Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-01-02

summer weather. which abruptly ter
an unusual cold spell that had
lasted for month
News Was Received at Beaufort. N.
c., yesterday of the loss of the power
houseboat Lunari and rescue of her
crew off Georgetown, s. c.
Three Locomotives of the Rutland
railroad were badly damaged in fire
yesterday that destroyed the round
house in Burlington, VT.
The Seaman's Institute of ST. Johns
N. B., founded by DR.. Grenfell, the
Labrador missionary, is free from all
debts. it was officially announced yes
terday.
For The Second Time within year
the building of the Maiden, Mass,
Young Mems Christian Association on
Pleasant street was damaged by fire
yesterday.
The First Real Cold Weather of the
present winter in Maine was expert
enced yesterday. The mercury in the
official thermometer in that city fell to
six above zero.
Mrs. Alexander Landau, wife of
St Louis fur dealer, lost or was rob
bed of a diamond bracelet valued at
SIC. 1000 between her home and a down
town theatre.
New Years day In The Capital
passed over without 81 White House
reception for the first time in more
than a century-for the first time since
President Monroe.
Two Thousand Eight Hundred calls
y
land Telephone company's wires be-
tween, half past twelve and one o'clock
yesterday morning.
Judge Edgar AIdrich of the United
States district court at Concord, n. H,
of his mother, Mrs. Adeline Bedel Al
drich,. at Pittsburg,' n. H.
Jim Jordan, White Man from
Groyeton. Ga. shot and killed his wife
and little daughter yesterday after
wounding white man and a negro.
Jordan is believed to be insane.
The Opportune Discovery by William
Regan a New Haven road brakeman
Of heavy timber laid across the
trolley tracks in Branford, yesterday
probably averted a serious accident
Seas That Washed one man from
the bridge to the deck and swept
two others aft from the bow Of the
vessel were met by the American liner
New York on Christmas eve after
leaving Queenstown.
While Her Parents were at work in
the mill. Armosa Berbard, 15. of Fall
River, was left to care for her sister.
Armosa's dress caught fire froru the
kitchen stove and she was so terribly
burned that she died.
The Situation At The Mills Of the
Sidney Blumenthal company at Shell
ton where about $50 silk weavers are
on strike for wage increase, was
quiet yesterday, the mills being shut
down forsthe holiday.
Eight Hundred And Forty miners
employed in the Black Diamond mines
of the Pacific coast coal company re-
fused to go to work yesterday. al
leging they were not properly safe
guarded in the workings.
Entering Restaurants and demand
ing food, breaking windows and punc-
turing automobile tires, a crowd OF
nearly five hundred unemployed men
early yesterday morning marched
through Chicago's business district.
The United Railroads. which ovns
many Of the San Francisco street car
lines, presented yesterday to 1857 of
Its employees, who have been with tha
company three or more years. life in
surance policies aggregating s1,25O. 600
General" Rosaiie Jones, the suffra-
gette leader, veteran of marches to
Washington and Albany. marshalIed
her soldiers at New York's norther-
most boundary yesterday and started
on another journey afoot to the state
capital.
Edwin p. Grosvenor, who for a. r,rrn- =
Der of years has been special assist
ant to the attorney general at WASH
fngton and special counsel In import
ant antitrust cases, yesterday re-
signed from the department of ms
tice, to engage in private law Practice
in New York.
while The Number of engineers.
hremen and trainmen ffuctuates mar
tieulariy with the amount OF freipbt :
business handled" an official state
ment from the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad says mo sweep-
ing reductlons IN working forces are
contemplated"
T. p Cook. General Manager of the
Western Division of the Western Tn
ION Telegraph company. with head =
quarters IN Chicago. retired yesterday
after being in the service of the com
pany nfty years. w. w. Ryder man
ager OF the railroad department viii
succeed Mr.. Cook.
The Massachusetts, Public Service
commission refuesed yesterday to an
prove the proposition of the Berkshire
Street Railway Company 10 bntId =
trolley line TO the summit of Crev-
lock Mountain. The commission found
that the road would cost 81, 100. coo anS
would not earn the interest on the
money
New Haven People Drop Dead.
New Haven, Conn, Jan. Two
persons dfopped dead in this city. on
New Years day. Mrs. Margaret earn
Warg, aged 3s. while hanging out
clothes in her yard. was seized with
neart disease and died instantly. Eu-
gene La Ffance. while drinking in 8
saloon in George street. fell "a tbs