Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-13


 The American, cocoanut Butter Co.'s plant at Chicago was destroyed by fire Loss, $150,000.
 Two men were slightly injured when a passenger train was derailed near Whitman, Mass.
 Three tenement buildings in Canal street, Jersey City were destroyed by fire. Loss, $30.0O0.
 Agnes Marck, 12 years old, of Chiea- go, was seriously burned by the acid from the interior of a golf ball.
 The ham sandwich, long the friend of the man with niclkle, has scared to the ten-cent class at Alton, Mo.
 Eight above freezing point was reg istered at Canton, N. Y, Several points above 100 were registered in Kansas.
 A Revolver that refused to go off on schedule cost the life of 17-year- old Leo La Mathe of Burlington, Vt.
 James Caldwell, an aeronaut, fell 100 feet from his ballon at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo-, and was unhurt
 A pig, with an elephants trunk in
 
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 o. p. Davis, was burned to death at Troy, Ala, when a tire burst on his automobile causing it to overturn and catch fire.
 George Snyder, an aviator, is in serious condition in a New York hos pital after accidentally taking strych- nine tablets.
 James Coombs, an engineer was electrocuted at Norfolk, Neb., when he fell on a live wire while sleeping in power house.
 Judge RosaIsl<y of New York de- cided that the Board of Education had the power to enforce vaccination in public schools
 Frank Crowley, a farmer of Law renceville, Pa., saved a horse from bleeding to death by applying a spid- Ier's web to the wound.
 Col. F. S. Cody, who was killed at Aldershot, Aug. ', in an aeroplane ac- cident, was buried in that city with full military honors. Five persons were injured when a Broadway trolley ran into Ralph Av- enue car at the Brooklyn tower of the Williamsburg Bridge. W. G. MoAdoo, Jr, son of the Score tary of the Treasury, and Jessie Hoyt, left New York on a horsebck trip to Fort Apache, Arizona. Lightning struck and instantly killed 40 hogs which had sought shelter un- der tree on Robert Neizlejohn's farm near Fond du Lac, Wis. Joseph kupperman, 23 years old, was sentenced to Il months imprisonment for stealing baby carriages during the last three years in New York city. Jacob Fredgood, raincoat manufac- for having the doors of his factory locked while employees were working.
 The fishing sIoop Helen, with 30 on board, was blown ashore in a storm off Romer Shoals, l.. I. The occupants were forced to remain aboard all night. Miss Elizabeth MiskeII, 25 years old, of Philadelphia, attempted suicide fol- lowing a spell of despondency believed to have been caused by thunder storm.
 Clyde McIachIin, an ice dealer of New York city, was fined $100 for short weight in selling ice. This is the first conviction of an ice dealer for short weight.
 The Babies Welfare Association's report shows that 100 fewer babies months of 1913 than in the same period last year.
 Harold s. Warner, real estate brok- CT of Buffalo, and his father-in- law, Charles Calkins were killed when their automobile was struck by a Nickel Plate passenger train.
 The New York state peace flag, sym boIic of rainbow, is on exhibition in the New York City Hall. It was made for presentation at the Hague Peace Temple dedication Aug. 29.
 Residents in the Fountain River district of Colorado have been notified to move to higher ground, as the water in the river has reached the danger point after recent cloudbursts.
 A petition asking the removal of three of five commissioners and charg- ing incompetency and failure to per- form their duties, was filed with the City Clerk of Long Branch, N. J.
 Della Hanson, 2e, of Hartford taken to a Bridgeport hospital to be immedi- ately operated upon for acute appendi- citis became delirious from alcoholism and resisted the assembled surgeons.
 OrviIIe Wright has finished the con- struction of hydroaeroplane which he claims will exceed the speed of an ex- press train. He expects to use it to transport mails over inaccessible in- land waterways
 A large force of special officers have been put in service on the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Norfolk & Western Railroads, in West Virginia, in an eff fort to capture the thieves who stole $100,000 in merchandise.
 lightning struck Thomas Nevins, of Conshohocken, Pa, while he was bath ing and melted silver wire which was holding his knee cap in place following an injury sometime ago. The opera ton will be repeated !, Representatives of the workmen en1- plCyed in the shops of the Delaware & Hudson railroad company are in con- ference with company officials in an effort to secure an eight-hour working day and an increase in wages of from three to s.s cents an hour