Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-07

home in Weifebefe, N, H., aged 1o5,
 The Laekawanna Railroad sold so,- 300 tons of steel rails to the Russian Government for immediate delivery
 
 Louis Phillips, one of three breti,ers with international regulations as eub- marine divers, died in Quincy, Mass.
 The Woman'a Social and Political Union of Great Britain has arranged to adopt 8 number of girl war babies.
 Earth tremers were recorded on the Yale seismograph from a point be- lieved to be about 2,5e0 miles distant,
 Secretary Daniels announced the promotion of Capt. A. G, Winterhalter, aide for material, to the grade of Rear Admiral.
 General VctorIana Huerta, former dictator of Mexico, decided to settle down with his family in @ Long Is- land villa.
 George w. Baker, one time chairman of the board of police commissioners of New Rochelle died suddenly from hemorrhage.
 In a message to the Brazilian Con- gress President Diaz urges reform of the electorial law, tariff revision and financial reform.
 In the absence of a clergyman Pres ident Elihu Root opened the session of the Constitutional Convention at AL bany with prayer.
 Mrs. AdeIia Meyers of Croton, N. Y. died at her home there of hydropho- Ia e no1T1t Of I;4 pet cat several weeks ago.
 President Wilson appointed Samuel Iredel Of Bridgeton, N- J., to be Col lector of Internal Revenue for the First District of New Jersey.
 Governor Rye of Tennessee vetoed a bill abolishing the death penalty in that State as he believes that it would tend to increase mob violence.
 President Manuel Estrada carbrera en as candidate to- succeed himself at the election of January 10. 1916.
 Commissioner Byrne of Jersey City, said he may ask the courts to probe his own department because of irreg- uiarltles in account of subordinates.
 The Presbyterian Church at Hack ensack, N. J., wa scrowded to the doors at the woman's prayer meet ing presided over by Ma" Sunday
 Benjamin E. Davis, Socialist candi- date for the office of mayor of Bal timore, Md, eight years ago, was sen fenced to death for the murder of his wife.
 George F. TurfIer, 1e, active in boy aTw in a hospital suffering from ptomaine poisoning due to eating poisoned ice cream.
 A report on a delicate operation on the heart of a soldier has been pre- sented to the Academy of Medicine, Paris. A splinter of a shell was taken from his heart.
 Because of the failure of the Legis- lature to appropriate sufficient money, the annual encampment of the New Jersey National Guard at Sea Girt was abandoned.
 News was received in New Haven of the sudden death at Berkeley, Cal, of Dr. Jay w. Seaver of New Haven. formerly for 20 years director of the Yale gymnasium.
 IHS DTlLiSH steamer treat western and the Peninsula and Oriental liner liner Poona collided in the English Channel off Guernsey Neither ship was seriously daamged.
 Burglars although fired upon by patrolman, escaped with silverware and silver bullion valued at $12,000 from the establishment of Thomas G. Brown & Sons, New York.
 Pope Benedict XIV has sent an auto graph letter to the Right Rev. Charles P. Grammar, D. D., member of the pom t1f1cal biblical commission and profes- sor emeritus of the Catholic univer- sity at Washington, D. c.
 Secretary TumuIty went to court to testify for a White House chauffeur the Secretary home from the Execu- tive offices. The chauffeur was fined $5.
 Great Britain will be the first of the belligerent nations to be visited by tiona1 Women's Conference at The Hague to initiate a world movement for peace.
 Lieut.. Robert Commander Robert L. Berry, in command of the Presiden- Ildl yacht hayI1OW6T, was appointed naval aide to the President, succeeding Lieut.. Commander Needham Jones, wto is i'll.
 The strike of 1000 carpenters and builders at Woolwich Aresnal, Eng land, ended, when the contractors promised to negotiate with the union officials to the end that the questions be arbitrated.
 The British warships that have been lying off the New York and New England coasts will be temporarily withdrawn so as not to interfere with the maneuvres of the Atlantic fleet which begin May IS.
 The United States consul at Lyons, France, Frederick Van Dyne. one of the passengers on the steamer Sant Anna, which arrived at Naples, Italy from New York is reported to have committed suicide during the voyage by leaping overheard.
 President Wilson signed an exec tive order waiving all civil service requirements for the positions of guards on American Qualifications under construction and provides for the hiring of discharged American soldiers, sailors and marines.