Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-21

Commission government was defeat ed in the first elections in Pennsyl- vania held under the new law.
 The Northern Pacific Railroad grant ed it's telegraph operators demands for shorter hours and higher wages.
 Whskey took jump yesterday on the Cincinnati market from S1.3O where it has been for some time, to $133.
 Following the birth of her seven teenth child, Mrs. John O'Donnell, aged 39 of Columbus, Ohio, died Tuesday night.
 President Wilson yesterday nomf- be second secretary of the embassy at London.
 Representative Francis Burton Har- rison of New York has been selected for the governor generalship of the Philippines
 pr. C. l. Fletcher of Indianapolis was instantly killed in Glacier Park, Mont, when scaling Blackfoot Glacier. He fell 500 feet.
 The two forest fires which have been burning in Phippsburg, Me, for several days were being fought by crew of over 100 men yesterday. Senatorial members have formed the Senate Golf Association and elected Vice President Marshall honorary pres ident of the association. Clarence w. Bateman, a wealthy res 1dent of Lexington, Ky, was killed by a fall from the fourth floor of d hotel in Atlantic City, N. J. First deposits of the governments | $50, 900, 900 fund to aid crop movements will be made in the Southern states 1 in August and September l pr. Frank R. White, director of edu- cation and one of the first American teachers sent to the Philippine Islands l in 1901, is dead at Manila. l The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Co.'s report shows that damage to corn i in that lines territory in Nebraska is estimated at 75 per cent. The 21 I. w. w. members found guilty of blocking the streets at q 1 street meeting in Minot, N. D., were fined from $20 to $25 each. The books of the RoseviIle Trust Company of Newark, N. J., show 2 shortage of $358,000, and Raymond E Smith, the treasurer is still missing. | Thomas w. Mcdonald, former police chief of Thorold, Can, was arrested al Philadelphia, charged with embezzlins s5,0oo from the police pension fund ol 1 Thorold.
 1 Fire yesterday did considerable dam. age to the trousers making plant of thu 1 Star Manufacturing Company at Hart. 1 ford, and placed three lives in peril fol a few minutes.
 1 Fruit growers of Northeast kansa.
 and northwest Missouri say the apple l crop which early in the season prom ] ised to break records will be little bet. 1 ter than a failure.
 George Q. Hornins, a Washington 1 pawn broker, told the House Lobby fund raised to defeat the federal Ioar shark bill was nearly $12,000. l 4 library building erected by Benja. min A. Kimball and the late John Kim. ball of Concord, N. H., and Frank l.
 Gerrish of Boscawen was presented tc
 the town of Boscawen, N. H., yester- day.
 Seven 15,0o0 ton freight and passen ger steamships are being bui2s by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Go, at cos | of $1,500,000 each to be used betweer Europe and Puget Sound, Wash, viz l the Orient
 Cavalry was called out yesterday tt l disperse a mob of copper mine strikers
 who gathered at non-union boarding
 house in Laurium, Mich, and threat
 ened the landlady and boarders witf | violence.
 More than two score dwellings ani factories, covering a space equal tt more than three city blocks. in tht Lafayette section of Jersey City, were
 destroyed by fire yesterday in less thar three hours.
 lionaire bachelor, and member of
 prominent wholesale flour, grain anG
 seed firm at St. Paul, was found yes terday in the Mississippi river. GriggS
 disappeared Sunday night. The bodies of three sons of Thoma,
 Fleming, who have been missing from Trout Brook, near that city. Four years ago three La Rose brothers were drowned in the same place, Allie surris, Y years old, wa, drowned when she attempted to save her father trying to rescue 1s-yeal old boy who had fallen into the water at Stockdale. Tex. The hoy wa; drowned, but the father was rescued.
 Fire which started from some un.
 known cause in the A, NJ. FTnney Up