Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-28
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 Practical Agreement was reached yesterday by tAe conference committee on the Alaska Railroad bill.
 A Two Row Necklace of 13s gradu- ated pearls was sold for $11,6oO ad an auction at Christies, London.
 A General Strike of all the trunk makers in St. Louis, numbering 1000 men and women, is threatened.
 Elmer Bennett, deaf for several years had his hearing restored, when kicked by a mule at Georgetown, Del.
 pr. Harvey w. Wiley has been pre- sented with a second son. Ills weigh ed ten pounds and will be named John Preston
 The Thompson House, a large wood en three story summer hotel. at Lake Mohopak, N. Y, was partially burned yesterday.
 Married Women Are Barred from appointment to the Pittsburgh police force, according to regulations issued yesterday.
 State Treasurer Mansfield of Massa- chusetts has sold over the counter S5, 100000 worth of the $6,325,000 issue of state bonds.
 Carl R. Gray, President of the Great Northern Railway company, has ac- cepted the presidency of the Western Maryland Railway company
 E.I of Georgia yesterday announced hi3 candidacy for the unexpired term of the late Senator A. O. Bacon
 The Scout Cruiser Chester steamed out of Mobile full speed yesterday for Vera Cruz, where she is due to ar rive within forty-eight hours.
 Governor Simeon E. Baldwin was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the dinner of Troop B, Connecticut National guard, held at a Hartford ho- tel last night.
 Amendments to the Post Office bill to strip the postmaster general of pow CT to lower rates and alter regulations of the parcel post were thrown out by the senate Friday, 35 to 24.
 Two Hundred Unemployed Men, equipped with blankets and cooking
  day on a march to Washington to pc tition congress for work.
 The Puritan Mills Plant, at Fall River, was sold at public auction yes terday to John HenshaW, administra- tor of the estate of the late Stephen A ! Jenks of Pawtucket, R. l., for S3,000. Examinations to Fill More than five thousand fourth-class postmasterships made necessary by an executive order | placing all such officers under civil service regulations, will be held in April. ..
 Senator Bristow and Senator Brady | told the senate that the parcels post | port ore in 50-lb. packages, mattresses, baby carriages, and all sorts of mer- | chandise.
 A Message From SaekvilIe, N. B., re- ported yesterday that fire had des- uated the Western Union and Cana dian Pacific Railway Telegraph com | panfes offices.
 Racial Prejudice against her hus- band, Leo M. Frank, under death sem | Phagan, is blamed for his conviction | in statement issued at Atlanta, Ga, yesterday by Mrs. Frank.
 "Before l Would Sign Such Bill would resign and go off into eternal | oblivion" declared Governor Blease of South Carolina yesterday, vetoing a bill for medical inspection of children attending public school in Richland ] county.
 By the Decision at New Haven yes | terday of a superior court jury in sus- 1 taining the will of Mrs. Mary A. F | HOtchkiss, Yale university will ulti- ! mately become the chief beneficiary of the estate, which is valued at about $750,0Oo.
 "After Thirty Five Years of contin uous Bible study I am prepared to say | that the Lord Jesus may come back | at any moment" said Dr. C. l. Scofeld of New York at the International 1 Prophetic Bible conference at Chica- | go yesterday.
 Labor Delegates from New Bedford Fall River and Lawrence appeared at a hearing before the committee on social welfare in Massachusetts yes terday, in support of legislation which would limit the working day for wo- men to eight hours.
 With s1o,ooo Worth of vaIuables 1 the lOOL or SU rOODer1eS, spread out on a table, Montague J. Pike, a dapper young college graduate, who confessed that he was the thef, stood in a New York police station yesterday and helped his victims identify their prop | erty.
 In Bill Signed With a Cross be- cause he never learned to read or | write, Matthew J. Mcintyre, who made ] nearly million dollars raising hogs 1 left the bulk of his estate to St. Pat l r1ck's church in Long Island City tc be used for support of the parochiai l school.
 After Fifty Mile Tramp on snow ! shoes through the wilds of Newfound. l land, Boatswain Wilkinson and thirty. two of the crew of the naval tug Po- tomac which was abandoned in the ice while trying to rescue American fish. ing schooners, reached Curling. N. F. yesterday.
 George Burdick, city editor ana William Curtin, ship news reporter fo1 the New York Tribune, were adiudreI in contempt by Federal Judge Han yesterday for having refused to re. veal their source of information rela tive to smuggling cases, accounts o- which their paper printed. Each wa, fined $500.
 Appointments by President
 Washington, Feb. a7.-President VII. son on the recommendation of Sec. retaFy Lane of the interior today ap- pointed Bfigadier General William, q,