Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-09
Condensed Telegrams

VIII cost $1oU,UUV,O0O. Brig. Gen. Almond B. Wells. U. S. A. | retired. died at his home at Geneva. N. Y- Saturday.
 me Disease Due to Forage poison ing mas killed 1000 horses in Kansas. valued dat s5OO,OO0.
 Reports That Greece, Bulcaria and Servla are to combine against Fur Key are believed in Constantinople. The Wheat Crop of Illinois will be only one-third as large as last year, anu the smallest crop since 1860.
 Fort Comfort Inn. a large summer hotel at Piermont, near Nyack. N. ". was destroyed by fire. The loss lis about $75,o00.
 Centenica crenprs Painting of The Crucifixion, has been stolen from the building of the Arch Confraternity of Mercy in London.
 On November 13, a representative of each of the 120 counties in Ken lucky will plant tree on the capitol grounds in Frankfort.
 
 Deer on the Estate of G. K. vander- bilt at Asheville, N. C., are dying bv the score from tsomatitis, a throat disease that prevents them from swal- lowing
 Francis s. Weeks, formerly owner of 8 large furniture store in Woon socket, R. l., committed suicide on the piazza of his house Saturday by shooting. ~
 A Fall Down Stairs Caused the death of Mrs. Stephen c. Kierstead "A years old. at her home at Presque Isle, Me. Saturday. Her head struck a stone wall
 With Ton of Roman Candles, cit lzens Of Topeka, Kan bombarded the flock of blackbirds which infest inc city streets, without result. They will try shotguns.
 Cattle Are Dying in great numbers in several western Kansas counties from disease believed to be the same mysterious infection that has killed thousands of horses. Because His Son Edaar, a Yale graduate and lawyer, has declared himself a Bull Moose, State Senator E. L. Pond of Hartford, stanch Taft man, has disowned him. Miss Gloria Wilson, daughter of the secretary of agriculture, in denying the report that she was engaged to Rep resentative Levy of New York, said she is too busy to marry. 
 Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor declared organ 1zed labor would refuse to recognize William l. Haywood if he carries out his threat to call a general strike. The Five Wsei<s Old Twins. sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barnes of Silver Creek. N. T.. were killed in their crib by lightning. The parents and other | inmates of the house were uninjured.
 The Body of an Aged Woman, wasted by want and dissipation, was Identified in the county morgue at Chicago Saturday, as that of Carrie Meyers, 20 years ago former stage beauty.
 Daniel Seymour Brinsmade, presi-
 
 Power company, which controls much of the water power of the Housatonic river, died at Shelton, Conn, Satur- valued at $50e.oO0.
 Dr. WiIsy's Noted "Poisen Scuad" is to be initiated in tests upon horses and cattle of the governments exper- mental farm near Bethseda, Md Sul- phured oats and other treated grains will be fed to the animals.
 Rev. H. Grefe, pastor of the Lu- theran church in Germantown, Iowa, | Saturday burned to death under a wrecked motor car while his children and several other persons stSod near, helpless to aid him. The blaze start ed from lantern with which his res- cuers were working.
 l Bird Skaggs, 48, who has spent halt his life in confinement in the Kentucky state prison. has just been sentenced to spend the remainder there. This latest sentence follows his conviction on a charge of housebreaking. He was pardoned two years ago while serving life sentence.
 When Physicians Operated upon John Mariner at the Chicago hospital Saturday to learn what had caused terrible pains in his stomach" they found nineteen pocket knives, seven- teen nails, five knife blades, a dozen screws, and silver dollar. For IS years Mariner swallowed the articles on wagers.
 Nathan Allen, a Retired Merchant of Kenoshs, Wis Saturday paid the government S100.0OO t6 compromise his civil liability in a smuggling case at New York in 1909 which also in volved Mrs. H. D. Jenkins in an al- legged attempt to escape duties on 1 thousands of dollars worth of jew els and wearing apparel. Criminal suit against Allen resulted in $12,- 900 fine. CAT GESTURES A CHURCH