Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-13


 Because of Leak at Middleport. the feeding of water in the Erie canal between Rochester and Lockport has been discontinued.
 It is Reported That Survivors in the famine districts of China, particularly in Kiangsu and Anehwia, are eating one another
 Victor Williams Shot and killed H. | H. Williams of Adamsville, Tenn, for criticising him for eating beans with a knife in a Memphis hotel.
 A Pastor Has a Right to Maintain order in his own church, even if he is obliged to remove disturbers, was the ruling of Judge Avery in the district court at Quincy, Mass.
 A Negro and White Man who were awaiting trial for robbery in the county jail at Riverhead, l.. l., es- caped while in the yard of the jail taking exercise.
 Asher J. Jacoby, for the past eleven years superintendent of schools in Mill ton Mass, announced his resignation Saturday. to accept the superintendent cy of the schools of Elmira, N. Y.
 After a Heated Discussion the Epis- cepal church of North Carolina adopted an amendment to the consti- tuition giving women the right to vote on church questions.
 The Philadelphia School Board abol- ished secret fraternities in the schools. There is a strong rebellion of the boys, who declare they will withdraw from athletics and compete as individuals.
 E. W.. Ross, theatrical manager of New York, was sent to jail for three months for staging an immoral dance at an entertainment of the Woodmen of America.
 The Pressmen Employed by the At lanta Georgian and the San Francisco Bulletin went o nStrIke Saturday in ] sympathy with the striking pressmen in Chicago and those of other Hearst papers.
 Requests of $5o,ooo Each to the New York postgraduate hospital and the Montreal general hospital are contain ed in the will of John Torrance Van neck. who died at Cannes, France, on February 22 last.
 OOtSUCi fROOSCNGlN O1dTdShGtlZSS dS d ''tomfoop proposition the resolution of k Representative Clayton, which propos- : es to fix the presidential term at six , years and limit each president to one T term only.
 Theodore Shonts, President of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, l announced yesterday that an increase of ten cents a day for employees of all grades in the service two years goes into effect at once.
 E. F. Brown, Former President of the Ellinger Banking Co.,, at La Grange, Tex. was found guilty of re- 6 ceiving deposits into an insolvent in-
 stitution and was sentenced to five n years imprisonment.
 An Agreement Has Been Reached by
 the majority and minority members of = the special committee Investigating the n election of Senator Lorimer of Illinois = and both reports will be filed in the g senate Monday, Moy 20. 0 The Trustees of the Montefiore - Congregation of the Bronx have de- h cided to dedicate a window in their a temple to the memory of Mr. and It Mrs. Isador Straus, who went down
 Wlth the Iltanlc.
 n Negro Couple who were accused = of arson in their own apartments il
 New York, were defended by Miss
 S. Valentine, a woman lawyer, whC
 succeeded in obtaining a verdict oi 1 not guilty.
 Chief of Police Bimson of Paterson
 N. J.. issued an order Saturday prohib-
 iting the Industrial Workers of tn,
 world from holding meeting in any j. part of the city, and instructing thu )e police to disperse them should any at = tempt be made to violate the order. l. In Reply to the Demand of the fin n ishing department employees for an in = crease in wages, the J. and P. Coat 10 Thread company at Pawtucket, R. L g posted notices Saturday announcing
 10 per cent. raise for the workers il le that part of the plant n Soap" Lockett, a Negro Fireman on the Georgia Midland railway Id plunged head first from the pilot bean
 to save a white child which had TUT 10 on the tracks. Lockett rolled off O. 10 the track with the child in time tC ,e escape.
 u, The Liberal and Labor Papers il at London condemn the sentence of Ton C- Mann, the leader. who was sentenced
 to jail for trying to influence troops te not to fire on strikers. The paperi II declare it prohibits freedom O. 10 speech.
 le Miss Dora Kern, the intrepid noun m tain climber, who was stormbound or s- Mount Blackburn. the highest peak il T. Alaska, while at an altitude of 12,0O 10 feet, is safe in Kennecott, Alaska, ant e. is on her way back to her home il II Philadelphia.
 The Torch Was Applied to tar barrel
 stacked against the old wooden war
 ship Pensacola. at San Francisco, am ze the hulk which withstood the Confed " crate batteries at New Orleans an' e- Mobile bay, and carried the flag o D. Captain George Dewey in the Medit es erranean went up in flames. 1t In Response to Numerous complaint d that gambling. illegal liquor selling an a- other violations of the law are bein Ill carried on almost openly in the town Q D North Providence, Gov. Aram J. Poth
 fer declared Saturday that he would a
 once take drastic measures to ''eleai
 up the town.'
 as - in Danbury- Patrick II. Connolley 0 |? this city. commissioner of the Con
 necticut bureau of labor statistics
 accepted an invitation by Rev. Nicho 7s las Coleman. formerly of Danbury, [ of deliver an address in St. John's ehurc 55 ill Stamford Sunday evening, unde in the auspices of the Holy Name so lg eiety of the church. His subject wa sd the work of the department of Whic