Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-23


 An eighteen inch sewer pipe burst enue, Brooklyn washing away about 75 feet of the street.
 William J. Troy, proprietor of the Troy Hotel, and the Hawley House. Cleveland, was found stabbed to death in the former hostelry.
 A royal decree has been issued keep ing under the colors soldiers of the 1892 class, who otherwise would have been. dismissed shortly.
 A large column of dense smoke arose from Mount Kanaka, near Bedding, Cal, giving rise to the belief that the mountain is a volcano.
 The United States cruiser Tennessee, looking after American interests in the eastern Mediterranean, left Alex andria, Egypt, for Jaffa.
 The Norwegian steamer Anita went ashore, on North Caicos Island, in the Bahamas. The crew was saved and the cargo is being saved.
 There was filed with Secretary of State certificate of incorporation of the Greenwich Publish Company with a capital stock of S45 900.
 Mrs. Ira Nelson Morriss, wife of the American minister to Sweden. has sent to the front hospital equipment for the care of 50 patients.
 President Wilson will distribute more than one hundred turkeys to em- ployes of the White House and Exec utive Offices for Christmas.
 pres;dent W;Ison ,on,ina+ad s.aha F. Parker, an Indian of Oklahoma to be superintendent of the five civilized Indian tribes in Oklahoma State Reformatory at Cheshire are to enjoy a football game, Christmas Day. There will also be a special dinner.
 President Wilson was invited to at tend the annual dinner of the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers Association, to be held next April in New York.
 Thousands of unemployed men were employed by railroads, trolley lines and the city clearing streets of Chicago of the heaviest snowfall of the winter
 Safe blowers worked five hours in a Chicago theatre before they cracked the safe and escaped with S4,OOO, leaving the watchman gagged and bound.
 Happy" Gardener and Ted Metz, of Washington, N. J., were refused ad- mission to school there after they had picked up skunk, mistaking him for a kitten.
 Four armed men who held up Mau- rice Lieberman, an employe of the Star Pleating c., of New York who l.rad d c v-rzlI the police.
 Jerome TraVers, amateur national golf champion, who lives at Mont clair, N. J., filed an application for admission to the New York Cotton Exchange.
 Gov. Baldwin has confirmed the nom- ination of oren D. Penfield of New Britain to be a member of the soldiers hospital board for two years from De- cember 22.
 Traffic on the New York Central Railroad throughout northern New York is badly delayed because of the big snowdrifts forming on the tracks and in cuts.
 About 100 German sailors, prisoners. survivors of the German squadron sunk off the Falkland Islands by the British fleet, December 8, sailed from Montivideo Uruguay, for England.
 Valentine Ballard, proprietor of an inn at Milford, Conn.,, which was raid ed here about a week ago and again Monday morning early by local and state police was fined $400 and costs.
 Appropriation of $2,5oo, 900 for the fight againt the foot and mouth dis ease in cattle was included in the urg- ent deficiency bill reported favorably by the House appropriation committee.
 Girl students at the WaItham Hiah School, Boston, will be allowed to be spectators at boxing and wrestling matches staged weekly in the gymnas- ium, in spite of protests by their pa- rents. A section of an esealator leading an an exit from the Cambridge sub way on Fremont street, Boston, fell during the Christmas shopping rush. Many persons were riding, but no one was injured.
 Employees of the New York RaiIways Co, and the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. receiving less than $115 a month wages will receive $5 in gold as a Christmas present from the com panies.
 Count von Bernstoff German ambas- sador at Washington, received a note from the State Department thanking hIs Government for measures for the conduct of ships loaded with food for Belgian relief.
 Senator Vardsman has proposed amendments to the Constitution re- pealing the 18th amendment and modi- lying the 14th. The Senator also in- troduced a bill for '.Jim Crow'' cars in the District of Columbia