Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-16

MdSSy WHO mas met every President since James K. Polk.
 Michael Russian and Steve Guy, both of Manhattan, were wounded during a struggle in the hallway of the tenement where they live.
 Nine carpenters were thrown into the water when the gangplank of the steamer Dochra, anchored in Brooklyn. collapsed All were rescued.
 Clifford Draper. of Albany, N. Y, years in prison and fined $500 for lead ing two Kingston girls astray.
 Berlin has suppressed the newspap- CT Staatsburger Zeitung because it failed to obey the order todiscon- unue its antissemitic propaganda
 The asankers Club of America" has been formed in Wall Street, New York It has already more than a thousand members, mostly bankers.
 Baroness Barbara kaIinowski's $2,- 5O0,000 breach of promise suit against Michael J. Hurley, wealthy St. Louis contractor, was thrown out of the Fed eral court there.
 The Central Trust Go. of Chicago has been appointed receiver for the H. P. Nelson Piano Co, S1.O00O0 corporation which filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
 Preparations for Federal Mediation in an effort to avert the impending strike Of engineers and conductors of the St. Louis Southwestern Cotton Belt) railroad were begun at St. Louis. As an effort to break away from the T hi haF Trl,r ,1F r on, Pa, has given hotel keepers in the town a notice asking them not to sell him intoxicating liquors.
 In an address before the Canadian Club, w. T. Waite, Canadian Minister ably have to borrow s1,000,000 each year while the war lasts. The Conn. Sheep Breeders associa- tion held it's annual meeting in Hart ford, President Allen B. Cook of Farm pected a balance on hand.
 The Turkish Government has pro- l hibited for the duration of the wal payment of interest on mortgages ! state and municipal loans and dividens to subjects of enemy countries.
 The town of Red Bank, N. j., was terrified by fifteen men in convict ] stripes who communicated an auto and dashed through the town, running over boy. The were movie" actors Francis Fl. Griffin, a lawyer, of New | York, and his wife Clara, failed tc appear in court in New York to an- swer to the charge of using the mails to defraud. Their bail of $30,000 was forfeited.
 
 George Brandon, formerly employed as an expert engraver in the Treaus- ury Department, and William Peter son, young man, of New York, were arrested charged with attempting tc counterfeit s20 note.
 Stephen c. Perry, Federal District ] attorney at Portland, Me, died lasi night of pneumonia He was appoint 1 ed last May Mir. Perry was a law
 partner of Henry B. Cieaves, who died two years ago.
 l William, MoIeski of Sharon pleaded 1 guilty in the superior court at Winstec ! to the charge of felonious assault on ar
 IS year old girl, and Judge Webb sen- ] fenced him to from two to five years ] in the state prison.
 Steps Taken at San Francisco against persons alleged to be implicated in ths
 sending of supplies to German wal vessels in the South Pacific were in stituted without the Knowledge of the l state department or the department oi l justice.
 Prof. Mccracken President of Vassa Poughkeepsie, N. r., Dec. 15.-Henr, | Noble McCracken, professor of Eng I iish at Smith college. was today ap pointed president of Vassar collegl of this city, to fill the vacancy causeS 1 by the resignation of Dr. James Mon