Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-17

Senator LaFolIette CeIebr his 57th birthday in Washington by writ ing his biography.
 Secretary of the Navy Meyer is III in Washington and is confined to his bed.
 J. Reed WhppIe, proprietor of three lOf the leading hotels of Boston, died Saturday at private hospital.
 A Loss of About s75,oOo was caused by fire in the Wayland block at Provi dence Saturday.
 Newark, N. J., Was Chosen as the convention city for 1914 by the Inter national Steretoypers and Electrotyp- CTS union.
 Another Heavy Frost, the seventh this month, did great damage to ten der vegetation in Plainfield, Conn.,, and vicinity.
 The Seep Purchasing Agency has advanced the price of two grades of oil, Corning to sLlS, and Newcastle to $113.
 The Blast That Will Connect the ends of the governments $2,OO0,OOO irrigation tunnel from Strawberry lake to Salt Lake City, will be fired July 4.
 Attorneys Representing Five Citizens filed letters patent for the Roosevelt party in common pleas court Sat urday, at Pittsburgh.
 H. F. Woodyatte, Who Has 5ssn l lsg. school, established a record of 270 days unbroken attendance
 The Connecticut Delegation to the 1 republican national convention left New Haven on a special train Satur- day afternoon, accompanied by mum Der of guests.
 Bogus Tickets to the republican na- l tional convention were discovered on 1 Saturday by Col. Harry s. New, chair man of the convention arrangements committee.
 There Is Great Excitement in Smyr- na over Turkish pamphlet which states that the guardian of Moham- med's tomb heard the prophets voice urging a holy war to save Islam.
 The State Convention of the United l Commercial Travellers, in session al Watertown, N. Y, demands a state | inspector of hotels nine-foot sheets and abolition of roller towels.
 A Petition Signed by 116,582 Persons | favoring an amendment to the consti- tuition enabling women to vote was presented by Representative V. Berger, l the Wisconsin socialist. in the house.
 Testimony in the Divorce Suit of | Mrs. Richard Harding Davis against the author was heard at Chicago Sat urday by Superior Judge Mcdonald He cared for another woman" was the reason given for the assertion.
 JoEn Prince, a 6ootbIack in a hotel at Mount Clemens, Mich. found a silk glove containing diamonds valued al $500 tucked in a slipper. He returned the slipper to the owner Mrs. c. M Stark of Cumberland, Md.
 The Police Department of San Dieae has purchased twenty Krag -Jorgenser rifles discarded by the war department Chief Wilson denied the purchase had anything to do with the recent l. w W. trouble.
 Carl BsedendicI of Jersey City is organizing an expedition to the islanC -of Trinidad to try to find several mil lions of dollars in treasure he believes was buried there by pirates early il 18th century.
 The ChurohIess Marriage and wo- mans vanity feed the divorce mill o Kansas City and of every other city according to W. H. Wright, divorc, proctor for the circuit court at Kan sas City.
 In the Belief That Most College grad uates own or manage property to som extent, President A. Lawrence LoWel in his baccalaureate sermon to tn Harvard seniors yesterday pointed ou the evils of absentee ownership.
 Bishop Eugene Hendricks of Kansa City, Wesleyan, 1867, yesterday preach ed the baccalaureate sermon to tn graduating class of Wesleyan univer sity, taking his text from II Corinthi ans, 4th chapter, 6 to 18th verses.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Stuar
 or 4oO Riverside drive, New York, hay announced the engagement of thei
 daughter, Miss Marjory Bruce Stuar
 to Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., son c Associate Justice and Mrs. Hughes c
 Washington.
 Fees Paid to Secretary stimson ( } the war department when he was spe cial counsel for the government in tn 5 ! sugar frauds case, were attacked i } the house Saturday by Representatiy | Beau of Texas. He said that $83 0G !, 1 in fees and expenses had been paid | r MT. Stims0n in one year. :, An Unusual Marriage Ceremony wa . used at Cambridge, Mass, Saturda !. when Miss Jessie Holiday and EC
 mund T. Dana were united with tn 8 socialist ritual, which they arrange , themselves. The marriage VOWS wei 3 read to the couple by Edmund VI. Pal 1 lxer Ia TxrN-pr, f,,e+Iaa ,P 4l,o ,,1,.,