Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-24

lnecticut in Proportion to
 Condensed Telegrams
 The Bank of England bought 6s.- 900 pounds sterling of bar gold.
 Ex-United States Senator William S. West, died at his home in Valdosta, Ga.
 Employers of the New York Stock Exchange will not receive the usual Christmas bonus this year.
 The Arriasa Theatre in Bilbao. Spain. was badly damaged by fire, Twenty persons were killed. railroads in Ohio for the repeal of the two cent passenger fare law.
 The steamer Kentucky from the United States for Denmark, went ashore near Fraserburg Scotland.
 Symmetry in the feminine form is IuC 1uSdl OL d new course 10 De 1nSIl- tuted at the University of Pittsburgh.
 Secret Service operatives have dis covered a new $10 counterfeit note on the National Park Bank of New York.
 The White Star liner Mesantic col hded and sank the barge Brazil, in the Mersey River. The crew was saved
 The committee of five has ruled that there shall be no restrictions on securities on the Hartford Stock Ex- change.
 Fred Wilcox, agent of the American | Express Co, at Long Branch, N. J., was held up and robbed of $4o0 near his homo.
 The Italian anarchists and Repubn- cans convicted of sedition in the rail- waymen's strike last May received a royal pardon.
 Thirty-four of the fiFty-four prison CTS in the Oklahoma State prison who were released.
 A. J. Randall aged e2, an editor of of Georgetown, Col, was remarried in Kansas City to his wife, whom he di- vorced in 1867.
 The River Plate Commercial Co, has filed notice at Albany, N. r., that lit has increased it's capital from $200,- 900 to $500 900.
 The British cruisers Lancaster and Suffolk and the Canadian cruiser l Gloria, appeared off the entrance to New York harbor.
 The Amoskeag Textile Mills, af l hToT7ntnGfnr L. rirac- nm hands, will be shut down for ten days beginning tomorrow.
 The Standard Oil Co.,. of. Indiana announced that they will cut the price on all refined oils 1-2 cent per gallon, both in barrels and bulk. Dr. Stephen Panaretof, formally pre- sented his credentials as the first Mni= ister from Bulgaria to President Will son at the White House.
 Mrs. Elsie Simmons Pearee, wife of Edward D. Pearce, and prominent in society in Providence, committed sui- eide by opening an artery.
 An unidentified steamer is ashore on the Cedro Islands, 200 miles south of San Diego, Cal. The steamer Arisoni- an is standing by to aid her.
 immigration at the port of New York l is now only about 20 per cent of norm al, and is made up largely of Italians, Irishmen and Scandinavians. l Miss Jennie Newcomb, an adjutant in the Salvation Army, died at the Hartford Hospital yesterday following an operation for appendicitis. | Senator Works, who gave Washing | ton a stricter law regulating saloons, introduced bill to enforce a Sunday closing rule for barber shops. Mrs. Alice Bennett of Brooklyn, 10s years old. expects to cook her own | Christmas turkey and indulge in an Irish jig when the dancing begins. 1 Twenty two erandsons and orreat | grandsons of Queen Victoria are fight ing in the present war, five for Eng land and the remainder for Germany. | Charles LeopIod, Jr., of Newark, N J., was sentenced to three years in prison for having beaten his aged mother when she refused him money. | Every public school in Hoboken, N J., including the High School has been closed as a result of an epidemic of | diphtherta, which has killed ten pupils. Leaving a note saying that she was | giving up a hopeless fight against tub ercuIosis. Mrs. Esther Miller of East | Orange, N. J., ended her life by inhal- ] ing gas.
 Senators Cumnnins introduced bill ! extending the benefits of the pension | laws to soldiers who served less than 90, days in proportion to the service rendered.
 | Announcement was made yesterday | by the Hartford and New York Trans | portation company of abandonment of navigation in the Connecticut River for the season
 | Barrend Vessels a member of the South African Parliament from Beth Iehem was arrested at Bloemfontein, Orange River Colony, because of pro- German tendencies.
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