Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-19


 Brooklyn the "vestibule of he'll" are members of the Scamp club" The mayor lives in Brooklyn.
 Alfred Tennyson, grandson of the poet was married in Westminster Ab- bey to the Hon. Margaret Drummond, descendant of the Earl of Perth.
 Only About Five Per Cent. of the Philippine people desire self govern ment. according to Dr. c. V. Piper, commissioner of education at Manila
 Rev. w. J. Hubbard, superintendent of the home for children at Charles ton, W. Va, is in jail on a serious charge, having to do with his conduct in his position.
 President Taft Has Received assur- ances that Colonel George Goethals builder of the Panama canal, will &C., cept the post of governor of the Pan- anna canal zone.
 President Taft Today nominated Charles c. Craig to be postmaster o1 Morrill,, Neb., because the folk of that town had shown a preference for hin at & primary election.
 Thomas j. Cunningham, former city sheriff at Bridgeport, was appointed by the county commissioners yester. day as sealer of weights and measure. for Fairfield county
 Waiving Examination on a, chargt of forgery, George H. Rounds former ly head bookkeeper and paymaster a a Boston hotel, was held in $10,00 bonds for the grand jury.
 Mrs. Peter L. Shepard, mother o Finley J. Shepard, the fiance of Mis- Helen Gould, has been blind and bed ridden in the New Haven General hos pital for the last five years. It is confirmed by the New Havel road officers that steel dining am sleeping cars will be ordered to re place the wooden ones now in use, O. the through lines of the system.
 Mrs. George Moore 61 Years Ol and her mother. Mrs. Mary J. Will son. S2 years old, were found dead i their home near Columbia, Mo, yes terday, their heads crushed in wit an axe.
 The Textile Strike at the Josep Benn and Sons mill at Graystone, F l., was settled yesterday when tn strikers at a mass meeting voted { accept the offer of a z 1-2 per cen increase.
 A Design for a Monument in Hay ana to the memory of the dead ( the battleship Maine has been accept ed by the government of Cuba. Con gress will be asked to appropriat 10000.
 The Athletic Usefulness of the sta dium at Harvard university attracte Sir Thomas Lipton yesterday and | said he would attempt to interest Eng fish educational institutions in build ing such structures.
 | Chester Yates, serving a twenty mir year sentence in Sing Sing prison ft | the robbery of Aaron Bancroft, an age 1 New York broker, was missing fro his cell yesterday morning and ht not been recaptured.
 Sergeant WoeIferIing, a German nol commissioned officer stationed in u fortress of Thorn, was sentenced 15 years penal servitude and fint 1 $4,000 for treason in accepting 500 from Russia for spy work.
 An Explosion in the Boiler Roo of the New York Central roundhou at Summerville, New York, yeste day, started a fire which destroy, the structure, which was of stone. IT damage was given as $150,000.
 w. w. Goodwin of Providence, sta sealer for Rhode Island, ssaid that pc itics handicapped him in his dutit in an address at the annual meetil of the Massachusetts Association Sealers of Weights and Measures.
 Mrs. George Joseph, mother of J seph Joseph, for whose murder Frank Hickey is on trial at Buffa was a spectator in the court roo yesterday When she saw Hickey g became hysterical and was taken fro the room.
 Because of Her Allegations that husband pawned her jewelry and wrc her scurrilous letters, Marie Swe Baker Murphy was granted divor at Los Angeles from Francis Mu phy, Jr., son of the late temperan advocate.
 Secretary of the Treasury MacVea awarded gold medals to Joseph Do neIlan, Captain Henry Lakestream a Fireman H. E. Whitcomb of engi No. s6. of the New York fire depal ment. They rescued people frC drowning.
 George Efford, of Bridgeport, 1 whom a bench warrant was issued Judge Case in connection with a pri fight alleged to have been, held
 Stratford last August, appeared
 court yesterday and was held for hearing at a later date in bonds $1,00o.
 The House Yesterday Passed Burnett literacy test immigration b IFS to 52. The measure would | : from the United States irnmigral over Is years old unable to re; except those proving to have en , grated on account of religious perl cution at home.
 4 Decision of the Illinois supre, court yesterday makes it necesss for scores of Chicago couples to ] marry. The court ruled that wh person violates the, Illinois statl prohibiting re-marriage within ( year after the divorce, the cerenc is not legal even if performed in q other state.
 Miners Strike for Increase. . Cananea, Mexico, Dec. 1s-Ses
 hundred and fifty miners struck [ more pay and shorter hours at 1 1 ] mines of the Cananea and Democri companies today. They demand a f l cent fncraasa in daily Waeee and