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Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
PUTNAM

Young Worcester Woman Sells Skin
 to Graft on Eugene 5ennevilIe-De-
 layed Town Meeting Votes $2oo Towards Soldiers Monument-Does Not Grant School Site for Memorial.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
John McMurrav.

John McMurray, aged S4, died at his home in Andover late Thursday after noon as the result of breakdown due to age. He was born in Scotland, the son of Gilbert and Jeanette (Murray) McMurray. He had lived in Andover many years and was well known there. There are no immediate relatives sur viving.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS.

FIEE6 UUNED IN IU I4 DAIs.
 Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro- truding Piles in 6 to II days. soc.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
DAMIELS0N
D. A. R. Chapter Meets-No Hearing Yet in Saloon Appeal Cases-Death of David Metthe-Series of Whists End With Enjoyable Social.

Elliott Reach, son of Mir. and Mrs. William B. Reach, is seriously i'll at their heme on the West Side.
 John Fournier of Springfield is visit ing relatives on the West Side
 George s. Hendricks of Fall River called on friends in Danielsen Thurs
Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
OBITUARY.
Henry MoriArty,

Henry Moriarty died Wednesday afternoon at Augusta, Me. Deceased was a well known resident of this city Tor great many years and was vet eran of the civil war. There survive ms widow, Mary, three daughters, Mrs. Patrick Fitzgerald and the Misses Annie and Bridget Moriarty of this clty; and a son, Henry Moriarty of FFl0Geport The body will be brought to this city today Friday).
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
SN0WSL|DE VICTIMS
THREE MEN MEET DEATH IN
THE MOUNTAINS, BEING BUR-
led UNDER TONS or SNOW.
Son Of sawmlII Owner and Two
Workmen In Path of Avalanche OF
Snow Which Came Down Upon
Them Without Warning.

Logan, Utah.-Three men were
killed Sunday in an avalanche OF
snow In Blacksmith Fork canyon,
near the sawmill OF John e. Miles,
twenty-five miles southeast of this
city. The dead are JOHN e. Miles,
Jr., Of Paradise, son OF the owner OF
the mill; Fletcher Morris, Of Para
disc; George Ellis, OF Smithfied.
These men, together with another
who escaped injury, were logging in
q rayine near the sawmill. A heavy
snoWstorm was raging, at the time.
Without warning large body of
snow on the hillside gave way, and
coming down into the ravine with ir-
resistible force, overwhelmed the log.
gers, burying them deeply.
One Of the party extricated himself
after great effort and made his way
to Hardware ranch, FIVE miles distant.
From there news of the snowslide
was telephoned to this city.
The slide is attributed to the srt
perlmposed weight of damp snow
which fell in the mountains.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Are Believed to Have Been Tortured
to Death by Religious Maniac.

New York.--A case of double MUIR
der discovered in an East Side house
Sunday is one of the most shocking
since the Guldensuppe dismember,
ment and the Jack the Ripper" series
OF crimes. Isaac Futterman, 80 years
old, and his wife, Rachael, 70 years
old, were found dead in their rooms,
their bodies terribly mutilated.
The police believe the aged couple
were tortured to death and in the alb
sense of any we'll established motive
for such a crime, think the Futter-
mans were victims of a religious
maniac
tutterman was a retired manufac-
turer who had accumulated a small
fortune, but always had refused to
leave the East Side neighborhood,
where he had settled when he came
from Russia many years ago.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
MINISTER COAFESSES CRIME
Rev, Richeson Admits Poisoning His
Former Fiancce and VIII Probably
Go to the Electric Chair.

Boston.-The Rev. Clarence v.
Richeson, in remarkable statement
made public Saturday, confessed that
he caused the death of Avis LinnelI,
the pretty little Hyannis choir sing
er, to whom he was engaged to be
married before he became the fan
ce of Miss Violet Edmands.
The confession came as a surprise
to District Attorney Pelletier. It was
stated that Richeson would plead
guilty to murder in the first degree
and would be sentenced to death in
the electric chair by Judge Sander.
son, the law providing no other al.
Tentative. The defense will rely upon
a Communication of the sentence to
Imprisonment for life by Governor
Foss and the executive council.
Avis Linnell of Hyannis, Mass,
once fiancee of Rev. C. v. T. Richie
son, was found dying, apparently a
suicide by cyanide of potassium, in a
bathroom of the Boston Young Wo.
mans Christian association ON Oct. IA.
Suspicion was directed toward Richie,
son, who was arrested October 81 and
indicted on October 81. On Decem.
Der 80, Richeson attempted suicide in
his cell. He made a confession to
his counsel on January 3, the confes.
sion being made public January 6.
Richeson's attorneys declare the con-
fession was voluntary, declaring: 1T
was not the result of inducements or
any expectation of clemency. The man
unburdened himself as he did because
it did him good He has thrown
himself upon the mercy of the court.
He feels sorry for what he has done"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Wanted the Documents.

Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton Keefe was hearing the case of a
woman who appealed to enter this
country Notwithstanding serious
charges had been brought against her
morality.
Her attorney pleaded that she might
do better If allowed to start on a new
life here. Look at the case of Mary
Magdalene," he said See what was
done in her case, Why cannot the
same be done in the case of this wom-
am"
Mr. Keefe had been preoccupied. He
called to the clerk and said; Get me
the record In that Magdalene CASE
New York World.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
JOHNSON AND FLYNN MATCHED
World Championship Contest to Be
Held Near Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City.--A telegram re.
ceived from Jack Curley says that
Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn met in
Chicago on Saturday and signed arti-
Giles for a worlds championship fight.
Under the agreement Jack Johnson is
to receive $31,1O0; $4,000 as his
share and s1,100 additional for train.
ing expenses-besides one-third of the
moving picture rights. The match will
be staged some day in July, and will
be held just over the Utah line in
Nevada. -..
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
New Mexico Now a State.

Washing ton.-New Mexico, the for
ty-seyenth state to enter the union.
ceased to be territory at 1:35 Satur-
day when President Taft signed the
proclamation of statehood. Four
members of the presidents cabinet,
the two congressmen-elect from New
Mexico, a dozen prominent citizens
from the new state, several white
house employees and three photog-
raphers witnessed the ceremony.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Carnegie Must Testify.

Washington.-C ornered on the steps
OF his great stone mansion in Fifth
avenue, New York, Andrew Carnegie,
steel master and philanthropist, who
knows more than any other living hui
man being about the real value of the
giant plants that form the steel trust,
was on Saturday served with a sub
poena, commanding him to appear be-
fore the Stanley investigating COM
mittee in Washington,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
INSANE WOMAN polsoNs FAMILY
Deserted Wife Places Poison in Food
of Boarders at Her Home.

OF Boarders at Her Home.
Philadelphia Driven insane be-
cause of her husbands abandonment,
Mrs. Bridget Flanagan, who conduct
ed a boarding house, is believed to
have placed poison in the food of her
boarders with the result that three of
her own family were killed, one of the
boarders is dying and four others are
seriously i'll. Mrs. Flanagan also par
took of the food and died in great
agony.
The deed of the demented woman
was discovered Sunday when one of
those who was i'll started to summon
assistance. His failure to arouse any
of the inmates of the house aroused
his suspicious. The boarder went
through the various rooms and was
horriged to find the bodies of the vic
Tins and the stricken persons in vari-
GUS parts of the house. He summoned
the police by telephone.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Aqed Widow Burned TO Death.

South Haven, Mich.-The body of
Mrs. Julia Jones, widow aged 80
years, was discovered burned to a
crisp Sunday afternoon by a neigh
boris child, who, acting as a messen,
ger for the ladies of the Methodist
church, called to find if the old lady
needed fuel. A partly filled oil can
near the kitchen stove indicated she
had attempted to start coal fire
and her clothing caught.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Ethel Tires of Ridinq Master.

New York.-Ethel Croker Breen,
the young and beautiful daughter of
Richard Croker, former boss of Fam.
many hall, has fled in the supreme
court here an action foc absolute di.
vorce from John J. Breen, the riding
master whom she married under no.
mantle circumstances in April, 1910.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Charged With Murder of Wife.

New York-The trial of Allison
MacFarlane, the Newark advertising
man, for the murder of his wife, Eve
lyn, began Monday morning before
Chief Justice Gunmere of the New der
sey supreme court. This will reopen
the case, which bears such strong
resemblance to the famous Crippen
murder, that interested the whole
world about a year ago.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
RATES: HIGH ENOUGH
sEcoND-cLAss INCREASE PLAN
sTlRs PUBLISHERS.
Efficiency Of Hltchcock's MANAGEMENT
Of the Post Once Department
Attacked by the A. NJ. p. A.

