Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-26

President Taft Has Accepted the in
vitation to attend the ST Patrick's
day dinner of the Charitable Irish So
ciety Of Boston.
A Bequest of $4,000 for the House
of Mercy hospital, PittsfieId, Mass. is
contained in the will of Mrs. Florence
de Wolfe Sampson
Huans Sing, Chinese Republican
Minister of War, made a demand upon
the China Merchant Steam Navigation
company for s7.OOO0O0
The Seaconnet Mills of Fall River
have passed the regular dividend for
the fifth consecutive quarter. The last
dividend was 1 per cent.
Colonel Roosevelt, When Asked About
the declaration for him by Governor
Hadley of Missouri, said: 4 see they
are doing things out there"
Three Million Votes in 1912" is the
| shibboleth of the prohibition party,
| whose campaign is being directed from
| the national headquarters at Chicago.
! Mrs. Joseph DrcxeI, Widely Known
/ in social circles and mother of Mrs.
/ Harry Lehr Of Baltimore, died at her
/ town residence at Philadelphia. yester-
/ day.
Locomotive Engineers on All Rail-
roads in the eastern territory have
| made demands for a general increase
in wages ranging from Is to 25 per
cent.
Ill
| plosicn, the cause of which is un-
known, destroyed the elevator of the
Acme Mating company at Chicago
yesterday.
The Smith Family is Represented
by no less than nine members in the
! jury panel which will serve in the state
I supreme court at New York during the
next fortnight.
Three New National Bird Reserva-
tions, two in Alaska and the third in
/ Nebraska, have been created. by Pres
ident Taft and placed under the de-
partment of agriculture.
Factory Inspector Mclean Finds that
the enforcement of the law relating to
fire escapes is interfered with by ordi-
napces in various Connecticut cities
The Grand Jury of Brown County,
Ohio. has returned 3s indictments
against former county officials for
bribery. soliciting bribe. offering a
bribe, padding payrolls and embezzle-
ment.
Edward Grosscup, Chairman of the
democratic state committee of New
Jersey, states that Governor Wilson
will have a majority Of the New Jersey
delegates to the democratic national
convention.
Another Strike Which is the Out
come of the operation of the "a hour
law was reported yesterday when 100
girls employed by the American Writ
ing Paper company in it's Holyoke
mills quit work,
Representing a Value of 500, 600
with her cargo before she struck on
the rocks OF Metinic Island. Me. two
weeks ago, the New York freight
steamer Carolyn and her cargo were
sold yesterday for $3.50.
Twenty -four Employees in the Wind
ing Department of No. l mill of the
American Thread company's plant at
Holyoke, Mass, struck yesterday be
cause the management had refused to
grant an advance in wages.
!; A Memorial Window for John Bun
yam was unveiled in Westminster alb
bey, London, yesterday afternoon, 224
years after his death. The window IL
lustrates scenes from his most noted
work, Pilgrims Progress"
Argentina, Chill, Uruguay, Venezuela
Cuba and a number of other Latin
, American countries were invited tc
participate in the Panama Pacific in
ternational exposition to be held in Sau
Francisco in 1915 and to send exhibits
Frank Marsh Merrill of Lowell
Mass, one OF the organizers Of the Sc
cret Order of Owls, was convicted OF
violation of the insurance laws Of
Massachusetts, by q jury yesterday
The case will be carried to the supreme
F.. court.
Louis kushnIe, Republican Leader o
Atlantic City. recently convicted o.
unlawfully participating in the award.
ing Of a contract was sentenced to on,
: year in prison and a fine of 81 600, bu
a new trial
, The Plant Of the Newburyport, Mass.
Herald, one of the oldest newspapers II
, Massachusetts, was damaged by fir,
I yesterday, while the editorial and me
chanical departments of the Newbury
port News located in an adjoining
y building, was pretty thoroughly we
down.
! An Act Dividing the State Into Thro
. congressional districts following tn
recent act of congress providing for al
g additional representative from Rhod
:. Island was introduced in the Rhod
!, Island house yesterday by Represent
ative Richard w. Jennings, the repub
lican floor leader
Edward (. GrinnmeIl, Who is Bslieve
r by surgeons and criminologists to hav
g been transformed by an operation o.
his skull from chronic criminal to
normally moral man, is back at hi
home in Buffalo, n. z, after servin
: three years of q nine year sentence 4
Clinton prison at Dannemora, N Y.
. A Poll of the General Assembly q
- New York shows that of 100 republica
. !. members II are for Taft, IL fo
:, ]" Hughes, 2 for Roosevelt, 80 non com
: initial or absent OF the rs democrat Il
members 40 are for Harmon, for VII
: son. 2 for Underwood, 8 for Cham
= Clark, 1 for Dix, for Gaynor, 29 non
p committal or absent.
IL
d Guinea Pig Survived Equitable Fire
o New York, Jan. 25.-A little guine
n pig that had lived 16 days withoi