Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-04

pounds in bar gold
 The Secretary of AsricuIture lifted the quarantine against Canadian po- tatoes.
 Forest fires in the state of Pennsyl- vania this year have caused damage of more than s45o,OOo-
 A Philadelphia Stock Exchange seat sold for $S,500, the last previous sale being made at ss,1oO,
 The Chicago S Eastern illinois Railo car shops at oaklawn. Ill.
 Many cotton mills in Denmark and | Sweden are closed because of the l scarcity of raw material.
 Jacob H. sehiff has resigned from the Japan Society. giving as his reason his sympathy with Germany.
 Lawrence Page, of Quebec, his guide and two helpers have been frozen to death at Lake Septile, Canada
 As a rival to "Tipperary," the Ger mans in Belgium are singing a song, It's a short, short march to Calais" A reserve force of 2s,1e6 men has been recruited in New York city, to clean the streets of snow this winter.
 Three hundred hotel men gathered in New York city for the annual con- vention of the State Hotel Association
 The Prince of Wales fund for the relief of the families of oldiers at the front has reached a total of $2O.O0o.oOo.
 Eighty -four employees of the Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York, received a months furlought without pay.
 Temple Bowdin, member of J. P. Morgan & Co., died at his home in York, following an operation for ap- pendicitis.
 Police Commissioner Woods of New York advocates freer use of the night stick by policemen to drive out city gangsfers.
 A postaIeard addressed simply to The Most Popular Man in Germany" was delivered to Field Marshall von Hindenburg.
 The Wonen's Freedom League in London has formed a corps of police women under the name of Women Police Volunteers.
 As result of a practical joke, S3 doctors called on Mrs. Charity Mo Carter in Washington, having been summoned by postal card.
 The Treasury laundry machine used in making old and dirty paper money clean and crisp will be exhibited at the San Francisco Exposition. | Purchasing agents for the Rocke- feller Foundation bought 5S5,000 bush els of wheat in Chicago markets for relief of the starving Belgians. | A girl who said she was Happy ening clothes. was arrested in New York charged with masquerading.
 Enlistment for the second contingent to be sent by Newfoundland to join the British army is proceeding, rapid ly.
 John F. Lamb, who retired as de- lpartment commander of the Grand Army in Maine. last June, died yester- day.
 Alfred Ayotte, aged 12, was drowned at Biddeford, Me, by breaking through thin ice while skating on a brook. He is the first victim here this year.
 Thomas J. Hill, an aviator, was kill ed in the suburbs of Los Angeles when his machine fell to the ground, while he was attempting a loop-the- loop.
 An unidentified man was found roasted to death on an ashpile at Sparta, N. I. He had laid on the pile to get warm, and was overcome by gas.
 l ,-;.arar at A,,L,,., p-;.or NJa,, York, has offered to give up his life to aid cancer research. He will allow himself to be inoculated with the can cer germ.
 Cuban authorities have seized a se- ditious proclamation issued at Sague Lagrande, in Santa Clara province, ad- turing the negroes to arm and assert their rights.
 For the first time since the New York City Hospital on BlackwelPs Is- land was opened in 1870. the old fash toned farm lamps were replaced by electric lights.
 On personal representations from President Wilson through Ambassador Gerard, Germany has released Admiral Neeld, retired, and his wife held at a German health resort.
 One person was killed and several injured and dozens driven from their homes by a terrific wind and rain storm at Houston, Tex, during which six inches of rain fell.
 Mrs. Victoria JerezyE, aged 52 died at the New Britain general hospital from burns received at her home when she attempted to replenish the fire in the kitchen range with kerosene. I
 The American consul general at Genoa has made arrangements for the free transportation by rail of the American Christmas gifts to the or phans of Austria and Germany.
 In running fight with, railroad car burglar at Buffalo. N. Y. Police