Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-17

mlltee or the Unlteu Improvement aS- sociation.
 David L. Burnett, one of the five men who founded the Knights of Pythias, died suddenly at Washington late Sunday night of heart disease, aged 75 years.
 The Presence of Several Cases of 1 scarlet fever among pupils Of Morris street school in Danbury led to the closing of the school until after the l Christmas recess,
 Frank F. Davis of Gloucester, R. l., l was nominated for speaker of the 1 house at the caucus of the republican | members of the incoming general as- sembly yesterday.
 Seven Students of New York High l school were found during a recent test l in arithmetic who could not add one and one, declares Prof. Louis Elan of | Columbia university.
 Anthony Baron of Mount Carbon, l Pa, lost his nose when he kissed a | girl. James Currie and David Dando, jealous suitors, witnessed the oscula- 1 tion and attacked him.
 President Taft Yesterday announced through Secretary Hilles that the post of ambassador to Great Britain made
 vacant by the death of Whitelaw Reid
 will not be filled by him. i Matteo Dell -'omo, young Italian, I convicted of triple murder committed | in Brooklyn, paid the penalty of death
 in the electric chair at Sing Sing
 prison yesterday morning.
 Johns Hopkins University's Tuition
 fee will be raised next term. In the
 last twenty years nearly every other
 big college has raised it's tuition fees
 excepting Yale and Harvard President Taft Yesterday directed
 Secretary Wilson to appoint Dr. Carl
 Alsberg, a chemist in the agricultural
 department, chief of the bureau ot
 chemistry to succeed Dr. Harvey W
 Wiley.
 Many of the Familiar Christmas
 decorations which have been used ir
 New York for generations will disap.
 pear this year as the result of de-
 cision by the New York board of un-
 derwriters.
 Whether or Not Congress will in. vestigate the New York, New Haver and Hartford railroads alleged mo. nopoly of transportation facilities 1T
 New England will be determined be. , fore Thursday.
 A Joint Resolution proposing a con.
 stitutional amendment to make repre-. sentatives in congress elective for foul , years instead of two was introduced ) yesterday by Representative DeFor
 rest of New York.
 ], James Burns, captured by trainmer and lodged in jail at Red Cliff, Col.
 under charges of holding up the Den.
 yer and Rio Grande station agent a
 Pando Saturday night and killing W A. Maxfield, laborer, has confessed.
 Several Hundred Weavers employed I in the Mohawk valley and steam cot
 ton mills in Utica, N. r.. quit worl yesterday. Four weavers in one of tn, } mills who have been employed fo years are not members of the union , A Hon Belonging to Gilbert Brow, , of Taxrytown, N. r, hes been layinJ eggs in her masters icehouse for som [ time, thus forming a productive ant cold storage plant in the same place 3 Brown found 72 well preserved eggs il ) the house.
 : Five Men, Comprising the crew o 3 the gasoline fishing boat Madonna were rescued by the revenue cutie
 Androscoggin yesterday when tn . Madonna was sunk in a collision of : Gloucester with the Margaret T., an
 other fishing craft.
 r Coroner John PheIan said yesterda 5 that he intended to make an exhaust 5 i've investigation of the sale and use o f the drug heroin in Bridgeport, with 3 view to the recommendation of cit l and state laws regulating it's sale an
 making 1t more difficult to obtain tn drug.
 /. Seizure of the Property of the Ney
 York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
 road company and its condemnatio
 and purchase by the government ar '' proposed in resolution introduced i
 the house yesterday by Representativ
 Victor L. Berger, the socialist membe
 from Wisconsin.
 4 Plea of Guilty to a charge of talk ing $12,090 from Frank E. Paige c
 6ObtOH was ollLSTcu yeSLeIudy Dy EQ = ward H. Hosford, former treasurer c . the James Donovan Slipper company of Everett. Hosford is at liberty un
 der $5,000 bonds until sentence 1 passed upon him. Il Postmaster General Hitchcock yes T terday ordered the indefinite post 6 ponement of the annual dead letter sale which was to have begun ther, :, Washington merchants have proteste T vigorously that the sale just befor Christmas caused them to lose con e | siderable trade in gifts. Official Returns of the New YorI T New Haven and Hartford Raffroa I company for the football traffic of tn last Yale Harvard football game C
 New Haven show total of 5z.7gs pas
 sengers carried, counting excursio
 tickets as double fares. This is s.Sf e passengers in excess of the nunbs carried i've years ago