Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-16

AA6 hIleS lOr Ine united States gov ernment have just been received by a Boston inventor.
 The House Committee on merchant marine will begin hearings into the so-caIled shipping trust" in Wash ington, next month.
 | The South Penn Oil Company Sat urday announced a further advance m the price of Pennsylvania crude oil | or i've cents a barrel to S2. |
 Representative Kindred of New York l introduced a bill in the house for an l investigation of atrocities in Peru against Indian rubber gatherers.
 Mrs. Esther EImina Springer, one or the pioneers of the equal suffrage cause in America, died at her home at Chicago. She was S1 years old. l Sixty Bodies of Rebels hanging from, trees were counted by persons travel Ing by road from Las Cruces to Tom ascallepre, in the state of Mexico, Lynn Physicians have announced A | new schedule of rates to go into effect on January 1 which includes charge of $z for day calls, $3 for night calls. Officials of the Richardson Mfo. Co.,. of Worcester, Mass, must appear as Iederal witnesses in the hearing in Cnlcago against the Harvester Trust
 Seven Year Old Grace HeaIey WAS burned to death in fire that destroyed the farmhouse of her father Charles Il. ,Healey, at Montgomery, Mass, Sat urday.
 Fire Believed to Have Been of in- cendiary origin, destroyed twenty sta
 Dies, warehouses and residences in Braddock, Pittsburgh, a suburb, Sat urday.
 Cotton Consumed in the United States during November amounted to
 4fo,240 running bales, counting round as halt bales, compared with 511,2S5
 bales from October.
 King George of Great Britain an-
 nounced that in 1881 he promised his mother, Queen Alexandra. to read a
 chapter in the Bible every day. He
 has kept his promise.
 An Ice Cake Swept Benjamin Monk
 over the Milford Old Town dam to his death In the Penobscot river Saturday,
 ana Charles Young almost lost his life in an attempt to save him. Four Months Old Anna Helena
 Deigfan died at Pawtucket R. l.. Sat
 urday as the result of an operation to
 remove the wheel of toy automobile
 which the child swallowed
 The Persistent Bayinq of a big mas-
 tlH saved Amos P. Best, his wife and
 Ilve children from perishing in their
 burning home at Lowell. Mass, early
 out.
 Ten Men and Two Women, compos-
 ing jury. at Seattle, Wash, in Judge Ronald's department of the supreme
 court were severely rebuked because they played cards while considering
 8 verdict.
 Rev. Charles N. Emeiius, Mrs. Annie , Jacobson and Edgar Jacobson of New
 Sweden were Saturday acquitted of the
 charge Of murdering c. August Ja- cobson ill June, 1911. The jury was out more than three hours. While Crawling AIonq the railroad
 track at Arlington, Vt, seeking aid Tor himself and a young woman after
 they had been injured by T freight train, Harry Young. aged IS, was killed by another train Saturday. Seven Thousand Dollars in counter
 teit com and many moulds were seized Tn raid Saturday on a Christie street tenement in New York by William I Flynn, chief of the United States se- cret service and a corps of his detec.
 tives.
 A Nationwide Campaign is to be
 Waged by the Junior Order of United , American Mechanics for free textboolxs in the public schools. compulsory ed1I,
 cation laws and laws compelling the
 raising of the flag over all school. ] houses.
 1 Rafael Hernandez, Mexican ministe, !. of the interior Saturday called togetb. l CT the Protestant clergymen and tn. r nigh officers of all the Masons lodges @ in order to ask them to render what. :: ever aid was possible in the restora. D ton of peace.
 e The Elgin Board of Trade, popularly 0 known as the butter trust" and thu d American Association of Creamery @ Butter Manufacturers, were attacked h by the federal government in a ctvi ,. antitrust suit, filed at Chicago Sat e urday.
 Mrs. Frieda Frost was convicted a }, Philadelphia Saturday of murder il = the first degree. The commonwealth t charged that Mrs. Frost within on, e week after her marriage last Angus h gave Frost poison in order that sh, S could obtain his estate, valued at les,
 than $10,000.
 n Promises of Free Transportation t. = California with good job waiting let Il more than 100 Fall River and Nev
 Bedford foreigners to contribute s
 each to Frank Belmont of New Yorl
 and Frank Graziege of Brooklyn. Tn
 men were found guilty of larceny an, = sentenced to jail
 S Until Last Week the largest amour ], that the pastor of the Roman Catholi 1t church of Our Lady of Guadalupe ii e New York had ever taken out of tn t poor box was about two dollars. Las
 week, however. when he opened tn
 box. he found inside, nicely folded to
 gether, five crisp $1,000 bills. r Twenty three Americans who wer = wounded or had relatives killed o wounded by shots from across tn Il Mexican border in April or May, 1911 U should receive indemnities aggregat n ing $S6.000 from the Mexican govern Il ment, according to a report to con e gress by commission of army ofii cers authorized to investigate tn : cases.
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