Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-27
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 Allan A. Ryan is improving rapidly.
 Admiral Dewey celebrated his 18th birthday yesterday.
 Two Students at Wesleyan CW. Va.) college have been expelled for smoking cigarettes.
 Thieves Have Plundered the Hart ford city park ponds of all their geese and about 90 ducks
 There Has Been a Remarkable ac- tivity by small coin counterfeiters during the past few weeks,
 William E. Hughes, postmaster of Fulton, \. Y, and owner and editor of the Fulton Times. died. aged 59.
 Mrs. Arthur Cheney of Boston pre- sented her residence. valued at $50,- 900, to the Girls Friendly society at Manchester, Conn.
 Presents Amounting to $5oo,00o were distributed among the 5000 employees of the John B. Stetson hat factory at Philadelphia.
 Captain Ledhetter, graduate of the Annapolis naval academy. has been l connected with the Turkish navy for | the last ten years.
 The First Woman Suffrage petition l for consideration by the next Massa- chusetts legislature Was received at the state house yesterday.
 Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson, a pioneer who had many thrilling experiences | during the early history of Kansas, died at Leavenworth, Kas., yesterday, aged S7 years.
 The First Recorded Death of wire l less operator on duty took place when man named Mueller touched a high voltage wire at Norddeich, near Ser lin, Germany.
 While Neghbors Were attempting to break down the kitchen door. Mrs Hannah Flor, aged g. was burned to death in her home at Watertown Mass, yesterday.
 For the First Time in history a wireless Christmas greeting was We'd nesday night flashed from the Mare Island navy yard on the Pacific coast to Washington.
 James Conway, an Official of the United Steam Filters and Helpers un- ion local No. 520, of Chicago, was shot and killed yesterday by Thomas Freer, secretary of the organization.
 Ralph E. Day, g clerk in the treas ury at Washington, may lose his sgh from an explosion of fashlight powder while preparing to photograph hi, children grouped about their Christ mas tree.
 Two Thousand Shop Employees O the National Railway of Mexico wen on strike yesterday because of the re fusal of the management to grant al eight hour day and an increase il wages.
 Boarding House Keepers all ovei the country may celebrate for the ex press companies have been compelled by the government through the agenc! of the parcels post to cut down thu rate on prunes.
 Miss Ellen Horgan, New Yorl department store "girl' 104 years old who was dusting counters at the stOri every morning up to a few days ago died from bronchitis in her lonely lit | tle flat Wednesday
 Francis Chambers, for 21 Year prior to 1894 assistant clerk of tn superior court for Hartford county ant one of the oldest members of tn Hartford county bar, died at his hom in Hartford yesterday.
 "Hitchy Koo," "Everybodys Doin' It
 and When I Get You Alone Tonight
 are mot in keeping with the ideals o
 the Washington, D. C., Y. NJ. c. A. and so members are barred from play
 ing or singing them. The Clerical Force of Factory a New Brunswick, N. J.. agreed to pay , cent for every swear word during tn year. When the box was opened ' contained $4.9S. Someone then sai Damn twice to make it $5 l The Four Members of the family c Edward H. Miller. returning hom from a Christmas celebration, wer killed yesterday by being struck b the Illinois Central Panama limite l four miles south of Champaign, III. According to the Costs taxed up 1 the superior court clerks book it cos
 the state about S2,700 for the tris
 of Louis Saxon. who is at the stat
 prison under sentence of death fC killing his common law wife on No
 27.
 With the Police said to be almo,
 powerless to stop it, automobile the I has become so general in New Yor |, that the total value of automobil , property stolen in the city during th past five years Is estimated at mol a than s1,000,o00.
 n Never Before Was There So CreG 8 an increase in the salmon industry
 Alaska, a total of S7 canneries bein v in operation against GA the year bt s fore. There were 14,S00 persons CT . gagged in the work, 19 per cent. mol 0 than in 1911.
 |, The United States Steel Corporatio = pursuant to it's profit sharing plan 1T
 augurated in 1903, will next mont }. offer to it's employees the privilege d subscribing to preferred and commc }. shares on the basis of s109 for the prt n ferred and s66 for the common. n An Explosion in the Park opposi e the Tivoli hotel. which occurred whi 5 President Taft was attending a dant :, given in his honor at the Nation
 theatre at Panama. is reported to hay
 been the outgrowth of business rivall
 between two merchants in the vicil 5. ity.
 Il Ninety five Government Witness g invaded the federal building at Por = land. Ore, yesterday at the trial II A. J. Biehl and II. H. Humphre d charged with using the mails to d. e | fraud in r-ifh tha CoItsr,7 h