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Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02


neT, warden; James IL Tefft inside
sentinel; Isaac T, Gavitt, outside SEN
ti1el; John L Bentley, chaplain; Shell
by c, Melodies. trustee for is months.
The fact that Chief OF Police Brown
came very ncar being shot s2,no time
agc has just leaked out, IN the course
ca years quite an accurnUla ton of
REVIEWERS has been made in the police
department, taken from persons who
WeI'e charged with carrying concealed
" Weapons, ard ordered held by the
co<1rE- These weapons are supposed 10
be enptied OF cartridges and placed in
a drawer selected for that purpose A
reputable citizen wanted to borrow one
o. the reFolvers for a legitimate pur-
pose and Chiaf Brown made the seIec-
ton. The CHIEF was testing them by
Swapping the trigger AS he pulled
the trigger of one of these weapons a
loud report resulted and the bullet
srazed the chiefs left land just enough
TO leave It's trace and lodged in the
thick leather cover of one of the police
record books The bullet is there to
day and the point Of entry is very
plain
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

es that no one viii be chosen to sue
coed Walter r. SGHess as United
States district attorney, until his term
expires in 1915. The congressman says
no one is slated for the place, or for
the colIectorship Of the port of Provi-
dence.
Just prior TO the Weus-Cook horse
race a young man Of sporting pro
clivities said: I'D like to make a bet
on the horse race. A horseman
replied: I'll accommodate: I'll bet you
$50 either way, giving you the choice
Nothing doing.
In connection with the income tax
law seven appointments VIII be at the
disposal of the six democratic con-
gressmen of Rhode Island and Con-
necticut. An income tax inspector and
an income tax field agent will come to
Rhode Island. Connecticut Will get the
revenue agent, the best job of all, a
field agent and three cIerkships.
Mrs. Nancy A Dewing, widow Of
Amos Stillnan. died recently in Fair
haven, Mass. She was born in Canter-
bury, Conn. Jan. IS, 1929. For nearly
20 years Mrs. Stillman resided in Vest
erlV and was an active member OF the
Seventh Day Baptist church The lat
ter part of her life was spent at the
homes Of her sons Vincent DeW'ing and
e Howard Sullnan.
| building.
At the regular meeting Of Phebs
Green Ward Chapter. Daughters Of the
American Revolution held Thursday
afternoon. Miss Jennie -. Stanton read
a very interesting paper on N,orwiCh,
prepared by a member of Faith Trunl-
! bull chapter of that city. Miss STAN
ton also entertained with recitation
of a, humorous poem. The next regu-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02
The HOLIDAY IN WESTERLY
High School Students Begin Using Gymnasium In Library
Building -NIasonic Burial Hymn Written BY E. G. Cum
daE-Old Passenger Station Now Tenant House-Fre
AT Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Coy

Through the courtesy of the trustees
Of the Westerly Memorial and Library
association, the students OF the West
er1y High school are privileged to use
the thoroughly equipped gymnasium in
che basement Of Memorial building,
commencing New Years day and to
continue during the winter school
term The boys made the first visit
60 the gymnasium yesterday afternoon
and hereafter they Will take exercise
there two afternoons Of each week, al
ways accompanied by one or more
teachers. On one afternoon Of each
week the girls will exercise in the
gymnasium under the personal dtrec-
ton Of Miss Jennie B. Stanton, teach
or of physical culture and elocution In
the Westerly schools.
Cast. Herbert M. Knowles of Wake
field. district superintendent of the
United States life saving service has
perhaps the largest collection of sAips'
f1gureheaas and name signs In New
England, or perhaps the United States.
lie has relics of many wrecked ard
sismantied vessels which are perhaps
the only tangible reminders. Captain
Walter II. Davis OF the Watch Hill
station has contributed literally to the
collection. His latest was a quarter
Board name of the old schooner J. s
Terry, recently dismantled i'll the Paw
cat1tck river, which was expressed to
Captain Knowles as q New Years
gift. These marine relics are In con-
spicuous places around the residence
of the captain A large and rare like
collection has been made by the T. A
Scott company of New London.
Edward Gray Cunrali, who has
written several songs, for the pleasure
there is in it, has Just published a
Masonic Burial Hymn. an ode, writ
TEN by him, and which was set to
music by George w, King OF Doric
lodge. A, F. and a NJ. OF Auburn, r
l.. Mr.. Cundan is member of Frank
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02
COLCHESTER
Bantjst Christmas Festival Friday
Evenine-Many at Firemsn's Bali
Social Evening for Academy Or
chestTa

