Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-12

The Hickox and French Bennett i business blocks in Oneida, N. Yr were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss s2oo,ooo.
 Government Ownership or Control
 of telegraph lines is again reeom-' mended by Postmaster General Hitch cock. in his annual report.
 The Delaware House Of Reprssents-
 tives yesterday passed a bill propos \ amendment to the state constitution ] by vote of 23 to 3.
 1 The Hotel Sutherland at Wjnripea, 1 Man, was destroyed by fire yesterday.
 ployes. were rescued from the upper windows by the f1remen. 1 4 Bill to Regulate the interstate
 shipment of dynamite and other high 1 explosives or dangerous articles has been introduced in the senate by Sem fator C1app of Minnesota
 Six Thousand Members of the In | ternational Ladies Garment Workers work Thursday morning under an agreement reached yesterday.
 President elect Wilson Yesterday was elected honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America at the third annual meeting of the national coun cfl of that organization at New York. l There Was Again No Choice when l the New Hampshire legislature voted for United States senator at noon yeS- | terday. Henry F. Hollis, dem, with POI, lacked seven votes of an election. l Mrs. Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennes- see, wife of former secretary of war, | appealed to the house judiciary. com | mittee yesterday to favor Legislation l to prevent dissertation of the American flag.
 By Vote of 30 to 37 the house of l Minnesota legislature yesterday adopt ed suffrage bill which gives to the male voters of the state the right to determine whether women shall have the right of the ballot.
 Women Who Will Represent Illinois
 in the suffrage parade in Washington
 on March 5. will wear a uniform con- ering the gown to the hem, cream and
 yellow toque, stole and huff. The Conviction of Daniel o'ReiIIy, l former assistant district attorney of New York, who was sentenced to the , penitentiary for five months for re- l ceiving stolen property. was affirmed l yesterday by the court of appeals. James A. Patten, the Cotton and grain speculator. pleaded guilty in the 16Qefdl court al New I Ofk yesterday I to six counts in an indictment charg- l ing him with restraint of trade. Judge i Mayer imposed a fine of $4,00o, which l was paid.
 The Ceremony of Turning the first sod toward the building of the Harry E. Widener memorial library at Har- | yard which Mrs. George E. Widener of Philadelphia will erect in memory of her son, Titanic victim, took place 1 yesterday.
 Two BattIeships ir This Years naval | appropriation bill were determined l upon yesterday by the house naval af-
 fairs committee byFa vote of 14 to z. Six destroyers. four submarines, one supply ship and one transport will also l be provided.
 Reduction in Fares Charged to, com
 muters between Westchester county. l points, N. Y. and New York city. by l the New York Central and the New i York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
 roads have been ordered by the prb- | lie service commission.
 The Clayton Resolution for con- 1 stitutional amendment for a six year
 single presidential term effective in
 welt from it's operation, was deferred for the next congress yesterday by the
 house judiciary committee.
 
 fessed today to wrecking a passenger
 train on the Chicago and Nortfw estern | railroad near Menominee, Mich, last
 Saturday night: He n put M two iron ,r. cattle the train would cut them in two. The State Gas and Electric Light l commission, of Massachusetts, Is re- 1 strained from enforcing it's order that | the HaverhiiI Gas Light company re-
 duce the price of gas from s5 cents ! to 80 cents per thousand feet, by an
 order made by the United States court l Medals of Honor for 1912 have been l awarded by the navy department to l George E. Ernest formerly of Balti- | more and Marion H. Kirk. formerly of 1 Omaha, Neb., apprentice seamen, who | attained the highest averages in com | petitiye examination in the duties of
 their rating.
 A Three Inch Nut placed in one of 1 the switches at Bowdoin Siding, Maine. | for the purpose it was alleged, of de-
 railing the morning passenger train, 1 caused the derailment of the engine of 1 a freight train from Houlton yesterday and the blocking of traffic for nearly
 eight hours.
 Two Distinct Earth Shocks were felt 1 at Millinocket. Me, Monday. The con
 crete foundation of the Catholic church l was cracked in several places, clocks
 in houses were stopped articles were
 shaken from shelves and 300 yard l rift was opened in the frozen ground | near the center of the village.
 Business was Suspended for fifteen minutes in the house yesterday while l Representative Hefiin of Alabama paid a tribute to Lester Bfyan,x q Ken ! lucky boy, accidentally asphxxiated several weeks ago when he came i to Washington as one sfAfifty prize
 winners of the American Boys Corn ] Growers club.
 Seized With a Sudden Mania Ralph l ViIiiers. the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad station agent at
 East Freetown, Mass. fired upon an l incoming train yesterday wounding i two persons in the crowd on the plat l form, Charles Mawhinney was shot ! through the hip and Harris c, Chase received a bullet in the foot. Rlotins Followed an Attempt of 1 striking garment workers and sym l pathizers to prevent others from going l to work in g. Washington street ta.il- bring establishment in Boston yester- day morning One man, Benjannin Wineberg, 72 years old was badly in