Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-31

Actual Work of Constructing the great white marble national memorial to Abraham Lincoln was begun at Washington yesterday.
 Miss Margaret Hodge and Miss Doro- ty Pethick, two militant disciples of Miss Pankhurst arrived in New York yesterday from England.
 pr. Eugene West, Physician of Orange, N. J., died A hours after he was stricken with scarlet fever, con- tracted from patient.
 Thomas Cox Assistant Engineer of No. g Engine Company of Bridgeport, drank poison at his home yesterday, and died in a few minutes.
 George w. Hill, for many years a prominent official of the agricultural department, died yesterday after protracted illness at Franklin, Va.
 Major General J. Franklin Bell will turn over command Of the Philippine division to Major General Barry April 15, and, return to the United States.
 Moving Pictures Illustrating the evil of drugs will be shown to convicts in the Tombs prison, New York, by Mrs. w. k. Vanderbilt in her vice crusade.
 Exceeding s1,25o,ooo his expendi- lures on art this season. P. A. B. Wid- ener of Philadelphia has acquired 25 superb pieces of Chinese porcelain for $3O0,0 1000.
 The H. 6 J. Brewer Co.,, of Spring field, dealers in druggists supplies, filed schedules in bankruptcy yeSter- day showing liabilities of S216,219 and assets of $433,06S.
 Mrs. Octavia L. Valley, 27 years old, had her right leg torn off yester- day by a mysterious explosion in coal stove in the laundry of Frank E. Sessions at Worcester
 Under Supervision of officers of the East Side Protective association, ten thousand juvenile policemen started yesterday to give the East Side of New York a spring cleanup.
 Coroner John J. PheIan, recom- mends that Mrs. William Anthony, of Greenwich. who drowned her infant son and daughter in bath tub on March 19, be held for trial
 State Attorney Stiles Judson, Jr, has been relieved of all duties as sta<s's attorney for Fairfield county, until July l. The reason given for the re- quest is that of ill health.
 
 The Main Pavilion on SteepIechase Island, sridgeport's shore summer resort, collapsed yesterday with crash that could be heard a mile away, and it now is a mass of ruins.
 Frank M. Register, of Savannah, Ga- climbed a tree directly in the rear of the city jail and proposed marriage to Miss Zeta Metlook, a young girl confined in the jail. Register was ac- cepted
 Six Employees of the Massachusetts Chocolate company in Boston were sent to a hospital yesterday as the re- suit of injuries received in an eX- plosion of a blower used for preparing cocoa.
 General T. Coleman Dupont yester- day rendered his resignation as member of the republican national committee from Delaware at a special meeting of the republican state com mittee.
 Nearly One Half of the clinical di- agnoses made in Bellevue hospital, New York were not confirmed by sub sequent autopsies according to re- port of the hospitals Investigating committee.
 Charles F. Starrett, who is charged with beating his wife to death with an axe in their home in Everett. Mass, was arraigned in court yesterday, while his nine children were given in- to the care of relatives.
 Twenty Five of the Weavers and loom fixers of the Wyandotte Worsted Mill at Waterville, Maine who went on a strike last week returned to work yesterday after a partial adjust x,fT r.~.
 Exceptions to 1s6 Suits demanding damages of $160,000.O00 against the American Sugar Refining company and Jackson T. Witherspoon, local manager of the company, were filed in the federal court at New Orleans yes terday.
 The United States weather bureau is to establish sub-stations in the Con- necticut tobacco belt about May l in order to give the growers of tobacco the benefit of the governments service in the forecasting of storms and frostS.
 Directors of the St. Louis, South western railroad (The Cotton Belt route) yesterday declared a quarterly dividend of one half of one percent on the preferred stock. This reduces the preferred annual dividend rate from to percent.
 Sentence Was Reserved yesterday until next Saturday, when Hosea and Delano Warden, brothers, members of the Columbus. Ohio. bar, appeared in court and pleaded guilty upon charges of contribution tr the delinquency of Hazel Traphagan, aged IT.
 The United States should not make tee much of the Monroe Doctrine, de- clared pr. Cyrus Northrop, president emeritus of the University of Minne- sota- in an address yesterday before a large audience of prea chers repre- senting several denominations.
 Joseph Cronin, Aged 24, was yester- day sentenced to one year in the work house and a fine of $500 upon being found guilty of contributing to the de- iinquency of Edith Schubert, 16 years old the Social Worker who was lured to Cleveland from Chicago by another man.
 Next Monday, April 6, will be the fifth anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole by Rear Admiral Robert F. Peary. |. s. N, retired, and the event will be celebrated at New York with a dinner in his honor at which his hosts will be the members ef the Explorers club