The Christmas tree and entertain
Ynent of the Baptist Sunday school,
which were to have been held Tuesday.
nave been postponed until this evening
evening on account of the inability TO
set the slides Cor tbe stereopticon he
fr~e Friday. The subject Of the lee
lure is to be Palestine.
The BOYS ciao basketball team will
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

GO to Lebanon this evening to play
the Lebanon team.
Firemen's Ball.
Colchester Fire company held their
second annual ban III Grange hall on
Wednesday evening. helly's fun or
chesUa furnished music and Professor
CongdOn prompted. There was a large
attendance.
A. T. Roper was visiting friends in
MiGdletown Tuesday.
Orchestra Entertained.
Bacon Academy orchestra was in
vited to the ne Of Edwin r. Gillette
were present. Mr.. Gillette and Nj.
Condren assisted with trombone and
clarinet. A lunch was served during
the evening
Michael Mccarthy has returned
from spending Christmas week at his
home in Bridgeport.
The quarterly meeting OF the Village
Improvement society Is to be held on
Tuesday evening, Jan. C.
Samuel Gelert was visiting friends
in Hartford Wednesday.
Mis- Alice Edwards Of Providence, q
graduate nurse. formerly Of this place,
is visiting relatives in town.
Horne from Indiana.
Airs. Margaret Ryan Brown has re-
turned from a months visit with her
brothers, " lillian and Frank Ryan, at
Gary, Ind.
Dr. and Mrs Arthur N. O'Connor OF
North Adams, Nsss, were guests OF
Mr. O'ConnoI's parents on Norwich
avenue the past week.
Edward T. Smith OF Middletown was
in town Wednesday.
Charles T. Wilson Of Worcester was
a Colchester visitor Wednesday.
The Misses Book of Brooklyn, n. z,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

were at their summer home on Broad
way the past week.
William O'Brien- of Naugatuck Is the
guest of Colchester relatives.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

As Mrs. Barr and her dauq hter, Miss
Fairfield, were former residents Of
Westerly, thee following correspond
ence from Boston to New York
newspaper is of special interest:
Mrs. James c. Barr of Boston and
Beverly Farms, Wednesday announc-
ed the engagement of her only daugh-
ter, Miss F. Jane Fairfield, to Landon
Humphreys OF IIwynderry, Morris
town. n. J., son of the Rev. and Mrs.
DR. Francis Landon Humphreys. DR..
Humphreys was chaplain of the Unit
ed States Military Academy at West
Point and canon of the Cath edraI OF ST.
John the Divine, in New York
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

he annual nesting of Alert Hook
and Ladder company, No was held
customary supper and social session,
The officers elected are as follows:
George Williams. foreman; George
Capron first assistant; Albert Kenneth,
second assistant; Richard Mitchell sec
rotary; Herbert Hoadley, treasurer;
Frank Joufdan. Steward
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02
Children CRY
FOR FLETChER'S
9 q 8 Q RIA

