Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-18

On April 26, All Business Activity | in Trenton, N. J.. will cease, school children will have that day off and manufacturing plants will close so that the city can be cleaned up.
 An Appeal on Behalf of the Red cross fer funds to aid the flood suf- Ierers in the Mississippi valley, was made to the public yesterday by Pres ident Taft.
 Seventy five Per Cent of the soft coal miners voted in favor of the pro- posed new wage agreement 1t was stated yesterday at the offices of the United Mine Workers of America.
 Charles Bruno, 67 Years Old, mil millionaire manufacturer of musical in struments, shot himself in the head yesterday at his office in New York and died instantly.
 A Letter from the Secretary of the navy to Mayor P. J. Boyle of New port says that the Atlantic fleet will pc passed on Narragansett bay from May l to November 1.
 Announcement is Made of the ap- polntment of Dr. E. W. Drake of the University of Illinois to the faculty of Wesleyan university. He will teach ethics and English Bible.
 The Campaign Made at the recent primaries in New York city in behalf of delegates favorable to the nomina- ton of Colonel Roosevelt as presi dent, cost $59, 126.75.
 The cOnstitutonality of the Met ropohtan park commission of Rhode Island was upheld by the supreme court in an opinion rendered to Gov ernor Pothier yesterday.
 Hugh J, Chisholm of Portland, Me. was elected a director of the Maine Central railroad to fill the vacancy caused by the death of former Gov John F. H1u.
 For Running Down a Horse with 2 record of PIP. Jacob Solar. a West aoboken autoist, must pay s10O0 tC F. A. Campbell. 99S First avenue Manhattan, Jersey supreme cotr jury says.
 Despite Opposition by Various Board. of trade, the house committee on aerl culture yesterday voted to make ia. Vorable reports on Bills designed tC end gambling in futures on cotton anC grain.
 Former Representative charle. Merriam died at his home in Eas Hartford yesterday afternoon, follow. ing an operation. He was postmaste e of East Hartford for twelve years. H, was 55 years old.
 Meyer Blank, 2s Years Old, shot ant killed his mother-in-laW. Mrs. Fsthe.
 Vasserman, seriously injured his wifi with a bullet and then ended his owl life yesterday at the home of his wife, parents in Philadelphia.
 William F. Harity, former chairman or the democratic national committee , and once powerful in national demo cratic councils, died yesterday at hi home In Overbrook. a suburb of Phil adelphia.
 The Ohio Constitutional Conventio, yesterday adopted, 69 to 84 Deieeat Pierce's proposal abolishing capita punishment. The proposal containe, ! an amendment providing life impris , enment for first degree murder. Judge z. T. Vain of Brooklyn sDen
 his 79th birthday in Cleveland lookinj for coffin, but finding the cost O dying had gone up as well as the cos of living he refused to pay the price asked.
 When Mrs. Kate Hammersohnidt 0 Brooklyn married John Becht. former ly her brother-in-law, four sons an f a married daughter of Becht and eigh children of tbe bride attended the cer emony,
 } Miss Florence Brown, witness i
 a New York murder case, refused f , answer questions put to her by wo man lawyer, saying: That's a io
 for man: you ought to be hom
 washing dishes
 Benjamin PampselI, 24 years eic ' John Goeller, 2S, and Clarence Fland ing, 22, of Buffalo. are in Dunl1irk \ r., en route upon a walking trip t
 San Francisco, which they expect |
 reach by August 1,
 The Body of the 2oth Victim of tn , mysterious Jack the Ripper" of At ! lanta, Ga, vas found floating dow : the ChattahoOchee river. The bod was that of pretty young octoroor 3 and badly mutilated
 < It Has Beer, Definitely Settled tha s John DalZelf, congressman from tE a Phirtieth Pennsylvania district, ha l been defeated for -enominatiOn by A a Clyde Kelly, a progressive in the las . legislature.
 A Resolution Expressing the pro
 found sympathy of the Rhode Isian
 general assembly for the relatives an : friends of those who were lost O
 the Titanic, was passed by the senat ? yesterday.
 Consul General A. shankIin, wh has been in Washington for the las 7 four weeks, was eXonerated from tn e charges made against him by Ambas . sador H. L. Wilson and was ordere 0 by President Taft to hurry back t r Mexico City.
 , Gov. Woodrow Wiisen'e Suitcase l which was stolen from his rooms i . a Chicago hotel ten days ago, wa found as the result of an anonymou telephone message that it could b found in areaWay between St. Mary
 church and the parish house. l. Julia c. Lathrep of Chicago, an as r seeiate of Jane Addams in the wor t at Hull house, member of the Iii | neis board of charity, and a gradual . and trustee of Nassar college. wa e yesterday appointed by President Tai e as chief of the new children's burea