Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-19


 the Philippines.
 Crops Were Seriously Damaqed when a thunder and lightning storm. accom- panied by hail and high wind swept the New Jersey coast.
 Twelve Buildings at Monticello. N. 1.' were destroyed by fire. Mrs. Wolfe overturned an oil stove while spanking her son. Loss. $T5,0OO.
 Henry Wade Rogers, Dean of the cred the commencement address at Indiana university yesterday.
 The Heating Power of Gas, rather than candlepower, should be made the basis of gas rating, according to the united States bureau of standards.
 Victor H. OImstead, chief of the de- partment of agricultures bureau of statistics, was suspended yksterday pending an investigation of his office.
 Wesleyan University yesterday con- Ierred degrees in courses upon ninety SIX men, the largest class at any com mencement in the 1nstitution's history.
 Class of 63 was graduated from Middlebury college. Middlebury. Vt yesterday with the degree of bach eior of arts. Seven honorary degrees were conferred.
 There Were 52 Graduates at the 6s4h commencement of Beloit Wis. college yesterday The address was by Pro lessor George D. Adams of Yale uni versity, Beloit '73.
 The New York Public Service Com mission has ordered 8 hearing June 24 as to whether or not passengers should be permitted to ride on rear platforms of elevated trains
 Tufts College Graduated a class of 244 yesterday. Several honorary de- grees were conferred. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary was made an honor ary doctor of laws
 Seven Hundred Troopers of the Tenth cavalry stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, arrived at Hubbardton, Vt. yes terday on the way from their post to Fort Winchester. Va.
 Mrs. Theodore BIodeau, Wife of g. contractor of SherbrooIxe Canada was Killed and her sister Jaw injured by the explosion of a bomb, which they had received through the mails.
 Edward Light of Danbury, sign painter working for a motorcycle com pany in Darien committed suicide when he jumped from the Darien railroad platform in front of the 115 local for New York.
 A Faithful Dog Tried to seize Mrs. Annie Casey when she leaped from the fourth floor of a Brooklyn tenement yesterday and both woman and ami nal JySSI1r.Z ZI walk below.
 If Your Butter Tastes metallic" or "ofly'' or "fshy" it is almost a cer- tatni that your grocer has un1oaded storage" butter on you, according to the bureau of animal industry of the agricultural department.
 Fred L. Benn who until recently was a clerk in the Augusta, Me- past office. fatally shot himself is the temple yes terday after purchasing a revolver and locking himself in 8 small room in the railroad station at Gardiner
 Over Quarter of a Million dollars worth of sole leather belonging to the Vaughn Leather company, in It's plant at Salem. Mass. was practically wiped out by fire yesterday, the total loss to the company being $35O,000
 Gov. Baldwin Yesterday Definitely notified the Gettysburg semi-centen- nial commission that he will attend the celebration and that his personal escort will be Adjutant General George M. Cole and Major Charles D. Pinney.
 Nine Men Noted in the World of science and letters, among them George Washington Goethals. chief en- gineer of the Panama canal. were given honorary degrees at the 157th com nencement of the University of Penn sylvania.
 Posters Calling Mass Meeting for today and bearing the headline Give me liberty or give me death-Patrick Henry were pasted at Tokio yester- day by agitators on some walls in the vicinity of the United States embassy and at other points in the Japanese capital.
 An Operation Which the surgeons declare will make a good boy of eight year-old Claire H. Jamieson, was per formed in the West Philadelphia hom- eopathic hospital when a piece of bone about two inches long and one inch wide, was removed from the boys skull.
 A Petition for Receiver fbo the SouLH0En 4NGW E1nSIanu TallTIOdQ was filed in the Massachusetts supreme court yesterday on behalf of John Marsch, one of the contractors for the proposed line between Providence and Palmer. Action was postponed until June 24.
 Work on the Foundations for the beautiful fountain to be erected at Washington to the memory of Major Archibald w Butt, military aide to a.. .EaH... .Ea- "