Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-17

,CtiCut in Proportion to tn
Condensed kilograms
The Price of Artificial Ice in New
York is to be advanced 25 per cent. on
March 1.
All Grades of Refined Sugar were
again advanced ten cents a hundred
pounds yesterday
Acting Secretary Gable of the de-
partment of commerce and Ibor has or
dered the deportation of eleven imrni
grants.
United States Circuit Court Judge
William NJ. Lanning died at his home
in Trenton. n. j., yesterday from heart
trouble.
A Nation Wide Campaign Against
the international peace propaganda is
the plan of the American Truth society
just launched.
HoV'SSS iIOW tHS portuguese SotoHJ
Of TimOr, i'll the Malay archipelago,
state that a serious revolution has
broken out among the natives there
The sixteenah Negro Woman to be
murdered on the streets of Atlanta,
Ga, in a little more than / , months
was found yesterday with her throat
cut.
A Plan to Raise Fund of $4,000, 900
for the support of aged clerNmen Of
the Presbyterian church may he tie
outcome Of a conference which Is be
'ng held.
William H. King, vice president Of
the Aetna Insurance company, died
suddenly from apoplexy at his home
at Hartford yesterday. He was Il
years old.
The American National Red Cross
society yesterday cabled an additional
$4,000 TO the Shanghai relief commit
tee for use in relieving the famine suf-
ferers in China.
improvement of the Character and
quality of steel rails was the subject
Of conference in New York between
leading railroad and steel manufactur-
ing officials
A Committee Representing the an
thracite coal operators issues a state
ment from New York denying that
there is any inteitiOn of a general ad-
vance in coal prices.
F. E. Brightman, Manufacturer,
shot and instantly killed David Kim
ball, 3, . teamster, who @as trying TO
enter Brightman's home at Sandusky
o., early yesterday.
A Large Shipment of New Zealand
Butter is being offered for sale on the
markets of Montreal Toronto and OF
taWa at a considerable reduction on
the price charged for Canadian butter.
Representatives of an English Synd-
cate are in New York with a plan for
merging score OF the largest printing
establishments in the east into single
organization with a capital Of $4,000
600.
Fire Insurance Rates in Kentucky
viii be regulated by a state commits
sion in future, if d bill which passed
the lower house of the general assem-
bly, yesterday is approved by Governor
McCreary.
Nothing Definite Has Been Accom-
pllshed as yet in the conferences of
! Central Labor union committees with
the mill agents, looking to a settle
ment of the big textile strike at Law
| renee, Mass
Reversing the Order Of former Pres
ident Roosevelt. 2,50O,0O0 acres Of In
dian forest land viii be transferred
back from the forest service to the In
partment Of commerce and labor Or
dian bureau
The War Department Has Decided
to deal drastically with Lieut.. Ben w.
| Fields Of the 18th infantry. who. in
command OF a sq.ldd of American SOL
diers, made the mistake Of crossing
into Juarez, Mex, from Fl Paso. Tex.
The Famous Bathtub Trust Case
| brought by the government against so
| defendants in many st2tes and decided
in favor Of the government by the
United States circuit court at Balti-
/ more has been appealed to the supreme
court.
FNGHlSSS " AAN hSNlGW MS week
from leading cities in the United States
indicate that business maintains fair
| progress, despite the severity of the
weather. and with a let up Of the in
tense cold Improvement is expected to
become more marked.
The Southern Storm Which the Ex-
perts predicted would prnbablv
smother New England under tie
heaviest snow blanket of the seas,n n.
dodged off shore after leaving Norfolk,
Va, but southeastern Massachusetts
was swept by its northwestern quad
rant
The Mount Vernon Anti Fee Asso.
| citation, organized to fight the, practice
| Of charging admission to the tomb and
| home of Washington. has appealed to
| the interstate commerce commission
| for1a reduction in the electric railway
fare between Washington and Mount
Vernon
A Ghost Figured as Co respondent in
| divorce proceedings at Macon. Ga. yes-
! terday, when George W. Mann told the
court that his Young wife was haunted
by the shade of her former husband. to
whom she had made a promise that
after his death she would never marry.
| He got his decree.
/
MORBID CROWD GATHERS
IN FRONT OF UNDERTAKERs
Anxious to Get Glimpse of Four MUIR
derers Who Were Hanged.