Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-30


 District Attorney Whitman of New York denies the report that he was to 4 withdraw from them ayoralty race.
 Miss Isabel kanert, 19 years old, of Everett, N. H., was drowned when her canoe overturned in Canobie Lake, N. H.
 The Reading Iron Co.,. at Reading, Pa, has granted the puddlers an ad- vance of from SAYS to $500 a ton on the pudding rate.
 Sensational lowering of crop esti- mates owing to damage from drought and heat brought about a rush of buy ing yesterday in the corn trade.
 The town of Pixinos, Pa, owned by J. Warner Milfflin, brick manufac-~ turer, is to be sold at auction within two weeks. Bankruptcy is the cause
 Rev. Matthias McCabe, for 35 years pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Fall River Mass, died yes terday, at Rockaway Park, New York.
 Investigation of conditions in Mex leo by joint congressional committee was proposed in a resolution yesterday
 
 Knowing their congregations prefer motor rides to church going, the min isters of Cheyenne, Wyo., plan to hold services on Shearman Mountain next Sunday.
 Seventy five non -unien barbers went on strike at Pawtucket R. l., at noon yesterday for union hours. Most of the strikers are employed in the cut price shops.
 pr. w. T. Linn, aged 1o8 years, the oldest man in Illinois, died at his home near Pana. His death came suddenly He celebrated his 108th birthday on May> 28 last.
 Herman Stump and H.. Gordon Ewing, Baltimore boys classmates at Princeton are rivals for the hand of Miss Esther Cleveland, daughter of the late president
 The United States Steel cornoration yesterday declared it's regular quarter ly dividends of 1 1,4 per cent. on the common stock and I 3-4 per cent on the preferred stock.
 One hundred and fifty employees of coffee firm with offices at Boston, Mon treal and Chicago, will receive S250. 900
 
 for member of the firm.
 Professor Charles F. Marvin has been selected for chief of the weather bu- reau to succeed Willis l.. Moore, re- gently removed. Marvin is now chief of the instrument division.
 Edward Augustus Taft, long and prominently identified with transpor- tation, express and similar interests, dropped dead yesterday at Cataumet, Mass, where he was visiting.
 A sharp fight in congress is threat ened as the result of alleged wholesale changes and demotions in the Pension bureau, in which many old soldiers are said to have been the sufferers
 German societies throughout the United States have sent protests to against the proposed duty of fifteen per cent. on foreign books which now are on the free list.
 An involuntary petition in bank ruptcy has been filed in the United tracing Company of New Britain which has been in the hands of receiver for some months.
 It was developed at the coroner's inquiry into the cause of the loss of life in the factory of the Binghamton Clothing Company, July P, yesterday that failure to properly sound the fire drill was one contributory cause.
 Women police for Chicago were as- sured when the council passed an ordi- nance creating places for them on the force. Mayor Harrison will at once fo,o the beaches, dance halls and other places.
 Believing he was firing upon burg lar Mack Guest emptied a revolver at his seventeen year old sister, at El- berton, Gay early yesterday Mortally wounded the girl staggered toward him exclaiming that bolt of lightning had struck her. She then died
 A proclamation was issued by Gov. Haines yesterday setting the next gen. eral election in September 1914, as@tHe date for the people of Maine to vote act, passed by the last legislature, to provide for a board of public utilities, and define it's duties.
 The will of Alice Griffin, of Hartford, makes a number of public bequests. lou6 DSduedIHS poUO to L. FTanclS Orphan Asylum in New Haven; $500 to St. Thomas Seminary and $500 to St. Josephs' Cathedral, of Hartford, and the same to St. Johns Industrial school in Deep River.
 The, body of George K. Harris, a stenographer, 50 years old, who went to Sea Girt, N. J., about a month ago from Danbury, Conn, was found yes terday under a tree a few hundred feet away from the summer home of Gov ernor Fielder at the State Encampment with three bullet wounds in the head.
 Federal Judge Grubb, at Birming- ham, Ala yesterday fined the South- ern wholesale Grocer's Association $2, 500 for contempt of court in viola ting a decree issued in 1911 command ing the organization to abide by federal anti trust laws. President J. II. McLaurin of Jacksonville, Fla, was fined $1,000.
 An argument faVorirg the adoption by all states of standard insurance policy was made at the opening session at Burlington, ", yesterday of the convention of the National Association Of Insurance Commissioners by the president of the organization. F. H. Hardison, insurance commissioner of M assachusetts.