Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-02

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 Cincinnati voted in favor of new charter.
 A 25 cents ton advance on. coal took effect in Boston yesterday
 More than 16,ooo persons are affected by a strike in 64 textile factories in Spain.
 About 2,50o pounds of hog castings were seized in Chicago under the pure food law by Federal authorities.
 Helen Cummings, 17 years old, at tempted suicide in Yonkers, by drink ing hair dye. She will probably re- cover.
 The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance restricting carbaret shows and prohibiting dancing in restau- rants.
 robbed for the sixth time in six years. The invaders escaped with $500 in stamps.
 Herbert Feidn1ier netted live duck, while grabbing at -Sayville, l.. l. The duck had submerged itself to avoid the surface rush. Twelve children at play have been burned to death in Brooklyn this sum mer while wearing fringed Indian and cowboy suits.
 The first of the Long Island crop of from the estate of w. J. Baker at Freeport L. l. Investigation of the hard coal trust Was proposed in a resolution yester~ day by Representative Murray, uf Massachusetts. Traffic through the American and Canadian locks of the Soo Canal for the fiscal year ended June 30 amounted to 72,472,676 short tons.
 Nearly a million dollars is left to Milliken University, H., by Mrs. Anna B. Milliken, widow of James Milliken, founder of the institution. A referendum by post card is being held in Wilmette H., to decide whether the Northwestern Elevated Railroad may construct in that village. The steamer Erik, with the Donald i B. MacMillan Arctic expedition o,I board, sailed from St. Johns, N. F., for Crocker Land yesterday.  l A bolt of lightning yesterday after noon set fire to the home of Adolph Schinman in King Road, Bristol, Conn, and it was burned with contents.
 Four thousand employees of the Met ropolitan Street Railway of Kansas l City, Mo-, will receive 8 per cent. in crease in wages taking effect yester- day.
 The present model of rifle used by the United States army should have l life of usefulness of at least ten years in the opinion of the ordinance off, Cers.
 l A creditors petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States district court at Providence yesterday. against the Consumers Rubber Co., of Bristol, R. l.
 Lawrence J. eoodaIe, the oldest practicing lawyer in Northern New terday at the age of ninety eight | years.
 William Vincent Astor will pay the 1 state of New York a tax of $2,7411, ,833 upon his inheritance of $8S, ,959, 1899 from the estate of his father, the late John Jacob Astor l
 The historic old elm trees in the White House grounds which were blown over in Wednesdays storm will not be reset. Instead younger trees will be planted.
 Mrs. Fannie Castagram of Hartford, is in St Francis hospital with two serious wounds in the thigh, inflicted she declares by a fork in the hands i of her husband.
 William R. cIough, first vice-pre 1 dent and a member of the executive l committee, is to be the successor of Howard Elliott as head of the North ern Pacific railway. i Samuel B. Ham, national bank ex- ! aminer for the Baltimore and Wash ington district, has resigned. He will 1 become connected with the Fidelity Trust Go. of Baltimore. ] The District of Columbia commis- ] sioners sent to Congress a recommen- dation that inebriates and drug users, upon being convicted. be sent to Federal hospital and forced to work.
 The home of Mayor Stevenson If 1 Highwood, Ills. was destroyed by fire i yesterday, It is believed to have been due to incendiarism melted by the mayors recent opposition to "hliEd l pig in the village. 1 Mary, 7-year old daughter of Anton Erickson of the township of Bristow, ] Wis, died yesterday from the effects l of a rattlesnake bite. The child was attacked by the reptile while she was | picking blackberries.
 Public gifts amounting to s645, 900 and a bequest of $tOO,000 to her nurse
 were contained in the will of Mrs
 Jane F. Brown, of Providence Mrs. Brown, widow of Joseph R. Brown
 left an estate valued at $1,200000.
 The mere shortage of ice is not just