Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-16

Great Britain IS constructing six battle cruisers with 32-knot speed, to be mounted with a new 16inch gun.
 Dispatches received at Amsterdam reported an insurrection among the Mohammedans in British North Bor- neo.
 The Magistracy of Berlin issued an order that beginning March IS, DO tatoes must be mixed with wheat flour.
 Nemours Powder Go. plant at Has kell, N. J., received 20 per cent. in- crease.
 The American liner St. Paul sailed from Liverpool for New York, after a delay caused by the dock workers strike.
 Henry P. Fletcher, American Am passador to Chile, sailed from Buenos Aires on board the steamer Amazon for Europe.
 Total attendance at the Panama Pacific Exposition during the first three weeks was 1,488,S74, an average of 10000 a day.
 The Luxembere "Diet" empowered the Government to seize grain and provisions. It also prohibited the use of grain by distillers.
 Agents of the Holland America line were ordered by the company to re- fuse cargoes from Cuba for trans portation to Holland. By decree signed by King Albert while at the front, pr. Cyrille Derner- en, of Chicago has been appointed Re1qian CODSu1 in CNhica A fire which swept over West Rock obliterated the under brush in which 1 the body of Lillian May Cook was found week ago yesterday. The Italian War Office completed arrangements, to become effective in case of war, for hospital accommoda- l tions for 12,000 wounded in Rome. A member of one of the German athletic clubs at the front is using a | pedometer. Up to date marching distance of 1,1S0 miles is his record.
 Louis S. Lingo, aged fifty-two was 1 killed when buried under an avalanche l of cottonseed in the Riverside Cotton Oil Mill at Fort Worth, Texas, where 1 he worked.
 1 The American schooner William J. 1 Slullleu was cut III lWO, duu SuHh III d collision off Cape Hatteras with the 1 Norwegian steamer Laly. The crew | was saved.
 1 Sixty one non- commissioned officers and men of the Italian cavalry arrived | at New York on the steamer Europa | to superintend the shipment of army | horses to Italy.
 1 Mackenzie King, member of the Ca | nadian parliament and formerly com 1 missioner of labor at Ottawa, con- | ferred with Secretary Wilson of the | department of labor. General Orestes Zamar, one time President of Hayti, who has been lead | ing a revolution was captured by l government troops and taken to Port au-Prince a prisoner. | In an address to the unemployed in | Boston, the Rev. William Short ad- vised the unemployed to walk the | streets unclothed to compel the pulp | lie to heed their wants.
 Of the 723 judges, magistrates and others officials of the law mobilized in the French army, 24 has been killed 27 wounded and 8 made prisoners of l war by the end of December. | Permission to establish Y. M. c. A branches at German camps where prisoners are interned, was granted by the German Foreign Office to a rep resentative of the International Y. M c. A.
 A bill making it a n1isdemeanor fo1 a newspaper to publish an advertise ment containing an untrue or mis- leading statement was passed by the lower house of the Missouri legisla- ture.
 Serious bread riots, compelling the police to charge several times, occur red at Penont, Spain, where a mol
 of women and children raided the bakeries.
 A Baltimore firm contracted witt the State of Florida for a canal 24
 miles long, to cost approximately
 $1,600,000, from Lake Okeechobee te the St. Lucie River, as a part of the
 Everglades drainage system.
 Edward Palmer, aged 34 of Borden. town, N. J., was drowned in the Del aware River when he and his brother
 Frank, were trying out their new speed boat, the O T Kid, which lurch-
 ed and threw them overheard. An order for equipment for regulat. ing automatically the speed of trains
 was received by the Westinghouse
 Electric & Machine Co.,, Pittsburgh from the Brooklyn Rapid Transit The
 price is estimated at $1,500,000. The Dublin city council by a vot,
 of 80 to Is, withdrew from Kuno Mey.
 CT, of the University of Berlin, tht
 freedom of the citya in order to indi.
 cate "disapproviaI of the anti-Britisl
 campaign he has been conducting ir America"
 Miss Josephine Flanagan, aged 30. z nurse in Undercliff sanatorium for tu.
 berculosis patients. at Meriden, Conn.
 was shot four times by George Pinter & patient, the latter then turning the revolver upon himself, inf1icting fou1
 wounds which may cause death.