Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-04

Robert T. Lincoln, son of "Old Abe,'' celebrated his 7Oth birthday at Man chester Vt.
 Fire destroyed 25 boathouses with launches at Cayuga Island, near La Sale, N. Y. Loss, $100,000.
 The Pacific Electric Co.,, of Los An geles announced wage increase to it's trainmen of to 10 per cent.
 Augustus M. High, serving his fourth term as postmaster of Reading, Pa, died in that city, aged 64 years.
 The coinage executed at United States hints during July totalled g., 657,750 pieces of the value of $1,436. 800.
 New York postoffice receipts for July were $1,952,534, compared with $1,654,855, for the same month Hast year.
 Ore boats at Duluth, Minn., were de- layed due to a strike of 250 dock lab orers, who demand safer working con ditions.
 A referendum vote will be taken on a universal eight-hour law in Cali fornia at the next states general elec- tion
 A dynamite plot was revealed in the copper mine strike at Calumet, Mich, resulting in the arrest of eight per sons
 Mary Erickson, 17 years old, died from the effects of snake bite re- ceived while picking berries near La Crosse, Wis
 Rose Ferarro, five years old, was I-1- fringe of her suit became ignited from bonfire.
 Fire, which destroyed the Flory mills at Bangor, Pa, caused a loss of $1, 100000 and forced 500 men out of employment.
 One man was crushed to death and five others seriously injured when large boulder fell in shaft of The Bronx Aqueduct.
 Construction work on large buildings in Cincinnati has been suspended due to strike being waged by teansters for the last week.
 The historic elm trees in the White House grounds, blown down by the re- cent storm, will not be reset. Younger trees will be planted.
 Walker w. Wick, will leave New York for Santo Domingo, where he will take up his new duties as receiver general of Dominican customs.
 John Hooper died at his home in Lone Oak, Texas, after living 109 days after his spinal cord had been served by bullet on April II.
 Charles Lantz, a wealthy farmer of Waynesburg, Pa, accidentally killed his wife when a shotgun, he was aim ing at rat, exploded.
 The~ e~Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail- way granted a wage increase of two cents an hour to it's boiler makers helpers and apprentices.
 The National Highways Protective Society's report shows that during July, automobiles killed 26 persons; wagons, eight; and surface cars, seven.
 The Public Service Gas Co.,, of Tren- ton has appealed the Supreme Court decision sustaining the Public Utility Commissions order reducing the gas rate to 90 cents in 15 towns.
 John w. Loden, of Chelsea, Mass, was arrested for allowing his chickens to wander on neighboring property. Bail was fixed at one cent
 Daniel H. ToIman, "Loan Shark king," was ordered to pay a fine of $1O00 and was placed on probation for three years for charging illegal rates of interest in Trenton.
 Alexander skwirsky, the epileptic, whose rawlings in the death house at Sing Sing unnerved Lieutenant Beck CT of New York has been declared in sane.
 The Navy Department has engaged Alfred Noble of New York as consult ing engineer to examine into the possi- bilities of continuing the construction of the dry dock at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 John McNamara, alias Australian Mack" was sentenced to nine years at Vancouver B. C., on a charge of com- plicity of robbing the Bank of Montreal at Westminster, B. C., to the amount of $375,000.
 Asserting he is the half brother of William Henry Lee, who died at Chi cago, leaving an estate of $2O0,O00, Jos eph Shelter, a barber of Bloomington, H., will file a claim for the estate. Lee died intestate.
 
 Acti%S Secretary of the Navy Roose- welt notified the employees of the CharlestoWn, Mass, navy yard they must wait until Jan. 1 before knowing whether their demand for a wage in crease will be granted
 The Federal Court at Kansas City, ordered the wages of the 4,000 em- ployes of the Metropolitan Street Railway of that city increased five per cent. There had been no demands from the employees.
 The United States Senate passed bill authorizing the sale of the Newark than $1,800,000 and to use the money for the construction of another build ing on new site.
 Mayors of p cities of Kansas refused to fndorse q proposal to acquire mu- nicipal gas service through condem nation proceedings asking that the properties be turned over to state re- ceivers for adjustment instead.
 Aotirs Secretary of the Navy Roose- welt, sent congratulatory letters to the commanders of the battleship Utah: the torpedo boat Burrows and the sub marine D 5, for engineering efficiency shown in their respective classes in the past year.