Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-12

posed repeal of Panama Canal tolls on American ships.
 Professor Frederic p. German, bac- teriologist at Brown university, was yesterday appointed deputy milk ex- aminer for Providence.
 Tammany Hall Will Not Oppose the efforts of Governor Glynn and Presi- dent Wilson to reOrganize the demo- cratic party in New York.
 Growth in Organization member ship of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States was practically doubled during the past year.
 Five Persons Were Drowned when the Mississippi river packet Gem was destroyed by fire opposite Hahnville, forty miles from New Orleans. -.----
 The Wells Fargo Express has in augurated an automobile service be- tween Chicago. Geneva and Aurora, H., to compete against parcel post.
 Methodism Contributed $1,ooo,ooo last year for the relief of widows and orphans of Methodist ministers and aid of retired ministers in the United States
 Franklin Phillips, who established nationwide reputation as a mechani- cal steam and hydraulic engineer, died in his home at Newark, J. J. of pneu- monia.
 Fire in the Lacquer Room of the Richards and Company Artificial Leather factory at Stamford yester- 1 day caused a loss estimated at close to $25,OO0.
 Edwin Pike. a Farmer, built wind mill at Harmony, Me, and falling to | allow for exit was imprisoned with in it three days when the wind start | ed the sails.
 1 A Confession by Elmer RushIow and l William Dennis that they were the l slayers of Chin Kirn. a Chinese store i keeper. was announced by the St. | Llbans' police yesterday. | The Adams Express Company yes- l terday reduced it's quarterly dividend | from 8 to $1.50 share. The company has been paying dividends at the rate
 of SIP a year since 1909.
 A Cold Which Compelled Governor l Walsh to cancel several engagements ] Tuesday was worse yesterday, and the attending physician refused to permit 1 the usual visit to the state house. The Officers and Passengers of the l steamship Olympic on her arrival at ! Southampton yesterday from New l York said they had encountered the i worst weather in their experience Florence Davisson Post. wife of | former Assemblyman Ira c. Post and | mother of Melville DaviSson Post, the lawyer and author. died in her home at Temple Moor, near Clarksburg, w. Va
 New Works Oldest Pickpocket. sew
 enty years of age, scarcely able to 1 walk, but still active in petty crime,
 added another arrest yesterday to his
 long record. His name is John Han
 ley.
 Rev. Nelson Fay Smith, pastor of the Congregational church at Northheld. Mass and for seventeen years con-
 nected with the Northfield seminary.
 died yesterday after being operated
 upon for appendicitis
 A Bill Requiring importers of milk
 from other states to certify that the
 milk is from cows that have satis-
 factorilv passed a semi annual tuber-
 culin test was passed by the Rhode Is-
 land house yesterday.
 Miss Maggie Teyte. the opera singer.
 had a narrow escape from injury at St.
 Louis when a taxicab in which she
 was riding to union station to catch
 a midnight train for New York, was struck by a touring car.
 Supreme Court Justice Gieeerich of
 New York has granted an attachment
 for S1o.000 against the Boston and } Maine railroad in first suit brought by a holder of the s10,000,000 worth of notes that became payable Feb. 3. An Emergency Appropriation of
 $500, 900 to fight hog cholera and S10O,- } 900 for dourine, a horse disease was pressed upon congress yesterday in a favorable report by Chairman Lever } of the house committee on agricul- ture.
 ? Captain Henry A. Peck. brother oi Professor Tracy Peck of the Latin
 faculty of Yale university, and uncle of Judge Epaphraditus Peek of the Yale Law school faculty, died at his ? home at Bristol yesterday at the age l of S1.
 The Official Board of the National . Woman Suffrage association yester- day issued Q call to the suffragists of 5 the country to rally at an open meet : ing on Saturday. May ?. in every city village and hamlet from the Atlantic ) to the Pacific.
 On Application of William R. Hearst , Justice Leonard A. Giegerich. of the | New York state supreme court has l issued an injunction restraining The Associated Press from Suspending service Uf it's report to the San Fran cisco Examiner.
 ? Secretary Lane Yesterday suggest
 ed to the senate an appropriation ol | S5.O00 for investigation into the practi-
 cability of a government oil pipe line l from the mid-continent field of Okla
 homa to the Gulf of Mexico to SUD-
 ply fuel oil for the navy
 Deciding That a Motion Pieturs
 scenario has no value and that, there fore, a person who converted the pho- to play script of another to his owr use, committed no crime, Judge War. l ren Williams of Los Angeles yesterday dismissed a police court case agains 1 Hampton IAi Ruth. charged will