Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-24

fire. Loss, $10o,0oo.
 Eric Rcrnstormer, of Broad Channel l L. l., caught an angler ip Rockaway l Inlet and found a ladies gold watch in- side.
 The main section of the plant of the i West Side Lumber company at Dayton. l Ohio, was burned with an approximate loss of s5,0e0.
 Glenn H. Martin, the aviator, flew from Muskegon. Mich, to Chicago, a distance of 225 miles, in six hours and five minutes.
 Colonel R. Tyler Bennett, Confed- crate army officer, jurist and member of Congress, is dead at Wadesboro, N. C., aged 75 years.
 William H. Moody, former United States Supreme Court justice, i'll at Haverhill, Mass for two years, is said to be recovering.
 Judge Fehiandt of Madison, Wis. ruled that motion picture houses may remain open on Sundays if pictures of religious nature are shown.
 In fire yesterday, which destroyed the home of George Renick, in the village of Hall, N. Y, Mrs. Anna Hew- son, aged S7 was burned to death.
 Oscar R. Wish, appointed postmaster of Portland, Me, yesterday Is treas urer and general manager of the Daily Eastern Argus, one of the oldest news papers in Maine. /
 District Attorney Samuel p. Rotan of Philadelphia city said yesterday that he would investigate the raising of the price of anthracite coal by retail dealers in Philadelphia.
 The report that one of Secretary Daniels sons was on the battleship Illinois on which the naval academy is taking it's annual cruise. was denied by the Navy Department.
 L. w. Dutro, postmaster of Memphis until few months ago, was drowned in the Mississippi river while attempt
 ing to rescue Mrs. Frankie Bradford Gwynne of Memphis from drowning.
 Charles Sumner HamIin of Boston has been selected as assistant secre- tary of the treasury in charge of the customs service, to succeed James F. Curtis, who will retire on August 1. Rumors, started apparently from nothing, caused a run yesterday on the Kenwood Trust and Savings Bank. N[ EO Os During the day the bank paid out about $1o0,ooo.
 J. C. Russell, once 8 candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, on the prohi- bition ticket, arraigIed on a charge of horse stealing, yesterday pleaded. guilty. He was sentenced to an in determinate term in state prison. Living for more than 4s hours with his neck broken was the remarkable case e Edward H. Elwood, aged 25, following an operation to determine exactly the extent of his injuries. Herschei Pierce, 17 years old, con- fessed to stealing almost $22,000 from Wells Fargo express chest in the railroad station at Lake Charles La,
 pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment Hersey Mitchell, a negro, was hang ed in the Jail yard at Skarke, Fla yesterday for the murder of another negro. After his body had been placed in a coffin Mitchell, whose neck had not been broken, revived and lived three hours.
 How some of his Mexican captors used leaves in his Bible for cigarette ! | Dallas, Texas, who reached home yes terday after being a, prisoner of Con l stitutionalists in Mexico from May IS
 until July 19.
 ! Harry Olsen, whose dissemination of 1 typhoid bacillus has resulted in the death of eighteen of his fellow sea- men. is to be turned out of the Federal Marine Hospital at San Francisco be- cause the state of California won't pay 1 his board bill.
 Mrs, Adeia Missikaitis, president of
 the Lithuanian Women's Club, of Chicago, yesterday had the honor of l being the first woman in Cook county 1 to take out naturalization papers since the limited woman suffrage law went | into effect in Illinois.
 Secretary Houston announced yes- 1 terday that hereafter the department 1 of agriculture would send a weekly l letter to its 35,000 township and 2,8o0
 county correspondents of the depart
 ment giving the latest agricultural in- 1 formation of value tc the farmer | In an early morning automobile
 accident yesterday Richard Waite 19 years old son of Manuel Waite, a restaurant keeper of Taunton, Mass,
 was killed and Walter Shumway, son
 of a mill superintendent was badly in | jured The young men were returning 1 from Pawtucket
 Tn connection. with the disappear
 ance from New Haven, of Robert Keech, for many years cashier at the
 offices of the Connecticut company,
 officials of that corporation yesterday
 admitted that they are Investigating a discrepancy in his accounts of about
 $15,0o0, and have men looking for him.
 The planting of 5,o00,ooo acres of ] New England land with timber would
 easily yield an annual revenue of $10,-
 100000 and would produce all the tim i Der required by the people of that sec tfon, said Dr. B. B. Fernow, dean of 1 the Forest School of the University of l Toronto, in an address at the forestry
 conference at Sunapee, N. H., yester- | day.
 1 Representatives of railroads yester- i day formally protested to the inter 1 state commerce commission against 1 the increase of size of parcel post ! packages as proposed in the extension of the service, by Postmaster general l Burieson, on the ground that it would cost the railroads $20.000, 00O of rev
 enue they now receive from express companies.
 l An order citing the American To-
 bacco Company and the United Cigar