Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-07

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Gen. James B. Weaver. populist
candidate for president in 1892, died
at the home of relatives in Des Moines
yesterday. He was eighty years old.
Fire Yesterday Destroyed the coun-
try home at Barre Center, Mass. of
Col. William A. CASTOR, president of
the National Shawmut bank of Bos-
ton.
Albert c. Hendrick, Former Mayor
and former chief of the New Haven
fire department, died yesterday at his
home in New Haven after a long i'll
ness.
Or. Henry Wise TribbIe, president Of
Columbia university, Lake City, Fla
died yesterday at Roadman. Fla, from
injuries received in a collision Of trains
there last Saturday.
Fire Which Broke Out at Moline,
Ill, yesterday destroyed the plant Of
the Barnard & Leas Mfg. Co., builders
of flour milling machinery. Loss is
estimated at $5O0,O00
Ninety Per Cent. of the Creditors
OF Henry Goodwin and George II. Rim
bach, proprietors of the Crawford
house, Boston, have accepted an offer
Of ten cents on a dollar.
Seven Companies of the Coast ar
ullery stationed at Forts Williams
and Mckinley. in Maine, received Or
ders today to be ready to leave at
once for the Mexican border
Congressman KONG said that the
high cost of living is due to the fact
that the people are deserving the
farms for the cities and are producing
luxuries instead Of necessities.
/ ing conducted along Great South Bay,
/ L. J., famous partridge duck and
rabbit hunting locality, in order to
/ save the game from starvation
The Central Iron and Steel Company
/ which operates the largest iron and
/ steel works in Harrisburg, Pa, was
I placed in the hands of receivers yes
( terday on petition of various creditors.
A. G. Ridgway was Yesterday elected
/ second vice president Of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad COM
pany, to succeed the late F. O. Mel
cher, who was killed in a wreck at
Kinmundy. H.
Robert 3. Ways, foreign freight
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road, and widely known as an expert
on railroad subjects, died at his home
at Baltimore yesterday from the. ef-
fects of stroke Of paralysis
1t is Officially Denied that any de-
mands have been made on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road company for an increase Of pay
by any OF the orders Of railway work
men other than the engineers.
Director of the Census Durand has
notified the 300 remaining temporary
employees of his bureau that their ser
vices will not be required after FeO-
ruary 30. This will leave only reg
ular employees of the bureau.
Rev. Charles L. Jeffrey, assistant
pastor of fremont temple and wei
known in Baptist circles, died in the
arms of his brother. Frank f. Jeffrey
a deacon Of the temple, at sanitarium
in Dorchester, Mass, yesterday
A Joint Resolution That Would per.
NIT the Panama Pacific Exposition
company to use portions of the Presi.
dio at Fort Mason, military reserva.
tions at San Francisco, for temporary
exposition purposes was passed by thu
house.
1t is Probable that the constitution
ality of the summer hotel liquor licens,
statute adopted by the last general as
sembly will be attacked in a cas-,
which has gone from Broolkfield to tn,
commissioners of Fairfield county a
Bridgeport.
Some Concern Is Felt by the Good
rich Transit company of Chicago foI
the safety of the lake steamship Ala
bama, which left for Grand Haven
Mich, on the last trip of the win
ter season, Monday night, and has no
since been reported.
Fourteen Years Ago, Charles "A
Smith of New Haven and his brothe
Morris, aged at that time Is and /
years respectively parted in Louis
! vile, Ky. Yesterday Morris returned
home With n fortune of $2,000.000 h
had accumulated in the Klondil1e.
. While the Clerk at the New Yorl
marriage license bureau was makinl
: out a license yesterday afternoon 70
Benjamin Rosenberg and Miss Liz.
Segal, Rosenberg deserted his bride
elect, taking with him, she said. Jew
elry valued at $4,000 which she har
/, entrusted to his care
: The Florida Republican State con
. vention split into two factions yes
g terday. One body left the hall an
organized a rump convention, an
! chose delegates to the national con
vention instructed TO vote for tn
: nomination Of Theodore Roosevelt 70
president. The regular administra
ton faction instructed their delegate
to vote for the nomination of Presi
, dent Taft