Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-20

terday by the house commerce com mittee.,
 Secretary RedfieId will be at New Haven Friday to address the chamber of commerce on "An Affirmative View of Business"
 A Bill in the Massachusetts legisla- ture fixes a penalty of $50 fine upon first violators of the law prohibiting the tango.
 Frederick Crum of Syracuse, N. Y, received $500 extra through the will of his father for a spanking unjustly administered.
 Because She ScoIded him for shoot ing cats, John Harrison. 16 years old, shot and killed Josephine Yitz, 12 years old, at Easton, Pa.
 The Arrival of Forty One strike breakers from New York Furnished the only development yesterday in the cop per miners strike in Michigan.
 More Than Half the National Banks in the United States now have made legal application for membership in the new federal reserve system.
 Congressman Asher c. Kinds, of Maine, former parliamentarian of con- gress, will not seek a renomination next June on account of poor health. Eugene C. Loud, of East Weymouth, Mass, who killed his wife on January 4 by cutting her throat and then at tempted suicide with the same razor died yesterday.
 The Price of Beef rose two cents pound yesterday as soon as the Glens Falls, N. Y, butchers found that the strike on the Delaware and Hudson had tied up shipments.
 Hans Schmidps Mother, father and sister are i'll and probably will be un- able to leave their home in Germany to testify at his second trial for the murder of Anna Aumuller.
 Six Old Roman Coins, valued by the University of California at $5,000 a by thieves who broke into the coin cases at the University library.
 Emery B. Gibbs, of Brookline, Mass, was appointed master by the federal court yesterday to pass upon the against the Walpole Tire and Rubber company.
 The Ice Harvest in central and northern New England practically be- gan yesterday with thickness ranging from 10 inches in Central Massa- chusetts to 15 and 20 in New Hamp- shire and Maine.
 Tom L. Johnson, former mayor of Cleveland. who died April 10, 1911, left property in New York state worth S212,1S6. Debts against the estate and expenses of administration brought it's net value to S90,8S1.
 Senator Norris Introduced bill yesterday for a bureau in the depart ment of agriculture to lend money on farm land at 4 per cent. for a period of five years, to be repaid at the rate of one-fifth each year.
 Support of the Adrinistration's naval programme was pledged and the con vening of the third Hague peace con ference as planned for 1915 was urged at the annual meeting of the Peace and Arbitration league yesterday.
 In Appreciation for giving two save the life of Senator Bacon's daugher. Mrs. J. l.. Curry, Monroe G. ogden was appointed as income tax inspector through the senator's ef- forts.
 
 has brought out such numbers of grasshoppers in central Texas. that the state department of agriculture was appealed to yesterday to assist in preventing these insects from ray aging crops.
 Mistaken For a Burglar while she was bidding her sweetheart goodbye on the back porch of her uncle'S home at St Louis, Sunday night, Miss Lillie Vel dele, Is years old was hot and fatally injured by her cousin, Chester Stutte 15 years old.
 Testimony as to the Mental condition of Federal Judge Emory Speer of the southern Georgia district was given yesterday before the congressional sub com mittee at Macon, Ga, investi- gating charges against the judges of ficial conduct.
 An Irate Suffrasette yesterday made Thomas McKinnon Wood, the secre- tary for Scotland, look like a miller by throwing bag of flour at him while he was addressing meeting connect ed with. the inauguration of the Ed inburgh High school.
 Democratic Members of the senate interstate commerce committee and the house judiciary subcommittee held a joint conference Yesterday to discuss the proposed antitrust Iegis- lation upon which President Wilson will address congress in joint session today.
 Further Testimony that violence had been advocated by leaders of the New York mail wagon chauffeurs' union during the strike of it's members last summer was brought out yesterday at the resumption of the trial of fifteen chauffeurs charged with having ob- structed the United States mail
 Because the Government does not make any provision for furnishing flags to public schools, Secretary Lane of the interior department, has been forced to turn down the request Of school teacher living in the southwest, for 8 nag for her pupils, who have never seen the national em- blem.
 The Reputed Confession of Paul Carl that it was he who shot Monroe F. Ellis. wealthy lumberman, while Bl- lis sat at dinner with his family in his Basking Ridge CN. J.) home e6 months ago was discounted yesterday by records furnished the local author ities by Carl's former employers in New York