Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-26

Fire destroyed the KiIn,er Opera House and several other buildings at Schoharie, N. r., at a loss of 40,000.
 The first annual convention of the uoTlBIoosv .sI94uBa eSgSlIoW WLBa will be held in Chicago, October 7-S-
 Secretary RedfineId notified the Ger man wireless station at Tuckerton, N. J., that it is operating in violation of the law.
 ander Fee, 80 years old, of Brooklyn, fell from the third story of his home and was killed
 choked to death on a chicken bone while celebrating the fifth anniversary of his wedding
 The Interstate commerce commis- sion reversed its former ruling to con- form with a decision that tap lines are common carriers.
 Deaths of infants one year of age in New York last week numbered 346 compared with $50 during the same period last year.
 The Italian bark Beatrice from Ge- noa for Gloucester. Mass, went ashore near Nantucket, Mass, but was float ed with slight damage.
 They've got the fever in London. Two babies were christened Albert Leman Liege Hopkins and Marie AL sace Lorraine Lecomte-
 Deputy Attorney General James A.. Parsons, of Hornell. N. Y..- announced his candidacy for the Democratic nom nation for attorney general.
 ce-boxes have been intaIied in sev- eral large postofices to take care of he lare parcel post business in poul- Try, eggs and other foodstuffs.
 The Society of American Play wrishts will receive s200,000 from the estate of Bronson Howard after the expiration of two trust funds.
 pr. Alexis careI, of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, cancelled his departure from France and at present is in charge of a big war hospital
 Crossed wires in an electric switch board at the Eastern Maine hospital For Insane at Bangor, Me, started a ire that caused a loss of about $5,00o.
 An average of nearly 800 Germans have been naturalized in Australia since August 1; the average number of naturalizations for this period is about TO-
 George Willis of Detroit, veteran drowned from the yacht Spray while racing off Bar Point Light, Lake Mich igan-
 Jennie, Lott. 1s years old, of lTnion- ville N. J., was seriously injured when h.a,- fafH HavJ5 for xrvue cfrN by bees, causing the animal to run away.
 A warrant was issued for the arrest of E. w. Amos, agent for an express company at Easton, Pa, charging kim with the theft of a package contain ing sS.0Oo.
 Thomas Laughy, ten year old son of James Laughy, a Sanbornton, N. H., farmer. accidentally shot and kill ed himself while out hunting with his elder brother.
 The Department of Agriculture es- inmates the prospective beet-sugar crop in this country for next year at 4,s26.000 tons This will be the smallest since 1910.
 Captain Edgar King, of the United States Army Medical corps, reported that one-fifth of all regular soldiers discharged for disability are afflicted with mental disease.
 Joseph Nader of St. Louis and Maynard Upton, of Boliver, Mo, were suffocated and 14 persons injured in a fire which partly destroyed a restau rant at Houston. Tex
 All arrangements have been com pleted for entertaining the Grand Army of the Republic at their eighth annual encampment in Detroit, from August s1 to September D.
 Burglars entered the home of Fred erick Prax> in New York and escap- ed with cash and jewelry valued at s2.600. Paintings, rugs and furniture were also destroyed by the vandals.
 Members of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association will hold the seventh annual convention in New York and nearby towns on the Hudson during the week beginning September 21.
 Overcome by smoke, Fireman John Quinn, 50. was fatally injured by a fall from ladder while fighting a ten- ement house fire at Methuen. Mass. He died after being removed to hos pita1.
 Police Lieutenant Michael Murphy found a turtle wedged in the rocks of the Passaic river near East Orange. On the turtles back was cut the in- scription, War is Hell. Keep away from 1t. 1864"
 The Will of Percy p. Lewis,who died at his home, Hill Crest, Bedford. Aug. 3, was filed at White Plains, N. Y., yesterday. It leaves an estate esti- mated at about 15.0O0. 900 entirely to his son. Frederick E. Lewis, 2d, of Saugatuck, Conn.
 The Guaranty Trust Co. entered suit for $1,o40.4 467 against the North Ger man Lloyd Steamship Co. and a Dep uty U. s. Marshal has been sent to Bar Harbor to libel the company's steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie which Is lying in that harbor.
 Speaker Clark issued a batch of warrants of arrest for absent mem bers of the House and these were served by sergeant who rsid- ed baseball games. cafes and other ccol resorts toget enough Congressmen to carry on the business for the House.