Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-22

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 Bill June, lobster fisherman, caught an eight-foot shark in net off Cos Cob, Conn.,.
 President Poincare of France cele- brated his 53rd birthday at his country home at Sampigny.
 Edward Stiles Thomas, New York lawyer and son of Supreme Court Jus tice Edward B. Thomas. is dead at Utica, N. Y
 The income of $71,o00, representing all but $5,000 of the estate of the late Dean Mary Coss of Radcliffe college, is left to Radcliffe in her will.
 Every store and mill was closed and all available men were fighting two different forest fires which threatened Steep Falls, Maine, yesterday
 The directors of the Hooking Valley railroad yesterday declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, placing the stock on an per cent. basis.
 J. B. Creighton, founder of the town of Creighton, Mo, fnancier and rail- way president, died at Wichita, Kas., yesterday. He was 94 years old
 The naked body of John Nooman, 65 years old, foound on the farm of T. H. Grant, near Red Bank, N. J. He had been gored to death by a bull
 Hans WeideIman, a 19- year, old avi- ator of Garden City l.. l., was be- queathed $50,000 by his uncle on condi- tion that he get married immediately
 Secretary Bryan will spend two days early in September stumping the Third Maine Congressional District for Will liam Pettangall, the Democratic cand- idate.
 Evelyn Nesbit Thaw doesn't want reconciliation with her husband and doesn't believe reports from Sher- brooke that he wants a reconciliation with her.
 Rice w. Means of Denver was chos- en commander in chief at the National Encampment of the Army of the Phil ippines and Foreign Service at it's an- nual election at Denver
 Henry Starnweis, his wife and three small children were burned to death in a fire which yesterday destroyed their home on a farm 15 miles north west of Dubuque, Iowa.
 By declaring a quarterly dividend of one per cent yesterday the directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com pany reduced the annual dividend rate from five to four per cent.
 The American Pharmaceutical Asso- citation, in session at Nashville Tenn, authorized a commission of five men to investigate all proprietary medicines for sale in the United States.
 So deHse was the smoke from the forest fire which has been burning to the south of Biddeford, Me, the past week that the sun was obscured yes terday and the air was heavy with it.
 Lee, Hisainson & Go, the Boston bankers, gave bonds of the value of over $500 to a stranger Wednesday in return for 8 check which was re- turnd to them yesterday stampd as a forgery.
 Gardens in the vicinity of Wichita, Kas., have been so set back by long drought that there is a dearth of veg etables. Canned goods are more in demand than ever before known in August.
 First deposits of the governments s 5O,000,000 crop moving fund were made yesterday in the cities in the southern states, among which were Baltimore, Richmond Atlanta and Memphis.
 Alexander Sullivan Chicago lawyer who was at the head of the Clan-Na- ] v nnlC fkn Dr. Cronin, a crime which attracted world wide attention, died at Chicago yesterday aged tt years.
 In order to guard more closely against the spread of gianders, cattle commissioner Jeffry O. Phelps is seek ing the active cooperation of Hart ford and health authorities in all the l towns and cities of the state.
 The Mexican press yesterday devoted itself editorially to the possibilities of recognition by the United States of the bell1gereDcy of the rebels and inter- vention, either of which courses the newSpap perS appear to consider iminent. More than 300 of the 500 survivors of the historic QuantreII raid upon Lawrence fifty years ago yesterday gathered in reunion at Lawrence, KaS., to exchange "reminiscences Of the border ma ssacre and to decorate the graves of victims.
 Orders were received 3 the Ports mouth, N H. Navy Yard yesterday to rush work on the armored Montana which Is undergoing her annual over hauling Her destination is not off1ci- ally known but it is reported that she will be sent to Mexico. When Chief Clerk Reed of the gov ernment office in the capitol at Hart ford, resumed his duties yesterday af- ter a vacation 1t was learned that the sum of s12o had been taken from the office some time during his absence, an accumulation of clerical fees
 Charles Rich, aged fe years, was found dead and his 1T-year- old Sweet heart, Ruth Hamilton, was found
 noftally wounded at Yonkers \. Y., yesterday, Evidence showed that they had agreedi to de together, that Rich had shot the girl and then killed him. self
 Information reached District At torney Whitman's office yesterday that Richard J. Butler who is said to have aided Harry Thaw in his escape from Matteawan. had purchased q saloon in the Tenderlofn last week, putting lfp $5,0oo cash and giving mortgage for the balance.
 the American heavyweight pugilist, by 8 London music hall where he is booked to give q boxing exhibition on Dh was candApanad af ,a2aaA