Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-18

ice Chief Thomas E. Brown, Ser- peSr1t Donald Ferguson, accompanied by Sergeant Greene of the railroad pc lice, was out on a search for mer ehandise stolen from freight cars put none was found. The total amount thus far recovered is estimated to Ds | worth about $10,000 and six men are held for a hearing in the United i States district court, accused Of pelng a part of the gang of thieves.
 Tn searching hog house in the rear of Oak street, the officers found | two bags of stolen property, that was presumably stolen from some local mill, as 1t is no part of the mercnan- disc taken from freight cars. The bags contained balls of cotton twine and roping wound on bobbins. The material is such as is used in the Clark Thread mill and the mill of the Lorraine company and was probably taken from one of these plants. It was of no great value to the thief. and 1 just why it was stolen is not plain. | The police believe that the thief was l in fear that his ome might be ralded 1 in a search for stolen goods, as was l done in, the railroad cases, so he re- l moved the bags and their contents to l the hog house, which is located on the property of another. This find. how l ever, may be a clue that will develop 1 into connection with the thefts from the railroad company as the police be- lieve that other merchandise had been | hidden in the hog house and removed elsewhere.
 The police have fuli knowledge that 1 several guilty men have escaped. The six men now out on bail are to be giv- cn a hearing in the United States court at Providence. today (Thursday) provided the district attorney is ready to proceed.
 An act in amendment of an act en- titled An Act to Incorporate the Westerly and Watch Hill Steam Ferry company, was passed in the senate Wednesday. The act reduces the cap- 1 ital stock from $S0o,0OO to s25.000.
 Senator Littlefeld presented reso- lution Of the South Kingstown town council, requesting indefinite post poement of an act providing for the holding of alternate sessions of the su- perior court fer Washington county at 1 Westerly and Kingston. The resolu- ton was referred to the judiciary com ] mittee. The act providing for aIter- nate sessions at Westerly, instead o1 adjourned sessions at the option o1 the presiding judge, was presented bJ Senator Maurice W. Flynn of West erly.
 The Pawcatuck river at Westerly | | is now on par with the traditiona l raging canaI,'' but no damage O. consequence has resulted here. Int water is rushing down towards littlt Narragansett Bay at the rate Of tsev r eny-five miles an hour, and is .prae e tically unimpeded at Westerly village Comparatively small quantity of ic t has come down the river as yet. bu the break is soon expected and i q would be no surprise if some damag | resulted to that little building on tn Pawcatuek bridge, built on spiles ant # perhaps to the cylindrical supports t f the Briggs building. A section of tn h woden dam .; White Rock did com with the rushing water Wednesday : struck a spile support of the Brigg ! building with force sufficient to carr !. away the spile, causing a slight de "A pression of the structure, causing diff ficulty in the opening and shutting 0 q doors on the ground floor.
 q Above White Rock the river bank [, are overtlowed and considerable dam 6 age has bee ndone all along the lin and the manufacturing. ,coneers hay g been considerably convenienced.
 The milk situation in Rhode Is land was discussed by parties in di II 1SCI IilSClGSb at ed IlCdI 4i15 AlClQ | uSso e day in the room Of the state boar e of health at the capital. A commit 't tee was appointed to prepare. 8 ne' IS milk act which will be reportel bac a for consideration before being pre- l. scented to the legislature. It was de
 cided to hold the matter over until tn . convening of he legislature of 1921.
 IsrateI A. Smith, 75, deputy she
 fish commissioner of Rhode Islant
 nineteen, years, died Tuesday at hi
 home in Pawtuxet. Mr. and Mir
 Smith celebrated their golden weddin
 January 23, 1918. Mrs. Smith sur
 wives.
 If an act introduced in the Rhod
 Island house of representatives be
 comes law, there will be big increas
 in service fees in all criminal case
 and in civil cases, doubled in some in stances in the latter cases. Tn
 measure was sent to the finance com
 nittee. The fees and costs in som eases under the present law have nc
 been changed in fifty years and til
 sheriffs and deputies say that tn
 fees do not pay the actual cost C
 tranS7orteticn. Tke cost in diyore
 proceedings is jumped from s3 to $
 the sherlns cons4derlng divorce a lux
 ury.
 Judge Edward Nj. Burke held a spe
 eial session of the probate coul
 Wednesday morning. The will (
 Charles G. Croig, leaving all to hi
 widow. Leola A. Craig was adnlitte
 to probate and Mrs. Craig. eonfrne
 as executrix. Bond $1,000. John
 Kennedy was appointed apppaiser.
 Rev. William L. Bucdick, pastor (
 the First Alfred church, Alfred, N. '
 and known to the many members (
 tlle Seventh Day Baptist denonlina.
 ton, has resiged to take effect Apr
 l5. Rev. MT. Burdick has served 3
 pastor for twenty-six years and fiy
 years with the Alfred church. He doe
 not propose to retire permanently frol
 the ministry, but resigns te a Ieye
 man with an engineering corps of tt
 federal government, with headquartel
 at Dever.
 St. Patriek's day in Westerly ws
 generally observed by the wearing
 the green, and masses in the CathoI
 churches in Westerly and Pawcatue
 That the green was displayed witt
 out regard to race, creed or any oti
 CT condition. There was no parad
 no special sessions of Irish organiz;
 tions. Some Friends of Irish Freedo
 celebrated the day by giving substal
 tial support to the Irish bond can
 paign.
 After careful consideration of u
 several bids received for the buil,