Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-13

Vessels, which hired for s5,0oO
 month in time of peace, now bring as high as $4O.0O0 for the same period.
 More than a dozen mills and fac
 tories in the Wheeling district resum- ed operations, affecting 10000 workers.
 The Illinois crops report for De-
 cember shows an increase in wheat of .95.
 The Precious Wood Handling Plant Co, of Bayonne, N. J., was partly destroyed by fire, that did $15Oe00O damage.
 Fa Un, city in the Province of Canton. China, is surrounded by a. thousand bandits who demand a tri- bute of $2o,000.
 Ten towboats were started from Pittsburgh for the South with coal on the Ohio river, the shipment in all amounting to S0,O00 tons. The New Orleans Stock Exchange has resumed unrestricted trading in all classes of listed stocks with the exception of bank shares.
 Anna B. Warner, the authoress, who wrote The Wide Wide World" and l other works, is critincally ill at her ] home in Highian Falls. N. ' 
 The White Star liner Finland will i leave New York today with 225 cases of hospital and relief supplies for
 Austria furnished by the Red Cross. A report received at Tokio says the ! Japanese liner Nile, which plies be- tween England and Japanese ports, ran ashore on reef in the inland sea.
 1 Directors of the Newcastle, Pa., Knitting Mills will add loo knitting machines to the equipment, necessitat- 1 ing the employment of several hundred persons.
 1 By hiring one earned cop, who will protect the town of South Comedies i vile, Pa. for $40 per month. the town council saves the taxpayers S20 monthly.
 l The gates of the Panama-Paciffs In ternationaI Exposition at San Francis co were closed to the public, to remain closed until the official opening, Feb
 ruary 20
 i Vice President Marshall and Speak 1 CT Clark will be empowered to appoint l Congressional committees to attend | the formal opening of the Panama Ca l nal in March.
 i J. David Stern, who recently pur- | chased the Springfield, Gll.,) 'E,vening News" has also purchased the Spring l field Record and will consolidate 1 the two papers.
 ! The Massachusetts grange adopted 1 a resolution criticizing the action of 1 Governor Walsh in dismissine from | office r. F. Walker, commissioner of
 animal industry.
 i Forty young Italians Who had been ! arrested while about to cross the from i tier to join the Garibaldian volunteers | in France, were placed on trial at An
 coma, Italy and acquitted.
 TWO short term prisoners, [. s. G. ] Chase and Leonard Benbinen, escaped fIom Barnstable, Mass, county jail, unlocking their cell doors with false l keys which they had hidden from the l keepers.
 I1ayti by leaders of the government 1 recently overturned by President The odore, is finding support and sprad- ing throughout the country. The Supreme Court at Washington ] Court in Mississippi in denying an in junction to restain the enforcement of
 a State te-hour working day law. l In an effort to stop increasing ac- 1 tiVitY of highWaymen and safe blow l CTS, Chief Of Police Lang. of Seattle, l has ordered six autos equipped with shotguns to pursue fleeing criminals. i A suit charging the American Bak- i cry Company Of St Louis with being ! a trust in restraint of trade, was filed 1 iu the State Supreme Court at Jeffer- son City by Attorney General Barker.
 Ambassador Jusserand of France ] yesterday acknowledged with thanks the consignment of hospital and re- sufferers in France by the American 1 Red Cross.
 Fearing an attack by union miners on the jail at Walsenburg, Co, fol- l lowing the withdrawal of Federal troops, Q company of seventy men of ] the State militia have been sent to guard the jail.
 i The Corn Belt Bank building at Kan
 sas City was burned with a loss of 1 s100,000. The Citizens Savings and | Trust Co. lost all it's fixtures. but 1 records and valuable were protected | by ireproof vaults. Nine distinct earthquake shocks
 were felt at Santa Barbara Cal. The
 only damage reported was the settling of brick building in a nearby town.
 The shocks, the heaviest in several years, were felt for some distance along the coast