Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

The 500-miIe waterway between Mo- bile and Alabama's mineral district, just completed at a cost of 1,000,- 900. was formally opened.
 By unanimous ballot, the Venzu- elaan National Congress elected Gen. Juan Vincente Gomez, President of Venzuela for the term of 1915-22.
 The quarterly dividend rates of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company was increased from $5 to $15 a share, the largest quarter disbursement since 1913.
 The liner carpathia, which arrived at New York from Mediterranean ports, was detained at Quarantine ow- ing to a case of typhus fever in the steerage.
 August g, will be Manhattan Day" at the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, and August 19 at the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
 William F. Lamonta, former pur- chasing agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, killed himself in his office in Richmond, Va. He had been AA ROOA AScANHs
 Stephen T. Smith for more than IT years general manager of the Under wod Typewriter Co.,, died at his desk in the company's offices in New York of heart failure.
 Rev. Granville Wager, retired Congregational minister and a form CT president of Middlebury cllege, died suddenly atBraintree, Mass. He was 75 years of age.
 Billy Sunday addressed a thousand women at the Women'S club House, East Orange, N. J. The meeting was restricted to those on the waiting list of the organization.
 Salvage work on the submarine F-4, submerged in Honlulu harbor since March 25, was resumed after being suspended for some time on account of unfavorable weather.
 A silver service bought by the peo- pie of North Dakota was presented at Norfolk, Va, to the battleship bearing the name of their state. Gov. Hanna presented the service.
 The Congressional party which will make an inspection of the Hawaiian Islands arrived at Honlulu from San
 
 of entertainment has been begun.
 Eighteen commissioners from the Republic of China arrived at San Francisco on the steamer Manchuria to undertake the development of trade between the United States and China.
 Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister anonunced in the House of Commons that the United States and England had entered into no formal negotiations on the subject of Japan's demands in China.
 Appreciation by the German people for aid rendered by the American Red Cross was conveyed by the Empress of Germany to the organization through Count von Bernstoff, the German ann bassador at Washington.
 The Norwegian ship Aggi, which had been drifting helplessly for two days in the storm off the Pacific coast, ran ashore on the Taltott Shoals, at the west end of the Santa Rosa Islands. The crew are reported safe.
 Because of the delicate international situation King Victor Emmanuel and his ministers refused to leave Rome to attend the unveiling of the monu- ment of Garibaldi and his thousand "redshirts" at Quattro Sant' Elena
 Major Dwight E. AuItman of the Sixth Field Artillery, U. S. A., one of the American military observers with been recalled, reached New York on the steamer Espagne from Bordeaux.
 With what is said to be the larg- est number of passengers that ever crossed the Pacific on a passenger -l-s 000,0O0 the Pacific Mail steamer Manchuria arrived at San Francisco.
 By the death of his grandmother, Sarah D. Smith, IS months old Will jam J. Smith Cary, son of a Greenwich Conn.,, grocer, will possess an estate estimated to amount to more than a million dollars when he reaches his majority.
 It was officially announced in Otta- wa that the shipment of wheat and flour and other agricultural products to the United States has been pro- hibited, unless the shipments are in tended solely for consumption in the United States.
 Five of the seven mills of the Fall River Iron Works company were shut down partly as a result of the strike of weavers there. The shutdown has thrown between 4,500 and 5000 ope- ratives out of work and means a wage loss weekly of approximately $20,000.
 The New England branch of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mis- sion society opened its annual meeting in Providence with addresses by del- egates from four states. The sessions will last through today. Mrs. George w. Coleman Of Boston is presiding. <