Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-17


 The Cruiser Albany is the Best of the navy in gun practice with a rating of 43.644. according to the navy re- port.
 Della Fox, Famous as Vocalist and musical comedy actress, died suddenly of acute indigestion in New York sanitarium Sunday night.
 Captain Ting-fu Wang of the Chi nese army will be admitted to the West Point military academy under d. special act of congress.
 George siddalI, Aged IA, died at Bid deford. Mass, yesterday as the result of dislocation of the neck, caused by diving in saco river on Sunday. Smith college graduating class was held on the campus yesterday under blue skies and bright. warm sunshine.
 Out of Work and Despondent, John T. P. Cahill, 23, of Lawrence, Mass, in the head yesterday at the rifle range in Frye Village.
 Mrs. George R. Sheldon, wife of the treasurer of the republican national committee. died at her home in New I ton for intestinal trouble.
 A Fire That is Supoosed to have started from the spark of passing locomotive destroyed the general store of Nelson & Perham. in the center of Tyngsboro. Mass, early yesterday af- ternoon.
 The Supreme Court Yesterday decid- ed that the federal government was not financially responsible for the flooding of more than 100 plantations on the Mississippi as the result of levee construction.
 Resentins the Discharge of an over seer, 200 operatives mostly foreigners, in the spinning department of the Merrimac mills at Lowell, Mass, quit statement of their boss.
 When Patroinnan Fred E.. Wooster of Chicago attempted to arrest Ches- ter Robinson, negro. on diSorderly charge yesterday, Robinson seized the policeman's club and assaulted him. Wooster fired, killing his assailant.
 Six Bremen Were Slightly Injured and others were overcome by heat during a fire in one. of the Storehouses at the factory of the Rogers Silver
 
 afternoon, The damage by fire will not exceed $500.
 Archie Erwin Caltrider, IT years old said to be the only Boy Scout in the United States that had ever passed the examination in aviation. for which he received a gold medal about IS months ago. died at the home of his father in Baltimore after an illness of 10 months.
 Although in the Death House at Sing Sing, Charles Becker. former police lieutenant, is defendant in a suit for $15,000 damages brought by Mrs. Mary Carter, negress, whose husband, Waverly Carter, was shot and killed during a raid on gambling house by Becker's strong arm squad in March, 1912.
 Members of the Consolidation Com mittee of progressive republicans, who recently made demands upon the re- publican national committee for na- tional convention this year. have de- cided, as the result of meetings at Washington Saturday and Sunday, 10 oppose any action by the national committee to effect proposed reforms without a party convention.
 The United States Supreme Court yesterday declined to review the de- cision of the district courts holding that Laura Cramer, asstate department clerk, must repay the estate of Fen ton F. Hurd of Greenwich, Conn, $40, oO0 obtained by her by alleged "spook' influences.
 Mrs. Elizabeth C. Seaman, who jumped into fame few years ago by encircling the globe in eighty days un- der her newspaper name of Nellie By, lost her suit in the supreme court yes terday to require Judge Chatfield in- stead of Judge Mayer to proceed in the New York federal courts to consider