Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-19

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There Were 2o6 Automobiles stolen in New York to date this year, of which 154 have been recovered.
 Woman Suffrage was favored by the New Hampshire state grange yester day by vote of 113 to 61.
 Harvard University and the Univer- sity of Chile are considering an annual exchange of professors and students.
 Mrs. Margaret Farrell was burned to death at Woonsocket, k. l., yesterday as the result of pouring kerosene on a fire.
 Will Davis Hayes, grandson of Jeff ferson Davis, and Miss Elizabeth Me Euen Davis, were married at Colorado Springs.
 Junus s. Morgan, son of the New York f1nancier, has been unanimously elected president of the Del Phic at Harvard.
 A Memorial Window has been erect ed in the church of the Messiah Rhinebeck, N. Ys by the widow of John Jacob Astor.
 Owing To The Condition of his health Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has concluded not to be a candidate for reelection.
 Perkins Carpenter, Aged 30, a town charge was burned to death yesterday in a small cottage at the New Hart ford AlmShouse.
 J. M. Davis, general superintendent or the Southern Pacific, has resigned to become general manager of an eastern railway.
 Mrs. Frank Etheridee of Thomaston was taken from an afternoon train at New Britain, and died a few minutes later in the station.
 More Than Three Million Bushels of grain is held for shipment from Port land Maine. The greater portion of it will be sent to Europe.
 A Jury To Try the white wife of Charlie Wing, a Chinese. for his mur- der, was completed in Judge McDon- aids court at Chicago, yesterday.
 Experts In The Signal Corps at the war department heard the report of the. successful bomb dropping by the Spanish aviators with keen interest 
 Owing To A Doctors Failure to recognize diphtheria germs in a patient 23 attendants of the Fordham Hospital in New York have been quarantined.
 Milo March Of Goshen, Ind, and now senior at Princeton University, was chosen yesterday as the Indiana recip- tent of the Rhodes scholarship at OK ford University, England.
 pr. William C. Bertrum, of the staff q T.T11rO foI of N. r., is dead from blood poisoning, resulting from pricking his finger with needle during an operation.
 An Official Statement from the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- fered in the fire at the Derby railroad station would not exceed $6,000.
 William R. George, founder of the George Junior Republic in Freeville, was condemned by the New York State Board of Charities because of alleged relations with girls in his institution.
 The Committee On Life Saving ap- pliances appointed by the International Congress on Safety at Sea have agreed upon their recommendations which will be submitted to the congress early in January.
 Edward F. Hitchcock, who was held in jail at Hudson Falls, N. Y, on a charge of murdering his brother-fn- law, Henry Norton, on a farm near there, recently, hanged himself yester- day in his cell. He made a rope of bed clothing.
 A Sweeping Declaration in favor of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines and an assertion that the Postal Service now is self supporting for the first time since 1883 are features of the annual report of Postmaster General Burleson.
 Raymond Harroun, Jr, ten year old son of Raymond Harroun, winner of the first 500 mile automobile race held at the Indianapolis motor speedway in 1911, died at a hospital at Indianapolis yesterday, the result of internal in- jur1es received when he was struck by an automobile.
 A Man Who Registered as Thomas Smith, Boston, at a Twenty seventh street hotel New York, Wednesday night was found dead in his room had burst. Letters and papers bore the name of David w. Lonergan of the Writers Club, Boston.
 Fernald w. EldrIdge was released yesterday from the county jail at Augusta, Me. where he had been held on suspicion since December z, when the bodies of his parents, MT. and Mrs W. B. Eldridge, were found in their partly burned home at West Gardiner The verdict of a coroner's jury was that both deaths were due to suffocation.
 Captain Louis Lane of the power schooner Polar Bear. which is frozen in the Arctic Ocean near Flaxman Is- land, arrived at Seattle from Valdez by steamer yesterday, accompanied by Eben Draper of Boston, son of Ex- Governor Draper of Massachusetts. Dunbar Lockwood, also of Boston. and Will T. Hudson, a newspaper photogra- pher.
 Under instructions from Secretary Garrison. Major Boggs chief purchas- ing agent of the Panama Canal com was in conference yesterday with officials of the department of jus tice regarding the charges that John F. Burke manager of the conmissary of the Panama Railroad. collected commissions on purchases made for the railroad.