Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-21


 Major General stoekiausei, of the German army, was killed in action.
 Women will begin doing the work | of motormen in street cars in Berlin | next week.
 Exports of all fats and acids from | Denmark were prohibited by the Dan ish government.
 Collections for duties at the New York Custom House during the last | week amounted to S2,45S,75s. Orders were placed in Baltimore for four new motor-propelled ships of $500 tons each, by Norwegian firms.
 Cellars in textile mills at Manayunk. Pa. were flooded by the Schuylkill River, which rose 12 feet in "A hours.
 Seven persons were drowned when the sloop Lady Harrington capsized near Oxford. Md, during a violent storm.
 slightly damaged when blown against breakwater at Lewes, Del, by a TO- mile gale.
 New York importer, at Stamford, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire at a loss of s25.
 Eastern munitions factories have offered to employ every member of the Panama Pacific Exposition force of 300 policemen.
 1 A vote of lack of confidence in the government was defeated in the Jap | vote of 222 to 132.
 The Rev. Nareisse z. Lorrain, .bish- | op of the diocese of Pembroke On tario, for the last 32 years. died at | Pembroke, aged "A. Thirteea hundred birds and animals | were received at Carnegie Musium at Pittsburgh from its agents in various | parts of the world. l Photographic communication between ! Russian and Japan, except for official messages, has been suspended for more than one week.
 Fery-flve extra guards were put l on duty at Fairruont Park. Philadel- phia, to protect the srubbery against Christmas tree thieves. The Hale & kilburn Co.,, Philadel- phia. received large war munitions contract, and is erecting a new fac toroy to handle the order. Exports from France during No- 600,000 over the same period of 1914. Imports decreased $7o,00o,0oo. I According to a report from Copen- hagen the Swedish-American line is planning to buy two 12,00o tons Ham burg American line steamships now at New York.
 r naval attache. will not sail from New York for Europe until Dec. 2s. Capt, von Papen, recalled military attache, sails today.
 man named Henry Ford applied for enlistment to the Marine Corps in Philadelphia. He had been doing piece work on truck castings at South Bethlehem.
 The Swedish American liner Stock holm, formerly the Potsdam, of the Holland-American Line, was released by the British. It had been detained at Kirkwall. Several members of the American Sanitary Commission who left Salon. ika for Italy a month ago after com 1 pleting the campaign against typhus were recalled there.
 
 schedule discloses that Colgate has 1 been given the Thanksgiving date which for the past six years has been allotted to Carlisle.
 Howard Jones, Yale football star ot , 1905-6-7. was signed as coach of the University of Iowa football team. His l contract is for five and a half years beginning Feb. 1, 1916. The Iagrest single shipment of plat mum ever arriving in this country was received by the du Pont Powder Co., of Wilmington, Del. The ship ment is vlaued at s4oO,Ooo. A posse of 100 men set out iron ! Little Falls, N. J., to capture Antonio 2 Federico, an outlaw, who sot and kill . ed two policemen, and wounded two others who attempted to arrest him. ; After eIinsins for more than three . hours to the bottom of their upturnel power boat, George Hammel anC Thomas Patten, were rescued off At , lantic City, N. J., by fishing smack According to the London Daily Ex. press, eight members of the crew ot the Zeppelin which raided London or Oct. 13 were found frozen to deatf when the airship returned to Germany : An employees welfare association will be established by the Lehigt Valley Coal Co.,, to provide free medi- cal service for it s20000 employees The association will cost the company S50.n00 annually.
 Detected in an attempt to blow open the safe of the post office al Fort Washington, a suburb of Phila- dolphin, four yeggmen escaped in ar automobile, after a revolver battle with the police.
 The supreme court dismissed fol want of Jurisdiction litigation started by Mrs. Catherine D. Stead of Phila. delphia over the $2,000,000 estate o Jacob 2. Davis, who died in SaI ! Francisco in 1896. Placed in a cell at Laurel, Del. where another man had died a few 5 weeks previous, Hooper Lade, a young negro accused of forgery, neraly dieC when he went into spasms of fright and had to be removed.
 For the first time in many years, yoke of oxen appeared on the street: } lof Caldwell, N. Y. The oxen, owned 3 by dairy farm, were used becaus'