Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-14

owned by Philip Stun, was burned l yesterday with part of its con- tents.
 Damage Placed at s5ooo came from a fire yesterday in a business and tenement block at Stamford owned by | Charles S. Finch.
 From Paris Comes the News that at 1 last the name of Sarah Bernhardt has been added to the roll of fame of the Legion of Honor.
 Philip o. DeMauriac, charged with ! passing fraudulent checks at New Ra- | ven, was sentenced to states prison from one to three years yesterday.
 The High Winds during Monday ! night unroofed and rendered unhabit- | able two story brick house at Mid dletown, owned by John Steinmeyer. ! Canada Announces the new agree ment with Australia for interchange of | postal parcels reducing the present rate of 24 cents a pound to 12 cents.
 A Majority of the National Banks ! in Boston voted at the annual meet l ing of their stockholders yesterday to enter the federal reserve bank system
 A Tenement House at Dodge | vile, Mass was destroyed by fire yes ! ! occupants were driven out into the ! cold.
 The Supreme Court Refused to set aside the death sentence imposed upon
 Leon Martinez, 16 years old. for kill
 ing Miss Emma Brown of Saratoga, Texas.
 Standard Oil Steamer Delivery No.
 was fioated yesterday from Slave | Island, near Sargentville, Me, where | she dragged ashore in the heavy gale
 Monday night.
 1 President Wilson yesterday made the l nomination of John Skelton Williams
 of Virginia for comptroller of the cur l rency and ex-officio member of the federal reserve board.
 Material Reductions in the whole
 sale price of staple serges, unfinished
 worsteds. clays, cheviots and other
 wooden goods for the fall of 1914 were
 announced in the trade yesterday.
 John Snyder, a Farmer, was buried near Harrisburg, Pa yesterday in a. l coffin made of wood from a walnut tree l which he had planted and mad cared
 Tor all his life. He was S6 years old.
 The A. Morton oppenheim Company, | New York, dealers in women's wear l ing apparel and shoes, and Frazin and
 Oppenheim, shoe dealers. were thrown into bankruptcy yesterday by creditors. Reasons Why Women should not be
 granted equal suffrage with men were
 given yesterday before the Massa- 1 chusetts Association Opposed to the 1 Further Extension of Suffrage to Wo-
 men.
 Under the Will of Mrs. Betsey Rit- ter, who died at New Haven about a year ago. Trinity Episcopal church of 1 Portland, Is to receive $50,000 outright and St. Thomas church of that place | $2,0o0.
 While Responding to a Fire Alarm 1 yesterday, Driver Fred S. Morrill,. a 1 veteran fireman of the Manchester, N. i H., fire department. 8as blown from | the steam fire engine seat by the gale i and is noT dying.
 chicaeo's Experiment with police l women has proven so successful that | Major NJ. L. O. F>unkhouser, second
 deputy superintendent of police, will
 ask the city council for funds to em-
 ploy To more women police.
 Lillian Schwartz, Aged 8, of Hart ! ford. was seriously burned last night | when her clothes caught fire from a redhot stove. Her parents, Mir. and 1 Mrs. Louis Schwartz. were burned in 1 attempting to beat out the fire.
 A Resolution Creating a legislative 1 committee to inquire into the advisa-
 bility of the state acquiring the trolley 1 lines within it's boundaries was intro duced in the Rhode Island senate | yesterday by Senator Widison P Nun
 roe of Providence.
 No Decision on the Question of re- i. leasing Harry K. ThaW on bail is ex- l naGfPd haf0ra 10 Ia st Of William T. Jerome sent word to Judge ] Aldrich that professional engage
 ments would prevent him from attend
 ing hearing before that time. i Thanks of Congress for Captain Paul ] H. Kreibohm and the officers and crew of the American steamer Kroon- ! land for their heroic rescue of S9 souls from the burning Volturno last De- [ tober was asked yesterday in a reso lution by Representative Hardy of ! Texas.
 The Panama immigration Law re-
 gently passed, which subjects Chinese
 living in the republic to registration ! and the payment of a tax, is to be the subject of discussion at Washington next week between Secretary of State Bryan and Cyrus W Wicker. secre- tary of the legation st Panama.
 A Barn Near What is known as inc Cheshire Junction, leased by Walter Scott, was burned to the ground about midnight last night. together with
 small bungalow nearly adjoining. The 1 bungalow was occupied by a Polish
 family who were driven out into the | bitter cold in their night clothes.
 Major Lewis H. Rand of the army ! engineers will be relieved of his duties in charge of the river work in the | Cincinnati district because in approy | ing bridge at Duncan, Ohio, he wrote l the supervisors of Muskinguni county that the structure would suit the needs of inhabitants who were net too old or too drunk.
 75 FAMILIES FORGED