Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-08

The Directors of the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph company have
declared the regular quarterly dividend
Of 2 per cent.
The Government Has Closed the TAX
ing of testimony in the beef trust trial
that has been going on in Chicago
since Dec. last.
Notices of Wage Increase of five.
per cent. were posted yesterday in the
woolen factory of the Saxonyille,
Mass, Mills company.
Mrs. Almira Hendricks of Evansville,
Wis, granddaughter of Robert Morris,
signer Of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, is dead, at the age of IS.
Senator Percy of Mississippi will
make a statement to the senate today
in response to the Mississippi legisla-
ture's demand for his resignation.
Hon. Josiah Wood of sackviIIs, n.
B., has been appointed lieutenant gov
ernol Of New Brunswick, to succeed
Lieutenant Governor Lemuel J. Twee-
die.
BY the Will of Daniel Donovan of
Stamford, filed for probate yesterday,
the whole estate Of about $4,000 is left
to St. Johns Roman Catholic church
Of that city.
President Taft Was Endorsed and
national convention delegates were in
structed to vote for him by the state
convention of the Alabama republican
organization yesterday.
Jessie Chapman of Lynn, Mass, who
shot and killed her friend and neigh
Dor, Mrs. Eva Florence ingalls,, was
yesterday held without bail for hear
ing on Saturday, March 16.
Former Republican State Chairman
Timothy L. Woodruff, New York, pre-
| dicted yesterday that Presiden nj Taft
would get more than SO of the so dele
gates from New York state.
John T. Sneed. Father Of John Besl
/ Sneed, who was recently tried fot the
murder of capt A. G. Boyce, was shot
4 and killed a. Georgetown, lex, as an
/ 0utgroWth of the Boyce- Sneed feud.
William Williams Of Bonneville, Mo-.
/ former supreme justice Of his state, s
! suggested as one ot the atto-neys who
might be employed by the Pajo money
( trust investigating committee Of tne
/ house.
An Appropriation of $4,000 as a FIRST
| step in carrying Gut President Tart S
plan for an International conference
on the cost Of living was proposed
yesterday in bill by Representative
I Sulzer Of New York
Timothy F. Wiring, EmpIoyed by The
! Derby Gas company. at Ansenla. was
! killed by electric current yesterday
While on a pole making connection of
/ a current on d circuit with device i0l
Lhawing out water pipes.
Rev. j. J. Fitzgerald of ST. Rose S
| Roman Catholic church New Haven
] denounced race suicide in plain terms
! in a LenJen sermon delivered to- his
/ parishionsrs. He declared that it has
/ grown most alarminely in the land.
An Anti Capital Punishment meas
ure. which might have saved ths
| lives Of three uur5erers under sen
! tence Of death. including Clarence V
/ T. Richeson. was killed in the Massa-
chusetts house yesterday by decisive
vote.
The Brown University endowment
fund was helped on its way to the de-
sired million dollar mark yesterday by
a gift Of $4,000 from J. B. f. Heres
hcff, an alumnus, vice president of the
| Nichols Chemical company Of New
York.
Charles c. Gates, son of the late
John w. Gates. has written Chairman
Stanley Of the steel trust investigation
asking him for the vouchers for the
/ witness fees and mileage allowed his
/ father for testifying. The amount due
Mr.. Gates was s24.70.
Mrs. Bessie Gentry Of Oklahoma City
kOkla., was yesterday convicted of mur-
! der in the first degree and her punish
ment fixed at life Imprisonment. She
was tried for the murder of her hus-
| band Thomas ]. Gentry, which oc-
/ CURED on the night of January 6.
George Mead, a Coachman for Rev
| Frank fairfield rector of the Episco-
| pal church at Brewsters, n. Y, made
! a murderous attack late Wednesday
upon two daughters of the clergyman
in the carriage house on the Hartfield
premises al Brewsters, and then blew
/ himA If to pieces and one end Of the
/ carriage house out with dynamite.