Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-13

A man believed to be John Egan, of Washington, was killed by a New York Central train at The Bronx. bridge of the Savannah S: Northwest ern Railroad near St. Clair. Ga.
 Prof. Henry H. Sewage, head of the Hampton VomGn's College, near New port News, Va, committed suicide.
 Sorert E. Wood -ou, a dist rel atNc of President Wilson, was killed in a 1nu cycle -"Iuent r. IEdiIu;. pn- lis.
 . Secretary Bryan will leave Wash inStCn or Tuesday to spend wecF or two at lis wiiter home in Miami, h.
 William S. Richards, postmaster at Landing, N. J, was arrested and charged with appropriating S3,OOO for his own use.
 The coronation of the Emperor of cause of the death of the Dowager Empress Haruzo.
 The first divorce court" in Ohio was opened in Cleveland. The court will attend only to cases involving marital difficulties.
 The race meeting at Norfolk, Va, has been called off as a result of At torney-GeneraI Pollards campaign against boOkmaking.
 Two persons were drowned and five injured when an automobile plunged off a. ferryboat into the Elizabeth riy- CT near Norfolk, Va
 More than 64,ooo miners will be af- fected when practically all of the soft coal mines in central Pennsylvania will be closed by operators.
 Charles Dixon, negro, shot and killed two women in South Baltimore, Md. He then frightened other negroes and made good his escape.
 A permit was issued to organize the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co., of Chi cago with capital stock of s75O,00O. The bank will open July 1.
 Joseph Tedesco, 2s years old, an aI- legged Brooklyn masher, was sentenced to 60 days Imprisonment when Is girls appeared against him,
 John Moore and F. w. eiehI, en- gtneers, were killed when Baltimore 6 Ohio freight trains crashed at the
 
 pr. W. Van Rappard, Minister from Holland to the United States, will be the guest at dinner given by the Netherlands Society in New York.
 Walter Smith, negro, paroled pris- oner, confessed to killing William Me niff, son of the Chief of Police al. Me dia, Pa, who arrested him for burglary.
 secrtary Bryan and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador. ex- treaty which will continue for five years.
 At the convention of the Master HorseshOers of Indiana at Fort Wayne. plans were laid for founding a course in horseshoeing course at Purdue Un- iversity.
 The battIeflag of the Seventy sixth Ohio regiment captured by General Hardee's Corps, during the Civil War. will be returned at the Jacksonville, reunion.
 Anna Rice, six -year-oId daughter of an fronworke1' of SOmerville, N. J, is dying from wounds received when a re- volver she was playing with accident ly discharged.
 More than 5000 school children un- der the direction of the Washington Bird Club marched through the streets of Washington scattering food for the hungry birds.
 The Revenue Cutter Service an nounced that examinations for line and engineer cadetships in the naval ser vice will be held on the five days be- ginning June l.
 Henry c. Merritt, former supervis- or of Eastchester, N. Y, whose oc- counts were short S227 900, has of fered to effect a compromise by giving the town $150,000.
 The Government of France has ap- propriated $30000 for the construc- tiOn of a permanent legation building in Panama and has awarded the con tract to a Panama firm.
 George Gay, an ironworker, 33 years old. who claims to be a brother of Eva Tanguay, was arrested in New York charged with having $50 worth of cocaine in his possession
 A youth who registered in PhiIadel, phia as II. F.. Ford. IT, son of the De- troit millionaire automobile manufact- Urer, proved to be all ex-convict when
 
 
 Officers and crew of the steamer kroonland were awarded medals by the Life-saving Benevolent Associa tiOn of New York for bravery in rescu- ing passengers of the burning Voltur- no.
 Four of the statues in the ceIebrat- ed Avenue of Victory in the Tiergart- en at Berlin were slightly mutilated by Antoine Astier, a retired surgeon of the French navy, who is thought to be insane.
 Mrs. Luela Nest, of Topeka, Kan., brought suit against Governor Hodges for injuries inflicted by the Governor in his office during a scuffie for the possession of papers relating to parol- ing a State prisoner.
 A Statewide Movement to raise a fund to aid the families of men lost recently in the Newfoundland sealing disaster was inaugurated at a mass meeting of Newfoundlanders at Bos- ton last night. Five hundred dollars was pledged at the meeting.