Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-28

JanS8 man9Ft uaL1OI1dI supreme Q1- rector of the Knights of Columbus, died in Chicago.
 The $11,25o,ooo Victoria, Australia, Az per cent loan issued in London was oversubscribed.
 Richard E. Pagan, wealthy mine promoter, shot and killed himself at his office in Duluth, Mirn.
 While canoeing on owasco Lake at Auburn, N. Y, Thomas Johnson was drowned, when his canoe upset.
 A gang of young men and boys caused a pan icwhen they "sat up' moving picture house in Louisville.
 The trawler Envoy, believed to have been sunk by a German submarine was brought safely into the Tyne.
 President Wilson promised to go to Brooklyn June 10 and review the an niversary parade; public business per hitting.
 As result of the strike of carpen- ters and millworkers, 80 lumber yards, employing 5000 men, shut down in Chicago.
 To prevent the spread of disease and the eating of spring wheat, Germany has begun an extensive war on flies and crows.
 Out of 147 charitable organizations formed in Paris since the war began, 76 are swindles, according to the Paris "Matin.'
 Andrew Sheehan, aged five, a crip- pie, was burned to death when, left in the Shpnho n in 1oa set the house afire.
 The Urusuayan delegates to the Pan-American Financial Conference arrived at Santiago, Chile, on their way to the United States.
 At mass meeting of street car men in Cardiff, Wales, resolutions were passed protesting against the en- ployment of women conductors. Fire that broke out in the army hay stores at Florence, Italy, was discov- cred and extinguisehd before much damage was done. The fire was in- | cendiary.
 Governor Whitman of New York | Mrs. Whitman, and the Governor Pacific Exposition May 31 for ter l day stay. ---- The sum of S3oo,ooo was set aside as a pension fund for aged Methodist ministers by the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, at it's conference ir | San Francisco.
 The two American army field hos l pitals which left Ne wYork on Apri | IF on the steamer St. Louis, arrived at London, and will be attached te | the Belgian army.
 Three persons were seriously iniurec and several others hurt when two ex- | plosions wrecked the plant of the Manhattan Refrigerating Co.,, flora tio and West streets.
 The national board of management of the Daughters of the American | Revolution met in Washington to con- sider the foundation of a national uni versity by the society. | Capt. John Geddes, once prominen on. the Chicago Board of Trade, was killed in the recent fighting in France where he was in command of a com pany of Canadian troops.
 Secret Service agents have been il New Rochelle, Port Chester, ana l White Plains, N. Y, trying to ge l culating spurious $5 bills. l The Norwegian bark Vile de Dieppe | Havre for New York, crashed into th'
 United States dispatch boat Dolphin | at quarantine in New York harbor | Neither was seriously injured. l
 Despite the feet that the West Vir
 ginia Legislature failed to appropri ate funds for the support of the Stat | militia after June 30, most of the com
 panies now in service will continue.
 The eunboat Concord, one of tn ] Manila Bay battle fleet, and one O the first steel ships of the navy, wa.
 turned over to the Treasury Depart
 ment as a quarantine ship in Puge l Sound.
 | The officials of the Vermont Medica 1 association announced that because o the high death rate from cancer il Vermont state wide educationa
 campaign with speakers of nationa repute would be instituted. Mounted cowboys and Indians driv ing motor cars formed part of a pa
 rade welcoming delegates to the an nual convention of the southern com mercial congress which began a five
 day session at Muskogee, Okla.
 President Wilson's plans for goin, to the summer white house at Cor
 nish, N. H., are dependent on de | ve1opments in Europe and Mexico. H said today, however that members O his family would go to Cornish. As a result of about 90 failure among prospective West Point cadet in the March examinations, Secretar Garrison ordered an additional exam ination for May 25 next, to be held a
 16 army posts in all parts of the coun try.
 Il According to the Department c Health, not a single death of typhoi fever was reported last week in Ne, York city. The only other week f
 the history of the Department whe no one died of this disease was i
 1909.
 | The appeal of the British committe for relief in Belgium has resulted i
 60, 600 pounds ($3o0,000) being col
 lected in less than twenty-four hour,
 New South Wales contributed s143.
 750. The lord mayor of Melbourne fund aggregated $100,000. i, \ Movements of Steamships. T Bordeaux, April 26.-Arrived, steam