Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-25

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The Belgian Relief Fund totals ST.
Coney islands official summer sea-
son was opened Sunday.
There were 60 deaths due to street
accidents in New York during April.
Two hundred Italian reservists left
New York for Italy on the steamer
StampaIia-
The steam schooner Ciaremon+ went
ashore near Marshfeld, Ore, and is a
total loss.
The London County Council dis
charged all striking street railway
employees of military age
According to the Frankfurter zei-
tung, there are now 1,3S6,000 war
prisoners in Germany and Austria.
Swiss Federal authorities are PLAN
ming the formation of an import trust,
similar to that operated by Holland.
The White Star liner Adriatio arriv-
ed at New York from Liverpool with
$50 cabin and 124 steerage passengers.
The United States submarine K6,
which was ashore at No Mans Land
Saturday night, was floated without
damage.
Francis Burton Harrison, governor
general Of the Philippines and Mrs.
Harrison visited President Yuan Shi-
kai at Peking.
SeVenty-five thousand persons at
tended a military field mass on the
plaza of the Marine Barracks at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Fifteen thousand men and boys
marched in the rain through the main
streets in Paterson, N. J., to show
their faith in Billy Sunday.
The bill placing iitney busses under
the jurisdiction of New York public
service commissions and municipal
authorities was signed by Governor
Whitman.
Since the sinking of the Lusitania
on May z, more than 1900 applications
III SAlAZCI1SIlAp pdpSES were ludO6 III
the Philadelphia courts
Italian residents in San Francisco
have taken steps to raise large sums
of money for Red Cross purposes in
the event of Italy joining the war.
The Duke and Duchess of Acosta,
placed at the disposal of the Red
Cross Society their palace at Turin,
as a hospital for wounded soldiers.
Captain Edmund Thery, well known
economist, estimates that the total
military expenditure of the first year
of the war will be $4,000, OoO, 900.
Rear Admiral Moore at Honolulu
total lift of the submarine F4 since
salvage work began was ninety-six
feet
Twelve men who took part in the
Christmas Eve rioting at Manila were
prison and to pay a fine of $4,000 to
$1,000.
Roy Champiin was found guilty at
Belmont, N. Y, of the murder of his
uncle Henry McGhee of WellsviIIe,
He was sentenced to die in the cleo
tric chair.
The Standard Oil Company Of New
York announced a reduction of %
points in refined petroleum in cases
for export, making the price 9.75 cents
per gallon.
Contributions amounting to 1920
were received by August Belmont
treasurer of the Committee of Mercy,
for the Lusitania relief fund started by
the committee.
Apple, JinsIing and Kings Gift, three
valuable race horses belonging to
James Butler, were killed by a bolt
of lightning that struck the stables at
Belmont Park.
Seventeen hundred prisoners sat in
the rain at Ossining, N Y, to see
the Sing Sing prison baseball team
defeat the Hudson Guild of Manhattan
by the score of 13 to 9.
In speech before a meeting of Re
publicans in Kansas City, Mo-, former
President Taft spoke emphaticaIly on
the necessity of unity behind President
Wilson at the present time.
Guy w. Ommert, member of a Har-
risburg amateur baseball team had his
skull fractured by a pitched ball in a
game at Palmyra and died at a hos
pital. He was II years old.
President Wilson's speech delivered
in Philadelphia May 10, to a group Of
newly naturalized citizens will be used
as a model of the English language
in the public schools of that city.
warrant was issued at Battle
Creek, Mich, for the arrest of United
States Senator Charles E. Townsend,
OF jackson, Mich, on a charge of
reckless driving of his automobile.
Hat Creek Valley, California, threat
ened with destruction by eruption
of Mt. LaSsen, was saved. The mud
flow that followed the disturbances
changed its course when near the val
ley.