Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-19

According to dispatch from Athens, |
he condition of King Constantine of |
Greece has become more serious.
The names of five residents of the
United States appear on a new Ca
madam casualty list issued in Ottawa.
Ambassador Guthrie, home from To-
zio on leave, conferred with Secretary
Bryan and other State Department
officials.
Saburo Shimada, well known Par
humanitarian, was elected president of
the House when the japanese Diet
A nation wide observation Of hu-
name week began under the auspices
of the American Humane Association,
of Philadelphia
"If war depended on my vote there
would be no war;" Vice President
Marshall declared, in an address at
Tallahassee, Fla.
Superintendent of Police w. Noble
Mathews announced that ban had
been placed on the selling of baseball
pool in Pittsburgh.
The municipal authorities at Rome
renamed Frederick William Bridge
there Albert Bridge in honor of the
King of the Belgians.
1t was announced in the House of
Commons that 257 persons were injur-
ed and S66 arrested in. the recent anti
German rioting in London.
A man believed to be G. M. Beatty
of Richmond, Va, died in the West
Park Baths, Newark n. j. after
drinking pint of whiskey.
Wallace L. Bray, popularity known
to fans as Happy Hogan" manager
at Los Angeles of pneumonia
Alexander T. Echezerria, a clerk in
the Commercial Bank of Spanish
America, New York, died at his desk
when stricken with heart failure.
The London "Daify Express" states
the Lord Brooke is to be promoted to
a brigadier generalship and given
command of a brigade of Canadians.
Gustave Kiefer and Godfried Moser,
members of a firm of German import
ers, were arrested and interned at
Toronto, suspected of being German
spys.
The plant of the American Loco
motive Company at Pittsburgh, Pa,
is being overhauled and plans are be-
ing made for complete resumption
of work.
Granite cutting plants at Montpelier
and Barre, VT, idle since March 1 be-
cause of difficulties between manufact-
urers and employees over wages, were
reopened.
The Tennessee Senate passed a res
olution Monday night requesting the
governor of Georgia to commute to
life imprisonment the death sentence
of Leo NJ. Frank.
Fourteen thousand men are now
working at the plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Co., South Bethlehem, Pa, The
monthly payroll of the company is
over $1,000,000.
Spanish warships were dispatched
to rescue the crews of the British
tanker York and three Italian steam
ers driven ashore on the Moroccan
coast Saturday.
A dredge in tow of the tug S. o.
Dixon was sunk in Lake Huron during
a heavy storm. The tug was beached
near Bay City, Mich, to save the
lives of the crew.
President Poincare sent an article
written by himself to a paper called
the Echo Des Tranchees" published
in the trenches by the 18th French
Territorial Infantry.
Praise for President Wilson was
voiced by Bishop James De Wolf
convention of the Episcopal churches
of Rhode Island yesterday
A man believed to be the German
American aviator, Frederick Bonnie,
delirious from lack of water and
lines about San Luis Potosi.
Fire damaged the farmhouse of John
Eastlack, of Pitman, N. J. The only
serious loss was the singeing of East
lacks whiskers, for which he was
An unidentified man, watching the
parade of sailors and marines, was
killed in the entrance adjoining No.
East 9th Street, when an unmanage-
able truck crushed him against the
wall.
According to report reaching Ell
PaSo, Tex, Gen. Antonio Villa a
brothers of the northern Mexican
leader was SnOL ana fatally wounded
as a result of a political dispute in
Chihuahua City.
One of the heaviest snowstorns of
the season prevailed at Appleton, Wis,
and probably aided in saving part of
the crops. In addition to the straw
berries, it is thought the entire apple
crop is ruined.
The steamer Finland of the Pana-
ma-Pacific Line, the first of the
transatlantic liners to be diverted to
the New York-San Diego-San Fran
cisco run, arrived at San Diego from
New York via the Panama Canal
The identity of a skeleton found
swinging from a tree in a swamp near
Glenbrook, Conn.,, as that of his wife
led to the arrest of William F. Blair,
and Jack Devereaux of Glenbrook, who
are held on a charge of murder.
With but few cars running, London
was practically without street car
service, nearly all the striking motor
men and conductors having taken a
pledge not to return to work until a
permanent increase in pay, and not
merely a war bonus, is granted.
Movements of Steamships.