Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-20

~ ~ LOUIS, DleW open the sale ana
got away with 5000.
The Insurgents Convention of the
Modern Woodmen Of America will be
held at Minneapolis Feb. % to pro-
test against the increase in assessment
rates.
The Price of Lead has declined four
tenths of a cent a pound since the I'm
derwood steel tariff revision bill pass
ed the house, according to lead pro-
ducers.
The Confirmation OF William H. Pope
as United States district judge for
New Mexico was recommended by the
senate committee on the judiciary yes
terday.
William M. Shuster, the aged father
of w. Morgan Shuster former treas
urer- general Of Persia, is very i'll with
abdominal trouble at his home in
Washington.
Daniel Medbury, one of the originat-
ors Of the famous Rhode Island clam
hakes, and town historian died at his
home at East Providence yesterday in
his S5th year.
Robbers Blew Open and Rifed the
safe Of the Austell bank, at Austell.
Ga, and escaped with their booty,
which consisted Of about $500 in cash
and valuable papers
Rev. DR., Newell Dwight Hills, pas
tor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. n.
Y, in an address declared The great
need Of the colored people is the need
Of colored leadership"
Secretary Wilson Ordered the Estab-
lIShment at Reno, New, of a govern
ment laboratory, where natural mate
rial supposed to contain potash will be
examined without cost
John Thorn, Fireman, was killed
and Miles McDonahugh, another fire
man, probably fatally injured in a fire
that destroyed the Grand Opera house
at st. Paul. Mimi yesterday.
Five Midshipmen, All Members OF
the fourth class, yesterday severed
their connection with the naval service
be cause of their low standing ia the
recent semi-annual examinations.
Malcolm Errett, Aged 21, of Cincin-
natl, a divinity student in the sopho-
more class Of Bethany college, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself il
| the head in his room in the college
! dormitory.
The Cornfield Point Lightship, which
broke loose from her moorings at the
mouth of the Connecticut river early
| yesterday was picked up off Duck
Island last night and was being towed
/ back to her berth.
Rutherford P. Hayes, son of Ruth.
| erford Is. Hayes former president o
| the United States, has matriculated as
q student in fruit culture and dairying
/ at Cornell Mr.. Hayes has a big farm
near Asheville, n. C.
Lawrence Odom, Convicted Of 9TH,
murder Of three persons, was hanged
at Mobile, Ala, yesterday. He refus.
! ed the ministrations of a clergyman
who labored within i'm all night, als(
/ Of his own son, Catholic priest.
Free Moving Picture Shows are t,
| be established in at least one hundred
! Of the larger public school building;
| at New York if an urgent apprOpria
/ ton demanded by Supt. Maxwell il
| approved by the board of education.
Alderman C. +. Lynch, commission
er Of public safety at Lawrence, Mass
yesterday deposed City Marshal Jane
! T. O'Sullivan. The alderman proposes
! to reorganize the police department il
an effort to cope with the strike situa
ton.
Italian Consuls Are Not Given tn,
Right by treaty with the United States
/ to Intervene and exclude state authori
ties in settling the estates of italian!
| dying in this country without leaving
| wills, according to the supreme cour
! decision yesterday.
The Colorado Statute of 1907 levy
ing an annual state corporation licens
tax of two cents upon each Thousand
dollars capital stock Of foreign cor
porations doing business within tn
state was yesterday held invalid b,
the supreme court.
Hiram Johnson, Governor of Cali
! fornia, heretofore an ardent supporte
of Senator LaFollette. issued forma
statement yesterday that in his opin
| ion Theodore Roosevelt should be tn
next republican nominee for presiden
Of the United States.
President Taft Yesterday Told May
or Fitzgerald of Boston that he woul
pin a shamrock to the lapel of his coat
look around for a gOood shillalah ant
ride at the head Of the st. Patrick
day and Evacuation day parades whel
he visits Boston Monday, March IS.
Jennie Hight, Known in Private Lif
as Mrs. Jennie Hight Smith, who year
ago was a popular actress, died a
Chicago Sunday at the home of he
son, William 7 Smith. She was iden
titled on the stage with Edwin Booth
Joseph Jefferson, Frank E. Aiken an,
others.
In a Special Message to the Massa
chusetts legislature Governor Eos
yesterday disapproved the bill appro
priating S516.30O for the Massachu
sets Agricultural college at Amherst
Mass. The governor says that onl.
q part Of the teaching is for agricul
turaI purposes and he does not thinl
the time is vet ripe for Massachusett
to have a state university.
Hearst Out for Champ Clark.
san Francisco. Feb. Is.-Speake
Champ Clark win be given the sup
port of the William r. Hearst demo
| cratic faction in California in hts can
didacy fer the nomination for tn,
presidency, according 10 correspond