Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-02

former chief justice of the supreme court, is dead at the Washington state asylum for the insane in Seattle.
 A. L. Hassard Short, writer on horse racing, committed suicide in his room at New York yesterday by in- haling gas. He was 57 years old.
 Demanding s4 for an Eight Hour Day the steamftters and plumbers of Prov idence and Pawtucket, numbering about 225, went on strike yesterday.
 Superintendents of Education throughout the country will be asked to extend kindergarten work through the first three years of child school life.
 The Penchant of Women for snug gling has caused their exclusion from the new bridge over the Rhine at Lus- tenau. which connects Germeny and Austria,
 The BIeriot Aeroplane Company has purchased 200 acres of land in Point Pleasant N. J., on which will be erect ed an aeroplane factory and school for aViators.
 By Failing to Report an appropria- tion for the recently created commerce court. the house committee on appro- priatons yesterday sought to abolish that tribunal
 A New Wage Agreement became ef- fectiVe in the mills of the Great Northern Paper company at AIillinock- ct, Me, yesterday and will continue for two years.
 Albert Prince, a Negro who killed l Deputy Warden 4. Davis in the Ne l braska state prison, was convicted of l murder in the first degree and con demned to death.
 The First Gold from the Alaskan winter dumps has been brought into l Nome. The ground is free from snow and steamships from Seattle will not i be delayed by ice.
 Mrs. Lena Kiel, 42 years old, of New York. dropped dead on the pier of the North German Lloyd line at Ho- boken, N. J., as she was about to bid her daughter goodbye.
 Thomas Cleveland Dawson, resident diplomatic officer of the state depart 1 ment. died at Washington yesterday after an illness of several weeks with a complication of diseases.
 The Yale Aero Club is planning for it's annual meet to be held in New Haven May 24 and p. It is expected that Curtiss and the Wright brothers will give exhibition flights.
 The Senate So Far Has Paid Out $2,35S for witness fees and mileage expenses of those who have been to Washington to testify in the investiga- tion of the Titanic disaster.
 John F. Liscomb, one of the oldest steamboat men in New England, IF point of continuous service, retired yesterday from his position as agent oi the Eastern Steamship corporation.
 The Refusal Of the Saltwater Wool en company at Pascoag, R. l., to grant an additional five per cent. increase 1T wages has caused a strike of about 7t weavers at the company's No. mill.
 The Journeymen Plumbers of Wor. cester, numbering about 100, went or strike yesterday after the master plumbers had refuse their demand 1 Mrs. Anna B. Ptzer of Fl Pasc
 county Colorado, a sister of ChamI
 Clark, has been elected a delegate tC the democratic convention at Balti- more from the Second district of Col.
 orado.
 The Standard Oil Company of New
 York yesterday advanced all grades o refined petroleum 30 points, making re
 fined in cases 10.5e cents per gallon standard white in barrels S.6O, and il
 bulk 500.
 Five Hundred Weavers employed il the Lancaster mills. Clinton. Mass.
 struck yesterday because of the dis , charge of Dennis J. Callahan, chair $ man of the executive committee of thu 7 weayers' union.
 5 Nearly 1000 Men, Empoyed in al ] but one of the lumber mills of Burling 5 ton. Vt, struck yesterday when thei
 demand for shorter hours at the sam
 pay they have been receiving were de
 nied by the manufacturers g The House Passed a Provision O . the postOffice appropriation bill grant l ing a subsidy to all highways use, 6 in the rural free delivery service. . is estimated that the cost for the frs l year would be from $160O0,O00 to SIS e O00,O00.
 T Charles 8arte, 26 years of age,
 life prisoner in the Connecticut stat
 prison at Wethersfeld. committe,
 suicide there yesterday afternoon b, f jumping from the fourth story galler, r to the stone pavement thirty or nor f feet below.
 More Than 500 salOonkeepers 1T . Chicago have refused to renew thei . licenses, the chief reason being thei S patrons are drinking less. Other req y sons for quitting are the enforcement = of laws relating to gambling resort
 and dance halls.
 Milwaukee Socialists Are Trying t . persuade Mayor J. $. Wilson of Berke s ley, Cal, to run for president or vic s president and promise to support hir S If he agrees to the nomination May - or Wilson is barred. from the chail n however, as he is a Canadian by birtl q President Taft Yesterday lnforme
 the senate that the department of stat
 has no evidence whatever adequate {
 show any acquisition of land or an - intention or desire to acquire lant 70 whether directly or indirectly. in Mex o leo by or on the part of the imperi' IT Japanese government r. p zTarrv a 5,.a,,,a i,, ,,.iti. 5,,,..,,,+ l-,,a