Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-05

Mayor Gaynor surprised his friends and political enemies alike yesterday by sailing for Europe.
 Caleb Wood of Danbury, was chosen president of the Tenth Volunteers 1t its reunion yesterday at New Haven.
 The will of Charles B.. Wooster gives the town of Seymour $100,000 for the library.
 A movement has been started in Chi cago for d fund to erect memorial to Eugene Field, the children's poet
 The National Association of Letter carriers yesterday chose Omaha, Neb., as the site of their convention in 1915.
 A Iaborer was killed and IS persons injured when a Milawaukee freight train struck work train at Hopkins, Minn.
 Noah D. Rittenour, an aid to General "StonewaIl' Jackson during the Civil War, is dead at Alexandria, Va. at the age of 68.
 Prisoners of the Federal penitentiary att LeaVenWorth, Kan, aided in saving the town of Lansing, Kan, from destruction by fire.
 
 Fire yesterday destroyed the plant of the Buckeye Window Glass Company, at Columbus, Ohio, entailing a loss estimated at $150,000.
 Thirty young graduates of the Lane Technical high school of Chicago, have been appointed t,bchers of manual training in Porto Rico.
 Four hundred and twenty station agents employed by the Boston x Maine Railroad have been granted a wage increase of 7 per cent.
 Alvin Anderson. aged 20, hunting for ducks in a canoe, at Cromwell, Conn.,, yesterday was accidentally killed by his brother, Emil, aged r.
 Peter Pan, the racing horse, was sold to Harry Payne Whitney for S3S,o0O at the sale of the stables of the late James R. Keene, in New York.
 Mrs. H. Humphreys, an American woman, was ordered from her hotel in Berlin, because she threw a bouquet of flowers at Emperor William from her apartment.
 William Beidleman died at Harris burg, Pa, yesterday after a fast of 56 days during which time he ate two small pieces of toast, MT. Beidleman was close to 96.
 Two gambling machines, seized by the Gutten, N. J.. authorities, were found to be rigged with rubber bands so that the odds against the player were at least 9 to l.
 Shortening of educational courses from one to three years is advocated by President Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago in an article on Economy in education".
 Despite the efforts of two men to save him, Peter McGovern. a Iaborer, 49 years old, was drowned in the Prov idence River at Providence yesterday. McGovern fell off a wharf
 Lucy Beach, 20 years old, and Law renee Blakeman, aged 19, college mates rode to their deaths in an automobile through an open draw in the river bridge at St. Joseph, Mich.
 Walter Severance, principal of the LOckport (N. Y) High School, ex- pelled 100 pupils who were members of secret fraternities in accordance with the resolution recently passed.
 Mrs. Ida Bartel and Miss File Lur- kins, milliners of St. Joseph, Mo, were fined $250 and $15O respectively, by Judge Holt in New York City for smuggling goods aggregating $8$3.
 In his usual health, Thomas A. Edi- son, accompanied by his wife, son and daughter, entered a touring car at Lowell. Mass, yesterday and proceeded on their way to Lake Sunapee N. II.
 The Federation of Pullman Conduc- tors of America and the Federation of Pullman POrters of America were in corporated at Chicago to unionize the 20 900 Pullman conductors and pOrters in this country.
 George r. Pfeiffer, of Milwaukee, was elected president and San Francisco selected as the 1915 convention city at the closing session of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks at Indianapolis, yesterday.
 Word came from London yesterday of the death there from appendicitis, of Miss Minnie C. D. Hickey, aged 29 of Stamford Conn. who was in vsude- vile with her sister, under the name of the Stsndish Sisters.
 The wife and two year old son of Rasnnus Peterson of Fremont Neb. were murdered in their home Wednes- day night, the bodies being found by in the morning. The au- thorities are searching for Peterson.
 The high cost of living will be higher as a result of the action of the National Farmers union at Salina, Kas., yester- day in fixing the price at which mem bers will sell this years crop of cotton at 15c a pound. The present price is approximately twelve cents,
 A suit in equity to obtain from the federal court an injunction under the Sherman law against the .so-ca1led "Jewelry combine to curb the acttvi- ties of the middle man or jobber. was prepared for filing yesterday by United States District Attorney Marshall
 Regulations to govern the grant of free smokes" to employees of cigar factories were issued yesterday by Secretary McAdoo. The cigars, which are to be exempted from taxation un- not exceed 21 a week, for each indi- vidual.
 An effort is to be made to free Mrs Kate Edwards, who has been in the Berks county (Pa.) jail for 12 years under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, John Edwards, Four have failed to set 8 day for her execution, She was sentenced to death in 1901.
 En1 Pioyess Of the Boston & Maine 1 in former years favored ~!tn exemption from payment of toll on the bridge ever the river from Port sniotth 1