Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-18

commodate the increasing number of political prisoners.
 Russia is Threatened with a repeti- tion of the disastrous famine of 191t, as rains have destroyed larpe portions Of the rye and wheat crop.
 John T. Cameron, the Fl Paso cat tleman, kidnapped by Mexican rebels, and held for ransom, was released up- on payment of s1250 to his captors. 
 Buildings on the Highland Farm at Sherborn, Mass, owned by George T.. Dexter of Boston, were damaged by fire yesterday to the amount of $35, 900.
 Frank Miller of Granby was fined $50 in the Hartford police court yes- :erday on charge of operating an au- tomobile while in an intoxicated con- dition.
 Willie Ruqes, Gary, Ind, Newsboy, who allowed surgeons to amputate his crippled leg to obtain skin to graft on the burned body of girl is seriously i'll and may die.
 Although F. w. Small of Harlem, N.
 
 while walking in his sleep, he walked a mile and a half and back to bed without waking.
 In the Forty eight Hours between Saturday night and Monday night there were fourteen homicides in New York, according to Judge R1satsily of the criminal court.
 The Schools, Churches and theaters in Barre city and Barre town, Yer mont, have been ordered closed by the state board of health because of an outbreak of smallpox
 Four Persons Lost Their Lives when two barges went to the bolt onn of Lake Ontario yesterday, morning near Galloup islands, 20 miles from Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.
 Elmer McWiIliams, ii Years Old of Chicago, stole s1,15S from his uncle and started west to fight Indians with chum. They spent s1 in moving pie ture shows and then were arrested.
 4 Movement Toward an Advance in the wages of the cotton mill opera tives of Fall River, Mass, begun by the weavers' union, has been referred to all the unions by the textile coun- cil
 Authority for the Issuance during the year of $SO,OO0,O0O in bonds was authorized at the annual meeting yes- terday of the officers and directors of the Central of Georgia Railway com pany.
 Peter Hernia, 12 Years Old, of Wal lington, N. J., was arraigned in court charged with murder. He shot boy d year ago. His father was hanged sev- eral years ago for murdering d butcher.
 Patriotic Greeks Made a demonstra- tion at the Brooklyn pier of the steam ship Themistocles when she departed for Greece yesterday, carrying 140t young men returning hone in response to the call for arms.
 Mayor George R. Lump of Schenec:a- dy, N. Y, was again arrested at Little Falls, N. Y, yesterday, and his wife was also escorted to police heaGcuar- ters as a result of their attempts to address the strikers.
 "I Shall Not Permit Betting in In- diana. I have given instructions to proper officials to this effect. If they fail to carry out my instructions, shall displace them." This was Gov ernor Marshall's declaration yesterday.
 Two Greek Strikers Were Killed yesterday at McGnl, Nevada, where closing the Steptoe mill and melter
 
 pelled Governor Oddie to order the mo- bilization of the Nevada state police. President Taft Yesterday Received telegrams from Col Theodore Roose- welt and Mrs Roosevelt thanking him for the messages he sent from New York shortly after the colonel was wounded.
 Ford's Theater at Washington, the building in which President Lincoln was shot, and which now houses many of the records of the adjutdnt general of the army, virtually has been con. demned Hy President Taft's economy and efficiency commission.
 Huntington Wilson, Assistant secre- tary of state, announced on his arrival in Chicago yesterday that he would not deliver his speech attacking Col onel Roosevelt and the progtr7s7vc par ty, because of the attempted assassina- ton of the former president.
 Overcome by Emotion when the elec- trical score card at a Los Angeles theater Wednesday showed Fred Snod- grass huff the fly which cost the New York Giants the worlds cham pionship title, Mrs. Sno lgrass mother of the New York outhelder. tainted.
 "Why Shouldn't Sleep We'll? There's nothing bothering my con science This was the remarK of John Schrank, the man who shot Col onel Roosevelt, when yesterday mIln Ing he was asked by an attendant dt the county jail as to how he res!el during the night.