Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-28

E rom Lufkin, Texas. to White City. The postage was 21 cents.
 Emil sohwyer, an animal trainer in ! circus in St. Louis, was attacked and severely bitten by & leopard.
 Count Charles von Herdevar, form erly Premier of Hungary, died in Blu 1apest. He was 62 years old.
 Otto HeIiam, of FishkiII Landing, N. r., accidently fell from a window in | the Maple Hotel and was killed.
 George w. Brundase, arrested for speeding in New York, was fined S1OO and sentenced to 20 days in prison Corporation Counsel Frank L. Polk, | who was shot in attempt on the life | of Mayor Mitchell, left the hospital. John H.. Wilson, a2 years old, was struck by New York Central train at | Oneida, N. Y., and instantly killed. Workmen engaged in excavating for a filter bed on the estate of John Jacob | Astor at Rhinebeck, N. Y, dug up Il skeletons.
 R. WaIdman, a business man of Goshen, N. Y., was injured when a package containing a bomb exploded LII HIS OllICc Tho Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.,, of America has offered the Government free service and preference over all other business.
 While hanging out clothes, Mrs. Hattie Dressing, 23 years old, fell from the fourth floor of her home in New York and was killed.
 The consolidation of the National Bank of Commerce with the Mer chants's National Bank at Boston was announced yesterday.
 The Governor of Maryland signed bill which makes it unlawful to post advertising signs within the limits of a highway in that State.
 Mayor Mitchell announced the ap pointment of John E. Weir as Park Commissioner of Queens County at salary of s5,O0O a year.
 Ella MccIendon, convicted. of using the mails to defraud at Cape Gira- deau, Mo-, was sentenced to- five years in Leavenworth prison. ....
 Sigmund Schwartz, president, an nounced that 5000 members of the United Citizens Peddlers' Association are forming a regiment.
 The work of arranging for the mob ilization of the Massachusetts, militia continued today despite the mediation reports from Washington.
 One person was killed and hundreds of cattle perished when a tornado swept three towns in Kankakee and Iroquois counties, Illinois.
 A Bible several hundred years old, was among the S7,000 worth of curios destroyed by fire which wrecked the home of Mrs. G. L. Vance in Joliet, III. years old, was killed by a motor truck belonging to the Queens Light & Pow CT Co., while playing near his home.
 William Ford, 21 years old, was sen fenced to Elmira Reformatory, because of disorderly conduct in breaking up a. public school fire drill in New York. Carrying Baron de Gunsberg as a passenger, Gustav Hamel, the English aviator, flew from Derby to Tendon, 130 miles, in two hours and five minutes.
 John D. Cooke, who started to climb a 335-foot chimney at Newark, N. J., last Tuesday, reached the top after | placing a succession of short ladders | from the base.
 | Peter Harcker, an American pas senser on the steamer Mobile was talk en from the steamer at Havana on suspicion that he suffering from the bubonic plague.
 A warrant has been issued for Harry Brennan, 21 years old accused of bru- | tally assaulting Justice of the Peace | Edward E. Wise in the courtroom at l Red Bank, N J.
 Thomas A. Reid, 50 years old, form erly cashier for Chubb & Son, insur- ance brokers of New York, was arrest ed in London, charged with the en- bezzlement of $so,0oo.
 Special police comm ssions were qiv. 1 en to 300 grocers of Kansas City tC serve as neighborhood protectors an6 ] to arrest check forgers and shor7 change men and others who victimizt them
 Clarence Nj. Griffith, his wife ans their daughter are dead and three other dying at Wilmington. Del. a: the result of a badly joined pipe wficl allowed gas to escape while they wer, sleeping.
 
 lowered by a derrick in a quarry a Barre, Vt, Leonard Rotation, a Quar ry worker, ripped and fell under tn rapidly descending weight and wa crushed to death.
 Clinics and demonstrations at newl, erected hospitals, followed by reeep tiens and excursions to historic places marked the first days visit at Bostol of the members of the InternatiOna Society of Surgeons.
 Mrs. Charles Ferreia is dead and he husband is in a critical condition at
 hospital at New Bedford, Mass, as result the police believe of an attemp by the man to kill himself after h had cut his wife's throat. Ferreia hai been in poor health for some time.
 The Russian tank steamer konaee blew uptoday off Sidi- i-Fereuch, en tn ) coast of Algeria. Passing steamer } picked up 15 of the crew of thirt which the Kemeta carried. The eth CTS jperished. Of the survivors min were injured The Kemeta was burn ed to the waters edge
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 Victim of Premature Explosion. DaRbury. Conn, April 27-Jame Chambers, seVenty-Six, wealth farmer, was killed in the door yard c , his home, the Naples, on Lake ave nue today by the premature explesie of a hlast.