Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-04

A Light Snow Fell Yesterday in
Iowa, the northern half of Kansas the |
western half of Missouri and the Tex |
as Panhandle.
Col. Charles NJ. Jarvis, president of
the American Hardware corporation, |
is seriously i'll at his home in Berlin, |
Conn.
Sixteen Persians Were Hanged in |
TabriZ by order of the Russian court |
martial. and more are likely to be put |
to death.
Louis Brown, aged six years, was
burned to death in saving the life of
his sister. Helen, aged four years, OF
New York.
The Isaac Prouty Shoe Company's
Factory at Spencer, Mass, went on
nine hour schedule yesterday for the
rest Of the month.
Negotiations Are Pending for the
shipment of :; considerable amount OF
gold com from New York to Central
ord South America.
The Board of SeIectmen of Torring-
ton has decided to establish a munich
Fal store FROM which the poor of that
town viii be supplied.
The United States Gunboat York
town has been ordered from Panama
to the ETcadoran coast to look after
foreign interests there.
The First Bills Introduced in the
Rhode Island legislature were to pro-
vide ali employers liability and work.
r ems compensation law.
The Condition of National Banks,
shCWn by the treasury call of Dec. 5,
indicated a considerable shrinkage in
BUSINESS as compared with Sept. 1.
Fire Yesterday Badly DAMAGED the
MilfCld, Mass, Music hall block a four
story brick structure, the loss being
estimated between $4,000 and sSQ,C00,
Ex-Mayor Eugene Schmisx Of san
Francisco will be prosecuted on the
charge OF having bribed Supervisor
Ianiel Cole relative to fixing the gas
rate.
The Maryland Public Service Com
mission Yesterday authorized the is
the Western Maryland Railway COM
Tany,
While His Wife and Two Children
v ere eating breakfast yesterday Owen
J Mccoy Of Boston went into his bed
room and drank oxalic acid with fatal
| effect.
There Was a WaIkout Of 25o Me-
chanics at the Norfolk, Va, navy yard
/ !esterdav as a protest against what
/ they claim is an effort to introduce d
| scientific time system.
! Radical Changes in the Charters OF
| cities in the state of New Jersey were
/ advocated at a meeting of a number
/ of mayors held at Hoboken yesterday
with Governor Woodrow Wilson.
| The CoT1n- ittee Appointed by the Di.
/ rectors of tho Wabash railroad to re-
organize that property has beer ir-
/ creased hy the addition of J Luden
of Hone & company, bankers, Of Am
/ sterdan.
Officers at the Boston Courthouse
are being flooded with requests for
seats at the Rtcheson trial Some ap-
/ pIicants have expressed Willingness to
1 10y high prices for the privilege, Of at
tending.
The Tariff Boards Investigation Of
the leather schedule will actually begin
! Jan IL, when shoe manufacturers and
| tanners throughout the '.ountry viii
| be given hearing as 10 the nest meth
eds Of conducting the inquiry.
A Death Rate Of 1913 Per Thousand
in New York city for 1911 was of5ic tally
| announced by Health Commissioner
! Lederle last night This is the lowest
! on record, last years rate, the record
up to now, being 1898 per tholsands
Postmaster General Hitchcock Pre-.
oieted yesterday that before the end o.
the current fiscal year the postal cav
| iugs deposits would exceed fifty n1il.
lions Of dollars and that the system
| would be a source Of profit to the gov
| ernment
BURGLARS at Work in the Roman
Catholic Cathedral Of the Inlnnacdlats
Conception at Syracuse n. 7 early
yesterday morning set FIRE to the
church, and trIy the timely discovery
Of the flames prevented serious con-
fagration.
coineident With the Funeral of His
Wife, Georgianna NJ. L. Ryan. in an
adjoining town. Frank S. Ryan was
brought into the district court at
Somtrville, Mass. yesterday and plead :
ed gLilty 20 her murder. He was held
without bail.
An indictment Charging MansIauah.
ter agairst Earl B. Bean of East
Corinth, Me- who on Sunday, Dec. 8,
mistook Ralph w. Emerson. young
Toy, for a deer while hunting at Lib
erty, Me-. and killed him. was reported
by the grand jury yesterday.