THERE IS no advertising medium Ia
Eastern Connecticut eGG=1 20 The Bull
letin for business results.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

ne 10th anniversary of the organ
lza3icn of the Broad Street Christian
church. and the 5Qth annual roll call
will be observed Wednesday, January
!, the exercises 10 be held in the even
lng- The actual date OF organization
was December Il, but the observance
was deferred. The programme is as
follows, JJr. Albert Y. Phelps presid-
ING; Historical address,, Colonel Chas.
IL LedEard, church clerk; address to
the women of the church. Miss Lizzie
Z. Martin; address to the men OF tie
church, Charles NJ Kebbe; closing re-
marks, Rev. John G.. Dutton. minister
OF the church.
The officers are: President, William
3. Austin; vice president, William S.
Martin; Clerk, Charles H Ledward:
treasurer, Orlando r. Smith: pastoral
board, John G. Dutton, minister; dea-
cons, William B. Austin, George w.
w est, Joseph GaYitt Dr. Albert Y
Phelps, Herman E. Miner, Lafayette l.
roster, b i, Greenman; trustees, Will
liam z. Austin, George E. Broughtor,
Samuel Glrven, Raymond Collins Fred
erick Rogers, Charles II. LeciwaId Or
Iando r. Smith, George w Norman,
Irving Spencer: Bible school. Orlando
K. Smith, superintendent; John q. Dut-
ton and Samuel Girven, assistant
Isaac Smith, secretary; William Grant.
treasurer; Y. 2. S. c. E, Robert p
Mitchell, president: Junior c t.. Mrs.
Esther Button, superintendent: Ladies
Aid society, Mrs. Jennie Smith presi-
den; W. II. and f. NJ. society, Mrs a
Y. West, president.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

lin lodge of Westerly, Mr. Cundall
was for several years engaged in
newspaper work in Westerly aud re-
Gently retired from active business
life. He Is a Civil war veteran and
was for Is years sheriff OF Washington
county.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-02

go to Lebanon this evening to play
the Lebanon team.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN lANO9.
w E STE RN.

Robbers blow bank safe at Ludlow,
Mo. and escape with sum said TO ag-
gregate $1,000,
Los Angeles police blame highway
men for murder OF English tourist shot
dead on street
The segregated vice district OF st.
Louis Will be closed for all time on
March !. 1914, by an order OF the board
OF police commissioners.
The condition OF George d. Perkins,
editor and publisher OF the Journal at
Sioux City, Ia. who is seriously i'll at
a local hospital. showed little change,
Fire caused by crossed electric
passenger station, but the blaze was
extinguished with a loss OF 10000
Earnest Wallace was killed and
John Philips was probably fatally
wounded by Sheriff n. r. Moore while
they were trying to escape from jail
at Hiawatha, Kan.
Frank f. Murray. convicted forger,
was sentenced by Superior Judge VII
liam Beasly to serve two years as a
hermit in the mountains forty miles
from San Jose, Cal.
John F. Heron, twenty nine year of
age, who until recently had been man
aging the Heron hotel in Salt Lake,
was almost instantly killed by a Bam-
berger train at the St. Joseph road
crossing.
S. Imura. a japanese gardener at
Mobile, Ala sent to William Jennings
Bryan. secretary of state at Washing
ton, two radishes, weighing thirty and
twenty-eight pounds respectively. His
action was prompted by the report OF
a California farmer sending Secretary
Bryan radish weighing twelve
pounds.
Charges that Federal Judge Emory
Speer wrecked" the Central of
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany in 1892 were made before the
congressional committee investigating
charges of official misconduct against
the jurist by A. X. Lawton, vice pres
ident OF the Central OF Georgia rail
road at Savannah, Ga
A lusty, kicking infant was deliv-
cred by parcel post at Hoquiam, Wash
The package" which weighed twenty
pounds was sent by Assistant Post
master Jesse Havens prepaid from
Olympia to the home of relative
Mrs. Haveus having been taken ILL.,
Miss Eva Smith, a postal clerk saw to
it that the bundle reached its destina
tion. The distance is about sixty
miles.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
SPORT.

