Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-23
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 Condensed Telegrams
 Phuysicians have abandone dhope for the recovery of Jacob A. Riis.
 Fire caused damage estimated at | s30,ooo to $. J. Parkhill & Co, print | CTS, of Boston, Mass.
 The fourth attempt to burn the his toric Columbian Inn at Mt. Vernon. N r., was almost successful.
 The Beaver River Hotel on the Mo hawk & Malone Railroad was burn ed, involving a loss of s40,00O.
 It was stated in Washington that radium bearing ore has been discov- cred in Cero. Pelon, Salvador.
 President Wilson will formally open the new American University at Washington next Wednesday.
 The residence of the Duchess of Westchester at Rochampton. near Lon don, was seriously damaged by fire
 The will of Miss Elizabeth s. Ship pen, who died in Atlantic City. is said to leave an estate of about s2s0o0,o0U to charity.
 The comet discovered by European astronomers five days ago was seen from the United States Observatory at Washington
 A bomb was exploded in the office of "E1 Commercial" at Callao, Peru, and caused much damage besides wounding the editor.
 Dewitt Marshall, civil engineer of East Rutherford. N. J., was sentenced to five years in the State prison for passing worthless checks.
 President Wilson will speak at Ar hngton National Cemetery on June when the monument to the Confed- crate dead will be dedicated.
 Maria s. Madden, matron of the Illinois State penitentiary and prom inent woman criminologist, died. at Leavenworth, Kan, aged SO years.
 The United States will import from Austria new dirigible balloon which will carry 15 passengers. a crew of i've men, and three machine guns.
 A transatlantic flight of 1900 miles by aeroplane is impossible at the present stage Of aeropiane develop ment, according to Orville Wright.
 
 The Senate passed bill authorizing the Secretary of War to grant part of the Fort McHenry military reservat- ton in Baltimore for a public park.
 N. c. NeiII, cashier. of the Peoples Bank at Holly Springs, Miss. com mitted suicide by shooting because of i'll health. The bank is not affected.
 Lawrence ScanIon, % years old, manager of several James Butler, Inc, grocery stores in Brooklyn, was ar- rested charged with embezzling s1,6S2.
 John paIzelI, former member of ed with the Treasury Department. will resign May 31.
 Eugene HoatIins, station agent for the West Shore Railroad at Tappan, N. Y., was killed by burglars who stole SIS A safe containing $500 was un- touched.
 Former Fire comnnissioner Johnson | of New York will be appointed head of the Bureau of Transportation of the Public Service Commission. The sal ary is s6,o00.
 General Russell Frost, a millionaire and former commander of the nation l al guard, shouldered bod when ma sons helpers went on strike at South l Norwalk, Conn.,
 The s,o0o-foot tunnel through the Sandy Ridge Mountain, near Dante, was bored through solid rock at a depth of 150O feet
 A movement to purchase the site | of the destroyed Ludlow ten colony and erect monument to those who died on April 20. was started at strike headquarters in Trinidad, Col 
 l After prolonged debate the house today voted down an amendment to 1 the interstate trade commission bill ! designed to compel COTE Iorations to adopt a uniform system Of accounting. The editor of the newspaper Ia Kugn-poa at Peking was beaten to death for refusing to tell the name of | a contributor who sent details of the trail and decapitatien of certain .reb- I els,
 An American woman named Mrs. R. ' Favelle was found with bullet wound in her head on d train which arrived in Arrezze, Italy. from Flor enee. Her purse contained a check for si,S00.
 Major General William H, Garter | denied the report that maps and in- ! formation concerning the Island of l Oahu. in the Hawaiian group had been stolen from army Headquarters in Honolulu.
 Bankruptcy proceedings against ! Gay and Stirgis, bankers and brokers of Boston who made an assignment on i April S1. were instituted by three l creditors whose claims aggregated less than sl.eee.
 Three young men found locked in . box ear of Pennsylvania freight i train in Jersey City said they had beer | in the ear ever since May l3. and had been without water ever since. They boarded the car at Jacksonville, Fla.
 An epidemic of scarlet fever among | the pupils caused the temporary clos ! ing of Milton Academy, private school at Milton, Mass. Principal | Frank D. Lane said that there were ! 19 cases of the disease but all were { comparatively light.