Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-12

President Taft is Considering an of fer of the Kent professorship at the Yale Law school. The place has been vacant for several years. As a Protest Against the High Cost of living, more than 1000 workmen of Grgenta, province of Fererra, Italy, fired the house of the mayor. George F. Heath, the Oldest hand press printer and compositor in the United States, celebrated his eighty fourth birthday in Tarrytown, N. Y. The House of Lords passed the anti white slave bill adopted some time ago i by the house of commons. The bill provides for fiogging for first offend- ! CTS.
 Maine's Lobster Catch for the cur l rent year will exceed $2,000, 900 in val i ue, according to a statement of James Donahue, commissioner of sea and | shore fisheries.
 humors That the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology might merge with Harvard university were denied | by President Richard c. Maclaurin oi 1 the institute.
 Forty Thousand Letters in fv, months represents the tota lof Gov. to prominence as the democratic can didate for president last July.
 Official Society in the Capital is go ing in for ice skating and steps wer' taken yesterday for the building of { rink on the grounds used by the Wash ington horse show in the spring.
 Reiteratine the Charge that his wifi shot him to obtain his life insurance Eugene H. Grace yesterday filed sui for divorce against Daisy Opie Grace ] At her trial Mrs. Grace was acquit ted.
 William H. QuisIey, Detroit, bushes agent of the Carpenters union, yester day was held to the federal grand jur on the charge of the district attorne, that he had committed perjury as witness at the dynamite conspiracy trial.
 Damage Estimated as Close to $1o0, 900 resulted from a fire yesterda morning in four story brick buildin on Park street, New Haven, used fo manufacturing purposes. Lederer Co. and the Colonial Brass Co. wer burned out,
 Acting on the Complaints of parent that their children had been gamblin away their lunch money, detective yesterday raided policy shop" with in a stone's throw of two Brookly | l-s r5f~~ 4v. kHA v-ln made their escape.
 William ZeigIer, Heir to t4y00o, % under the will of millionaire bakin powder manufacturer,w who adopted hir in infancy, was married at 8 fashion able New York hotel yesterday at moo to Miss Gladys V. Watson of that cit! They were childhood sweethearts.
 Twenty four of the 2e Massaehusett cities which held their annual cleo
 tions this month have voted to grar permanent f1remen one day off in fiv'
 The proposition was defeated in fou cities, Taunton, Fitchburg, Northamr ton and Lowell, and was not voted up
 on in Brockton.
 A Plea by Warden Bridges of tn , Massachusetts state prison and tw clergymen for the pardon of Samu'
 Mitchell, a Lynn negro serving lit sentence for murder, was successful
 Mitchell was convicted of murderin
 Mrs. Ada Taylor 25 years ago, when
 was IS years of age. A Suit Brought Against Gener'
 Sickies by his daughter, Mrs. Ed : Crackenthorpe, wife of a British arm
 of1cer, was argued yesterday in tf
 New York supreme court. Mrs Crack 5 enthorpe seeks to have revoked $50 [ oOV trust fund created for her benef 3 and to have her father dismissed 6 3 trustee.
 t President Taft Will Leave Washing : ton at midnight December 19 for Kt f West, Fla. whence he will sail on u . afternoon of December 21 for Panam on the battleship Arkansas. Mrs Tai 5 a. military aide Secretary Hilles, P. Taft. the presidents brother, ax probably several other persons will in the party.
 "The Large Number of feeble minf
 ed children today is a direct result / the overwork and overstrain to whiC
 the mothers are subjected in the fat tories. This is the conclusion of ID
 Max Schlapp, head of bureau WhiC
 was established by the New York d. partment of charities a year ego f |. the study of defective children.