Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-18


 J. E. Schultz, Who is Known as the king of loan sharks" ir Brooklyn, was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined S2,00O for usury.
 The House Yesterday Passed the bill to create a department of labor, the secretary of which shall have place in the cabinet.
 Harry Hoenig Was Appointed official mosquito killer of Philadelphia at salary of $3.S5 a day. He will be known as a ''diptologist'
 All That Julian Bliss, Life Guard, got for rescuing a Miss Jameson from the depths of Echo bay, New Rochelle, N. T., was a hug and two kisses.
 A Yonkers, N. V, Minister puts chickens before the church. as he de- clares If he can interest men in chicks he can get them to attend church. Abdul Hamid. the Former Sultan, who is practically prisoner in Sa- lonica, has had several attacks of heart failure. It Is believed he is sinking.
 William R. Thompson of Hunting | ton, w. Va, was nominated for gov ernor by exclamation by the West Virginia democratic state convention. Six Year Old Freda Pickett of Lei cester, England, swam across Dover bay, full half mile, in 19 minutes The child is three feet tall and slight in build.
 A Convention to Select Massachusetts delegates to the national convention at Chicago of the supporters of Theodore Roosevelt will be held in Faneuil hall on July 27.
 Abolition of the Duties on all meats as a means of wiping out the so-called beef trust" was advocated in the house yesterday by Representative Kinkead of New Jersey.
 The Home of J. 3. Cobb at Stam ford, prominent in the tobacco trade, fly slept. The robbers got away with about $2.OoO worth of silverware .
 The Steamer Roosevelt, on which Peary made his north pole expedition will be sold along with other boats of the wrecking fleet of the late John Arbuckle in Brooklyn on July, A.
 William Jennings Bryan dared the Champ Clark folks at Independence Mo, by delivering a speech on The Issues of the Day. He said he would begin campaigning for Wilson about Sept. 10.
 An indictment Charging Mrs. Louis, Lindlof with poisoning her son, Ar
 thur Lindloff, whose death was inves
 tigated by the coroner, was returned yesterday in the criminal court a
 Chicago.
 In a Speech Against a Resolution proposing the purchase of Monticell by the government, Senator Heyburi declared that Thomas Jefferson wa not the author of the Declaration o Independence.
 , President Taft Yesterday sent to tn
 senate the nominations of Shermal P. Allen of Vermont to be assistan
 secretary of the treasury and Luthe
 Conant Jr., of New York to be com
 missioner of corporations.
 Secretary Wilson, Before a hous , committee yesterday, made denial c
 Representative Akin's charges that hi
 son, Jasper Wilson, was drawing large salary from western irrigatio z project because of the secretary's in ' fiuence.
 William BulIitt. Newly Appointe
 solicitor general of the government
 found a vase of roses on his desk } few minutes after he had been sworr 2 He was filled with indignation and Ina [ the flowers distributed among tn women.
 From a Meeting Attended by repre- , sentatives of twelve Montana countie 2 a call went out for a mass conventio ' of Roosevelt supporters to be held i 5 Helena July 29 at which delegates wi be named to the convention of the ne' party.
 During a Hard Shower carly yester day morning lightning struck a bar
 owned by Dennis Callahan in Nor
 walk The structure, with It's content
 of seven wagons, five tons of ha, |. tools and farming implements, was
 total loss.
 Senator NeIson's Resolution author
 izing the committee on foreign rels
 tions to investigate if anyone in tt o United States was or had been foment v ing or encouraging instruction
 Cuba or Mexico was ordered favorabl z reported yesterday.
 President Taft Was Told yesterda II by Representative Knowland of Cal I fornia that Canadian railroads. actin U in sympathy with American railroad e were behind Great Britain's prote , against free tolls through the Panan i canal for United States ships. ss The Conference Report on the ne U wireless law. framed from the lessor :" of the Titanic disaster, and requirir
 wireless operators on duty constant
 aboard ships, was adopted by u
 house yesterday and now requires on
 the presidents signature to make J. law.
 W./H. Brady, Night Foreman of Il
 Lackawanna roundhouse at EImlra, d
 elared that Engineer Shredder of Il y+ train that ran into the special on fl a Fourth of July. killing 40 persons. WI
 soher when he took out his engii f Brady places the blame Of the wre. ?" on the engine
 al After John r. WhitIock, an az, y. lawyer had testified before the hou J. judiciary subcommittee at Seattle tn Ig he had seen Judge Hanford drunk a crowded street. Whitlock was fo l. lowed into the hall by Ned Hanfor 1t son of the judge. who called Whitlo
 an offensive name. Whitlock stru ss the young man In the face returned t. the courtroom. went on the stand al
 told his experience.