Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-27


 Thieves Are Being Shot Daily in Canton, China, and the government is taking vigorous measures to suppress river pirates.
 Sinai Temple, After Being Under a process of development for 51 years, has been completed in Chicago at cost of S5OO,O0O.
 An Epidemic of DueIing Prevails in Paris. In an encounter between Leon Daudet and Pierre Mortier, journalists, the latter was wounded
 The Regular Quarterly Dividend of the Calumet and Hecla Mining com pany was increased yesterday from s6, paid three months ago, to SS.
 Senator Reed of Missouri yesterday introduced his resolution for an inves- tigation of the election of Senator Henry A. Dupont of Delaware.
 From 10 to 21 Per Cent. is Added to the cost of building naval vessels by application of the eight-hour law as recently amended and construed.
 Harvard College Receives $1o,o0o and the Harvard Divinity school S5O00 un- der the will of the late Rev. Dr. Ed ward H. Hall of Cambridge, Mass.
 Senator Cummins of Iowa in a speech yesterday advocated general pension legislation, even though it added many millions to the regular appropriations
 Three New York Policemen Are Wit nesses to the accuracy of the an- q rp4 iP bl e adopted the Hudson river as his abode.
 Tie Majority of the Anthracite Coal mine operators are said to believe that the miners will strike, as the operators will refuse to grant any of their de4 mands.
 President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt have been invited to attend the na- tional convention of the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Engineers to be held at Harrisburg, Pa, in May. Fire in the Cabin of the Presidential yacht Mayflower caused great excite ment at the Washington navy yard yesterday, but was eXtinguished before | serious damage was done. Governor Johnson of California says that now Colonel Roosevelt has come out in the open for the presidential ! nomination, thousands of new admirers will join the coloneTs friends.
 Former Representative Charles E. LittlefieId of Maine was awarded $20,- 900 yesterday by the supreme court for 1 his services as special master in the Virginia Vest Virginia debt case. 
 Jewellers in the Maiden Lane Dis trict of New York report that the wave | of holdups and robberics in New York city has caused a great demand for paste gems and imitation jewelry.
 Representative Berger of Wisconsin, after call at the White House yes- terday, said that President Taft has promised him to take up with Attor- ney General Wickersham the Law renee, Mass.H strike.
 Four Boy Bandits Who Held Up a fifth boy at Fairfield and robbed him of three cents and a collar button were i each fined S1 and costs in justice court yesterday and placed on proba- 1 tion for six months.
 The Republic Iron and Steel Com l pany, owing to the existing condition | of business, tariff uncertainties and political agitation" has passed the usual quarterly dividend of 1 S-4 per cent. on Its preferred stock.
 Realizing the Need of a Stronger patrol on the Mexican border in Ari- zona, the war department yesterday | ordered two companies of the Fourth 1 cavalry to Douglas and one company | to Nogales, from San Antonio.
 The Recent Report That There Was a mutiny among the enlisted men on l board the battleship Vermont against l inoculation with typhoid prophylactic i yesterday was made the subject of an official denial by the navy depart | ment
 A Strike of the WeaVers in the Bea 1 con mill at New Bedford, Mass, yes terday resulted in the shutting down of | the plant. The weavers, numbering l about 100. had demanded a 10 per cent. l increase in wages and the mill officials had refused.
 Walter Peck Was Fined $500 in the superior court at Manchester, N.NH, l yesterday and given a suspended sen 1 tence of one year in jail under an in- dictment for manslaughter in causing the death of Charles II. Corey, whom ] he ran down with his auto
 Ten Thousand Women and Girls members of the Chicago Womens l Trade Union league, have designated this as self-denial week, Their purpose is to raise a campaign fund to assist other working girls U organize unions and enforce union conditions. w. J. Ferguson, a Veteran Actor who has been i'll with blood poisoning at an Albany, N. r., hospital. left fo1 Boston yesterday to reioin his com | pany. Mir. Ferguson was in the cast | at Fords theater on the night of the assassination of President Lincoln.
 An Investigation to Determine | whether there is a money trust in the United States operating through or in connection with the national banks was ordered by the house by vote of | 270 60 8. Congressmen Higgins, Tilson | and Henry voted with the minority.
 w. S. Stone, Grand Chief of the l Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers yesterday notified the general mana . ] gers of the various railroads concerned that he would confer with them in New York on March 14 regarding the demands made upon them by the en- gineers.
 Representative Henry, Chairman of the house committee on rules. an nounced yesterday that his committee would act this week on the Berger resolution for an investigation of labor conditions among textile workers ot the country occasioned by the Law renee strike.