Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-12

seventy "bCISSS lSlSSI dpIl | stations are maintained by the United | States Government.
 There were 55 steam, sailing and unrigged vessels built in the United | States during February.
 Anti saloon forces gained more than twenty-five towns in the munic- ipal elections in Minnesota
 Two seats on the New York Cotton Exchange were purchased for $10,500 each, unchanged from the last sale.
 The body of Mrs. Emma Dalquist lost near Nome, Alaska, during a blizzard, was found under a snow drift.
 A monument to the Ninety seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment was dedicated at Missionary Ridgs, Chat tanooga.
 Because of 20 per cent cut in wages, 1000 miners in the eastern Kentucky coal fields threaten to go on strike.
 The Colorado House, on final read ing passed three bills to abolish the Juvenile Court, and eliminate Judge Ben B. Lindsey.
 Harrison B. Brown, the marine painter, is dead at his home in Lon don. He was 85 years old and a na- tive of Portland, Me.
 The Trenton Musical Association, Trenton, N. J. started a campaign against tangoing, and cabaret music in places where liquor is sold.
 Flight Sub-Lieutenant Shepherd of the British Navy, fell into the sea and was killed while scouting off East bourne, England, in a biplane.
 Two million diphtheria antitoxin units were sent to Fl. Paso by the Red Cross for use in Chihuahua, Mexico, where an epidemic was reported.
 The Belgian Government contracted with woolen manufacturers in Great Britain and the United States for enough cloth for 100000 overcoats.
 Through Cardinal Gibbons, the Catholic Association of America form ally requested President Wilson to take steps to restore peace in Mexico.
 Two children of Melvin Archer, Bernard, five years of age, and How ard, three years of age, perished in a fire that destroyed the family home at Mapleton, Me.
 Governor Johnson of California started a movement for the purchase of the Western Pacific ailroad, now in the hands of a receiver by the State of California.
 A dispatch from Athens declares that the notorious outlaw chief, Kus-. siper, who headed band that ter rorized northwestern Greece and AL bania, was arrested.
 
 The bill amending the penal law so that the State would pay 45 cents a day instead of 30 cents for the main tenance of tramps was passed by the New York Assembly.
 The membership of the New Eng land Order of Protection was reported at the annual meeting at Boston to be 26,347, with 206 lodges, carrying insurance of $31,8s6,000.
 Secretary Garrison was advised by Governor Goethals of the Panama Ca nal that it was his expectation to be able to resume putting ships through the waterway immediately.
 Pierre S. Du Pont, former vice. president of the Du Pont Powder Co.,, was elected president, succeeding General Coleman T. Du Pont, who sold his holdings in the company.
 Colonel Roosevelt made a tour of York for the unemployed, in the in terest of the committees attempt to raise $S0,o0o to keep up the work.
 Forty-four manufacturers of the State of Illinois are combining to make plans for an exhibit of Illinois goods in Russia, and a sales agency to handle their products in Petrograd.
 Characterizing capital punishment as brutal and abhorrent" Governor Dunne sent a special message to the Illinois Legislature advocating the abolition of that form of punishment.
 The "voIksbIatt" of Gotha, Germany, was suspended, and the editor, Herr Saxe- Coburg Diet was imprisoned, for a satire on a statement of Elm peror William
 Maine's commercial bodies were reported as generally prosperous by Secretary Edward M. Banding of Bangor, in his report at the semi annual meeting of the Maine State Board of Trade.
 French Association of Maritime Law, was hired to defend the interests of E. N. Breitung, owner of the steamer Dacia which was seized by French naval authorities.
 Reduction of bail now $2o,o0o for Samuel Ruderman, charged with set ting fire to buildings with intent to defraud the insurance companies, was refused by Judge O'Meara of the city court at New Haven.
 The West Virginia State Depart ment of Mines will conduct a. thorough investigation into the cause of the ex- plosion in the Layland, W. Va, mine from which 100 bodies have been talk en, and 54 miners rescued alive.
 Through the embassy at Washing ton, the Swiss Government received $115,000 raised by Swiss citizens in Costa Rica and the United States "to aid their country in meeting heavily increased expenditures caused by the war"
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