Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-06
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 London will spend s7,ooo, 900 for inn proving dock facilities
 Emperor Francis Joseph is suffer ing recurrence of fits of coughing
 H. p. Harris, an aviator, was killed when his machine fell 50 feet at Akron, Ohio.
 Dwight Chester, president of three banks in Newton. Mass, died, aged le years.
 During March s2,621 aliens were ad- mitted to this country against 96.s5s a year ego.
 member of the French senate, died in Paris. aged e3.
 The Post Office department has added three new stamps, 2, 9 and 12 cent denominations
 President Wilson appointed Walter Mclean, captain, to be rear admiral in the United States navy.
 Fire destroyed six buildings valued at s4e,000 on the estate of B. F. Yoak- um, near Farmingdale, L. l.
 Burglars blew open the safe in the post office at Newark, N. Y., and es- caped with s1, 300 in cash and stamps.
 Herbert lovcday, a choirmas ter, was killed and two other persons were in- Jured when an automobile owned by
 Among the many motor speeders ar rested in New Jersey was William M. Elkins, the Philadelphia banker. He was fined s25.
 Several persons were killed in a storm which swept western Illinois and eastern Iowa, causing considerable property damage.
 Representative P w. RagsdaIe, of South Carolina was slightly injured by falling from his horse while riding in Rock Creek park.
 The arson squad of militant suf- fragettes set fire to and destroyed the new grandstand of the Cave Hill Ten his club at Belfast
 Austin kiIgariff, aged 45, a mechanic. was instantly killed by a switch en- zine at East Hartford. He leaves his widow and five children.
 Michael p. Mahonsy, who shot Cor poration Counsel Frank L. Polk in an attempt upon the life of Mayor Mitchell was sent to Mattawan-
 President Wilson left the executive offices and transacted his affairs in the cool shade of a tent spread in the White House grounds.
 More than 50 lives were lost in a fire which completely destroyed sev- era1 buildings in the commercial sec- ton of Valparaiso. Chill
 Lightning struck the house of the Homewood Country club at Schwarth- more. ILL. causing a fire which des- troyed the building. Loss $50. 900. Three members of . gypsy camp near 'Terre Haute. Ind, were shot and killed by John Demetro, a giant Brazilian. during a drunken brawL
 4 militant suffragette named Mrs. Wood entered the Royal Academy In London and siashed a portrait by John Singer Sargent, the American artist
 A man was arrested in Phiiadelphia as an accomplice in s175.ooo jewel robbery in Warsaw. Russia The rob- bery involves the death of a woman.
 More than 1000 children marched out safely in two and one-haR min utes when a small hlaze was discov- cred in Public Scchool No ITO in New York
 S. E. Watkins a Buffalo publisher, who was found unconscious in a street at Montreal. died In the hospital He had been struck on the head by an assaflant
 Several hundred students of Dart mouth university at Hanover, N. H. helped fight fire which damaged the printing plant of State Auditor Frank A. MusgroVe.
 Eight nasmbers of the Chicago Board Of Education were sentenced to SC days in prison for contempt of court in refusing to reinstate four members of the board.
 4 bill providing for the two platoon system for fire departments in cities of more than 50, 600 inhabitants was favored in the Massachusetts House by a vote of III to 1o4- Ocean Grove, the famous eamp-meet- ing resort of Methodisnl. which ad- joins Asbury Park, N, J.. voted by a majority of SS votes today against changing its form of government.
 State troopers arrived at Freeland Pa, and are patroffing that section aS the result of trouble which developed in the strike of motormen and con- dsctors of the Lehigh Traction com pany.
 The state department of mines fs- sued a statement showing that fatal accidents in coal mines of Penhsyl vania for three months ending March 31. numbered 1oS against 126 in the same period last year. Flags were at half mast on public buildings and silk mills cut of respect for Judge Joseph w. Congdon, whose funeral was held at Fassaie. V. J Judge Congdon was largely interested in the silk industry,