Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-03

Rev. James Bruce, TOT 4f years past or of the United Presbyterian church of Andras, N. r., died Monday.
 Ferdinand A. Hart, 67, died sudden ly at his home in Hartford yester- day. He was 8 well known insurance man.
 Investigation of the Business of so- called adver ,fsing 'quack doctors was started by the federal grand jury at Chicago yesterday.
 Robbers Yesterday Entered the post office at Youngstown, N. Y., blew open the safe, obtained $2,000 worth of stamps and escaped.
 The Yates Center, Kas., National bank was closed yesterday on order Of Bank Examiner A. c. Cutler, because of failure to realize on securities.
 Governor Foss' Unsuccessful cam paign as an independent candidate for re- election cost S4,225. The governor s personal contribution was S3,46o-
 George M. GoIdstone, aged 20, of Warehouse Point, shot himself with suicidal intent in the stock sheds of an electric light company at Thompson vile yesterday
 President Wilson has under con sideration invitations to spend his Christmas vacation in Columbia, $. C., Augusta, Ga, or a place near Corpus Christi, Texas.
 Thomas w. Hall, president of the American Hide and Leather company, died at his home in New Canaan, Conn, Monday night of heart disease. He was 68 years old.
 Lehigh Valley Railroad employees asked the Public Service commission of Pennsylvania for an opinion upon the question of annual passes to the wives of employees.
 Completion of a Plan whereby Kan sas City consumers may get eggs di- rect from the country merchant at a saving of eleven cents a dozen was announced yesterday.
 Walter Butler, 1e Years Old, pris- oner in the Worcester House of Cor rection made a successful dash for liberty by scaling an IS foot wall and jumping into the street.
 oswaId Lowe, Aged 60 Years, a bricIIlayer employed on the new Poli Theatre building at Hartford, was in stantly killed yesterday by a fall of twenty six feet from staging.
 Mrs. Agnes E. Fry, 84 years old, widow of Captain Joseph Fry, who was captured by the Spanish and shot to death with 3S of his efEw in 1873 at Santiago, Cuba, is dead at Mobile.
 Elaine Goldinq, of Bath Beach sailed for Panama, where she will attempt r. NF Icv.ev Of New York, by swimming the canal, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 As Result of the Providence city authorities crusade for pure milk, eight rnfIkmen were brought into court yesterday charged with having aduiterated milk in their possession.
 A Permanent Fund for the care and protection of children in strike dis tricts is to be maintained after the first of the year, it was announced last night from socialist headquarters at New York.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has ac- cepted on behalf of the federation the offer of a building on the size of the Panama-Pacific exposition for a labor exhibit in 1915.
 Horace E. Montague, travelling pas senger agent for the Southern Pacific failroad was shot and killed by bandit in a Pullman car of the west bound Sunset express d few miles out of Los Angeles,
 Otto Fiaia Yesterday shot and killed his wife, at the home of her mother at South St Louis. and then shct himself. A physician who was called refused to attend Fiala, saying te deserved rC die.
 A Former New York Police captain, Dominick Riley. was indicted for bribery yesterday by the grand jury in connection with the alleged con- spiracy between the police and wire tapping swindlers.
 The State Veterinary Commission examined candidates for state certi- ficates at the capital yesterday. There were nine of them and all except three were from out of the state. The three included Philip E. Coventry of Put nam.
 The Purchase For $14o,ooo of the Veitch collection of liIacs and other plants, reputed to the finest collection in England, was announced by John K. M L. Farquah, president of the Massachusetts Horticultural society, on his return from London yesterday
 Governor Baldwin Yesterday ap- pointed B. c. Benedict of Greenwich to be yachting commissioner for Con- necttcut to act in conjunction with commissioners from other states to plan for international yachting in con nection with the Panama exposition.
 Dora Murff, IS Years Old was found guilty of manslaughter and her step father, J. $. Duvall was convict ed at Crowley. La. yesterday of first degree murder without capital pun ishment. They were charged with the killing of J. M. Delhaye, Miss Murff's sweetheart.
 Six Special Trains carrying Govern or James M. Cox and approximately 2,o00 boys and girls from the corn fields of Ohio are on their way to Washington and Philadelphia. They are the prize winning corn growers of the Buckeye state, and have been given the trip by the state.
 Mrs. Michael Fleming of North Adams, Mass, wrote a note to her huE- band telling him her body would be found in the river. kissed her eleven year old daughter good-by, hurried to the H6osac river and jumped in. Her pedy was found ia the water