Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-23

he'i yeSleFuayS causing an estimated loss of $30,000.
 Sixteen of the 25 Children of Peter G. Walker were at Harrison. N. J., yesterday to attend the funeral of the aged Scotchman.
 Mrs. Robert GoeIet's Condition is most critical, according to the physi- clans in attendance. Her ailment has been diagnosed as cancer.
 The Main Building of the Primos Chemical works, near Clifton Heights, Pa. was destroyed by fire with an es- timated loss of S75,000.
 A Chicago Man Claimed that a house he owned was haunted and succeeded in having the assessment figures low cred from $i2,o00 to $S,000
 Provision for a Parcels Post System in this years postal appropriation bill was agreed upon yesterday by con- ferees of the house and senate.
 
 The United States Training Ship Newport left Plymouth, England, for Maderia from there she will go to Bermuda, and then to New London, | Conn,
 John Hatton, Grandson of President William Henry Harrison and cousin of President Benjamin Harrison, died at his home at Erie, H., yesterday, aged 1 9S years.
 Rev. Dr.. Roland D. Grant, prominent as a lecturer and preacher, died at his | oN l. a night, He was born in Old Windsor, Conn, Aug. A. 1851.
 Hugh Robinson, Aviation Instructor | for Glenn Curtis, made 56 flights with | passengers at Hammondsport N. T., | breaking all records. The previous record was 52 flights.
 Governor Baldwin Yesterday gave out a campaign document in which he predicts that eX-President Theodore Roosevelt will come in third when the votes are counted in November.
 1t Is Reported in London that the real reason for the nasty departure ol | King Alfonso of Spain from Cowes Rt the end of regatta week was due to a quarrel with his motherln-law
 A Century Plant on the Lawn of tho Brighton Beach hotel at Coney Island is almost ready to bloom. The plant will die when it sends out its blos- sOms, which will produce new plants.
 The Death of Countess de Ferre, g close friend of Dowager Queen Alex andra of England, at Petaluma, Cal, was reported yesterday. She was SI years old, widow, and was born il | Connecticut
 One Hundred and Twenty Chinese students from various institutions oi learning in the east are in attendance at the eighth annual conference of tho Chinese Students alliance in sessioI at Williamstown, Mass.
 Harvey Dodd, the Young American reported murdered by rebels in thu general massacre at Leon, Nicaragua Aug. 19. was the son of s. L. Dodd O Kosciusl1o, Miss, a prominent law yer. Dodd was S5 years old.
 Charles s. Dennison of Boston president and treasurer of the Denni son Manufacturing company, died a his suSnmer home at Falmouth Mass yesterday, following an operation fo appendicitis He was 54 years old. Sixty Counter Workers, employed f the shoe facs sorry of w. W. Appleton a Haverhill, Mass. went on strike yes terday to enforce a demand for an in crease of 25 per cent. in wages and reduction of working hours from 59 t
 54 weekly.
 Portland's (Maine) New Million dol , lar city hall, replacing the one de stroyed by fire four years ago, and au ditorium were officially turned over t and the architects yesterday and wer dedicated to the city's use Three of the American Stars at tn recent Olympic games at StocEholI reached New York yesterday on tn
 steamer Majestic. They are Melvi
 W. Sheppard. James F. Meredith
 Mercersburg academy and Donald } Lippincott of the University of Penn
 sylvania.
 All Worlds Records for Shorthan speed were broken at New York yes
 terday when Nathan Behrin, of1ci' : stenographer of the New York su  words minute for five consecutiy l minutes. The previous worlds recor was 269 words.
 In Order to Dissipate the impres , sion that women who yearn to vote | real elections do not know the fir,
 elements of housekeeping, Minnesot suffragists will maintain a booth
 the state fair where every ma T whether married or single may hay his hose alarmed.
 ? Opium, for Centuries the Curse | the Chinese empire, has given way b, ,, fore the American cigarette, while America the cigarette is leading to
 more general use of opium, accordir
 to Prof. Albert Schneider, in charge
 the United States bureau of chemistl 3 at San Francisco.
 q Commander Eva Booth, secor
 youngest daughter of the late Gener
 William Booth commander of the Sa vation Army, sailed yesterday on u '' liner France for Havre in a race aero = the Atlantic in the hope of reachir u England in time to attend her father