Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-31
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The British Derby was abandoned
for this year.
The British warship patrol off New
York harbor was resumed.
The village of GiImanton, N. H., was
practically destroyed by fire.
A number of priests are reported
to have joined the Italian army.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
lifted the grain embargo at Newport
| News.
Because of anti German riotine, the
military authorities assumed control
| in Milan, Italy.
Norway added cotton in the raw
state to the list of commodities sub
! ject to embargo.
The $5,ooo,ooo waterway bill passed
| the Illinois senate. 1t has already
passed the house.
Heavy seas forced suspension of sal
wage operations on the submarine F4
| in Honolulu harbor.
Samuel Dickson, one of PhiIadeI-
phia's oldest and best known lawyers,
died at his home there, aged IS.
A despatch from Cairo reports that
the United States cruiser North Caro-
lima is aground off Alexandria, Egypt.
Plans for raising fund of 100000
for the Italian Red Cross were formed
at a mass meeting of Italians in Chi
cago.
Queen Helena of Italy put at the
disposal of the Italian Red Cross the
royal palaces at Quirinal, Milan, and
Mantus.
The Italian Censorship Bureau pro-
hibits the publication of articles writ
ten in the war zone until ten days
after the events.
| Five of the crew of six men of the
auxiliary fishing schooner Elmer
wrecked in Parker's Cove, near Digby,
n. s., were drowned.
| Serious flood conditions along the
| Des Moines river. and at Des Moines,
Iowa, were threatened as the result of
unusually heavy rains.
i Queenie Pateman a seven year old
/ girl injured in the Wednesday night
| Zeppelin raid on Southend- On-Sea,
| England died of her injuries.
| Helen Boyle, serving a 25-year term
in the Western, Pa, penitentiary for
| the kidnapping of William Whitla in
1909, has applied for a pardon.
The giIded statue of the Virgin on
| top of Milan's celebrated cathedral
was remoxed so that it would not fur
nish target for Austrian aviators.
A vigorous protest was addressed to
Germany by the Dutch Government,
relating to the air attack upon the
| Dutch traWler Agravenhage on May
liz
| The steamer Dorchester, Cambridge.
Md, for Baltimore, was rammed by
| the fishing steamer J. A. Palmer, off
Annapolis. Her 43 passengers were
saved.
William w. Worden, who was pres
| idential elector for Garfield in 1880,
and widely known throughout northern
| New York, died at Saratoga, N. Y,
aged 73.
Kaiser Wilhelm pardoned five nuns
| of the convent at ROye. France, con-
victed of having concealed a wounded
French soldier in the convent last De-
cember.
Warren G. Harding, Republican
Senator elect from Ohio. called at the
| White House and announced his sup
| port of the president in the interna-
national situation.
William Hartranft and Joe schatzle
! Jr., were fatally injured when the
auto in which they were riding was
struck by a Lehigh Valley engine
near Freeland, Pa
Mrs. Ezra Tebo, three children and
7 oil ol-
guide, were burned to death when
their home at Tupper Lake, N Y.
was destroyed by fire.
Lassen Peak, CAL, was scaled for
the first time since the recent erup-
tions by Prof. R. S. Holway of the
University of California, who report
ed that the craters are now filed
The will of the late John Cudahy.
packer, disposing of an estate believed
to aggregate more than $1,500, 900, was
approved in the Chicago Probate
Court. The estate is left to the widow,
sons and daughters.
The British Home Office gave per-
mission for the landing of American
passengers from the steamer Potsdam,
New York for Rotterdam, which is be-
ing held in the Downs that her cargo
may be examined for contraband.
Five German sailors, who claim to
have deserted the German cruiser
Karlsruhe are at NogaIes, Sonora.
They wish to enter the United States,
but efar if they do they will be in
termed. Their case was taken up with
Washington.
Captain Herman A. Metz, quarter
master and commissary of the Four
teenth Regiment and also Congress-
man from Brooklyn, has retired from
active duty and at his own request
has been placed on the reserve list Of
the National Guard.
Bridgeport Schooner Grounded.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, May 3d.
The schooner Mary E. Penne1l, Bangor
for Bridgeport with lumber, which
grounded on Pollock Rip. shoa1, was
towed here by the coast guard cutter
Acushnet today. She was leaking