Lieut.. Maximo Ramos, Spanish
military aviator. was killed at Madrid,
Spain, when he fell with his aeroplane
from a considerable height.
Announcement was made by James
c. McGill that Jack Coffey probably
will succeed Jack Hendricks as man.
ager OF the Denver Baseball Club.
Plans for an eight-club circuit, com
prising the leading cities of the West
ern slope. were outlined by Louis T.
Robinson Of Denver, at a meeting at
Grand Junction.
Phil Kearney at Denver signed ar
ticles to meet Soldier Fred Walter in
a ten-round bout at Fort Logan Feb.
7. The pair will weigh in at 142
pounds ringside.
American athletes scored three vic
tories and one tie in the track events
at the championship meeting of the
Australasian Amateur Association at
Melbourne, Australia.
Maurice Flynn. coast battler. who
has shown much promise in his vari-
GUS ring engagements, was matched
to battle Joe Bishop in a ten-round
wind-up at Racine on Feb. 6.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
WASHINGTON.

sweeping investigation OF strike
conditions in the coal fields of Colo
RADIO and the copper district of Michi-
gan was authorized by the House.
The President and Mrs. Wilson gave
the second of the state receptions at
the White House in honor of the judi.
ciary of the United States government.
Former Senator LYMAN r. Casey of
jamestown. n. D.. died ut his home in
Washington of heart failure He
served from 1889 to 1898 and was sew
euty-seven years old.
The White House bride and bride
returned to the White House accom-.
panied by the eldest sister OF Mrs.
Sayre, Miss Margaret Wilson.
An extensive system of land forti-
tications for the Hawaiian islands is
proposed in the annual Notifications
appropriation bill reported to the
House by Representative Sherley of
Kentucky.
The nominations of Henry NJ. Pin
dell of Peoria. H., to be ambassador
to Russia, and Winfred T. Denison of
Portland, Ne, 10 De mem Der or the
Philippine commission and secretary
OF the interior OF the Philippines
were confirmed by the Senate.
The campaign of the National Asso
citation opposed to Woman Suffrage is
to be carried into every Southern
state. according to Mrs. Arthur NJ
Dodge, its president, who has returned
from South Carolina, where the fight
has just been started.
President Wilson conferred for near
1y three hours with the Senate com
mittee on foreign relations. The en-
tire committee, Republicans and Dem
ocrats. with the exception OF Senator
Clark, who is in Arkansas. discussed
foreign affairs of the nation.
Organization Of permanent govern
ment for the Panama canal zone to
supersede the Isthmian canal commits
sion on April 1st was authorized by
President Wilson with the announce
ment that the nomination Of Colonel
George w. Goethals to be first COVER
nor Of the canal zone would be sent
to the Senate in few days.
Resolutions authorizing congression.
al investigation Of the Colorado and
Michigan strike we're reported by the
House rules committee in accordance
with the recommendation Of the Dem.
0cgatic caucus.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
FORMER SENATOR
CULL0M IS DEAD
HAD BEEN PROMINENT IN MA.
TIoNAL AFFAIRS FOR HALF
A CENTURY.
WORK WAS IMPORTANT
VETERAN ILLINOIS SOLON'S LAST
WORDS WERE TRIBUTE
TO LINCOLN.

