Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-25
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 Albany is Threatened with coal famine. It Was s4 Below Zero at Northfieid' Vt, yesterday.
 The Campaign For Woman suffrase in the state of Nevada was opened at Reno yesterday. The Rochester. Pa, High School building was destroyed by hre yeSter- day with loss of s60,00O.
 The Ohio Excise Tax on railroads was yesterday upheld as constitution al by the supreme court.
 William O'connor of Brooklyn is dying having taken bichloride of mer- cury. in mistake for headache tablets.
 A Fifteen Million Dollar aeroplane fleet was proposed in a bill yesterday by Representative LEngle of Florida
 John K. Norwood, widely known in insurance circles, died at his home, at Lawrence, Mass, yesterday, aged fo years.
 The Safe in the Office of the Academy of Music in Baltimore was blown open and between s5,90O and s6,O0O was stolen.
 Mrs. Caroline Updike, 75, was burned to death in fire that destroyed her home at Fayette, N. Y, during Mon day night.
 President Wilson yesterday signed bill limiting the hours of labor or Wo- men in the District of. Columbia to eight hours.
 Ice Conditions in Long Island sound at that fnQS with tows of coal barges have difficulty in getting through to ports.
 The Directors of the Calumet and Hecla Mining company reduced the quarterly dividend rate from s6, paid three months ago, to S5.
 Thomas w. cridler, third assistant secretary of state under the Mckinley administration died suddenly at his home in New York of heart disease.
 The Naval Transport Prairie will sail for Mexican waters with 300 marines after visiting Pensacola, following her departure from Mobile, Ala, today.
 The coIored Wig Fad has Struck Washington. wig maker having re- 1 ceived an order for a green tupee, to be worn at fancy dress ball.
 Mayor John A. Denison of Spring field, Mass, announced yesterday that he will issue no more licenses for Sun day moving picture shows after April
 Having Only a Few Hours to live. Howard Schemely, 2S years old. of ! Camden, \. J., was married to Miss l May Connolly, his sweetheart for 13 years.
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  | number of dependent families in New York city over the previous year is ] shown in the 1913 report of the charity | organization society. 1 A Sprint for a Train at the Trinity ! Place station in Boston yesterday caused the death of James Frank Hill, ! of Stoughton, Mass. He died soon after taking his seat
 The Tax on the Use of foreign built yachts imposed upon American citi- zens by the old Payne -Aldrich tariff | act was upheld as constitutional yes- 1 terday by the supreme court. Major General Joshua L. Chamber ! lain. one of the best known officers of | the Civil war, an ex-governor of Maine | and former president of Bowdoin col lege, died yesterday in Portland. Me. Frank Henuessey and Angelina Mar ] cotte, arrested on the charge of i'm i improper tango dancing, were before i the Lowell police court Tuesday. Their cases were continued until March If. pr. Frank Atwood of New Haven filed with Gov. Baldwin yesterday a ! petition that the law be so construed i that the state should condemn and pay for cases of occult glanders in horses 
 The Fifth Case of smallpox in Mid dletown was discovered yesterday when William $. Kennedy, a car riage manufacturer, was found at his place of business suffering from the disease.
 James conIey, Negro Factory sweep CT. was found guilty at Atlanta, Ga yesterday of being an accessory after the fact to the murder of Mary | Phagan. He was sentenced to twelve 1 months in a convict gang.
 The constitutionaIity of the federal 1 white slave law was again upheld yes terday by the supreme court in the Wilson cases from Chicago. The point whether the law is limited to commer- 1 cial vice was not involved. Official Count by treasury officials yesterday showed 7,465 national banks have applied for membership in the federal reserve system, that IS banks have notified the organization commit. tee that they will not apply.
 Search by the Canadian Government ice breaker Stanley and the govern. ment steamer Lady Laurier has brought no word of the collier Langar of the Dominion Coal company, which was due at Louisburg last Thursday. ]
 Three Firemen Were temporarily 1 overcome by smoke and another was slightly injured by 8 falling wall be- fore the fire in the Galt Block ware. house on Commercial street. Portland Maine was placed under control early yesterday.
 Two Men Were Killed, ten other, had narrow escapes and several fire men were slightly hurt yesterday in ( fire that swept through the four story Bakers hotel. occupied chiefly bS bakers, at Ninth street and First av.