Washington, Tho Al. N. p. Al,
through its postal committee OF which
Don. g. seitz Of New York is chair
man. has joined in the fight against
the proposed increase In seconded
rates and In its last bulletin the com
mittee attacks the management of the
post office department The bulletin
10 as follows:
THE extent to which the post
ONCE department does not carry sec
ond-class matter is well revealed In
fhe Following abstract of inquiry OF
publishers conducted by house com,
mittee on expenditures In the post
office department civilian A. Ash
brook. chairman) concerning the vol
ume, weight and handling of the out
put OF publications entered as mail
matter OF the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911:
Inquiry was made of all publish
ers, approximating thirty thousand, of
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
More than ten thousand. returns
were received, embracing sixty-six
plus per cent. Of all tonnage of pub
LEGATIONS.
The publications reporting repre-
sent an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies, the
weight Of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
These publications delivered by
mail In such period weighed 633, 012,-
902 pounds.
They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, and news companies
840,466,574 pounds, of which an unas.-
certained percentage was carried to4
destination by express and other rail r
shipments outside the mail. They de.
livered by express, 202,729, $40 pounds,
and by other rail shipments 121,491,-
f4S pounds. The rate by express and
rail varies from " to / cent per
pound, but the bulk of these shin
ments went at rate of u to u cent
per pound.
1.-THE post office for the year end
ng June 30, 1911, handled 951 ,0O1,-
'6s, and excluding one-half million
pounds free In county matter, it re-
'eiVed one cent per pound
All this goes to add to the alb
urdtty of the proposed Hitchcock leg
Station doubling the second-class rate
rom one to two cents per pound. and
Uniting the privilege to publications
hat carry as much reading matter as
hey do Advertising
The proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached ST..
100000 two years ago. 1t becomes
in face of a surplus.
What business has a transporta-
Ion corporation, which is all the post
'fiice is, to prescribe how business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers cannot afford to ex-
'and their columns beyond the call
If the days news, nor can they be s
to control the requirements t
II their advertisers who have right {
o reach the public as copiously as
hey care to-
1T cannot be assumed that such |
legislation will ever get by congress. {
But publishers are requested to fight {
he theory that the right to send their
output by mail is privilege" The I
igures show it is not. /
THE post office is a badly man I
4ged business. That is all. We {
hould fight its dictation, its censor I
hip and its inefficiency."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Moro MaIeontents plsarmed.

Washington. Several Moros were
killed and one American officer and
one Philippine scout were injured in
the recent trouble on the Island of Joo,
when the American troops, under
Genera Pershing. succeeded in fore
ing to disarmament of bands of the
Moros
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Fatal Auto Aeciden+.

San Diego. Cal.-oscar Bentley,
who established the first ostrich farm
in California, lost his life Sunday
when an automobile in which he was
riding was struck by another machine
and overturned.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Love at First Sight.

"And did you ever love any girl be
fore you were introduced to me
Charlie?" said the bride of a fey
months.
oh, yes" was the mans reply.
"You did?"
Sure! When l first saw you"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
A RaeksIldlna Santa Claus.

Mrs. Peayish says that before they
were married Mr.. Peavish used to say
that if she would let him be her Santa
Claus he would devote his life to slid
Ing up and down the chimney for
her. And now it makes him mad to
have to take up ashes from the CRATE.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Disastrous Blaze in Montana.

Helena, Mont.-Fire at Canyon
Ferry, on the Missouri river, twenty
miles east of Helena, Sunday, de.
stroyed the hotel and general store,
entailing a loss of about $4,000. The
fire started from an overheated stove,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Fifteen to Go to China

Manila. The Fifteenth infantry
regiment, stationed at Mckinley,
where it arrived December 5, is being
held in readiness to proceed to China
It was brought up to war strength on
its arrival.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12

In excavating the foundation of New
York's municipal building a new
record has been made for depth. At
the southern end of the structure.
which will house between 5000 and
5000 city employees when finished, the
"sandbags" went down 139 feet below
the ourhline, or LOT feet below sea
level. 81
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Passes Century Mark.

Stanford, Conn.-Mrs. Maria Grieka
on Saturday celebrated her 1osth
birthday at her home here. She has
outliyed all her family including her
husband and sixteen children and is
still far from feeble.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Consistency.

Il suppose you always say exactly
what you think?" Il try to-" replied
Senator Sorghum; but also try to
avoid thinking anything 1t would not
be expedient for me to say"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
One Hundred Families Homeless.

Jersey City, N. FLAMES rendered
more than 100 families homeless.
caused $150,O0O loss and threatened
a still more disastrous confiagration
by sweeping nearly an entire block in
Jackson avenue.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
POWERS WILL OPEN RAILWAY.
Detachments of German, British,
French and Japanese Troops sta
toned Along Line From Pekin.

Pekin-The treaty powers, have un.
dertaken the protection of the rail
road between Pezin and the sea. In
terruption of traffic along this line,
which had prevented the passage of
the mails for four days, resulted in
this decision. Detachments of Brit.
ish, German, Japanese and French
troops have been stationed at inter
walls between Pekin and Chin Wang
Tao, according to the plan devised
two months ago. A Japanese general
Is in command, as he is the ranking
officer. as.-.-..,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Could Have Been Prevented.

Chicago.-In an exhibit by the city
health department it is shown that of
$4,000 deaths i'm Chicago In 1911, 49,.
500, or about 40 per cent, were from
preventabIe diseases
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
Persians Bun Amuck at rahrlz.

