Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10


 country, against s96,56s the same peri cd a year ago.
 An unindentifIed man, apparently about 60 years old was killed by an express train on the New Haven road at Bridgeport.
 The Illinois Public Utilities Comris- sion approved the plan for Chicago's new West Side Union railroad station to cost s65,oOO,O0O.
 Senators Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Frank s. White, of Alabama, had a narrow escape from being struck by an automobile in Washington. lianca, a vessel of 1000 tons, was the first ocean liner to pass through the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal
 The House district committee report ed favorably on the proposal for ae- of all street railroads in the district.
 It is reported that 40 fishing sehoon- CTS were lost In a storm off the north persons are believed to have perished-
 President Wilson promised the New Hampshire delegation in the House that he would Sttend the Elks' Flag Day celebration at Manchester on June 15.
 Tho Independent Order of 6'Rith Abraham in annual convention at At lantic City, N. J., adopted a resolution providing for a committee on educa- ton.
 John p. Hurley, of PittsfieId, Mass and Harry J. Hudson, of Louisville Ky, were drowned when their canoe capsized in the Seekonk River, Rhode Island.r
 The Canadian Government announe- ed that it would appropriate s5o00o for the relief of survivors and the families of victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster.
 Repettti's, a candy corporation of seven barrels of worm eaten candy in its factory. The corporation was fined s25o.
 Representative J. Harry covinsten, of Easton Md. was nominated by President Wilson to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia
 Nester WiImart, former banker and sportman, who with six associates is accused of swindling the Belgian pub lie out of $S.4OO,OO0, was placed on tri- al at Brussels
 Karl Dranewicz, leader of a gang of robbers who preyed on immigrants ar irving in New York was sentenced te the electric chair for the murder of Ivan Martysewitz.
 Three armed bandits entered the home of Frederick and Henry Schwilk. farmers near Centerburg Ohio, and escaped in automobiles with s22,l50 in cash and securities.
 The Sixth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Cum mercial and Industrial Associations was opened by the French Minister of Commerce at Paris
 The steamer Sahara, 10 days over due from Uruguay arrived in New York and reported being in collision with the German steamer Ebbornburg off the coast of Central America
 The Bridgeport Filter & Cooler com pany, capital s50,000 has filed a certifi- cate of incorporation with the secre- tary of state; also the Aero Gardens company of Bridgeport. capital s50,o00. man believed to be William Engle, a travelling salesman, was found dead in the hotel at Albany, N. Y. Exam ination indicated that his death was due to an overdose of a drug used to foros eeeA
 About 10.6vu persons from Cincinnati and adjoining cities bathed in the Ohio river. As a result officials announced that kissing and spooning among bath CTS and objectionable bathing suits would be excluded.
 Justice Blackmar, in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, sentenced Christopher Dunn, the drug fiend who killed Po- liceman Riley and restaurant owner to mot less than 20 years nor more than life' in Sing Sing.
 Admiral Badger reported from verz Cruz that the Mexican gunboats Zara- goza and Bravo had passed there re- turning from Tampico to Puerto Mexi- co following Gen. Huerta's suspension of the order to blockade Tampico
 The repeal by the 1913 New York legislature of an act granting certain water rights along the St. Lawrence river to the Long Sauh Developmen, Company was held by the court of ap- peals to be effective. The company