Western ewspaper Union News Service
ashington-Former Senator Shell
by NJ. Cullom of Illinois died here
after an illness of more than week.
during which he lowered between life
and death. His last words were wish
that he might have lived to see the
completion Of the national memorial
to Abraham Lincoln, who was his per
sonal friend.
Since his retirement from the Sen
ate last March Mr. Cullom has been
resident commissioner OF the commits
sion created by Congress to build the
81 ,000, ,00e memorial to Lincoln.
A little more than a week ago he
was taken with grippe. His advanced
age put his recovery beyond hope, but
his wonderful vitality postponed the
end from one sinking spell to another.
He was eighty-five years old and had
a record OF fifty years of continuous
public service.
Cullom was a figure of national i'm
portance for more than thirty years,
and held public office for more than
half century.
He began his political career in 1856
when he was elected city attorney for
Springfield Almost Immediately he
was elected a member of the House of
Representatives of the Illinois Legis-
lature, and was reelected in 1860,
serving unit. 1865, when he was elect
ed to the National House of Repre-
sentatives. He served in the Thirty
ninth. Fortieth and Forty-first Con-
crosses. He went back to Illinois and
again was elected to the State Legls-
lature in 1872, serving until 1875. He
was elected governor of the state in
1876 and succeeded himself in 1880.
He served until Feb. 5, 1883. when he
was elected to the United States Sen
ate and served continuously until
March 3, 1913.
He had seen the impeachment OF
Andrew johnson and had placed Grant
in nomination in a speech containing
only seventy-five words.
Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 29.-Funeral
services over the remains of Senator
Cullom will be held here at 2:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Rep
resentatives' hall at the statehouse.
The obsequies will be conducted by
the Rev Donald MacLeon, formerly
of Washington Memorial addresses
will be made by United States Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman and Governor
Dunno.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
Municipal conoress, Feb. 1917.

Boulder-The date for the first an
nual Colorado Municipal Conference
tions to the mayors. other officers and
others interested in municipal govern
ment, were sent out by DR.. l.. d. Os-
born, dean of the extension depart
ment OF the University of Colorado,
under whose auspices the meetings
are to be held. The invitation was
signed by the mayors of sixteen Colo
RADIO towns. Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
executive secretary of the National
Municipal League. with headquarters
at Philadelphia, will be the principal
speaker
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
KILLED BY HEAVY LOG
RANCHER'S WIFE. WITH AID OF
DOG, FINDS BODY.
Trying to Load Heavy Timber
Upon Sled.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Canon City, Colo.-Forrest Dill, a
prominent rancher. was crushed to
death in the woods near mis- home on
Thirty-one Mile creek near Guffey by
log he was trying to load on sled.
His young wife found the body with
the aid OF the family dog which fol-
lowed the trail of its master through
the heavy snow.
Mrs. Din was unable to extricate
her husbands body because of the
great weight of the log and was com
PEELED TO walk three miles, over an
unbroken road to the home of her
father. ID. w. Hammond. who returned
with her and removed the log.
Dill went out with a sled and horses
to haul to his home log he had cut
previously. He was trying TO get the
log on the sled when it fell upon him,
crushing him terribly. Apparently
death was almost instantaneous.
Dill was thirty years old and was
married on Christmas, 1912, to Miss
Mary Hammond.
His home formerly was in West Nir-
ginia. The body will be sent to that
state for burial
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
GEN ERAL.

| jim Wilson. charged with the mur-
der Of Mrs. W. NJ. Lynch at Wendell,
| N. c., was lynched by a mob.
| William VI. Shemeley, whose funeral
took place at Mount Holly, N. j.. had
| lived for twenty-five years with a
broken neck.
| Posses with bloodhounds begin
search for men who held up and
robbed Southern railway train near
Packers, Ala.
Directors of the National City bank
of New York, the largest financial in
stitution in the United States, voted
to join the federal reserve system.
Construction of the National Home
of the Benevolent and Protective Od-
der of Elks at Bedford. City, Va, has
been started. The home" is to cost
| more than s26o,000 and will comprise
eight buildings.
The letter written by Gen. U. S.
Grant to his father. in which he an
ncunced his determination to enlist,
was sold in New York during the auc-
ton of the rare autograph letters in
the Remsen Lane collection for S910,
the highest price of the day, to J.
Ewing.
Edward Beardsley, who defied ar.
rest for eight days at Summerdale, N.
Y, was arraigned before Justice
Young on charge of assault. first
degree. for the shooting of Postmas-
ter John G. w. Putnam. He waived
examination and was held without bail
for the grand jury.
None of the members of the crowd
who assaulted Charles H. Moyer, pres.
ident OF the Western Federation OF
Miners. in Hancock. Mich, on the
night of Dec. &c. ard then deported
him. were identified 10 the satisfaction
OF the special grand jury. and a mo
true bill" was returned in the case.
A deficit Of slightly more than ST.
100000 after payment of fixed charges
and dividends was disclosed at New
York In the statement of the United
States Steel Corporation for the last
quarter Of 1913,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
Found Dead cIaspina Photo.

