Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-03
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Mortimer L. Schiff Resigned as direc- tor of the Pacific Mail company.
 Mtuehen, N, j., is Seeking to ind some person to act as mayor without salary.
 Four Harvard Professors have sailed for South America, where they will study tropical diseases.
 Fire in the Michigan Central railroad car shops at Detroit yesterday caused property damage of $10O,000.
 More Than 1,5oo Building Trades workers in Peoria, H., have struck for higher wages and shorter hours The Wisconsin Assembly yesterday passed resolution extending sympa thy to the suffragettes of England. Illinois State Has Adopted the carna tion as the flower and "On the Banks of the Wabash as the state song.
 William T. La Toilette, brother of Senator La Toilette, died of heart dis ease at Madison, Wis, aged 66 years.
 An Equal Suffrage Amendment was defeated in the Florida house yester- day by vote of 26 to 3S after lengthy debate
 The Italian Employees of John D. Rockefellar at Tarrytown are planning to strike for wage increase of t5 cents a day.
 Work is Being Rushed on the Pan anna canal in order to open it October next. Men are workin1 in 12 hour shifts on the Culebra Gut 
 The Hod Carriers Strike at New Britain is still on. The union has vot- eight cents more than the employers offer.
 William Harmony Lamar of Rock vile, Md, yesterday was appointed l assistant attorney general for the post office department to succeed Russell P. Goodwin of Aurora, H., resigned Judge Robert F. Raymond of the superior court collapsed while on the bench at Worcester, Mass., yesterday. and was sent to the Worcester hospital for treatment
 Henry Burnham, Aged 13, was seri- ously injured at East Hartford yester- day, when he was struck by an auto mobile belonging to Henry Katz of Hartford and driven by his son. Jack London, the Author, has been | invited by Captain J. Toft, Chinese Sea navigator, to accompany him on | his cruise across the Atlantic ocean in a dugout canoe of California redwood Harry K. Thaw is. to be states wit ness at the trial of John Nicolson An | hut, the lawyer indicted for bribery ] in an alleged attempt to secure Thaw's release from the Matteawan asylum.
 Rev. ]. Howard Adams, pastor for d l year. of the First Baptist church at Rockville, Conn. has rendered his res 1 ignation, effective May 25. Illness of l his wife is given as the reason. He went there from Stonington. WiIminqton. Del, ceased to be a | "Gretna Green" when the new marriage l license law went into effect Thursday. and it was impossible for any couple | to be legally married in Delaware for A hours after it became effective.
 Effective July i, a reduction of 50 per cent in the rates for commercial | messages not exceeding ten words to all points in Alaska, will be made oy the United States Signal Corps. op- i erating the military cable between Sc
 attle and Alaska.
 j. F. Hutchins of Lynn was awarded | $109,168 by a jury at Salem, Mass, yesterday for his work in obtainlnG
 $2, 800 900 for the use of Thomas C.. Plant in forming a shoe machine man l ufacturing concern in opposition to the | United States Machinery company.
 q Do Not Believe One Word of Dil- Ion F. Dunbar's statement in regard to ] the murder of Matte Hackett,'' said | Sheriff Colby Getchell of Augusta, Me, upon his return from New York, where
 with County Attorney William H. Fisher he interviewed the prisoner at Blackwells Island.
 Jesse M. Short, a Millionaire Mine
 owner of Joplin Mo, was shot and se-
 riously wounded and the passengers on
 the Kansas City Southern Gulf Coast
 train were robbed by a man wearing d
 handkerchief over the lower part of
 his face, soon after the train left the
 Grand Central station at Kansas City.
 Mo-, about midnight Thursday. The 1 bandit escaped.
 road man uttered was listened to with 1 the closest attention. 1 PaiIu-.au officials uOVArnTnent Aff0r-