Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-13


 John Sheridan, a railway mail clerk 27 years in the service, was arrested at St. Albans, Vt, yesterday charged with larceny of two registered letters.
 Because of scarcity of men in the navy six destroyers of the Atlantic fleet will be placed in reserve so that new destroyers, almost completed can be commissioned.
 The Prest o-lite Co.'s plant at As toria, L. l., was destroyed by fire, which resulted from an explosion in the charging room. More than 30 en- ployes were injured.
 L. c. corbett of the department of agriculture, declared that while the total harvest of potatoes will be less than last year, it will be sufficient to supply normal needs.
 Falcon and Hope Islands of the Friendly or Tonga group in the South Pacific, have disappeared from view. With them several hundred natives and a few white men also have dis appeared.
 Rights of the indians with the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, which stranded in Colorado, will be protected by the federal government in the PL Trenton, N. J.
 State seoIogist R. c. Allen of Mich, yesterday made public an appraisal which he has just completed, tending to show that the valuation of Upper peninsula iron mines has decreased $22 S80, ,069 since 1911.
 David Gocdfriend of Workers, N. ", complained to the superintendent of schools of that city that his sons col lar bone had been broken as a result of a punishment administered by Miss F. Lowell, a school teacher.
 Edwin Smith, chauffeur for E. Hooker, a prominent member of the Progressive party in Greenwich, was fined s200 and costs for reckless dr1v- ing in the criminal court of common pleas at Bridgeport, yesterday.
 Michael Starback, deck hand, aged 25 and unmarried was killed yesterday on the ocean going tug Cataw1ssa, bound from Philadelphia to Fort Point, Me, His arm was caught on crank pin and pulled from the shoulder.
 Nehemiah H. Tucker, a veteran of the Civil war in his earlier years one of the best known hotel men of the state, died at the Hartford hospital yesterday, aged sT years Among the hotels which he conducted was one at Fishers Island
 The question of ordering the special election in the third Massachusetts congressional district to fill the vacancy caused by the death at Wash ingtOn Thursday of Representative William II. Wilder will be decided next week by Governor Foss.
 Representative Anderson, republican, of Minnesota, followed up his sensa- tional resignation from the ways and means committee by introducing yes terday a resolution to have a commit tee of nine investigate and reform the legislative practices of the house.
 Inauguration of countrywide cam paign to eliminate or control hog cholera Is urged in 8 special report by Marion Dorset, Of the bureau of during the past year about S6O0O0 900 worth of hogs died of the disease.
 The third big fire in Essex County, Mass, this week, wiped out S35,0 worth of property in the center of Gloucester yesterday, the buildings completely or partially destroyed being the CTelnu AT1ny f1aAl, LQTS9 QW6lllnR houses, bakery and two stables,
 4. 8. Garretson, represen nting the Order of Railway Conductors, testified yesterday that a member of the Broth erhood of Traiumen is killed in the United States every nine hours and seven minutes of the day and that ev- cry nine minutes man is maimed-
 The Massachusetts supreme court held yesterday that unless a soldier or sailor of the United States received 8 medal of honor from Congress, through the hands of the President, he was not @ veteran in the meaning of the Massachusetts veterans preference act.
 Chicago police report that a so-called ''black book'' containing evidence of Chinese opium, smuggling and of traffic in white slaves" had been seized in g Chinese restaurant in that city were denounced yesterday by the bureau of immigration as the ''purest fabrtca- tion."
 Statistics showing that the mortality from cancer increased from 67.S per I0O, 900 population for tho average of the five years with 1905. to TAB in 1911 were cited by Dr. F. L. Hoffman of New York in an address before the American Public Health Association yesterday.