Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-21
An Paper, Circulation is he agest cOnnecdcM

cticut in Proportion t( Condensed Telegrams Owing to crop failures in some dis ricts Of India, a famine is threaten- A seat on the New York Cotton Ex- change sold for $11,5o0 which Is $15o | below the last sale. Lord cromer, former British Agent | and Consul General in Egypt, is seri- i ously i'll in London. The New York Bible Society will place a Bible in each cell of New York and Brooklyn prisons
 The seottsdaIe House, the largest hotel in Scottsdale Pa, was destroed by fire. The loss is s5o.ooo.
 Fire destroyed the yards of the Dow CT Lumber Co, at Dover, N J., causing a loss estimated at $75,o0o.
 Construction of the naval wireless telegraph station at Lake Bluff, ILL, will be started immediately.
 
 Captain Richard Winsiow. of the Coast Artillery corps at Brownsville, texas, was accidentally killed.
 Two earthquakes shook the town of Chateau d.Elerton, France, causing much alarm but no casualties.
 orrin Curry, a retired politician, celebrated his SSth birthday at Red Bank, N. J., in excellent health.
 Russia's cooperation in the around the-world aeronautical race planned by the Panama-Pacific Exposition is assured.
 Prince Paul Troubetskoi, who is visiting in Philadelphia, has denounced opera as false and degrading and is- mt music"
 Nelson A. King, of Morristown, N. J.. was killed at Greenwood Lake when he was struck on the head by pitched baseball
 Memorial services for Consul Gen eraI John L. Griffiths who died on Sun day, will be held Friday in St. Paufs church, London.
 The nomination of Charles Warren to be Assistant Attorney-General was favorably reported by the Senate ju- dietary committee.
 The annauI convention of the Con- gregstional churchs of New Hampshire was held at Portsmouth yesterday with a large attendance
 "Jack7 a boxing kangaroo, valued at s5,000, was killed in a fight with a leopard while en route from Paterson N J. to Newburg, N. Y. Rosie DeRoss, of New York, three years old, was fatally burned when hel dress caught fire from a match thrown aside by her grandmother Mrs. Frank E. Smith of Trenton, N l. received a decree of divorce on the grounds of cruelty She alleged hel husband hated the sight of her face Charles WohIsiffer, of Jersey City who pleaded guilty to six burgiaries was sentenced to not less than Is ol more than 45 years in the State pris' son.
 | Almost every train arriving at Chi | cago brought delegates to the 1z6tf general assembly of the Presbyterian church, which will open here tomor' | row. \ 1 The sIoop Fl Annie, of BeIzie, British 1 Honduras, sank and 10 persons, in cluding two Catholic priests, were drowned. Thirteen others were res cued.
 Friends of Senator Elihu Root ar' urging him to run again for the United | States Senate and to reconsider hil decision to withdraw at the close of hi | term.
 William Holmes, a 1s-year-oId pub lie school pupil of Rutherford. N. J. being sent home by his teacher to ge his books
 Thomas Manos, a bootblsck, c Trenton, N. J.. who won an automobil in a popularity contest, was fined s3 on his first ride for driving withou license.
 | Twelve hundred children were foun living in one block by school censu enumerators at Chicago. Louis Lin
 heads the list of parents with l
 children.
 John R. Early, the leper whose cas
 attracted public attention fo rsevera . years, has escaped from the Quaran
 tine station near Port Townsend
 Washington.
 Giuseppe Sabateiia, of New YorI
 was sentenced to 60 days fmprison
 ment and fined S25o for practistn
 medicine without a license. He sol
 love powders" The painting by Sargent of "Perseu V with the Head of Medusa". which dis
 appeared mysteriously from the Brook
 lyn Institute of Arts and Science, wa
 returned by mail.
 Robert L Bremen, of Charleston S.
 was arrested in Newark, \. J., charge
 with trying to pass a worthless chec on Captain Frank w. Tuite of the De tective Department. , Two persons were killed and hN injured when an automobile driven | Mrs. Mary B. Myers WAS struck by train near Camden, N. T. Mrs. Myel