Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-24
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The French aviator Moreau fell
1,4O0 feet at Melun, near Paris, and
was killed.
John w. Blake was killed while
painting a target in a shooting gallery
in Boston.
Plans for $5oo,ooo mausoIeum for
the late Adolphous Busch were drawn
in st. Louis.
Actual work in raising the subma-
rine F4 from the bottom of Honolulu
harbor was begun.
Six hundred employees of the Whit
taker- -Glessner Steel Co., at Martins
Ferry, Ohio, went on strike.
Admiral Won Essen, commander of
the Russian Baltic fleet, died of pneu-
monia at the marine hospital at Reval.
Three hundred heavy tank automo-
bile trucks, said to be for Russia, are
under course of construction in Cleve-
land.
Joseph Grant, aged 76. banker, coal
operator and member of the Goth con-
gress, died at his home at Leechburg,
Pa.
At the annual meeting of stockhold-
ers of the Waltham Watch Co., in
Boston, retiring directors were re-
elected.
Nwe York street fkirs are returning
to New York from the Panama-Pa-
ciffc Exposition. Nothing doing"
they say.
Three freight vessels for the Clyde
Steamship Co., are under construc
ton at the Great Lakes Engineering
Works at Detroit.
H. A. Thompson, an aviator, ives
seriously injured when he fell in a
Curtiss machine at Paterson, n. J.,
while on trial flight.
The big Brooklyn historical pageant
was opened in the 23rd Regiment Arm
ory. Two thousand prominent
Brol1lynite participated.
Former President Taft and 800 other
visiting Yale alumni attended the con-
vention in Kansas City of the Associ-
alton of Western Yale Clubs.
Charles PerrassoIe, who stole $12o
from his father in New York and fed
to Utica, and escaped from custody
there, was arrested in Buffalo.
Recommendations to Congress for
strengthening the navy will be with
held until the last possible minute,
Secretary Daniels announced.
Anthony F. WIiding tennis champion,
well known in America, who was killed
recently at the. .Dardanelles, died while
operating an observation-disclosures.
GugIielmo Marooni, the inventor, has
left New York for Italy. He will be
placed in charge of all wireless sta
tions used by the Italian army.
Five thousand men will be added at
once to the force of the Du Pont
Powder Co. plant at City Point, Va,
bringing the number of employees to
$4,000.
Bulletin posted in Chicago by en-
ployment agencies state that between
10000 and 10000 men will be needed
next month in the harvest fields of
Oklahoma.
While in the woods with a crowd of
young folks near Heber Springs, Ark,
Miss Ida Woods was bitten by an
Arkansas rattlesnake, and died few
moments later.
The Billy Sunday campaign cost the
city of Philadelphia S150,655, accord
ing to the certified statement publish
ed by the committee that had the cam
paig in charge.
In reception of the work of the New
York police during his recent visit
there to review the fleet, President
Wilson has written a note of praise
for their efficiency.
Improved working conditions have
been promised 1000 street car en-
FNlsN ~
demands on the companies for a wage
increase and other concessions.
Ten auto loads of suffragists storm
ed the Standard Oil Works at Bayonne,
n. J., and addressed 5000 employees,
who were dismissed a half hour earl
les to listen to the speeches.
Thousands of men responded to the
proclamation of Governor Hatfield
setting aside May 20 and 21 as Good
Roads Days and are aiding in the
Improvement of West Virginia roads.
A divorce from her thirteenth hus-
band is being sought by Mrs. Polly
Anne Strodes, aged 72, of Evansville.
Ind, who says she is dissatisfied with
her present spouse and wishes anoth-
er.
Twenty two men and one woman, al
legged quack doctors, were arraigned in
Special Sessions, New York. Six were
fined, ten released on suspended SEN
tences, and the cases of the other sew
en- put off for a hearing next Friday.
Attorney General Woodbury. began
criminal action against the packing
houses of Armour & Co, and Swift &.
Co., charging that the concerns fail
ed to mark the weight upon packages
Of ham and bacon and other violations
Mrs. Pauline Edwards OF Brooklyn
lost a chamois bag containing jewel
ry valued at $1,000 which she was
carrying in her silk stocking. She
found a large rent in her stocking, and
the bag gone when she returned from
shopping.
A contract for long distance business
was closed by the Postal Telegraph
Co. with the Memphis Telephone Co.
and sereveral independent companies
in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Missouri in competition with the Bell
Telephone system.
Frank Tannenbaum, the I. w. leader,
who recently finished term of one
year on BlackweIPs Island for invad-
ing churches in the interests of unem-
y,1n