Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-16

Hereafter the Governor, councillors and state senators in New Hampshire will be elected by plurality vote in stead of majority vote as at present.
 Hiram J. Maxim, Jr., of Hartford, inventor of noiseless gun, has invented successful motorbOat Silencer He is now working on a silencer for noisy street cars.
 The Design of the New Nickel to supplant the five cent coin now in circulation will be perfected by Secre- tary of the Treasury MacVeagh within few weeks.
 Lieut. Fred De Mannerfelt of the Royal Life Hussars of Sweden com mitted suicide by shooting iE Tampa, Fla, hotel yesterday. No motive is known for the act.
 A Dividend of 50 Per Cent. was or dered paid to the depOsitors of the Windsor Locks Savings bank by Judge Ralph Wheeler in the superior court at Hartford yesterday.
 General Homer Lea, whose services as adviser to pr. Sun Vat Sen, leader of the Chinese revolution, made him an international figure, left an estate valued at only $4,O0O.
 The Announcement That 472 new granges were organized in the last year and that assets now reach ap- proximately $10O,0O0 was made to the national grange yesterday. | Joseph Bush. Who Killed James Me Namara in a fight in Brooklyn Sept. | 29, was sentenced yesterday to pay the widow $3 a week for one year in lieu of spending a year in jail. Gerald ScuIly, II years, is suing the | village of Angola. N. r.. for 1000 | dayna ges for injuries recffged by T | premature explosion of fireworks in q municipal Fourth of July celebration
 The Jersey, Long Popular Adjunct l in the outfit of enlisted men, has come l under the ban of the United States navy and will be tabooed after July 1 next. when it will be superseded by the | blue flannel shirt
 According to Mortality Reports re- ceived by the state board of health there were 1884 deaths during the month of October This was eight less than in September and 3S more than in ! OCJODer or last year.
 The Bald Head Club of America will be given permanent organization at a meeting at Falls Village, Conn.,, on | Nov. 25 The membership includes men of glistening domes from Massa- chusetts to Minnesota.
 .e United Daughters of the Con federacy in convention yesterday Vot- ed unanimously to hold the 1913 con- vention in New Orleans. The New Orleans delegation made a vigorous campaign for the honor.
 Women. Especially Young Girls, are rapidly becoming more and more ad- dicted to intoxicating liquors in the national capital. according to Albert E. Shoemaker, attorney for the Anti Sa- loon league of the District of Colum-
 bia.
 Secretary Knox and Ambassador
 Bryce yesterday exchanged ratifica-
 tions of the treaty signed July ' last,
 providing for an adjustment between
 Great Britain and the United States
 of the North Atlantic fisheries cOntro- versy.
 Owing to the Continued Illness of
 W. Scott Peters, counsel for Arturo
 Giovannitti the trial at Salem, Mass,
 of Ettor Giovannitti and Caruso for
 the Anna Lopizzo murder was again
 delayed yesterday and postponement taken until Monday.
 While Cleaning Clothes with gaso-
 line in the kitchen of her home al
 Hartford, yesterday. the clothing of To1ar NaId 11,orl,h fro nd III oe
 entirely burned. The woman's body was terribly scared by the flames ana she is now in the hospital. Yesterday Was Vincent Astor's Fist
 birthday and he took legal and official
 title to the fortune left by his father ! Col John Jacob Astor. The total
 amount of the estate is estimated al
 $S0, ,0O0, ,000, of which Vincent Astor re-
 ceives approximately 67,00o,00o. William 0. Neff, farmer of Rura Retreat, Ba., attempted suicide by cut ting his throat with a razor, nearly severing his windpipe. Neff was 2 member of the jury that sent Claude s. Allen to the penltentiary for con spiracy in the Hillsvflle courthouse tragedy. / After Making an Inquiry into th'
 initiation of new member of Kappe Mu Sigma, a New Haven High schoo society, the committee on schools has suspended the society for three months and also served notice on the other societies in the school that public ini tiations are forbidden.
 Mrs. August Belmont, Miss Anne
 Morgan and other prominent New
 York women are among the founders
 of a new organization, The Society fol
 the Prevention of Useless Giving. The
 society will do it's utmost to abolish
 the exchange system of Christmas giv- ] ing among those who can i'll afford 1t 7 Mrs. LilIie Green Of Kansas City ant Frank Parks, a merchant of Canton
 Kas., were found dead in a roomine ] house at Hutchinson, Kas., yesterday when officers broke in the door. NTnt woman had been gagged and her head } beaten with a hammer. The mans throat had been cut. Both were mar
 ried,
 N Panic In Hartford Theater. 2 Hartford, Conn. Nov. 15.-rhefs
 was small panic among the BOG patrons of a local moving picture
 house at 105S Main street tonight wher large volumes of smoke from a fire iI a nearby store relied in to t5A thea'