Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-27

United States senatorial contest in favor of his friend, Senator Brandegee.
 William Slater, five years old, of Perth Amboy, N. J., is dead from burns received while playing Indian. The other boys burned him at the stake"
 Special Sunday dinners, with delica- cieS are to be served to prisoners in New York Sta%e prisons, beginning next week.
 The new municipal charter of the City of Cleveland was yesterday de- clared constitutional by the Ohio su- preme court
 The Methodist church at Ormsby, Pa, a small town near Bradford, was completely destroyed by an explosion of dynamite yesterday.
 The recent advance of the price of seats on the New York Stock Exchange was carried further yesterday with the sale of a seat at $50000
 Ninety grains of qunine, self pre- scribed for chills and fever, caused to- tai blindness to Charles Pitsmeyer at Camden, N. J., yesterday.
 Advices from China to Catholic off, cials at San Francisco, tell of the death of Father Francis Bernat, 8 Franciscan missionary at the hands of Chinese fanatics.
 President Wilson granted Miss Ethel PFobst of Parsons, Kan permission to take her pet dog into Yellowstone Park. despite the rule prohibiting dogs in the reservation.
 Liberty E. Holden, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, hotel and mine owner died at his suburban home in Bratenahl, O.. yesterday of a eomp1ica- tien of diseases
 Arthur EEdredee, a chauffeur em- ployed at a garage Tn Whitefield, N. H., was killed near Lancaster, N H., yes- terday by the overturning of an auto mobile he was driving Twenty one persons were injured in a wreck of a mixed train on the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railway near Bremo, Va, yesterday afternoon. Spreading ] rails caused the accident. William Cook a farmer of Smyrna, Tenn, found his wife murdered on the and in a nearby room the body of his 1 niece, Miss Lucy Stanford. A sentence of death yesterday was pronounced upon Leo M. Frank con- victed at Atlanta, Ga, Monday of murdering Mary Phagan. His execu- ton was set for October 10. Joe McNeeley, nssro who shot and wounded a policeman at Charlotte, N. C., last week, was taken from the jail where he was guarded by police, by a mob yesterday and shot to death. William J. Macdonald, progressive, was seated yesterday by the house to 1 fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Representative H. Olin
 Young of the Twelfth Michigan dis trict.
 | Twenty acres of buildings were burned over and approximately s500.- 900 damage was done by fire which swept the Trinity and Brazor Valley railroad shops at Teague. Texas yes terday.
 Milk for the "Mddies" now is as- sured for the United States Naval Academy through the selection of a
 700 acre dairy farm only few miles from the historic buildings at Annapo- lis, Md,
 Chief of Police Crowley of Newport, R. l. found upon investigation yester- 1 day he reports, that only soft drinks were being sold at the Casino where | the national tennis championships were in progress.
 l An increase of 3.e per cent in the
 production of wheat in the principal
 wheat producing countries of the northern hemisphere is reported by cable to the United States department of agriculture.
 Mu- | a,.;ea q direct descendant of Roger Williams and the oldest living member of the ] Daughters of the American Revolution
 celebrated her 1O7th birthday at Wor- cester, yesterday.
 l Bishop BonaVenture Frederick wins his suit in the Superior Court, at Kart ford, brought against his brother Davic
 A. Frederick of Hartford, although the damages awarded are cut down to one
 quarter the amount asked.
 Two counterfeit $1o national banI
 notes have made their appearance ant the secret service force of the govern ment is hot on the trail of the mer who are thus seeking to increase the
 volume of paper currency.
 Howard M. Biscoe, traffic manage1 of the New York Central Railroad, has been elected vice president of the roao in charge of the Boston and Albany division to succeed Vice President
 James H. Hustis (resigned). Newt Lee, negro watchman at the National Pencil factory, at Atlanta, Ga.
 was released from jail yesterday Let
 was arrested immediately after he haC
 reported the finding of the Phagar girls body in the factory basement Damage estimated at $35,00O resulted
 yesterday from a fire in the center o1 Bethel, Conn, in which a factory build. l ing, occupied by the Bethel Electric Sign company, and two dwellings were destroyed, and several others damaged
 A joint resolution requesting Presi dent Wilson to negotiate with the
 British and Canadian governments tc establish railroad connections between the United States and Alaska was in. i troduced yesterday by Representative l Johnson of Washington.
 l Mrs. Williaa Veiie, wife of the pres ident of the yelia Motor company 0. l Moline, Ill, was held at New YorI yesterday in s1 900 bail for the actioI
 of the federal grand jury upon charges
 of having failed to declare s9. GOO wortI of jeweiry. linen and cut glass brough into the country by her on her arriva
 from Europe recently.