Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-27

D. w. Brown, of Denver, presented his newly married daughter with a check for S150,000 and a necklace, l valued at $16,000.
 Miss Clara Pause, a Is year old Chicago girl, celebrated Christmas by taking long swim in the icy waters of Lake Michigan.
 Mrs. Elizabeth crotsley, of Fair mount, N. J., was rescued from cis- tern after being imprisoned in five feet Of water for two days. Miss Ramoia Dahlgren, grand daughter of the late Rear Admiral Dahlgren, U. s. A., will soon become a deaconess of the Protestant Episco- pal church.
 Arthur Beers Treat, of the contract ing firm of Sperry and Treat, and widely known as a contractor, throughout the state, died at New Ha- ven yesterday.
 A Tragedy Marked the close of Christmas in Lincoln, Neb. when Carl F. Carlson, at midnight shot and kill ed his mother whom he says he mis- took for a burglar.
 Miss Julia Kern, daughter of United
 
 W. Kern of Indiana, became the bride | Christmas of Dr. George Bl Lawson 1 of Roanoke, Va.
 Mrs. Finley J. Shephard and William and John D. Rockefeller gave gold 1 pieces to thef remployes at Irvington, 1 N. T., and to the telephone operators | at Tarrytown, New York. A Bomb Believed to have been placed l under their bed by a black handler, l blew off the legs of Mrs. $. Johnson | and her 11-year-old daughter in their home at Des Moines, Iowa.
 Arthur and Irving Kelley, young sons of Ira Kelley, a sea captain, were drowned in Narraguagus river at Mill bridge, Maine, yesterday when their 1 skin was sunk in choppy sea.
 Out of Total of 1,743 casualties at ] sea during the fiscal year ending June 30 last, the highest in the history of the life saving service, only 69 vessels were lost and 73 persons were drown | ed.
 Mrs. George H.. Thompson of Gin l cinnati, national treasurer of the Wo- mems Society of the Methodist church, was found dead Friday in her bed at | the home of her daughter at Dayton, Ohio.
 Charles C. MaIIey a well known waiter in a Hartford hotel was caught l between two trolley cars yesterday, and is in hospital with a broken | collarbone, dislocated shoulder and probable internal injuries.
 w. A. Frazer of Dallas, Texas, sovereign adviser of the order, will automatically succeed J. Cullen Root, l sovereign commander of the Wood men of the World, who died Wednes- 1 day at Hendersonville. N. c.
 Damage Estimated at between ST. 1 900 and $S,000 resulted yesterday from 1 fires in two adjacent saloons at New l Milford on Bank street. The saloon 1 of Henry Donnelly was completely burned out while that of Gustav Carl | son was damaged.
 Approximately s7,oco Emergency men were employed by the postoffice 1 department to work the holiday mails. The railway mail service, usually op- erated by 18000 men, was increased | to 32,000 and the clerical force was in- 1 creased from 65,000 to 88,000 men.
 Two Thousand Dollars, the receipts or Christmas day, was stolen from the 1 box office of the Orpheum theatre at 1 New York early yesterday by four men who hid under the balcony seats l after Thursday nights performance and surprised the night watchman
 A Silver Dollar bearing date of 1904, highly prized by nuismatics, and un- l derstood to be quoted at $3500 for col- 1 lection purposes was found at New Ha- ! ven yesterday by William Sullivan a la 1 borer while excavating on the site of ! the new ice rink for the Yale Hockey l team. A Philadelphia collector has of l fered $200O for it.
 George Wilson. of Mount Vernon N, r, is in a serious condition II the hos 1 pta1 as the result of an electric shock. He was working on the overhead eIec-