Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-25

Charming Whitaker, a well known mill engineer, died yesterday at his home in Tyngsboro, Mass, aged 69 years He was a veteran of the Civil War.
 Seven men were blown to pieces yesterday by the explosion of a ton of gunpowder at the plant of the Canadian Explosive company at Bel oiel, Quebec.
 Important changes in the rules gov ernlng the reservation of sleeping car berths will be considered today by the executive committee of the Western Passenger Association.
 A constitutional amendment to em- power congress to regulate marriage and divorce was proposed in a joint resolution yesterday by Representative Edmonds of Pennsylvania Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William l J. Norton, serving a years sentence in the Atlanta penitentiary for misuse of the mails, have been recommended for parole by the parole board. 1 Protect and encourage the meadow l lark, for it's principal diet consists of l cotton boil and alfalfa weevils, grass 1 hoppers and predaceous ground beetles l D.
 Several sticks of dynamite which 1 John Everitt, aged S5 was carrying In a. basket out of a shed In the heart of the vill5f5e of Honeye Falls, N. Y, yes- terday, exploded, and blew Everitt to 1 pieces.
 Mary Mason BoswoI< was yesterday granted a decree by the divorce court at London, on the ground of the cruel 1 ty and misconduct of her husband. The petitioner, is 8 daughter of L. c. Hasen of New York
 AIiahting head first in a water 1 bucket suspended near the bottom of a well yesterday probably saved the ! life of Lloyd Church, son of a rancher living in West Haskell county, Kas., near the Colorado line.
 State laws compelling citizens te exercise the privilege of the ballot were advocated yesterday by Secre- speaking at Long Beach, Cal, at a l luncheon in his honor.
 William Butler ef Kenvil, N. J., was 1 shot and killed yesterday ct Dover by pelieeeffieers who mistook him for Will liam Cerduan, husband of the woman i who was murdered Tuesday night at her hane in Newark,
 
 Mrs. Alice Prescott Mayer, widow of l William H.. Mayer 8 well known four | ln-hand driver and socially prominent was found dead in bed at her country estate at Middletown, R. l., yesterday 1 Death is ascribed to natural causes"
 Another fire at Sing Sing prison yesterday gave the mutinous convicts | a chance for more demonstrations. The | blaze started in the clothing shop and the prison fire brigade extinguished it, 1 after hard fight, without outside aid.
 Patrick QuinIan, the Industrial Workers of the World leader at Pat erson, N. J., who was sentenced to a term in states prison for melting the striking mill workers to riot was yes terday released under $5,000 cash bail
 Three children of MT and Mrs John Cooper of Townsend, Tenn, were fla tally bitten by rattlesnakes and while Mrs. Cooper fought for them, an infant she had placed near the bank of a stream fell into the water and was drowned.
 To prolona the life of George w. Nunley, a confederate veteran, dying in the Paducah. Ky, jail, President Wilson yesterday commuted to expire at once the prisoners one year sen tence for making a false claim for q pension.
 Francis B. sayre, flance of Miss Jesse Wilson, the presidents daughter. has been offered a position as secretary to President Garfield of Williams Col lege, the offer is still open, and he has not yet decided whether he will accept or decline.
 Dissolution of the alleged telephone az.Tr L,rv American Telephone and Telegraph Company the so-ealled Bell Telephone Trust, is sought by Attorney General MeReynolds in a civil anti trust suit filed at Portland, Oregon, yesterday,
 Search Is being made for Mrs F. W, Guieser, and Miss Louise Hines of Trenton, N, J., and Miss May Herring of DeutzVille, who with six young men from Florence, N. J., were last seen by their friends in a motorboat on the Delaware River last Sunday night.
 Jesse cenyers, a eolored chef on a New York, New Haven and Hartford dining ear was arrested at New Haven yesterday for the Jersey City, inflicted serious injury on his wife with a meat cleaver at their home there,
 Lying across the grave of her hus- band in the family lot at a Louisville, Ky, cemetery. Mrs. Olivia Hemphill, 32 years old, was found uneensoieus. An empty bottle which had contained poison, was within a few feet of the woman. She died a few minutes later
 A step toward bringing about ee- called health marriages in Pennsyi- vania was taken yesterday when Gov eFnar .Fener signed the bill requiring all applicants for marriage licenses to set forth ia the applications that they are net afflicted with transmissible diseases
 FeE the first time in it's history Philadeiphi is te have a weRan street inspector Director Ceelfe eff the de- partn4ent ef public Nerks yesterday apPeiRtea Mrs. Edith W. Fierce, sec eetar3 ef the Henae aad Sehea1 League l te the place which was created a few months aga.
 The sight wensa ef VeIe, Rear i THauiaeEan, Ill., Whe Teds Mrs ,fela Richardson q rail ti4rsugh the l streets gf tine village reeentIy must answer te the grand jury fer theie act Fhe W0taen asserted they believed Mrs Richardson te he tee friendly with her | brother-ip law.
 No4 enEp nepp head ef the New &eAE Haven and Hartford system te i succeed President Meiten but radical changes ia the 6nancial and operat- i ing paiicF with revolution in the ci1ialprI of a--cC11tiX-c f,,o7,,,e~ev,-o,,t