, N J., early yesterday ana strangled her to death with handkerchiefs, altar which the house was footed.
 The total membership of the Knights of Columbus increased from 255, to 274,221 during the year which ended April 30. and there has been net gain of 62 councils.
 A temporary stay was issued by the appellate division at New York yes terday restraining the warden of Dan- nemoEa prison from removing Falke Engle Brandt back to the prison. A Money Lender in, Munich was sen. | fenced to serve five years in all ana pay fine of $S,750 for charging ex- tortionate rates of interest, amounting in some cases to $50 per cent. annual ly.
 Steps Looking to the Erection of 6 1 $1,250000 hotel in Hartford were talk. | en at a meeting yesterday, when plani for such a structure were outlined b1 | Frank A. Dudley of the United Hoteli company.
 That some fears are felt for tn, safety of the old Brooklyn bridge is l indicated by orders prohibiting heav! | teams from using the roadways anC | directing the elevated railroads to cur | tail their traffic during the rush hours A Novelty of This Angling Season il | Connecticut has been the appearance of swarms of black flies along tn Hammonasset river and valley on tn boundary of New Haven and Middlese1 counties.
 President Taft Appointed Miss Lou l ise Lester of Maryland a member O the committee to witness the destruc | tion of worn out paper currency. Sh is the first woman ever appointed il that service.
 The 13o employees of the New Hamp shire Spinning mills in Pentacook N H., went on strike at noon yester day for a reduction of the hours o labor to 55 per week, with pay at tn rate of 60 hours.
 Scrutiny of the Testimony of wit nesses for the packers during the re cent criminal trial was begun with view to bringing perjury action agains certain persons who testified in behal of the beef men.
 Two burglars, who desired only t be we'll dressed, broke into Sinnot Brothers general store at Jericho, l., yesterday and departed wearin in the stores stock.
 Counsel for George Bedding, Jr., un der sentence of death on November next for the murder of Morris Green berg in Hamden last February, ha filed notice of an appeal of the case { the supreme court of the state.
 The Volunteer Fire Department C New Kensington, Pa, is on strike an tn town is without any protectiO against fire. The firemen are angr because the citizens interfered with show which was given recently to ra1s funds.
 George F. Raer, president of tn Philadelphia and Reading railroad yesterday was subpoenaed by tn house Judiciary committee as a wit ness in the investigation of charge against Judge Robert W. Archibald C the commerce court.
 Governor Wilson of New Jersey az pointed a commission to acquire Ian for q state park at Washington's cross ing. near Trenton. where a nonumer is to be built marking the point wheI General Washington crossed the Dels waer river just before the battle ( Trenton.
 The White Star steamship line ha chartered the steamer Algerine C Newfoundland to operate in conjunc tion with the Canadian governmer steamer Montagny, which landed thre bodies at Rutsberg and sailed to re new the search for bodies of othe Titanic victims.
 Girard Nugent, an months old ba by, is named as plaintiff in a suit 1 recover $25, eco from the Brookly Heights Railroad company for injurie suffered before the infant was born. is alleged that Mrs. NUgent was hui in such a manner that the child wa permanently injured.
 A Corps of Boy Policemen will be ol Eanized to take charge of Central Par New York, next Saturday, as most ( the regular force will be in the annui police parade. The fact that the da is the first one the park is open fC May parties will add to the difhcultit of the boy policemen.
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