Tabriz.-Great mobs of Persians
crying vengeance on Russia for the
execution of Persian subjects, ran
amuck in this city on Saturday, de-
stroyed the governmental building
and damaged other property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
EsS@13s:zbATTLES and leaders Of THE CIVIL VAR
GEN. LEE IN CAMP AND IN BATTLE IN a.

ing twenty-four hours in salient and
two combats on another part of the
line: May Is, one; May 10. one. II is
no wonder that on these fields the Con-
than 10000 pounds Of lead. which was
recast in bullets and did work again
before the campaign of 1854 was closed.
Lee. discovering that Grant had set
out on the goth of May on his flanking
movement southwark, immediately
marched so as to throw his army be-
tween the Federal forces and Rich
mond. He crossed the North Anna on
the 21st. Gen. Grant arrived on the I'D.
Lee would gladly have compelled bat
tie in his position there. He was
anxious now to strike telling blow
as he was convinced that Gen. Grant
men were dispirited by the bloody re-
pulses of their repeated attacks on our
lines. But in the midst of the opera
tions on the North Anna he succumbed
to sickness, against which he had
struggled for some days.
AS he lay in his tent he would say
in his impatience: I'VE must strike
them; I'VE must never let them pass
us again" I'VE must strike Them
He had reports brought to him constant
~ from the field. But Lee ill i'm his tent
was not Lee at the front. He was much
disappointed in not securing larger re-
suits from the attack which prevented
the junction of Hancock's and Warren's
columns after they had crossed the
North Anna.
On May rs Grant withdrew his army
from It's rather critical position on the
south side OF the North Anna, and
moved again to the east, down the
Pamunkey, which he crossed the 2sth.
to find Lee confronting him on the Toto
potomoy On the 30th the Confederate
forces were in line of battle with the
left confronting the Federal army.
Gen. Lee was still sick, and occupied
a house at night for the first time during
the campaign. AS one of his trusted
lieutenants has well said: In fact. moth
ing but his own determined will kept him
in the field; and ii was then rendered
more evident than ever that he was the
head and front, the very life and soul OF
his army" Grant declined general battle
and drew eastward: and after several
lesser combats, with no serious results,
the two armies confronted one another
on the Sd of June at Cold Harbor.
The battle of Cold Harbor was a gen
eral assault by Grant along front nearly
six miles in length, and a complete and
bloody repulse at all points. except al
one weak salient on Breckinridge's line
which the brave aSsailants occupied for
a short time only to be beaten back in
a bloody hand-to-hand conflict on the
works. The Federal losses were natu-
rally, under the circumstances. very large
and those of the Confederates very small
The dead and dying lay in front of the
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Grant, at midnight on the 3D.. to turn his
right flank.
On the morning of the 9Th Gen. Lee.
though generally reticent at table on
military affairs. spoke very cheerfully
of the situation. having learned that
Grant was crossing the Rapidan at Ger
mamma ford and moving into the Wilder
ness. He expressed his pleasure that the
Federal general had not profited by Gen.
Hookers Wilderness experiences and
that he seemed inclined to throw away
to some extent the immense advantage
which his great superiority in numbers
in every arm of the service gave him
Lee rode with Hill at the head Of his
corps He was at the front in the Skin
mish at Parker's store and moved with
the advance to the field the edge of
the Wilderness which became the scene
of the great conflict on the Plank road.
Riding on in advance of the troops. the
party, consisting of Gems. Lee, Hill and
Stuart and their staff officers. dismounted
and sat under the shade of the trees.
when a party of the enemy's skirmishers
deployed from a grove of old field pines
on the left. thus revealing the close prox-
unity of Grants forces and the ease of
concealing movements in the Wilderness
Hills troops were soon up and In line.
and then began on the Plank road a
fierce struggle nearly simultaneously
with that of Ewell's corps on the old
turnpike Thus was inaugurated con-
test of many battles, in which the al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

OF ordinary size, situated on the steep
hillside. made the winter home of HIM
self and his personal staff 1t was with
out sentineis or guards
lie used during the winter every exer-
tion for filling up the thin ranks of his
amy and for obtaining the necessary
supplies for his men. There were times
in which the situation seemed to be
critical in regard TO the commissariat.
The supplies of meat were brought main
IL from the states south of Virginia,
and on some DAYS the Army of Northern
Virginia had not more than twenty-four
hours rations ahead.
on one occasion the general received
by mail an anonymous communication
from a private soldier containing a very
small slice of salt pork, carefully packed
between two oak chips. and accompa-
MED by letter saying that this was the
daily ration of meat and that the writer
having found II impossible to live on it.
had been, though he was a gentleman.
redued by the cravings of hunger to the
necessity Of stealing. The incident gave
the commanding general great pain and
anxiety, and led TO some strong inter-
views and correspondence with the COM
missary department
During the winter Gen. Lee neglected
no interest of his soldiers He consulted
with their chaplains and attended their
meetings. in which plans for the promo