Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

hoSle wren Of that village, who dis appeared on Tuesday evening.
 James Jefferson, who was to have been hanged at Columbus, Ga, yes terday morning committed suicide in his cell early today by taking poison.
 EVander Childs, principal of a school in New York. dropped dead at his desk from heart failure. MT. ChiIds had been teacher for more than 50 years.
 Congressman Nathan Frank was made owner of the St. Louis Star by an order of the federal court accept ing his offer of S4O,O0O for the equity of E. G. Lewis
 Officials of the Central Passenger as- sociation reaffirmed their decision to grant nothing less than two cents a mile for convention fares during the coming summer.
 In 1911 There Were SIP Bull Fights in Spain. Seven million spectators at tended Ten bull fighters were killed and 166 injured; 4,394 bulls and 5,61S horses were killed.
 Traffic Policemen in New York de-
 
 1 car which is so popular with the pas sengers does not permit of passage room between tracks.
 Edward M. Blake, formerly street | commissioner of South Norwalk and l keeper of the almshouse, dropped dead | yesterday morning while superintend- | ing some road work.
 l
 Though There is No Typhoid fever at any of the naval stations in New | port R. l., the officers and enlisted men are being inoeulated with serum against the disease.
 A Dose of Horse Medicine taken by mistake caused the death at Esmond R. L, of Ferdinand Thornton. The victim was a sewing machine agent, and was 57 years old.
 Jacob Russell, said to have esta,b- lished the first ice cream manufactur- ing plant in the United States at Bal timore, in 1851, is dead at his home at Washington, 94 years old.
 w. A. Laihrop, President of the Le- high Ccal & Navigation Co.,, died at a hospital at Wilkes Barre, yesterday, following an operation for appendici- tis. He was 54 years old.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock au- thorizes a formal statement denying emphatically that he has any inten- tion of resigning as a member of President Tafts cabinet"
 Secretary of War stimson will soon begin distributing to the National guard of the country the new auto- matic pistol adopted for the regular army to displace the revolver.
 Mrs. Genevisvs Nicodemus, on trial at New York for the last three weeks for the murder of her husband, was acquitted by the jury on the ground that she was insane at the time.
 Funds Are Being Raised in Okla homa City to erect a monument over the grave of General Stan Waite, one of the noted Cherokee generals in the southern army in the civil war.
 In Aberdeen, Wash, Women Strike
 sympathizers went to the woods and
 cut five hundred switches which they
 declared they would lay on the backs
 of men who go to work in the saw
 mills.
 Three Shots Were Fired at Henry Harvey, a Warren, N. H., merchant by two men who had demanded mon-
 ey of him at a lonely spot two miles south of that village late Thursday
 night.
 The Clause Compelling Railroad
 companies to furnish free passes to
 members Of the state legislature was missing when the public utilities bill
 was passed by the Rhode Island house
 yesterday.
 : Opium Valued at $4o,ooo Was Seize, 5 in San Francisco. This is all tha ] could be found of $7000, ,000 of opium il the city when the law prohibiting it! importation went into effect thre, years ago.
 Radical Reductions in Freight Rate, ' on wool, both in sacks and in bales 3 transported from western points of or igin to eastern destinations, were pre- Ecribed yesterday by the interstat, ) commerce commission. Access to the Muster Rolls and oth,
 CT military organization records or . file in the war department, will b, s granted in the future, under certaia1 ? restrictions, to historians and repre- s sentatives of historical societies. < Six Years Imprisonment in the stat f prison is the penalty which Josepl
 Girard will pay for stealing SIPS wortl y of clothing from a Hallowell. Me . store and s125 in money from the rail road station at Waterville Me.
 4 Conference Was Held This Wee ! between District Attorney PeIletier an, : William A. Morse, counsel for Clar . ence V. T. RichesOn, who is under sen e tence to be electrOcuted in the weel ? beginning May 19 for the murder o ] Avis Linneu.
 T The Bodies of L. Cannon of Harris
 burg, Pa, and L. c. GrOce of Calves
 ton arrived at Panama from Nicaragua
 Cannon and Groce were put to deatl V by order of President Zelaya in 190g : after they had been captured with tn l revolutionists.
 l Three Trainn4en Were Injured, tw a seriously. in a head-on collision be t tween an express train bound iron l Montreal to Portland, and a freigh l. train west bound on the Grand Trunl railway near WenlOck, Vt, yesterday
 No passengers were hurt.
 Three Students of Valparaiso, ind 6 university. swept down on the bushes . section of that city late Thursda, 0 night, and smashed windows, fired re e volyers, broke up a vaudeville per O fOru1anpa and defipd thp noIira an