Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-13

and vicinity up to twelve.
 President Wilson Yesterday signed the bill authorizing the expenditure of $35, 100000 for the construction of a government owned railroad in Alas ka.
 The Sale lover the Counter of an issue of s6,325,O of state bonds was completed yesterday. by Treasurer chuSetts.
 The Stockholders of the United States Express company at a meet point a liquidating committee to wind up it's affairs.
 The Senate Yesterday Passed the bill by Senator Townsend to create a coast guard service by consolidating the revenue cutter service and the life saving service.
 Employees on the Freight Cars on the Fall River and Providence Street Railway line have been given an ad- vance in wages from 21 dents an hour to 28 cents.
 There is an Impression among Hartford lawyers that 1t will not be long before all sessions In this state Ol AIS OUlIeO SIdLcS will be held in New Haven.
 4 Tramp attempting to rob the home of Albert S. Boothby at North Saco, Maine, was discovered by. MT. Boothby's son, aged 16, and after a hard fight compelled to give up, and s45 he had taken.
 Drinking a Quart of Whiskey found in the house, twins, aged 5, sons of Michael F1annigan of Troy, N. Y, de- veloped alcoholic poisoning. One child | died early yesterday and the other is not likely to live.
 Exercises in conmemoration of the birthday of Grover Cleveland will be Grover Cleveland Birthplace and Memorial association at Caldwell, | N. J., oh March 15.
 An Anonymous Gift of $5oo,ooo to- ward the construction of the great l national cathedral of the Protestant 1 Episcopal church on Mount St. AL f bans. in the suburbs of Washington was announced yesterday. l The War Department Has arranged | with the director of the mint to sup i ply certificates of merit badges tC former soldiers who had received the 1 certificates before 1905, the date or which the issuance of badges was au- | thorized.
 Tho g Suits Against Joseph Asch 1 owner of the Asch building, in New | York, in which 150 persons were killed i by fire, were dismissed by the su. l preme court. The majority of the | suits, death claims, were settled fol 1 $75 apiece
 l A Reward of Ss5 For the return ot | two of their number who broke parole 1 and escaped has been offered by 4, 1 other convicts, members of a party l which recently began working tn, roads at Dallas, Texas, without guard: or shackles.
 The Kentucky House of represen tatives by 8. vote of 50 to 2s yester. day passed a bill providing for the | submission to the voters at the nex 1 general election a consti tutional amendment providing for { 1 statewide prohibition.
 Warming That the United State, | hereafter must produce enough pota toes to supply the home consumption on account of most sources of foreigl imports being closed by a plant dis | ease quarantine, was issued by tn, 1 department of agriculture yesterday 1 William A. Pendsrsast, who placeC l Theodore Roosevelt in nomination foI 1 the presidency at the progressive na. tional convention at Chicago in 1912 will make the principal address at tn, republican state convention to b, ! held at Indianapolis April g and 22 The action oF the Board of govern. ors of the National Democratic clul in dropping Charles F. Murphy ant other Tammany men from rnembershil was severely criticized yesterday b! Martin W. Littleton, former congress man, in 8 letter to the president O 1 the club.
 Mrs. Charles F. Johnson, of Water
 vile, wife of United States Senate Johnson, was endorsed for second
 term as vice president general of tn
 Continental Congress of the Daughter i of the American Revolution at thu
 annual meeting of the Maine counci
 yesterday.
 1 Prospects of Another White Hous
 wedding became more definite yester
 day with the persistent renewal of tn
 report that Secretary of the Treas
 ury McAdoo and Miss Eleanor Ran
 dolph Wilson, youngest daughter O
 the president and Mrs. Wilson wer
 engaged, the marriage to take plac
 in June.
 An Order Designed to place tn I house Of representatives on recort
 as protesting against the repeal of tn
 provisions of the Panama Canal ac
 exempting American coastWise ship
 ping from the payment of tolls was in
 troduced in the Massachusetts hous
 yesterday by Representative Doyle 0
 East Boston.
 Walter A Mo Creery, a miliionair
 pofoist, was restored to his legal com
 potency yesterday by Superior Judg
 Dunne at San Francisco when Nc
 Creery's attorney informed the cour
 that H. c. McPike. McCreery'
 guardian and all the relatives wer
 willing to withdraw their objection
 to such procedure.
 While Attempting to Save the Tiff
 of Miss Dixie Blackburn, his sweet
 heart, whose foot was caught in
 railway trestle near Williamson, W Va, William Mccoy was struck by ! train and tossed into a ravine fit i feet away. Miss Blackburn was in l stantly killed and Mccoy was dyin
 when picked up.
 An Appeal For Mero Money to com bat famine and pestilence, which al ready has carried off hundreds c lives in Albania, was received yester day at Red Cross headquarters fror Henry Morgenthau, American am bassador to Turkey, and W. w. Pee | treasurer of the American Red Cros
 hapteP in Ccnstantinople,