Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-17

Frank Leach, of New York, was sem ttenced to seven years Imprisonment after he was convicted of robbery. The State Board of Prison Directors issued orders barring vaudeville and boxing as recreations in California prisons.
 President Wilson sent telegram of coincidence to the son of fdfmer Vice ] President Stevenson, who died on Sat l urday.
 A great storm did intense damage persons were seriously injured by l lightning,
 Seventeen persons were injured when l a two-car train on scenic railway | at Ontario Beach Park near Rochester, overturned.
 The corner stone of the new athletic | stadium, donated to the College of the l City of New York by AdoIph Lewisohn,
 was laid
 The Senate adopted an amendment ! increasing the appropriation for the i collection of the income tax from | S1,OO00OO to s1,50O,0O0. ! John Mohr, convict serving term in the Great Meadow prison for burg 1 lary in New York, escaped while work 1 ing in a strip of woods. | Magistrate Mcclure in the Coney Island Court fined 20 young men from I S2 to S5 each for parading the beach
 in one piece bathing suits. Five men were seriously burned when 20-foot motor launch owned by ] Captain Baldwin of Aierrick, l.. l., took fire in Great South Bay. l Samuel Daniels, a foreman, was killed and five workmen injured by ar | explosion in the plant of the National l Art Novelty Co, in Chicago ] Gus Seeth, of BeIIrnore, N. Y., hang | ed himself in the Mineola jail rather | than go to prison for the remainder o1 i his life as a habitual criminal | A luncheon in honor of Colonel 1 Roosevelt was given in London by Sir | Edward Grey, British Foreign Secre- ! tary. Premier Asquith was a guest. The dinrepest, a cattle plague, fo, ! the prevention of which the Legisla- ! ture appointed provincial boards. is i rapidly spreading in the Philippine Is- | lands
 i Because President Wilson could not I go to he Park Ridge N. J., High l School to address the graduating class
 the graduating class went to the White | House.
 Joseph Muzei, 21, of Troy, N. Y., was ! drowned while trying to swim the 1 Hudson River. He was seized with cramps and sank before help could ] reach him. |
 was suffocated when the plant of the | Gibbs Preserving Co.,, at Baltimore was destroyed by fire. Several firemer were injured.
 Water which has been pouring i through the Lake Levee, near Galexico | Cal. covered 800 acres of cotton land ! to a depth of IS inches. The damage | is estimated at $500,00O. ] Hugo Bendhein, New York ieweIr, 1 salesman, reported to the police that | jewelry valued at s25,OO0 was stoler i from his stateroom on the Hudson 1 River steamer Adirondack. About 400 strikers and 300 engineer. and officemen are reported to have re- | turned to work at the Union Switch 1 Ss Signal Co, and 50 at the Nesting | house Machine plant in Pittsburgh. Manned by four college students the i auxiliary ketch Amber Jack, presented | to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell for the Lab-
 rador Deep Sea Mission, sailed from | Boston for Battle Harbor, Labrador. | 1t will soon be possible for a blind man to read by the ear, owing to the l improvement in an electrical inStriI-
 nier d'Albe at the British Association meeting.
 | Peter Brown of Buffalo, and cIar.
 ence Davis, of Newcastle, Pa, were se- l verely wounded in a pistol battle with police on a train near Ellwood City The men were wanted for robbery al 1 Butler, Pa
 1 Ralph Peters, five years old, of | Skowhegan, Me, is puzzling special | ists by reading and explaining passag- i es from the Bible and rememberine
 music and words of a song after hear i ing it once.
 Ninety seven students were graduat. ed at the commencement exercises oi | Boston College today, Bishop Joseph l s. Anderson, vicar-general of the Rom
 an Catholic archdiocese of Boston con-
 ferring the degrees.
 SevenArmenians were burned te death and twenty seriously injured when eighty men were trapped ir
 a burning Armenian lodging house al Milford, Mass. Two of those injured
 are expected to die
 The Rev. c. R. Robbins, pastor of z Cincinnati Baptist Church. in address. ing a meeting gave some steps of 2 | hesitation waltz. He said modern re- 1 ligious beliefs consisted of taking one
 step forward, hesitate, then three step: backward
 Wellesley College yesterday celebrat 1 ed it's thirty sixth annual commence
 ment by giving it's bachelor of arts
 degree to 3O4 yonng women, its master of arts degree to seven its certificate
 of music to two. and it's certificate il hygiene to thirty-eight
 .Belgium has 15.o00 hothouses is which grapes are raised .-. I |1|