Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-15

Word has been received at Chicago that Jack Johnson has become citizen of France and would make his home in Paris.
 J. C. Tracy of Wilimantic was elected a member of the executive committee of the Connecticut Optical Society yesterday.
 The new express rates recently pre- scribed by the inter- state commerce commission will become effective on December instead of today.
 George Wheeler FIinman, former editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean was inaugurated yesterday as the seventh president of Marietta college.
 At least a dozen women wearing
 aigrettes were unmolested by cus- New York on the steamship Rotter- dam.
 The Dutch standard in the exami- nation of imported sugars was abol ished yesterday by a treasury depart ment order. in accordance with the new tariff law.
 When told that her dog ''Poodles" would have to ride in a baggage car Mrs. J. c. Wilkeshire. of Kansas City, abandoned her proposed trip to south ern California.
 Ralph Rose, worlds champion shot butter, is fighting for his life in hospital at San Francisco against typhoid fever with which he was stricken a few days ago.
 President Wilson purchased a new h aTrf.In For. oh (t,-or /,t.1 thC messenger boy who ran into the Pres ident's automobile and ruined his own newly bought machine.
 Fenwiek UmpIeby, principal of the Bradford Durfee Textile School in died suddenly at his home following a shock of paralysis,
 Petitions were filed with the city clerk of Oklahoma City, Okla, Mon day asking for the recall of the city commissioners and for the commis- sion form of government.
 William H. Hill, a member of the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co.,, one of the oldest brokerage houses in Bos- ton, died at his home in Brookhne yesterday after a brief illness.
 The home of Rev. John F. Nichols, an Episcopal clergyman of Portland, Conn, was burned yesterday with practically all of it's contents The loss is estimated at about $25,O0O.
 Alden N. Reynolds, a merchant of Essex, Conn, whose automobile struck and killed Jacob N. Miller in Clinton last August, was yesterday sentenced to jail for three months.
 Charles FIoane, committed suicide at Limestone, Me-, yesterday by shoot ing himself through the heart with a 3S-calibre revolver. Domestic trOu- hles are said to be the cause of the act.
 Six persons were injured, two of them quite badly Tuesday when heavy plate glass window in the Hall and Lewis block at Meriden in course of erection was blown out by a gale of wind.
 j. Herbert Sawyer, inventor of a spindle which played an important part in the development of the cotton manufacturing industry in this cour try, died at his home at Boston Mon day.
 Fire, famed by high wind, des- troyed Simonds Hotel, the Grange Hall, and the house and store of Ii. l.. Sawyer at Smithfeld, Me, yester- day, besides damaging nearby prop erty.
 Charles Peter Clark, son of former president Charles P. Clark of the New York, New Haven x Hartford railroad was engaged by the Massachusetts Public Service Commission yesterday as it's railroad expert.
 
 Mary Palsch, 20 years old. dis appeared Saturday from her home al Bridgeport, and her mother asserts 3 married man, has accompanied her out of town with deliberate intent to abandon hls wife and child.
 Former personal tax collector Jos eph Gainty of the town oR Rranford was yesterday sentenced by Judge l.. F. Burpee of the superior court to one year in Jail for embezziemsnt of $S86 of the funds of the town on May 9, 1912.
 High school fraternities In Illinois were given a death blow by a decision in the appellate court yesterday up holding the right of school boards to 1 expe1 all pupils refusing to obey rules 1 prohibiting them from joining fra ternlties.
 A newly discovered case of Iepresy | at Los Angeles, Gala, reported to the l public health service yesterday is | taken to confirm Surgeon General | Blues declaration that more lepPosy | exists in the United States than is l known.
 Chids Prick, son of Henry c. Prick. | of Pittsburgh, and New York, and | Miss Frances Shoemaker Dixon. | daughter of the late Isaac H. Dixon, | of Baltimore, were married at Old St. l Paufs Protestant Episcopal church at | Baltimore, yesterday.
 Mrs. Rebeeea Strauss, a widow. and Miss Ida Yearly. both of Baltimore and patients at Eidgemere sanitariuna at GoVaHs, a Baltimore suburb. were burned to death in fire of unknown origin which destroyed the interior of he building yesterday.
 James Thorpe, the Sac and Fox ndian from Oklahoma, worlds great est athlete and a member of the New Y York National League baseball team | was married at Carlisle Pa, yester- lay in St. Patrick's church to Mar yaret Iva Mueller, q native of Okla lop7a and q forner student q the Carlisle Indian Schoel which Thorpe 1 attended.