Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-03

Fire destroyed the seven-stOry fac tory of R. w. Reed & Co.,, in Brook lyn, at loss of s25,OOo.
 A shipload of toys, clothing and food will be sent by residents of Missouri to. sufferers in the European war.
 The Utility Motor Car Service Co.,, of Philadelphia, was chartered at Dow er.. Del, with capital of $s5oOo.ooo.
 "Dad' worIand, aged e2, of worland. Wyo., charged a bear and chased it up tree, by ringing a sheep bell.
 The Amoskeas Manufacturing com pany employing 16,000 people, announc- ed they would begin immediately to run on full time.
 The Endicott- Johnson Go, has re- ceived an order for 2QO, ,000 pairs of shoes for the army of a foreign coun- try.
 Secretary of comnneree RedfieId pre- diets that November will show an sx- cess of exports over imports of $7O,- 100000.
 German soldiers are provided with a special whistle which they blow only "OiOSN' eO NeAA 1sSN OAOSo workers.
 Official returns from the recent cleo tions show that capital punishment was abolished in Oregon by a majority of 167.
 The government of Manitoba has decided to take drastic action for cur tailing the liquor traffic during the war period.
 Professor Samuel christy, head of of California, died at Berekeley, Cal, of heart failure.
 A nurse in the Beth Israel hospital, New York, who was sent to ring a gong for fire drill, turned in by mis- day, Secretary Charles D. Burnes of a hose on her to cure her dancing habit, Mrs. Bable Locke of Millbrook, N. r., secured divorce.
 President Wilson has appointed John D. Locke. of Rochester, N. r., to be United States attorney for the western district of New York.
 The Dense Fog Which Has Prevailed along the New England coast for the Pc9t NHA 70 Ne1S . sow way SO d uAA1zAluS s mist yesterday.
 The German Government, in an of fcial declaration, said that without American assistance in feeding Bel gians there must be starvation.
 Wang Chin Hsing, ex-prefect of Shuntenfu, and a personal friend of President Yuan Shin-kai, if China was shot in Picking, as grafter.
 The Federal Grand Jury in Trenton indicted the Central Railroad of New Jersey, for alleged relating. The in- dictments contains 200 counts.
 The body of a man identified as Miles Bore, of Montreal, was found on railroad tracks in the suburbs of Cleveland, with stab wounds in his body.
 A young woman believed to be Miss Laura Evans, of Buffalo, was found clingfng to the pilot of a Lake Shore passenger engine as it entered Cleve- land.
 The state experimental station at Lexington, Ky, was placed under quarantine because of the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease among the cattle.
 
 The City Council of Chicago will ap- point permanent committee of five members to inquire into the immoraIi- ty in that city and report to the chief of police.
 The long delayed report of the House mines committee on the Cobra do Coal strike will be made to the House soon after the beginning of the session of Congress.
 William H. Post of Hawthorne, N. J. opened fire with a revolver and fright ened away four yeggmen who had broken in the postonfice and were loot ing the safe.
 The Parole Board of the executive council of Massachusetts refused by a vote of to to commute the sem tence of death imposed on Daniel J. Cooper of Upton, Mass, for the mur- der of Albert Bradish in July, 1913.
 The American Ambassador at Lon don. Walter H. Page, presented in be- half of the American Boy Scouts gold badges to 25 English Boy Scouts who assisted the American relief committee during the rush following the declara- tton of war.
 Cardinal Gibbons received a cable gram from Sir Gilbert Parker. the dis unguished novelist, at Maestricht, Holland appealing to the cardinal to assist the American commission for Belgian relief in their "staEgerng task"
 A verdict of mansiaughter was d. rected by Judge Haley in the supreme court in the cases of Louis and Herb ert Cote, Presque Isle boys who were charged with the murder of Hartley Webb at Presque Isle, Me, last June. Both were sentenced to the State school for boys during their minori- ty.
 A riot call was sounded and four arrests were made after a group of workmen who were tearing down the walls of the Wellesley, Mass, college building which was burned last spring had been attacked by a crowd of men in sympathy with a strike of building laborers.