Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-15

Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 Mi-careme passed almost unnoticed | in Paris.
 Bulgaria is transporting her heavy | artillery to the Greek frontier.
 Milwaukee brewery workers went on | strike, one day ahead of the schedul | ed walkOut.
 Gothenburg, Norway, is choked with cotton received from abroad and des- | tined for Hamburg.
 The new coast guard cutters Ossip- pee and Tallapoosa will be launched April 20 at Newport News.
 Rafael ZaIdivar was appointed by the Government of Salvador to be minister to the United States.
 Women of Holland invite women from all other nations to meet at The Hague for a peace conference.
 The Huntington, W. vay plant of will resume operations Monday.
 An involuntary petition in bank ruptcy was filed by the Hammond Brewing Co., at West Hammond, III.
 Ashore near Little Egg Harbory N. J., the American bark Hummer was ref1oated with the aid of a, wrecking tug.
 Secretary McAdoo was successfully operated on for appendicitis at a Washington hospital. His condition is normal.
 An order for 10000 tons of steel rails was placed with several Ameri- can rail mills by the Russian Gov ernment.
 Allan Ryan, stock broker of New York refused to answer questions be- for the Senate ship lobby inquiry committee.
 A bill imposing tax of $5 yearly on bachelors between 25 and 50 years of age was introduced in the West Vir- ginia House.
 A dispatch received in London from Athens states that a decree authoriz- l ing a loan of $8,00O,000 will soon be 1 issued there.
 The Canadian Pacific liner Montrose i is ashore on the West coast of Af- rica and is sending out wireless calls l for assistance.
 | Striking miners of the Urestonburg 6 i Middle Creek Co.'S Prestonburg, Ky, were joined by miners of the Colonial | Coal & Coke Co.
 A bill providing for prohibition 1 throughout the Territory of Alaska was introduced in the lower house of | the Legislature.
 | Because pigs consume so many pota. | toes, the twenty million now in Ger l many must be slaughtered at the rate | of $400,00O q day.
 l Mrs. Clara MurieI kipIing, a nurse in the American Hospital in Paris, was awarded the gold Metallic | neur des EpimeicS."
 Asher Sheldon, oldest resident of | New Haven. Conn.,, celebrated his 101st birthday, and tangoed to show that he is still spry.
 A bill was introduced in the Mime sota State Senate increasing railroad passenger rates in that tSate from 2 to 2 1-2 cents per mile.
 Fifty thousand pounds of hemp were purchased in Winchester. Ky, at $10 per 10 pounds, the highest price ever l
 Ships of the French line sailing from New York will dock at Bordeaux instead of Havre, because of the danger to navigation in the war zone.
 John Shell, aged about 60 was \ burned to death at Rumford Me, II when a small building in the railroad I yard, in which he was sleeping, was burned.
 William Minton and his wife perish ed when their cottage on Sunset Hill | Nahant, Mass. was burned early
 Saturday. The house was in flames when hremen arrived.
 In spite of the fact that she will be compelled to wear an artificial limb Mime. Bernhardt, whose leg was ann putated at Bordeaux, decided to tour I America in the fall.
 Miss Hannah M. Horton, aged sz
 was found dead in her home at Gosh en, N. '. She is believed to have
 been murdered by burglars, as the house was ransacked.
 Louis Hog, Italian Consul at Calgary l Alberta, is in prison charged with misappropriation of $5,OOO sent to him by his countrymen to send to
 their families in Italy. Fire destroyed three wooden build
 ings on Washington street, North Att , tleboro, Mass, in the centre of the l, business district, eartly Saturday causing a loss of $60000.
 Germany having informed Switzer-
 land that the exportation of coal from
 Germany will be shortly prohibited
 England offered Switzerland as much
 as she requires, at cost price. Several indians representing the Washable tribe called on Indian Agent L. D. Creel at Salt Lake City and re- quested that the Government provide
 a national flag for the Indians. II Formal announcement of the en-
 gagement of Miss Katherine Page daughter of American Ambassador w
 H. Page, to Charles P. Loring, a Bos- ton architect, was made in London.
 Shortly after the Fall River line steamer Providence left her dock at