Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-07

Condensed Telegrams

Thousands of starving Serbian re-
fugees are being cared for in Greece.
The American freighter City Of Ban
gor ran aground on the rocks at Isle
Royale, Mich.
A report from Rome states that
Pope Benedict will appeal to the bel
ligerents for Christmas truce.
Snow fell in many places in north
ern New York State, reaching a |
depth of two inches in some places.
The body of an unidentified man, |
apparently about so years of age, was |
found in the Hudson River by the |
police.
A conference of preparedness will be
held about the middle of January in
Washington by the National Security
League.
Exports from the port of New York
on Saturday totaled S13,S76, 76O, an in
crease of s9.616,S06 over the preceding
Saturday.
The new battIeship Nevada will be
commissioned some time in January.
She will be commanded by Captain
w. S. Sims.
The 100000 fund sought to bring
the republican and democratic ma
tional conventions to Chicago has
been raised.
German Reichstag providing for an
increase of so per cent. in the pay of
German soldiers.
New York city boy scouts will start
weeks campaign to raise 100000
for expenses of the organization for
the next three years.
Michael Sharre, a Hungarian tailor,
is held in New York for the murder
of his wife, Susanna, and his year
old daughter, Margaret.
The Italian steamer Verona, which
on Nov. 19 was chased in the Medi-
terranean by a submarine, arrived at
New York from Naples.
More than 1000 miles were cover
ed last week in a series Of 12O scout
ing flights of the navy aeroplane
squadron Pensacola, Fla.
The strike of the 2.4oo employees of
the Theodore Kundtz Co., of Cleve-
land was settled when the strikers
voted to accept a wage increase.
Augustus Pitou, actor, playwright,
| and manager. died at his home at
West Palm Beach, Fla, of acute in
digestion. He was IA years of age.
The GuatemaIan delegation to the
Pan-American Scientific Congress, to
| be held in Washington, left Puerto
Net profits of the French sugar
| refineries for the fiscal year 1914-1915
were nearly S1,3Oo.0OO compared with
100000 for the preceding fiscal year.
Two French officers were killed, and
| three officers and one sapper injured
when a shell accidentally exploded at
| the instruction camp at Satory,
| France.
The schooner chiIde Harold of
! New Haven, Conn, ahore at Woods
/ Hole was saved by the efforts of the
coast guard cutters Acushnet and
| Gresham.
A report was received by the State
! Department that a German wireless
plant is being operated in Magdalena
Bay, in the Mexican State of Lower
| california
{. Henry Lacombe, a judge of the
| Second United States circuit court
| since 1887, announced that he had ten
dered his resignation to Attorney Gen
eral Gregory.
! The court martial of Col. Robert
Hir'st, 3rd Infantry. u. S. A, at Wat
! ertown, n. Y, was concluded, and the
| findings transmitted to Maj. Gen.
| Leonard Wood.
! The authority of Colorado to enact
and enforce statewide prohibition was
/ upheld by the state supreme court in
an unanimous opinion written by JUS
| tice w. H. Gabbert.
Parker NewhaII of wilbarham,
| Mass, a graduate of Wesleyan, Uni
| versity. class of 1915, was selected as
| the Rhodes scholar to Oxford Uni
| versity from Connecticut.
The first northeast snowstorm of the
| season was raging over Cape Cod
| Monday. with sleet. snow and sand
being driven up the shore at a velocity
of nearly 60 miles an hour.
Gabrielle D'Annunzio, the noted
Italian poet, challenged Mazzoni Gra-
| ziadei, Italian Deputy, to a duel, be-
cause of an attack on the poets hon
or by Graziadei in Parliament.
Motor cab chauffeurs at Havana,
went on strike in protest against an
| order to wear a uniform prescribed
by the mayor. They also refused to
accept certain rates for cab service.
The Japanese steamer Hokkai Maru,
Tacoma for Vladivostok. put back TO
Victoria, B. c., slightly damaged.
Her cargo of fiat cars, shifted during
a storm and will have to be restowed.
August Belmont, president of the
Cape Cod Canal company, objected at
! a hearing before the harbor and land
commission to the proposition to build
| a lock in the canal because of the tidal
| fiow.
William kraPpe and Albert OhIaff
| who claim to be deserters from the
German army, arrived at Hoboken, n
j., as stowaways on the Holland
America freighter Oosterdyk from Rot
| terdam.
w. c. Dunbar, express messenger
was killed when a two-ton boulder
fell from a cliff upon Great Northern
train No. "A near Wenatchee, Wash
and crashed through the roof of the
| express car.
The death of Mrs. Ellen Tuck French