Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-17

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 Mayor S. L. Shank, of Indianapolis, has signed a vaudeville contract be- ginning Jan. 1. 1914, when his term l expires.
 l Observations Extending over some 1 twenty years for parallax of fixed
 stars have been completed at Yale l observatory.
 Secretary of State Bryan has taken | Calumet house, owned by Mrs. John
 A. Logan, wife of Major General Lo- ! gan, as a residence.
 A Bill in the New York Senate pro- | Vides that hotel sheets be 91 inches 1 long and shall be washed and ironed 1 after being used once. 1 Waiter Beaton Was Burned to death Saturday in a fire that destroyed the ! home of John Norton, with whom Bea-
 ton lived at West Abingdon, Mass. In An Address Before the Westches- | ter, N. Y. Womens club the Rev pr. 1 H. H. Reatties denounced mothers who 1 permitted their daughters to paint 1 their faces.
 Because March 21 Falls upon Good I Friday, George and Charles Hum 1 phrey, Oregon murderers, have been l accorded an extra 24 hours of life by 1 Governor West.
 Jem Hall, Who on April g. 1898, | fought Bob Fitzsimmons at New Or leans. for a purse of s4o000, died Sat- urday at a tuberculosis sanitorium near l Stevens Point Wis.
 George King, Lcon Fixer in cot ton mill at Augusta, Me, jumped into | the kennebec river from the middle l of 8 highway bridge fifty feet above the river Saturday and was drowned. 1 E. B. Dunn, Spartanhurg, S. C., l wrote Police Commissioner Waldo
 asking for a polieemans job. He said | he is six feet, seven inches tall, weighs 1 2a5 pounds, wears a 15 shoe and is 23 years old.
 1 The Delaware Legislature passed a l marriage license measure which will 1 discourage elopers from seeking liz
 censes in that state. The old daws l made the state Gretna Green for 1 elOring couples.
 Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mors- 1 chauser has issued an order permit l ting counsel for Harry K. Thaw and Thaw's mother, to visit him at the 1 Matteawan asylum and consult with i him prfva tely.
 cipriano Castro. ex-president of Venezuela. sailed from Hoboken Sat
 urday for Hamburg. Then he ex- poets to go to Paris, and after a short
 stay there, to the Canary Islands. Overcome by Nexious Gases as he was descending 8 ladder in a sewer manho1e at Newark, N. J.. yesterday, Frederick Martin, 67 years old, fell into
 the water rushing in torrents through
 the six foot main, and was swept away to death.
 Edward S. Hesner, Chief of the Lowell fire department for thirty years. believed to be one of the oldest fire chiefs in point of actual service in America. has given notice of his in- tention to retire from active service May 1st.
 The Nomination of John Burke, for mer governor of North Dakota, to be treasurer of the United States, was sent to the senate by President Wil- son Saturday. Burke was a candi- date for the presidential nomination in the democratic convention.
 The residence at South Bethlehem, Pa, of Charles M Schwab. president of the Bethlehem Steel company. was robbed Friday night. MT. Schwab's 1ewelry estimated at more than a thou said dollars were taken.
 Preliminary to the Celebration of
 l uSS0dy ICAl, Wn6H Inc DiTLED1aC& OL Grover Cleveland. at Caldwell, N Y, will be turned over to the Grover Cleveland Memorial association, ser vices were held last night in the old First Presbyterian church there.
 The 26 Paintings by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife sof the president which had been on sale in the gallery of the Arts and Crafts guild in Phil adelphia for several weeks were Sat urday boxed and sent to Washington, no offers for their purchase having been received.
 Governor CoIquitt of Texas has or dered that a. sentence of thirty days In jai1 imposed on Ferris Price, four teen years old, be deferred until July to give him time to determine whether Ferris should receive this punishment for kissing a school girl friend.
 Lieutenant Governor Barrett O'Hara, chairman of the Illinois senate com mittee Investigating the white slave" evil in Illinois. has received letters from the governors of twelve states offering to cooperate with him in ev- cry possible way to suppress the traf- f1c in women and kindred evils.