Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-17

 Mass, estimate that more than 5O,0OO barrels of unpicked berries were des- troyed by recent storms and cold weather
 President Wilson Made these nomin- ations yesterday: U. $. Judge of Con necticut, Edwin H. Thomas, and U. $. Marshal District Rhode Island, John J. Richards.
 Theo. Gus, Official Garbage col lector for Ansonia was held up at the point of a gun yesterday by two high waymen. MT. Gus escaped by run l ming away.
 The Commission on Civil Service met yesterday at the capitol to ar | range for examinations of persons to 1 find the most suitable to act as secre- tary and chief examiner.
 George A. Lippincott, of Whining ton. Del, was elected supreme chief | of the Knights of the Golden Eagle at the annual session yesterday of the 1 supreme body of the order.
 The House of Deputies of the | Protestant Episcopal church, in trien- l niaI general convention a t New York, voted yesterday to hold the next gen 1 eral convention at St. Louis, in 1916, Twenty Catholic Nuns, members of l the Sisterhood of the Incarnate Word, | are among the refugees now enroute 1 from Tampico, Mexico, to Galveston, l Texas, on the oil tanker Hainant and l Waneta.
 President Wilson Yesterday pardon 1 ed Thomas P. Bowman of Wahpeton, l N. D., sentenced in June, 1913, to five | years Imprisonment for embezzlement from the Citizens National bank of i WhapetOn.
 Senator Maritime of New Jersey l yesterday urged the senate to recom- mend repeal of the -Pauncefote 1 Panama treaty with Great Britain on the ground that it interferes with too ] many American rights.
 Irving Hunter, an interpreter of the 1 Cunard line, returned to the owner l S1,600 he had found. % The owner of fered 25-cent reward. When Hunt CT refused, the owner raised it to $1O, which he also refused
 A Convict in the State Refornatory at Jeffersonville Ind, has confessed that he murdered Florence Brown, the Dallas, Texas, stenographer who on July 28 last was found in an office there with her throat cut.
 In Advancing Compulsory Voting | Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan iels in the Yale News, says we have come to a time in our national life l when the compulsory ballot must at 1 least be given fair test A Revolver Left Lying on bureau proved fatal to six-year- old Albert Dryer of Middleboro, Mass. While playing in the bedroom he caught | Gicrbf of inc and N1Il1o6 ho trigger, causing instant death.
 The Body of Thomas ShortoIff, reputed to be one of the wealthiest citizens of Westport, who died at his winter home in New York from an to Westport yesterday for burial.
 In Order to Prevent a Trolley Car | from breaking through the ranks of 8 suffrage parade in Binghamton, N. 1 Y, Mrs. G: Topliff, placed an AmeFi- l can flag on the tracks and dared the motorman to run over it He didn't
 William, Keith of Chicago, was told by his wife that Walter Paul a grocery clerk, had attacked her. Keith 1 lay in wait for Paul yesterday and shot and killed him, Keith telephoned the police of his act and was arrest ] eC
 
 Every Movement of the Dancers in cafes and theatres of Chicago where ] the Tango is danced will he closely ! watched oy q committee Of the city 1 council, appointed to pLecure sugges- tions for the framing of a Tango or din9ncc."
 Louis Vahoone Shot His Wife, per haps fatally at New Bedford yester- day and then killed himself The couple had been living apart and the shooting was the result of an fnef- fectual attempt at reconciliation by the husband.
 With a s10.ooo Dovvry and the most elaborate wedding ceremony of the season in Portland Miss RosaEand Conn, daughter of Coon Dip Chinese vice consul at Seattle, Wash. yester- day became the bride of Lew Geate Kay of Seattle,lat Portland, Ore.
 The lsthrnian Canal mission, desirous of securing the most dura- ble possible wood for use in construct Ing docks and like works in the Pana- ma canal, has requested the forest service to send an expert to British Guiana to inspect greenheart timber,
 One Man Was Shot and probably fa- tally wounded, another was seriously hurt when struck on the head with aS stone and II others were arrested the result of a fierce fight in the heart 1 af the business district of Indianapolis between union and non union street railway employees
 President Wilson Yesterday com Ihuted the sentence of hiehAfd c. l Neal holder of the Kings medal and other insignia of bravery in the Trans ] Vaal war, who has been serving q life ] FRbH1nE q post office and raIlroad station at 1 ClaFingten, ". Va, Dee. a2 1907
 tieAry 6. Farr, Saloon proprietor was killed and Alfred C, 1Ieglund and Thomas G. Simmons were probably fatally injured when they were run 1 ever near Foster. nine miles seuth of 1 Seattle by racing aut teraahile driven | hy Lawrence Duke, said to he 2 nephew of James E. Duke, president of the American Tobacco company