Aguilar.-Lying in his lonely ranch
house, with the photograph of beau
tiful girl at his side. the dead body Of
Walter Dutton. fifty years old. re-
cluse, was found by neighbors. He had
been shot through the head and it is
believed by the authorities that he
committed suicide. Dutton had lived
for several years on a small ranch
not far from Aguilar. He seldom
came to town and little is known con-
corning him. He is said to have rela-
tives in Texas
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
FOREIGN.

John Henry Frederick Bacon. the
painter. died In London. He painted
the coronation OF King George V. and
Queen Mary. He was born in 1865.
Mrs. Napoleon Rodin and three lit
tie girls. one a neighbor's daughter
were burned to death in the Rodin
home at Notre Dame Des Rosare. Que.
The first court of the season will
be held at Buckingham palace in Lon
don on Feb. l3, and the rush OF appli-
| cations to the lord chamberlain's Of
flee has already begun.
Officials of the Mexico Northwest.
ern railroad received word at Juarez
that train filled with American
ranchmen and Mexican which left
Juarez had been held up by bandits
near Guzman, eighty-five miles south
OF the border.
The body OF the late Lord Strath-
coma and Mount Royal, high commits
sioner for Canada, was buried with
simple ceremonies, in Highgate ceme-
terry, North London His body lies be-
side that of his wife, who died only a
few months ago.
A severe earthquake occurred at
Lepante. Almost every house in the
town was damaged and the fortress
partially wrecked, but nobody was in
jured. Lepante or Naupaktos is a sea
port of the Gulf of Corinth with a pop
ulation OF about 3 900.
The American, Cunard and White
Star lines at London announced reduc-
tions OF 81 in their rates for east
bound passengers and $3.50 for west
bound passengers. bringing their
prices down to the cut rates OF the
Ham burg American line.
The cold is so intense in northern
France that the harbors are gradually
closing. Temperatures ranging from
% to IS degrees below freezing were
recorded at various points, and the in
side basin of Dieppo harbor was en-
tirely covered with thick ice
At Batavia. Dutch East Indies fif-
ty-cight children sixteen women and
ore man were killed during panic
caused by a fire at a moving picture
show on plantation in the Dutch
residency of Surahaya. Most of the
victims were trampled to death or suf
focated.
F'idencio Hernandez and Guillermo
Mexueiro. captiyes 81 the states of
Oaxaca, have been arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the plot
to overthrow the Mexican federal
government. Maxueiro and Hernandez
were identified with the political for
tunes of General Felix Diaz.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
misappropriatlon Of 500 900 Charge d

Denver-Charged with embezzle-
ment. misappropriation of bank funds
and false entries to the amount of
100000, with the possibility OF this
sum reaching 100000, Orson Adams,
who for thirty years has occupied a
high position in banking and political
Grand Junction on warrant which
has been sworn to by Louis Reeves
of the Department of Justice bank ac-
counting force: George Goodell, ma
tional bank examiner, and II. Walter
Smith, also of the Department OF JUS
tice.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-31
1oo-earre! spouter at De seoue.

De BeQue.-An oil strike which is
spouting 100 barrels day was made
here and people of De Beque and near
by towns are wild with excitement.
The strike was made on the property
Of w. E. Dudley of Grand Junction at
4 depth Of 1.750 feet, and a steady
flow Of oil and gas is gushing over
the top. Rush orders have been sent
for tanks. The oil Is rich green.
with asphaltum base. Little water IL
flowing with 1t. The strike was made
" the Grand River OIL and Gas Co