Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-06

] Lieutenant Arthur, a British Army | aviator, left his s62, 800 estate to a 14- The Meriden Carpenters and paint CTS yesterday formally made a demand | upon the masters for increases in | wages.
 The Sale of s15,ooo of four per cent. bonds of the City of Augusta, Maine, to a Boston firm for 10S.51 was made yesterday.
 Parcel Post in the mountainous l country of the West has become so | great that mail carriers are abandon ing their contracts. Conductors and Motormen on the | Barre and Montpelier Street railway l struck yesterday for an increase in | pay and shorter hours. pr. Edward Gardiner Day, an emin- ent physician and surgeon in New | York city for thirty years, is dead at ! the age of seventy years. Overcome at the Sight of his daughter being placed under ar rest as incorrigible, Stephen McCue fell dead in Philadelphia.
 White Eagle, iii Years Old, chief 1 of the Ponca tribe and the oldest In dian in the United States died at Pom ca City, Okla, yesterday.
 John H. Fahey, of Boston, formerly ! of the Boston Traveller. yesterday l purchased the Worcester Evening Post and takes immediate control.
 Agents of the Elder Dempster steam ship company yesterday announced that the company had inaugurated pension system for it's employees. Bankruptcy Schedules filed yester- day by the Oxford Linen Mills of North Brookfield, Mass, showed lia- bIlities of $2S7,eS0 and assets of s13s,- 7eO.
 Hugo RiddelI Providence constable was arrested yesterday charged with attempting to burn a business block and apartment house in Olneyville on Sunday.
 Habit Forming Drugs are sold in New York in appalling quantities g said Carl F. Whitney yesterday. speaking before the county medical 1 society.
 Andrew Jsckson's Famous hickory stick was presented to President Will in behalf of Levi Ludlam of wlchi- ta, Kas.
 Morris Mcdonald is to retire from the presidency of the Boston S Maine railroad at an early date and return to the presidency of the Maine Cen l tral railroad.
 Petitions Bearing 75.ooo signatures, calling for a wet and dry vote in 1 Chicago at the aldermanic election on 1 April [. will be filed with the board of election commissioners this week.
 An Indictment Charging murder in the first degree in connection with the death of Annie Walsh at New Bedford l last month was returned against 1 Charles Matroni, captain of the barge SDipe.
 Four Thousand Dollars worth of un- hnlshed ten dollar gold notes which ! disappeared from the goVernnent's s money factory at Washington were being sought by secret service men yesterday.
 Depositors of the Private Bank of Henry Slegel and company at New York which recently went into bank ruptcy with several Siegel department store enterprises, will soon recover 30 per cent. of their money
 While Searching a Chinese roomins
 
 opium smokers, the police discovered three young white girls hidden be- tween the ceiling of the first story and flooring of the second.
 Formal Charges against Captain Berry of the steamer Nantucket which sank the liner Monroe with B loss of 41 lives were formulated yesterday at Norfolk, Va. and forwarded to steam boat inspection headquarters.
  L. J. 5urchsm. a War Veteran has i been drawing a pension from the State of Alabama. for years as a con tederate soldier although he fought on the Union side without knowing that the state compensates only Confeder- ate soldiers.
 Wilfred H. Nettletcn, aged ss years. | retired manufacturer of Bristol and l Mrs. Mary Kelsey Baldwin aged 6s years, 2 resident of the same city were married l,i parlor at the Hotel Garde in Hartford yesterday afternoon by the Rev. r. R. Day. Y
 The Pennsylvania Public Service commission yesterday ruled that rail- road companies in Pennsylvania may issue free pas to their officers and employees to be used for the tIausuor- tatiou of the dependent members ,f the families of such officers and em pIoNes-
 Three Sentences to Jail and one coinmidnent to rhe insane asvIun were imposed in the New Haven C,itV court yesterday tO users of nahcotic drugs who had been brought in b,- the police in its widespread crusade against traffickers in drugs of this nature.
 Marshall R. kernochan. New York society man, composer and member. Of nine clubs. asked the supreme court yesterday to increase his allowance sn that he could marry a girl without money. Young Kernchan has been re ceiving $S,750 year from the estate of aunt.
 Contending That Places where : bridge. eucher and other card games are played for prizes come under the i law as mucE as do poker and other gambling rooms. Mayor Peter Schreid- CT of East Liverpool, Ohio. announced yesterday that all such forms of amusement must cease.
 A Man Who HahituaIIy sets his alarm clock for a. m. and al that hour makes his wife get out of bed and sleep on the floor is guilty of dis