Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-02


The First Underground Emergency
hospital in Illinois, was opened yester-
day in one of the largest coal mines in
the vicinity of Collinsville.
Alaska Products for the. year just
ended reached a total value of $3S 000,-
900, an increase Of more than $6,0OO,-
600 over the preceding year.
Mrs. John c. A. Leishman, wife Of
the American ambassador at Berlin. is
expected to arrive at Berlin with her
daughters and son on Jan. 8.
President C. S. MeIIen of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road believes that business will make
a forward movement during 1912.
The Crew Of the Steamer Zeebrugge,
which sailed from Antwerp on Oct. II,
have returned with a remarkable tale
Of breach of neutrality against Para
quay.
I G. H. Nixon, Auditor Of the South
1 ern railway, shot himself in the head
while standing in the hallway of a hO-
/ tel at Huntsville, Ala, yesterday, and
is now dying.
Robert p. Bass, Governor Of New
( Hampshire, and Miss Edith Bird,
daughter of Charles S. Bird of East
Walpole, Mass, will be married at the
brides home on January 20.
Irrigation Securities Are Not So
| Popular as they were a few years ago
and public confidence in them must be
4 restored or the reclamation of large
areas of land will be greatly retarded.
A Reduction from Five to Three
cents in the charge to be made for ex-
cess calls to telephone subscribers was
announced yesterday by the New Eng
land Telephone and Telegraph com
pany.
H. .Percival DODGE, United States
Minister to Panama, gave a banquet
on Friday night in honor of Attorney
General Wickersham, who is on a visit
there with M. Jusserand, the French
ambassador.
| While Skating With Party Of Chill
cren on the Morris canal at Jersey
City yesterday, Alma Bray Is years
old, and her brother Frank, 10 years
old, fell through the thin ice and were
Crowned.
Without Question the Year 1911 was
productive of more educational legis-
iation Of value than any previous yea1
in the history of the nations, says James
c. Boykin. editor of the United States
bureau of education.
Alfred David Decker of Marblehead
a member of the junior class in the
civil engineering department of Tufts
college, was found dead in bed yes
terday, having committed suicide by
inhaling Illuminating gass.
Francis T. Reeves, Democrat, was
yesterday inaugurated as mayor OF the
city of Waterbury for a term of two
years. succeeding William B. Hotch-
kiss, republican, who has held the Of
fee for the past two years.
A Member of w. E. D. Stokes house.
hold denied yesterday that surgeons
were contemplating removing one o.
Mr.. Stokes kidneys, as had been re.
ported necessary because of complica.
tions subsequent to his recent illness.
Ono Thousand Persons Escaped
with difficulty from the First Presby.
terian church of Hot Springs early
yesterday morning, when the church
was burned. The congregation had as.
sembled to hold special watch services
Hamilton W. Clifford, a Wealth,
broker of New York city, lost by two
and a half minutes a race from New
York to Denver to prevent the mar
riage Of his daughter, Alice, Fl. to Ro.
land Birch, a New York broker.
A Decline in the Death Rate in, sever
Of the eight cities of the United Statel
having a population above 100000 anC
a generally low death rate Throughout
the United States are shown In tn,
preliminary mortality figures for 1911
With the Opening of the New Yea
| the wages Of the motormen and con
ductors of Philadelphia street rail
way system were automatically in
creased one cent an hour, in accord.
ance with a plan adopted some tint
ago,
Detective Lawrence p. Smith, one O
those who assisted In the defense O.
Miss Hattie Leblanc, acquitted of tn,
murder of Clarence r. Glover, was ar
rested yesterday on an indictmen
charging him with subornation of per.
jury in the case.
Mrs. Cynthia Hendriok ouaekenbush
widow Of the late Rear Admiral Steph
en- P. Quacl1enbush, u S. N.,and moth
er of the late Captain Stephen M
Quackenbush, y. S. N, died at the res
idence of her son-inlaw, Rear Adlnira
Perry Garst, at Annapolis, Md.
Bertha Reinan, a Il Year Old New
York girl, stepped in front Of a recOlv
er in the hands Of her stepfather, ,Georgt
Benz, g salesman. and received In III,
temple two bullets which had been in
tended for her mother The girl diet
half an hour later; the mother was un
injured.
The Directors of the Port of Bosto,
have secured the services of Baura
Wendemuth of Hamburg, an eminen
German engineer, TO come to Bostol
early in February 10 act as advisor
engineer TO the directors ia a prelirn
mary investigation Of port conditions
there
Subscribing Himself as The Man ii
Iron," and sending ? line about hi
feelings after serving ten days Of hi
ten years sentence in the federal pris
on at Atlanta, Rev. Frank w. San
/ ford Of the Holy Ghost and Us society
has written a Portland. Me, newspa
per man, extending the compliments o
; the season TO representatives Of tn
press