Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-19

President Taft's First Official Act Saturday was to sign the $160, GOO, 900 pension appropriation bill.
 Secret Service Officials Announced the capture of five expert counterfeit CTS in and around Chattanooga.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson eel ebrated his 77th birthday in Washing ton. He is the oldest man in the cab met.
 The Plant and Warehouse of the Cyphers Incubator company of Buffalo, N. r.. was destroyed by fire. The loss is $3O0,000.
 Official Returns Show that 14S fish ermen lost their lives in the storm which swept the Bay of Biscay for two days.
 According to a Despatch received last evening Williams. Ariz., was se- verely shaken by an earthquake Sun day afternoon.
 Virginia Christian, a Nsgress, who murdered her mistress in Richmond Va. was the first woman to suffer cap | ital punishment in that state.
 Applicants for a Position as Teacher in the schools of Allan township, Pa, | must sign an agreement not to dance | during her period of service.
 Crazsd by Excessive and Constant smoking, Victoria Ruiz. a Cuban wo- man, poured kerosene over her clothes at Tampa, Fla, and set fire to her self
 Sidna Edwards, one of the Hillsville | courthouse assassins, pleaded guilty Saturday to second degree murder and was sentenced to IS years in the peni- tentiary.
 The Atlantic Fleet of RattIeshps and destToyers sailed for Hampton roads Saturday, War maneuvers will | be undertaken in the course of the voyage.
 Nat c. Goodwin, the Actor. injured i Thursday when his rowboat was dashed ashore on Rocky Point beach, was pronounced entirely out of danger 1 Saturday,
 Leonora Heese of Sandusky, Ohio, filed suit for divorce from Fred Heese. after one day of married life. She declared Fred hit her on the way home from church.
 The House Saturday Voted Down, 150 to 70. a proposal by Representative Foss of Illinois republican. for two battleships in the pending naval ap- propriation bill.
 Clarence s. Darrow, the noted Chi cago lawyer, was found not guilty on Saturday of the charge of bribing a juror in the McNamara case. But one ballot was taken.
 That a Full State Ticket will he placed in the field in Oklahoma by the progressive party was decided at a meeting here of the state central committee of the new party. The Senate Committee which inves- | tigated William Lorimer's election, re- ferred a bin of S2,500 presented by William J. Burns, for detective work in the case to its attorneys for lnves- tigation
 More Than 50 Ioeberqs FIoatinc ir the Atlantic near Newfoundland were sighted by Captain Amundsen of the steamer Ragnarok. which came into New York Saturday from Botgwood. vile, N. F.
 Although Albert x. Young. a law student at the University of Washing. ton, is a subject of the German em. Peror, he cannot become a citizen o- the United States because his mother was a Japanese.
 As a ResuIt/oF Many Complaints the department of justice has begun ar investigation of the coke interests 1T the Connellsville, Pa, region, to as. certain whether there Is any combi. nation to increase prices.
 Edward, James and John Taylor aged respectively six months and twt and four years, were burned to deatl yesterday when the Taylor home a. New Brighton, Pa, was set afire by pet dog overturning a table on whicl was an oil lamp.
 Two Men Are Known to Be Deas and property damaged to the extent O many thousands of dollars as the re suit of a terrific rain and electrica storm which struck Niles late Satur day and ragged continuously for 2 hours
 Jerry Johnson Warren, a wealth, planter of Key West, Cuba and New York. was arrested in his apartment, in New York Saturday on a charg, of bigamy preferred by Mrs. Alice M Bolio a Bolonisi. who arrived las week from Cuba.
 Mayor Karb of Columbus, O., Sat urday suspended Chief of Polic, Charles J. Carter. on charges of gros, incompetency, accepting and convert ing fees belonging to inferior officer and of knowingly permitting IS gam bling resorts to operate.
 The Appointment of Dr.. Roscoe Doc little as chief of the bureau of chem istry to succeed Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was urged upon President Taft Satur day by Senators Smith and Townsen, and several members of the Michigan congressional delegation. l
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