Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-04

 day. but there was no trouble from backwater.
 1t Will Cost Columbia University S3,721,215 to operate all of its de- partments from July l, this year, to June 30 next.
 Bishop Thomas Bowman, formerly president of De Pauw university, died at Orange. N. Y., yesterday at the home of his daughter.
 There Were Just 75oo national banks doing business in the United-States at the close of business at the treas ury department February 2S.
 Customs Receipts for the entire United States for February fell off slightly more than $10,000,000 com pared with the same month of 1913.
 The Right of Express Companies to refuse to deliver C. O. D. shipments of liquor into Texas was upheld by the Missouri Supreme court yesterday.
 Miss AiIeen Heppner, accused of per jury, in connection with the Henning- Funk alienation suit. was found not guilty by jury at Chicago yesterday.
 Earl w. Hummer, whose father, John Hummer of Alfred, Me, was a pensioner of the Revolutionary war, died in Hartford yesterday, aged'71 years.
 Henry Champine, Aged 22, who was married ten days ago. was crushed to death yesterday at the boXboard mill ! at Fairfield, Maine, where he was ern- ployed.
 Secretary Bryan announced yester- day the birth of a girl to his daughter, Mrs. Richard L. Hargreaves of Lin coin. Neb. MT. Bryan now has six 1 grandchildren.
 Word Was Received by the Quebec Provincial Board of Health yesterday : that mild typhoid is epidemic in the municipalities along the banks of the Richelieu river.
 News Reached Boston yesterday Of the death in India of Baba Premanaud Bharti, who 'Iectured in many parts of i the country two years ago in behalf of 1 international peace.
 Senate and House conferees agreed yesterday on all differences over the l Alaskan railroad bill and a report will be submitted for final action in both hovses probably today. Mayor CurIey Informed a gathering . he expected to remove 800 employees 1 from the city payroll during the first year of his administration. President Wilson Yesterday gave his | approval to the proposal to give irri- | gators on government projects twenty 1 years instead of ten to repay the gov ernment fer their water rights. Attorney John J. CulIinan will to- f1 l Joseph Buonomo, who is under sen l tence to be hanged for the murder of Jennie Cavalieri in Stratford, two years ago.
 Governor Walsh Sent a special mes 1 sage to the Massachusetts legislature yesterday in which he advocated a i change in the distribution of corpora te | franchise taxes paid by certain classes i of corporations
 | The Legislative Committee on mer- 1 canuie affairs of Massa chusetts re- l ported adversely yesterday on a meas ! ure requiring telephone companies to 1 furnish to chiefs of police names of ali 1 unlisted subscribers.
 l With a Record of thirty-seven wears l or faithful service to his credit as a messenger and door keeper in the Of nee Of the secretary of the navy. Will jam H. Wilkes, aged Fl, died at Wash l ington Monday night.
 Policeworen Were Decided at Chi cago yesterday to be a failure at handling disorderly persons of their l own sex, due to lack of physicaI strength, coupled with the inordinate curiosity of onlookers.
 An Extensive Opium Smuggling con- spiracy, unearthed by government i'm vestigators at New York came to i light yesterday and Hobokeu hotel keeper and two Mott Street Chinamen i were placed under arrest.
 Judge John R. Land, at Shreveport, La, yesterday barred forever from service as jurors in that parish the : twelve men composing the jury that acquitted Mir. and Mrs. H. S Little of
 the charge of murdering J. J. Van Cleve.
 Because Oil Ranaes are mucb cheaper and cleanlier than coal ranges
 the navy department is having thern : installed in the galleys Of the Penn sylvania and ''battleship No. S9.. now
 under construction, for cooking pur-
 poses.
 , s. U. e. Rhaades, One of the five
 members of the West Virginia Iepis-
 lature confined in state penitentiarv LOH brlDeTS III connection with the elec- ! tlon of United States senator last
 spring. is dangerously ill in the pris-
 on hospital.
 Forty Two Expert Aviators and
 balloon pilots have thus far enlisted m the United States Aeronautical Re i serve. The airmen have obligated themselves as ready to enlist in the : United States military service in the 2, event of war.
 Responsibility For the Wreck of the | tank steamer Oklahoma which broke ln two off the coast of New Jersey on January 4 with loss of 26 lives IS l attributed to the fact that the vessel
 was structuraliy weak in the report of the federal inspectors Angelo SyiVestro, accused of making a, business of planting bombs for prices i varying from $10 to $10o, and found I guilty of one such act. was sent to Sing Sing prison yesterday for term ranging from three and one half to six and one half years and fined $1, ,Qa0