Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-04

Vice President Marshall received turnip weighing five pounds as a. pres ent from a mail carrier in Indiana.
 Misses Clara and CIarissa Pritohard, twin sisters of Tivoli, New York, passed the state bar examinations at a recent test.
 Frank Mcdonald of Somerset Mass, aged 31, was burned to death in fire that destroyed a barn on the Matthew Moffatt farm.
 Headquarters of the Boston and Maine railroad were changed yester- day from the South station to the North station at Boston.
 Robert Levy and John Carter, ne- groes. caught a 400poUnd loggerhead turtle while fishing in the Mississippi river near Biloxi, Miss.
 The Question Whether the great na- val drydock at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. shall be completed will be submitted to congress in December.
 Edward Morris, president of the Morris and company, packers, died at his home at Chicago yesterday after an illness of more than year.
 Instead of a Joint Presentation, the senate will pay tribute with individual gifts to Miss Jessie Wilson on her marriage to Francis B. sayre.
 Two Million Birds Found a safe refuge this year on reservations and guarded colonies of the National As sociation of Audubon societies.
 Price Collier, the American author, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y, died suddenly yesterday while on a visit to Count Weddel on the Island of Funen, in the Baltic sea.
 Five United States Stamps, the property of Clarence Chapman and valued at S5,000, were stolen from a case at the International Philatelic ex- hibition in New York.
 Contempt of Court Sentences irn- posed on Samuel Gompers and other labor leaders were yesterday advanced by the supreme court for hearing on the first Monday in January,
 The Supreme Courts decision yes terday in favor of assachusetts' foreign corporation tax saves to the state an income of $250,000 a year and nearly S1,000,000 involved in suits now pending,
 Possibility of a Strike of railway telegraphers on the lines of the Texas and Pacific railroad was averted yes terday when an agreement was signed by representative of the road and the operators.
 The Fire Which Forced the aban- donment of the steamer Ternplemore at sea six weeks ago was subdued Mon day but in the opinion of the under writers agents the ship is fit only for the scrap heap.
 A Deer May Not Milk a farmers cows with impunity in Massachusetts and a farmer who shoots an animal caught in the act will not be prosecut- ed for violation of the game laws, ac- cording to the state game commission.
 A Plea of Not Guilty to the charge of larceny of S4 900 from the Boston and Maine Railroad company was en- tered in municipal court at Boston yesterday by Albert c. Robinson, the New England ticket agent of the road
 More Vegetables on the menu and not so many meats as means of cir cumventing the high cost of living was one of the proposals discussed by the Missouri = Kansas Oklahoma hotel men's association at Excelsior Springs, Mo,
 Mrs. J. w. sindaII, mother-in- law of John J. McGraw. manager of the New York National League Baseball team died suddenly yesterday on the board walk at Atlantic City while returning from church where she had attended mass.
 Robert McNeil of Roxbury, foreman
 
 gas company building af New Bedford Mass, was instantly killed yesterday when a stone. weighing over 300 pounds, fell from g derrick arm and crushed him to earth,
 The Police of Cincinnati yesterday positively identified the photograph of 9 negro held under the name of will fam Campbell at Montreal. Canada as 8 likeness of Charles Jones. who is wanted in Cincinnati for the murder of white woman, Bertha Courtenay.
 Mutual Veneration Of Ralph Waldo Emerson led Richard Wightman and Mrs. Patricia Margaret Street, both of Say brook, Conn. to have their mar riage ceremony perform ed beside the grave of the poet and philosopher in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
 
 Tho overcoat That Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was fatally shot in Ford's theatre nearly fifty years ago is in the possession of John B1. Kirby of Washington He also has obtained possession of a suit of clothes that was worn by the martyTed president Several Checks, minus the one per cent income tax charge for interest on bonds held by the city of Spring field, Mass, were received b3 City Treasurer B. T. Tifft yesterday. MT. Fifft says that in his opinion bonds held by cities are exempt and says that he will protest,
 In a Fusiiiade of Shots fired by the New York police to check the mad rush of six teen steers which escaped from railroad stock pen yesterday one man was killed and one wounded. The dead man. George Beattle, top pied from the seat of ali express wagon when a stray bullet pierced his brain.
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 Customs Collectors Confer.
 New York, Nov 3.--Sixty collectors deputy collectors and surveyors Of eus- toms met at the custom house here to- day in a conference which has been called for the purpose of devis1ng more fN1rN r~f