Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-22

Rattiesnake venom, as cure for ep- 1epey failed in official tests conducted by the State of Kansas.
 Mrs. May shanneI, of St. Louis. fired twenty shots at a "peeping Tom" None of the shots took effect. sien Kemal, new Sultan of Egypt, as- suring him of his friendship and sup port.
 One of the prizes shot during the Wisconsin hunting season was a white deer, which was sold to a taxidermist for S2oO.
 Seventy nine heirs in Sharon, Pa, who are to share in $26. left by rel atfYe, voted to use the money for a banquet.
 Contributions amounting to $1,ss3, received by the New York State Board of the American Red Cross, bring the total to S10,717.
 Col. Albert carre, commanding at Thann, Alsace, has authorized the eel ebration of a midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
 Oscar Flicker, aged IS, a salesman in a store in Newark, N. J., was fined $50 and, paroled for two years for stealing S1 from the till.
 The United Fruit Co.'s wireless plant at New Orleans. having a range of 2,OO0 miles and valued at $75,- GOO, was destroyed by fire.
 Nearly five hundred students of Princeton have signed petition ask ing the faculty to recommend a mill tary course of instruction.
 Seventeen bottles of whiskey and a half barrel of beer was found hidden in a piano, in a house raided by the police of Junction City, Kansas.
 While playing with companions on the ice on Pelham reservoir, Mount Vernon, N. Y, Clarence Core, Il, broke through and was drowned.
 Fifty thousand half pound pieces of maple sugar were sent by the Duchess of Connaught to Canadian soldiers and sailors who are serving in the war. oskenonton, a Mohawk Indian, will lead the Christmas carol singing at the lighting of the Christmas tree in Madison Square Garden, New York. The Duchess of Argyll will distribute S150,000 donated by w. W. Astor. of London, for the relief of families of British. officers killed or wounded at the front.
 The naval coIlitr Caesar left Wash ington with a cargo of Government ex- hibits to be shown at the San Fran cisco exposition. The cargo will pass through the Canal.
 Rear-AdmiraI Walter Mclean, com mander of the Fourth division, Allan tic fleet, transferred his flag from the battleship Minnesota, to the Rhode Is- land, at Vera Cruz.
 ri Lung, the only Chinese laundry man in Plainville, Mass, was badly pummelled by three men who enter ed his shop and robbed him of a small sum of money.
 has raised $40000, so that every British soldier and sailor, including those interned in Holland, will have a Chrdistmas pudding.
 Opportunity to purchase candy for Christmas through the prison office will be accorded the inmates of the State prison at Charlestown, Mass, il was announced today.
 Fire swept through nine low buId- ings, at Somerville, Mass, used by Michael Durant. a bag man, and dam aged a large tenement house before the blaze was brought under control
 Lieut. Governor w. P. o'NeiI, of In- diana. and twelve officers and employees of the 1913 Legislature, who were in- dicted for presenteing illegal claims against the State, were acquitted. 
 Edgar L. Ryder, of ossinins, N. Y- l brought suit against the New York Central Railroad for the return of 2 cents, charged in excess of the legal fare between ossining and TaTytown,
 Under decision of Surrogate Fowl | CT, who holds that Henry Rutherford was resident of New York, the State will collect a transfer tax of about S35o,0 The estate is valued at 7,- 100000.
 The Canadian Pacific Railway liner Empress of India, was sold to the GaeRwar of Baroda, the richest Prince of the Indian Empire. It will be used as hospital ship for Indian soldiers.
 John Gallon o'LaushIin, an Arneri- can newepaperman who accompanied the American Christmas ship Jason to Europe was QecoraIeo with Gn0 Grand Cross of the Order of Francis Joseph by the Austrian Emperor. William x. 6ases, an assistant in the office of C.. A Rosentwist, the Swedish vice consul was struck and killed by a train at the Winchester Highlands station of the Boston and Maine railroad. He was 6e years old. | A quantity of valuable furs were stolen from store in the Boston wholesale district during the night by thieves who entered through a cleverly constructed tunnel from the basement of an unocupied store in on adjoining building.
 The Western unloa Telegraph a Cable Co. has decided to abandon ita cable station ct danhatt4n Beach and erect a new station at Roclxaway Beach, seven miles farther east on the coast, because of the extensive dredg- ing which the Government Is under taking at Manhattan Beach. The lobster season h Nova Scotia which opened on December 15, is al- ready reported to be tJne of the best