Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-14


 the first steamboat into that port, died Saturday aged 100 years. Seven Million Parcel Post packages were handled in the Chicago post of flee during March the greatest num- Der for any city in the country. Secretary of State Bryan has let it be known that he is friendly to the merit system of appointment promo tion and tenure in the consular ser vice.
 The Residents of kaukauna, located on an island in the Fox river, have been warned to flee because of the condition of the Nenah and Kaukauna dams.
 President Wilson Has Received a mud turtle from Maryland by parcel post. The crustacean was turned loose in the grass in the rear of the White House. Contributions Amounting to $5o, GOO received Saturday by the American Red Cross brought the total fund for the relief of the flood sufferers up to $1, ,560,0 ,000.
 The Revenue Cutter Seneca, which is patroIling transatlantic steamship lanes on the lookout for icebergs, re- ported by wireless that no bergs had been sighted $40 miles southeast of NeWfoun diand.
 Governor Moorehead of Nebraska has approved the bill passed by the legislature which prohibits the mar riage of whites and any person who has one eighth or more of Japanese, Chinese or negro blood. Of the Losses to Livestock during the past year that sustained among swine was the heaviest and hog choi- W1S O of r cent. of the loss. according to the department of agriculture. War on the Fumes of Tobacco in the senate was begun again Saturday. by Senator Tillman, who introduced q resolution prohibiting smoking in the chamber or the bringing of a lighted cigar through the senate doors.
 pr. Thomas J. Kemp of Washing ton, convicted of sending improper 1 medical matter through the mails, was sentenced Saturday to two years in the penitentiary by Justice Stafford, of the district supreme court. While Attempting to Rescue her mother from their burning home on a farm near Adanac, Sask., Miss Sybil Henderson, principal of the Toronto Public schools, lost her life. Her mother also perished.
 Autographs of George III, signers of the Declaration of independence men prominent in colonial days, his torians and warriors, were contained in a volume bought by George D. Smith of New York for ss75 at pu6- lie action at Philadelphia.
 Charles F. Baker, Former Assista mt cashier of the Crocker National bank at San Francisco, pleaded guilty Sat urday to embezzlement on 40 counts in amounts not specified in the indict- ment. Judge Van Fleet deferred sen tence until Monday. April 21.
 Death in the Electric Chair at Co., lumbus Ohio. August Is next. was the sentence passed upon Frank Kinney, of Chicago, Saturday. Kinney was convicted of the murder of Ralph E. Byrns. retired lake captain, while he was committing burglary.
 Because Her Husband Insisted that she should not burn more than eight matches a day and a box of matches, therefore should last sixty-two days, Mrs. P E. Cornwell, wife of a Los Angeles clergyman, attempted to ob tain a divorce. The decree was de- nied.
 Reporting the Killing of two soil ors and the wounding of three other men from the United States cruiser California at Guaymas. Sonora, by MI M0XlCdn pOIIceHlen. AIueflCdI 1OASuI GilfoyIe, at Hermosillo- says the incl dent was due to the sailors being in toxicated and very disorderIy.'
 As Further Step in it's crusade against rats breeders of disease the United States public health service, through it's weekly health reports, Sat urday issued an appeal to property owners to "rat-proof'' structures now under construction and to transform buildings now erected so that rats and mice may be kept out.