Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-16

Silver Larson. 22 Years Old, was crowned at Eau Claire, Wis, while trying to land 9 big fish.
 Powder Point Hall, private school at Duxbury. Mass. was destroyed by fire at loss of $30.000.
 Damage Estimated at about $500 resulted yesterday from a fire in Ma sonic hall at South Manchester.
 Julius Lehman Declared in d Chi cage d1yorceS court that he had left his in the tea
 Governor Almonds of Colorado ve- toed the state income tax bill. the bill repeating the anfi-boycott law and the boxing bill.
 William Edward Davis, passenger traffic manager of the Grand Trunk railway, died at Montreal yesterday after brief illness.
 William R. Griffith, Formerly of Hartford, died at Mt Vernon, N. Y, yesterday of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
 The Order of Railroad TeIeeraphers ptOoCAtoQ d CIeCk Tor S1, 1,UUU 10 U. Campbell, third vice president, in recognition of his services.
 The United States Sent New am hassador to the Court of St. James yesterday when Walter Hines Page sailed for his post in London
 The |. W. w. Will Open special schools in New York city to teach the children of Paterson. N J.. strikers brought to the former city.
 Julius Wells of swanton,S Vt. was found not guilty of murder by poison of his six year old son Louis yester- day The jury was out IT hours\ Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Went sIum- ming late Wednesday and visited Goat alley, Snow court. Ragland alley and other squalid spots of the capi-
 Representative Francis of Ohio rein- troduced yesterday his resolution of the last congress proposing an inveS- tigation of the American Woolen com pany.
 The 27ooo Employees of the south ern Railway and allied lines will re- ceIye large wage increase following an agreement reached with the com panies.
 7oaz w. Long of Las>Veaas, N. M., has been appointed chief of the di- vision of Latin American affairs of the state department, succeeding. w. T. $. Doyle.
 Brisadier General Frederick A. Smith, in command of the Fifth army brigade, doing patrol duty on the Texas border, was retired yesterday for age.
 Enough Cement to Construct the proposed ocean-to- ocean highway was donated by members of an organizd- tion of cement manufacturers in ses- sion at Chicago.
 Four Hundred Thousand Pounds Of frozen Australian beef and mutton, the first shipment of it's kind to the Pacific coast were landed at San Francisco yesterday.
 1The Railroad Station at GIenbrook, Conn, was broken into during We'd neSday night and a large quantity of tickets taken. A small amount of money was also secured.
 John J. Gosper, Former Territorial governor of Arizona, cnce secretary of state of Nebraska and veteran of the Civil war. died in poverty at Los An geles. a ward of the county.
 The Grand Jury Returned two more indictments yesterday against George H. Bixby, the Los Angeles millionaire banker, accused of offenses against young girls at The Jonquil.
 The Heaviest Frost of This Month in the Litchfield hills occurred We'd nesday night. Asparagus was com- pletely destroyed, beans and fruit and shade trees also suffered
 The Crosby Company Metal Stamp ing Works at Buffalo locked out HOO machinists and closed down it's plant yesterday because 200 pressmen who struck had picketed the works.
 The Strike of Lawrence, Mass, coal handlers and teamsters for a wage in crease of p cents a day, which began yesterday, who returned to work at the old scale
 Julius 5ruokman, Captain of barge in South Norwalk, pleaded guilty yesterday in the superior court to assault on his three year old daughter Alice on April 2t and was sentenced to from five to eight years in state prison.
 Rev. pr. Charles Fiske, rector or St. Michael's and All Angels Protest ant Episcopal church of Baltimore, yesterday declined a call to be bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Dallas. Texas
 Thorough Investigation of the shoe and leather industry in the United States, in comparison with similar in dustries in European countries, is to be undertaken by the department of commerce.
 Reports Received at the Postoffice department indicate that 59,5O0,O 900 parcel post packages were sent through the mails during April, ap- proximately 54 per cent more than were handled in January
 A Proposal to Cede to Great Britain the coast strip of southeastern Alaska 5S6 miles long and in some places eight or ten miles wide was made in a int n11