Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-28

to the clerk: That's run out, I want to get it renewed" As the clerk un-
 folded the document a broad grin
 spread over. his face and he inquired:
 Are you sure that this has run out?"
 Yes" said the man, "my wife told
 me it run out yesterday morning"
 Whereupon the clerk handed back to
 him his-marriage certificate.
 Frank Champlin, a brakeman on the
 Norwich & Worcester railroad, was struck by one of the private bridges over the tracks, while on the top of a
 car of the express freight train and
 received a scalp wound on the head about seven inches long. The blow
 knocked him from the car and he was
 caught by the brake and dragged
 along the track for about two hum
 dred yards tearing his clothing from his body and badly cutting him. March 3, 1S70-The long expected fight between Billy Edwards and Sam Collyer for s1.O00 and the champion ship of the lightweights came off at Mystic Island. near Noank, on We'd nesday. Tickets which were issued in New. York read, Edwards and Collyer l Slambake." The ring was pitched on | the east end of the island. Tracy, of 1 Cincinnati, was chosen referee, Barr 1 ney Aaron acting as second for Coll ! 7 l The principals entered the ring fine i looking and in perfect physical strength. For the first few rounds | the advantage was with Collyer when l Edwards with terrible blow knock
 ed him completely into the air. After | that the fight was all one way. Ed wards not being distressed at all while
 Collyer was terribly punished. The ! latter's face, after the first rounds,
 was a gory mass, his cheeks like 5el- ! ly, his nose driven in, his eyes were l bloody and dim, and his lips covered | with bloody froth. He struck blindly and faintly till in the twenty first round Edwards struck him a terrible ] blow, knocking him senseless and l recognizable mass of flesh unable to | speak. Governor Jewe telegraphed 1 from Hartford to the sheriff of New London county to stop the fight at all | hazards and call out the militia if l necessary but the order was received i too late. It was claimed that $20, 900 i changed hands at the fight.
 March 1, 1S70-Join Kallaher, well | known in Norwich. was fatally shot at 1 Colts armory in Hartford, Thursday morning, by a bullet from the Gatlin ! gun at the target range. It was Kal- { laher's duty to plug the target after every discharge and then take his | place about ten feet away The de-
 parture was the signal that every
 thing was all right. He had gone to 1 the target after a discharge and find ing no plugs went back for some. His
 return was not noticed and bullet i struck him over the left eye.
 So far this season sufficient ice has l not formed in the river to prevent the i New York boats from making their
 regular trips between this city and | New York.
 March 5, 1S70-A. New Party-Fhe following was mailed us last evening, with. no signature and we have no ! knowledge from whom it came. If, | however. there be anybody behind 1t, 1 they are welcome to this insertion l gratis of their call:
 ] Those friendly to the formation of 1 a political party, based on the prohi- bition of the liquor traffic and the ! enforcement of the laws, are invited 1 to meet at Treadway's hall, this Sat
 urday evening, to consult and adopt
 measures thereto and if deemed ex-
 pedient, to nominate persons to be
 voted for at the coming election.
 On the 4th of March, 1869. Grants inauguration day, gold stood at 131 On the 4th of March, 1870, it stood al l13. These facts may not be interest | ing to the democracy but they are i worth mentioning.