Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-28

The training ship Newport arrived
at Colon, and will remain there until
Saturday.
About 5000 Italians offered them
selves for military duty at the New
York consulate.
Many ranchers returned to their
farms near Mt. Lassen., Cal, when the
peak became quiet.
It is reported in Detroit that another
s10,O0O,000 dividend was declared by
the Ford Motor Co.
The Irish Turf Club of Dublin decid-
ed there would be no interference with
horse racing in Ireland this season.
No one connected in any way with
the liquor business can hereafter be-
come a knight Templar in Pennsyl-
vania.
May Day exercises at Mount Hol
yoke college, postponed from Wednes-
day because of rain, were held yes
terday.
A violent windstorm, followed by
heavy rains, broke over Louisville,
Hy., trees, W1uQOWSy anu O6-
molishing signs.
Under escort of his military staff,
Governor Whitman left Albany on
special train to attend the Exposition
at San Francisco.
Two British airmen were fatally
burned when their motor exploced
while they were accommodating near
Hazebrouck, France.
The latest list of Canadian casualties
issued in Ottawa, contains the name of
Wendelle Hubert Holmes, of Worces-
ter, Mass, killed in action.
Charles karIin, veteran of the Cri-
mean campaign, and the F'ranco-Prus-
sian war of 1870, died at his home in
West Orange, N. J., aged 80.
Christopher j. Slower, labor super
intendent of the Crucible Steel Works
in Harrison, n. J., was crushed to
death between two freight cars.
The steamer cheItonen, under
charter by the Cunard Line. was
beached at Sydney, Nova Scotia, after
striking a rock near Cap Bay, N. F.
The use of air to tighten the sub
marine F'4 in Honolulu harbor will
probably be resorted to, as a heavy
swell again parted two of the cables.
Pinned beneath a heavy moving van
when it turned turtle at Egg Harbor,
George Gibson of Philadelphia was
drowned in less than a foot of water.
Every unit in the Philadelphia fire
department was summoned to combat
two large fires in the warehouse dis
trict at Vine street and the Delaware
River.
Because he refused to take her to
the movies, Anna Odenwald Clubhouse,
of PeekskiIl had her marriage to
George Clubhouse of 'Poughkeepsie
annulled.
President Wilson cabled congratu-
lations to President Victoriano de la
Plaza of Argentina on the celebration
of the 105 anniversary of Argentina
independence.
An Armenian calling himself
Christian Socialist was nearly mobbed
in Union Square after calling all
United States soldiers "murderers,
brutes and maniacs."
Delegates to the National Biennial
Convention of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, at Cleveland, vot-
ed unanimously in favor of State and
NaLlOnaI prOn1DlL1On.
The New York Court of Appeals fix
ed the week beginning July IL for the
execution of former Police Lieutenant
Charles Becker, convicted of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Bullets fell at Douglas, Ariz., from
Aqua Prieta, across the border, where
a CarranZa garrison engaged in heavy
fire in celebration of the victory by
General Obregon near Monterey.
The trial of Karl Buenz and others
| indicted with the Hamburg American
Line to send out chartered vesseles to
coal and provision the German raid
ers, will probably go over to some time
next fall.
An invitation to address the Consti-
tutional Convention at Albany on the
| Tooth anniversary of the granting of
| the Magma Charter. on June Is, was
extended to President Wilson by the
convention.
Commissioner Dill of the New Jersey
motor vehicle department sent letters
! to the chiefs of all municipalities ask
| ing cooperation in the enforcement of
the law prohibiting the use of dazzling
headlights.
The fine of $25 imposed on the Rev.
| Matthew Toohey, a priest of Hoboken,
wah remitted. The fine had been i'm
posed on the ground that he had ap-
preached a grand juror investigating
| election frauds.
| The LeyIand liner Napierian, which
arrived at Galveston from Liverpool,
was less than 20 miles from the Lus-
| itania when she was torpedoed off
the Irish coast on May Z, but as she
had no wireless. she knew nothing
| of the Lusitania fate.
| To put an end to loss and damage
| of rifles and other government pro-
perty issued to state militias, Sec
retary Garrison ordered that here
after all amounts for such losses be
deducted from the pay of responsible
| officers and enlisted men.
Schooner Struck BartIett's Reef.
New London, Conn, May 27-Schoon-
| er Lizzie ]. Call from Augusta, Me-, for
New Haven struck on Bartlett's Reef
during the gale last night and lost
| her mailsaiI and jib. She was f1oated
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