Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-30


 Ernest Dye, negro, confessed to the Sharon, Pa, police that he shot and killed an American soldier in tue Brownsville, Tex, riots in 1906.
 In Order to Lower the Taxiceb trust prices a public hacSmen's pro- tective league has been formed In New York by 250 independent taxicab own CTS.
 A Dispute as to Who Should take over the Ehaer collection caused q fight in which 21 persons were injured in St. Mary's Catholic church at Un- iontown, Pa.
 A Monument Was Unveiled at Knox vile, Tenn, in honor of the 18th ami versary of the Mississippi river disas- ter in winch 1.200 Union soldiers were drowned.
 J. Frank Best, Cashier of the Citi- zens' National bank of Netcong, N. J., is missing and the accounts of the bank. according to it's president, arc $4,000 short.
 The Body of John Ross, one of the oldest and most prominent lumber men On the Penobscot rver, reached Bangor, Me, yesterday from Halifax, N. 5. where he died Sunday.
 Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont said yester- day: If New York fails to awake we shall introduce militant methods of the type used by the Women's Social and Political union in London"
 Frank Gotch of Humboldt, Iowa, champion wrestler, underwent an op- eration in a hospital at Marshalltown, Iowa, yesterday for the removal of bone growth in his nose.
 Anthony Marasco, 25 years old. was struck on the head with hatchet and attacked Anna Forte, 16 years old, be- cause she refused to marry him.
 Dumb for More Than 20 Years, as the result of throat affection, Lee Price a merchant of Paris, Ky, com pletely recovered his voice after a se were coughing spell induced by cold.
 That the Civil War might have been avoided had states been linked by an system of national highways was a suggestion made in an address by Charles Henry Davis of Cambridge, Mass.
 Nearly 100 Quarry Workers who struck at the Webb Granite company's quarries at Milford, Mass, recently III sympathy with a strike of building trades unionists at Pittsburg will re- turn to work today
 Fifteen World Famous American and English bred thoroughbred mares, each with foal by her side, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a barn at the Kingston stock farm near Lex. ington, Ky, yesterday.
 The Huerta Government in Mexico probably will be overthroWn within two weeks, according to Robert J. Kerr, ali ,bn from Mex ico in an address before the Rotary club of Chicago yesterday.
 Agitation Against the Smut Song bore fruit Monday night when an or dinance was introduced in the Chicago council forFbidding the singing of Any sons; the words of which are suggestive of indecency or immortality.
 After Clubbing a Sentry into uncon- sciousness, Marcus A Wilson, 26 years old and Charles Rabbit, 2S years old, prisoners at Fort Sheridan, recently convicted of desertion, escaped from the guard house yesterday
 A Thorough Investigation of the Pittsburg police department began yesterday, following the allegations Of William Wallace, a former superin- tendent of police. that a Thigh" police official granted him permission 10 open 8 gambling house.
 John C. Bennett, formerly en Rgent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company in Meriden, was found guilty in the city court yesterday of the en- bezzlement of s14 from the company. He was fined s14 and costs. which he paid.
 The Committee of Six CIeryymen and business men who have been re- quested by the board of education to investigate charges against 5. l.. Hee- ter, superintendent of the public schools, will begin their inquiry today behind closed doors.
 Exports from the United States to five principal countries of South Amer Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru-increased almost 12 per cent. during the first nine months Of the present fiscal year as compared with the same period last year.
 Declaring That She Preferred Death 1 to separation from her two children, ] Mrs. Martha F. Ettie went on a hun ger strike when she was committed l to prison at York, Pa, Saturday on 1 3 charge of larceny. and the authori- 1 ton, released her.
 Mrs. Rachael Sparks, 59, of Corbin. l Ky, caused the arrest of Frank G. Cir 1 ard, b6, a performer with a burlesque l company, charging that he had stolen | $50 from her, and when Girard declar- sd his inability to refund the money. l put offered himself to her instead, she the proposition and the two l were married.
 Roaid An1undsen, the Arctic explorer, 1 aas written to Secretary Garrison ex 1 pressing his purpose to avail himself l of the privilege of passing through the Panama canal this fall with Tram. the 1 vessel in which he is to make his lat est Arctic trip, The Tram is now at Buenos Ayres.
 Death Penalty Retained
 Sacramento. Cal, April 29.AThe bill to prevent eapital punishment was de- fAafad in fhe senate fodav affar a