Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-21

Abbott Kinney, founder of Venice. Cal, offered S1,000 a pound for the first grandson born to him. He paid s1O,000.
 Sunday Night Secretary Daniels will speak from the pulpit of Rev NJ D. Hardin, of the Third Presbyterian church, Chicago.
 Geo. Barnhardt, a cook, was arrested yesterday in West Orange, N. J. charged with writing threatening let ters to President Wilson.
 Ernest and Otto stutz, wholesale meat dealers, were indicted in New York on charge of shipping pork un- fit for food to the south.
 ruptcy was filed in federal court at Dallas, Tex, yesterday against the Southern States Cotton corporation.
 Rev. J. w. Campbell. a prominent Methodist clergyman, died yesterday at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Nor man Earnestly, at Scarborough, N. Y.
 Lieutenant Commander Roland I. Curtin died at the Naval academy at Annapolis, Md, yesterday. Death was due to the hardening of the arteries.
 A Bill in the New York legislature. prohibits the display of a red or black flag or any sign containing an inscrip- uon opposed to organized government.
 An Approximate Shortage of about 50 per cent. in the production Of apples in Maine was announced yesterday in the annual report of state horticuI- turist.
 pr. Samuel NJ. Jefferson, professor of philosophy of Pennsylvania university dropped dead at Lexington, Ken, yes terday shotrly after delivering @ lee turt to class.
 The board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church an nounced yesterday that it had received a gift of S175,0O0 from a donor whose name is withheld.
 Colonel George GoethaIs, builder of the Panama canal, may not be present when the new waterway is opened to commerce He said himself he hoped he wouldn't be there
 Theodore Harris, iii Years Old. was found dead in his home at Camden. N. J., where it is believed he had lain week, because his wife was unable to pay funeral expenses
 A CIoudburst in tho Mountains sent wall of water down upon Covina, Calf, in the citrus region yesterday and inundated several streets in the north end of Los Angeles.
 Boy Scouts to the Number of 25o each with a description will start out 1 today on a search for Miss Elizabeth A. Evans, nurse, who disappeared a few days ago from New Haven.
 It Costs the Average Family of five S1,0S5.19 a year to live in New York, Daniel Goldschmidt, government clerk there, told the House Civil Serv- Ice Reform committee yesterday. A Committee to Consider federatine, with other railroad organizations was appointed by the Order of Railroad Station Agents of New England. which
 convened at Boston yesterday.
 Mrs. William j. eaynor, widow of | the late mayor of New York announc- | ed yesterday the engagement of her | daughter. Helen, to '. T. Bedford. 2nd. | son of Mir. and Mrs. F. H. Bedford of 1 Brooklyn.
 Rev. George Gallup, who three weeks | ago mysteriously disappeared from l Denver and has not since been heard | from, will be unfrocked by Bishop l Charles L. Olmstead of the Episcopal l church.
 Governor Baldwin Yesterday ap- i pointed Frank II. Stadtmeuller of West ! Hartford to be dairy and food commits | sioner for a term of four years from 1 May l, 1914, to succeed Hubert F. i Potter. The salary is S2,O00.
 To Encourage Young Men to enlist | in the navy and, being once in the | navy, to study hard to advance them l selves, Secretary Daniels has proposed { a bill authorizing him to appoint an | nually 25 young men to the Naval | academy as midshipmen.
 | Steamer sanksty, which plies regu- | larly between Nantucket, Mass, and | the mainland, made an unsuccessful 1 effort to enter the harbor yesterday | through the ice barrier and was forced ! to return to Woods Hole. with her l passengers, cargo and the mail.
 Mrs. Mary Agnes Mahan, president | of the Massachusetts Association of | Women Lawyers, appeared before the ! Massachusetts legislative committee i on judiciary yesterday to ask that | women be eligible to appointment as | judges in all courts in the state.
 The Omission of the Word "obey- l from the marriage service of the | Church of England appeared to find | considerable support yesterday among | the bishops attending the House of l ConvocatiOn of the province of Can l terbury, now In session in London.
 Miss Mary Mccormick, who created l a sensation on a crowded street at | Bridgeport last Monday by holding up ' and threaten to shoot d young v7o- ! man stenographer, with a revolver was l yesterday adjudged insane and com
 mitted to the state asylum at Middle i town.
 Dr.. Martin E. Griffith of Monessen.
 Pa, held in jail here under a coroner's | charge of murder for the death of l William l.. Robinson, music teacher ! whom he was alleged to have multilat- ! ed when he found him attacking Mrs. l Griffith, Jan. 26, was admitted to bail yesterday.
 Hugh Sullivan, Who Says he was | beaten and thrown overheard by
 rowdies on the night of August 1G 1 1913, during a rip from Newport to i New York, on the Sound steamer | Priscilla, brought suit in the federal court at New York yesterday against l the New England Steamship company 1 Sl5 UU0 dan7a