Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-23

The Brockton, Mass, Board of as- sessors yesterday announced the 1913 tax rate as $22.10 on thousand, the highest figure in decade
 One of the largest wireless stations in the world will be established at the United States Naval Training Station at Lake Bluff, near Chicago.
 Mrs. Julia Farr, aged 27, of Auburn, Me, committed suicide by hanging in the stable of her father, Joel Patterson, yesterday, as the result of a nervous disorder.
 For the first time in many years, not single strike is in progress against any member of the Building Chicago.
 The New York n1ayoraIty election may find Edward E. Mccall, chairman of the Public Service Commission, the Tammany candidate against John Pur- roy Mitchell.
 Lewis Hornblower, son of w. B. Hornblower New York lawyer and f1nancier, died at Johnson City, Tenn, yesterday from pistol wound in f1icted Tuesday night.
 
 The government has opened cru sade to crush pools, bookmaking and all other forms of gambling in all gov ernment departments, by the arrest of six navy yard employees.
 Kenneth, aged f5 and son of Leslie w. Jordan of Ellsworth, Me, was drowned yesterday while bathing in Green Lake where he had gone with 8 picnic party from the Baptist Sunday school
 An additional dividend of 121-2 per cent. will be paid on Monday by the defunct Atlantic National Bank of Providence, R. I. A dividend of 25 per cent was paid to depositors several weeks ago.
 WrensfulIy convicted on perjured testimony, Dr. Ethelbert Duncanson 8 graduate of the University of Michigan is suing four of his neighbors in Po- mona, Cal, for $100,000 damages. Senator Jones of Washington has of- fered a bill setting aside space in the proposed plaza between the Capi- tol and the Union Station at Washing ton solely for raising stones and me- mor1alS to women.
 
 The drought in Kansas and its ef- fects have been exaggerated according to a report made Friday by the tax l commission of Kansas. Only corn, says the report, was harmed, and there is a bumper of wheat output.
 Rev. John c. erodt, pastor of the Third United Presbyterian church at St. Louis, was arrested yesterday on h0 oh of i., ege from 15 to IT, that he bought beer for them and took them to a disorder " resort.
 After nearly month of high tenn | rerature which broiled Kansas and parts of Missouri and Oklahoma and broke all records for intensity and du- ration,i the heat wave throughout the three states was broken effectuaily yesterday.
 Representative Clark of Florida in- troduced a resolution yesterday di- recting Secretary Bryan to advise the House whether any European Asiatic or other governments were seeking to colonize any portion of the Western l hemisphere.
 1 ForcibIy ejected from Grace Hospita at Boston, which he had refused tc l IedNt DeCdu uSS OuIIHS d treatment Ol seventeen months he had not beer made whole, Thomas Walsh, a cripple 1 will be committed to the state hospita l at Tewksbury, Mass.
 1 Fearing discovery of their clandes l tine love by the woman's husband after two weeks of secret meetings, Mrs Hazel Stewart, 2S. and Leroy Gross, 22 l divided six ounces of poison betweer them and then lay down to die in one another's arms in Cross room at In. dianapolis. Both are dead.
 Mrs Clara MeIcher, the viennes, laundress who accused Prince Stanis. ] laus Sulkowski of Austria, of havins ] induced her to come to this country for immoral purposes, was taken into custody at Los Angeles yesterday bJ inspectors of immigration. PasquaIe Siriec and James Mahon both of New York, were locked up 1T default of S1o,000 bail each, yesterday for grand Jury action on charges o1 violating the Mann act in taking Il year old Elizabeth Ryan to Bridgeport Conn, for immoral purposes.
 Herbert E. Miles of Racine, Wis. 1 testified to the senate lobby committed yesterday that acting for the Tariff 1 Association he employed former Repre- i SenldllVe James E. watson at a salary l of $250 week to work for a tariff board bill in Congress in 1909.
 Conrad Churchill, an aged man. fel in the gutter when running from a tirt at the Farmers Seed Company store 1 at Newark, N J., yesterday. As ht lay helpless, face down water poured l uEon the fire flowed out into the gutter and submerged him. He was drowned |
 Breaking his rule of silence Governor Sulzer assuredea delegation of Hebrew 1 sympat thizers al the executive chamber l yesterday that when my story is toIC and it will be told-there will be nothing in my private life or public 1 career of which 1 will have anything tC be ashamed"
 | After he had publicly renounced l1is allegiance to the Industrial Workers o1 the World and apologized for incend- iary utterances in his speeches as ar organizer for that body Martin ] Phelan was given sentence of s1oc fine and 90 days workhouse inprigon. ment at Columbus. Ohio, yesterday.