Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-15

All Grades of Refined Sugar were ad- Vanced ten cents a hundred pounds yesterday.
 President Taft Appointed Judge l George M. Bourquin, once a hoisting 1 engineer, as district judge of Mon- tana,
 A Municipal Opera House is being | planned for San Francisco to cost $750oo0.
 The Syrian Weavers at the Wampa- ! noaq cotton mills at Fall River are on strike for 8 10 per cent. advance. Mrs. Sarah Rowe Hodgkins, Baths l CMe) oldest resident, died yesterday. 1 She was l0S years and months old.
 By the Collapse of a Roadway at l San Reno, 45 schooFchildren were 1 carried down into the sea and many of them perished.
 The French Government Will this year spend over -$4,50O, ,O0O on the aerial branch of the army. There will be S44 aeroplanes
 | GEs SOSGpu V SONEGI or REOOktyny was nominated for health officer of the l port of New York by Governor Dix to succeed Dr. Alvah H Doty. l Senator Gehhardt Introduced in the | New Jersey senate a proposed amend l ment 10 the constitution providing for the initiative and referendum.
 The City of Woonsceket Has Asked the legislature to change it's charter in order that it may provide for bien- nial elections instead of annual By Vote of 30 to 0, the senate of the Kentucky general assembly passed a bill providing for a pension of S10 sL month for each indigent confederate
 soldier
 As the White House Clocks were striking 10 President Taft yesterday
 signed the proclamation admitting Ari-
 zona to the union. He used a gold pen
 which is to be given to Postmaster General Hitchcock.
 Captain Powell Clayton, Jr., of the
 10th cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga,
 has been designated as military aide to Secretary Knox on his tour of Cen
 tral and South American republics and
 the West Indies
 Rev. Edward T. Sullivan, rector of
 Trinity church, Newton Center Mass
 and one of the best known Episcopal
 clergynen in the diocese. has been asked to become editor of The Church 1 man Of New York
 . Two of the Men Active in Supportinr
 the political aspirations of Senator 1 Robert M. La Toilette called yesterday
 upon Col. Theodore Roosevelt. They } 1 were Clifford Pinchot and Governor Johnson of California } A Loss, Placed Conservatively al ) S100,000, was caused by fire in the
 Lewis building. Waterbury, opposite
 the city hall. yesterday. which required ] the undivided attention of the fire de. partment for some hours.
 The Naval Board Appointed to Dis pose of the relics of the Maine ha:
 be0n carefully examining and classify.
 ing the great mass of material recently 7 brought to Washington from HavanF s and is now about to begin the work O. ] distribution.
 . With a View to Learning Whethe4 I EdliS anu IdllTOdO GIulpIuSUl can Di l, 1 improved in quality. an investigation . will be instituted by a committee ap - pointed by c. F. Staples president O l the National Association of Railwa, 6 Commissioners.
 t In His Search for a Jurist to sue ceed the late Justice Harlan upon tn s supreme court bench, President Taf
 has turned from the west to the east
 and last night it was said he was in
 clined to appoint a man from Penn f sylvania, New Jersey or New York. . With Only One Dissenting Vote, tn tax bill which has been urged by Gov
 ernor Pothier for several years, an, which is expected to increase the an nual revenue of the state by abou T s4oO.O00 to tT0e, 1000, was passed in con
 cUrrence by the Rhode Island senat 1 yesterday.