Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-17


heavy burden the war has imposed on
neutral Hallond is growing steadily.
Peter krakus was hanged at Will
mington, Del, for the murder of Pa
trolman Francis Tierney, there
March 6.
A large percentage of the las strik-
ing oilers and stokers of the American
liner ST. Louis, signed for the trip to
Liverpool.
Following the capture of Windhoek
by the British, the capital of German
Southwest Africa was removed to
Grootfontein.
Work on raising the submarine IA
in Honlulu harbor came to a stand
still when Divers Nelson and Drill
shak became i'll.
James CarIin, of chapinviIIe, N. Y,
was fined $50 for cutting the curls of
Walter Norris, aged four, who threw
a tin can in Carlin's yard.
Bart Dunn, road CRATER, gave him
self up to New York officers in Sum-
init, n. J., waving extradition. He
was taken to BlackwelPs Island.
The Rhode Island Locomotive Works
at Providence are reported to have
received a large shrapnel order from
one of the belligerents of Europe.
Because of the depletion in the staffs
of the London banks, a proposal was
made to conclude banking business at
8 p. m. daily instead of at p. m.
One fireman was killed and one fat
ally injured by a falling wall at a fire
that did $500, damage to the leath-
er plant of George Sengel in Newark.
A call for $500 men to work in coal
mines in Fayette county w. Va, has
been received by the Federal govern
ment's employment bureau of Pitts
burgh.
New York city will be represented
by committee of five on New York
Day at the aPnama-Pacific Exposi-
ton, May "a. The committee left
Saturday.
Two men dragged Isadore Klein, a
messenger for the Public Bank of New
York. into a hallway in East Seventy
fourth Street and after beating him,
stole $1,1S5.,
The Court of Appeals at Albany sus-
Dunn, who killed Harry Edwards, an
express messenger at Corning, Febru-
ary %, 1914.
One hundred and twenty cabin pas
sengers and 450 steerage, practically
all British or Canadians, sailed from
New York for Liverpool on the White
Star liner Cymric.
Professor John A. (Johnnie) Hand,
Chicago's veteran music master, was
reported to be dying in hospital at
Chicago from an ineurable malady.
He is 50 years old.
His conscience trouble by a seven
year old theft, Arthur c. Fayette, sur
rendered in Moody Falls n. J. The
gold watch he stole he returned a few
months after the theft.
BY a vote of 129 to o, the Illinois
House voted to return to the women
of New Orleans a flag presented to
Gen. Andrew Jackson, and captured
by Illinois troops in 1868.
The strike of conductors and motor
men of the Detroit United Railways
was called off, pending a settlement of
the case of the dismissed motorman,
which brought on the trouble.
tania, and Miss Gerta Nelson, a milli-
ner, were married in Manchester
England. Welsh rescued Miss Neil
son as the Lusitania went down.
Power over the traffic in New York
harbor, ordinarily vested in the Sec
retary of Commerce, will be trans
during the period of the naval review
The year book of the Corporation of
Trinity Church, in New York, shows
that in the nine months ending April
IA, 1914, the receipts of the church
from all sources amounted to $1,00 -
472.
A strike has been proclaimed at Mi
political events in Italy. Troops are
occupying all the strategical points in
the city.
The Cunard offices announced that
the liner Adriatic did not sail from
Liverpool Wednesday as reported. The
liners sailing was delayed because Of
trouble with the crew, who demanded
higher wages.
A German passenger on the Clyde
liner Huron, from Jacksonville, de-
clared to be the writer of threaten
ing letters to President Wilson was
placed under surveillance by Secret
Service agents.
The indiana division of the Travel
ers Protective Association in annual
convention at Indianapolis, Ind, vot-
ed to send a message to President
Wilson, approving his stand in the
Lusitania situation.
Frank n. Thompson alias Walter
Moore, wanted in New York on q
charge of being implicated in a
swindle was arersted in Atlantic
City, n. j., where he was living in
a handsome bungalow.