Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-23

only republican ever elected to con- gress from the Eighth district of Ken lucky, died in Stanford.
 The Carnegie Plant of the Carbon Steel Co. at East Carnegie, near Pitts burgh, was destroyed by fire Satur- day with d loss of S75,00O. A Real Department Store with cleo tric lights and bargains just like an American store will be established in Hongkong by Chinese merchants. The Salvation Army will distribute Christmas dinners to at least 300,O00 persons, and toys and fruit to 50,000 more in the United States this year. President Taft Appointed a com mission to report on the advisability of establishing an aerodynamical lab ! oratory for the scientific study of avi- | ation.
 A Young Man giving the name of I. ogden Armour. Jr.. cashed checks ! for s5.O00 in several Chicago gam | bling houses. There is no J. Ogden | Armour, Jr.
 Retail Grocers m Chicago have been ! | to ten cents q dozen cheaper as a | result of tte campaign started by Chi | cago women.
 While Crossing Mill River at Hat l field, Mass. to secure Christmas trees, 1 Edward Burke and Joseph Pianke l broke through the thin ice and were 1 drowned Saturday.
 1t Is Said in Boston that Governor ] Foss. three times governor of Massa- i jump to the progressive party when l his term expires.
 Senator Lee s. Overman, of North l Carolina. was taken to a Washing ton hospital Saturday suffering from what his physicians characterized as a mild attack of appendicitis
 Fred p. Greenwood presented a bill | to the general court Of Massachusetts 1 which prohibits smoking by women and provides fine of $50 for anyone furnishing cigarettes to women.
 Edward Morris, President of Morris X Co, the Chicago packers, announced his firm had presented $35,000 Christ mas gift to the company's pension fund and employees benefit sssocia- tion.
 Pride of Noble Ancestry melted Mrs Kuke Kitakami. young Japanese woman, of Oakland. Callf,, to murder her son and attempt her own life be- cause she had become an object of | charity.
 President Taft will make his perma nent residence in New Haven when ht takes up the duties of the Kent pro. fessorship at Yade university nex spring. He has requested a friend tC find him a residence.
 Auto Bandits" Attacked two pay masters of the Silk Finishing com pany of America on the lower West Side New York. beat them into uncon- sciousness and robbed them of week. ly pay rolls of $1,200.
 J. Frank Hickey was Saturday found guilty of murder in the second degree, in having strangled to deatt Joseph Joseph, a seven-year-old Lack awanna boy, October 12, 1911. The jury was out 26 hours.
 Travelling to Their Death in a spe- cial train, 30,000 turkeys passed through Washington Saturday on theil way from the hills of Eastern Tennes gee to the tables of Christmas cele' brants in northern cities.
 William corcoran Eustis of Wash. ington was selected Saturday chair man of the inaugural committee wfllcf will have charge of Woodrow Wilsont inauguration. He is a brother of tht late Senator Eustis of Louisiana.
 The Torpedo Boat Destroyer BaIcE was launched Saturday from tn, Cramp shipyard. Miss Grace Balch of Washington, D. C., a descendant of Commodore Balch of the Unite, States navy. christened the vessel. In An Effort to Discover the caus of the high mortality among childrel in the United States the children
 bureau of the department of com merce and labor will begin the ney , year with a nationwide. house-to house canvass.
 The Official Count of the S2 con stitutional amendments. just complete
 shows that the Colorado voters adopt cd the "headless ballot" recall of 1u dicial decisions, recall of elective of fcers, including judges and the wo mans eight hour law.
 Another American Bride entered th , ranks of the British nobility Saturda , by the marriage of Margaret Eleano
 Crosby, daughter of the late Ernes
 Howard Crosby, to Lieut. c. A. Van
 neck of the 18th Hussars at s | GeorCa's church London