Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-16
Connecticut Proportion to the Chy Population

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Condensed kilograms
Edwin Bliss magazine writer, drop
ped dead in the Hotel Vanderbilt
Miss BeIton one time a we'll known
midget actress, died at Woonsocket, |
R.
against placing cotton on the contra |
band list
Steel mills In western and eastern |
Ohio are producing practically at 100
per cent. capacity.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold for $4,000, the same
price a sthe last previous sale.
The Eastman Kodak Co., of Roches-
err n. Y. declared an extra dividend
of per cent on the common stock.
Fifteen persons were killed by an
explosion in an Illicit vodka distillery
at Volkhova, suburb of Petrograd.
The New Hampshire House killed
the Boston & Maine Railroad re-or-
ganization bill by a vote Of 161 to 12S.
In an election to decide the post
mastership nomination of Whittier,
Cal, Joseph H. Todd won by one
vote.
The bill requiring all vehicles to
stop before crossing steam or cleo
tr;c railway track was rejected by
the Massachusetts, house.
Mrs. Cynthia Buffon, charged with
killing her husband with poison at
Little Valley, n. Y, will have a second
trial in Buffalo May 8.
Pope Benedict sent 5000 to Cardi-
nal Mercier for Belgian war sufferers,
and $4,000 to the Bishop of Cracow
for the Polish war sufferers.
A bill was introduced in the New
York State Senate apropriating $10,-
600 for a financial survey of the New
to the constitutional convention
The Lower Chamber of the Alsace-
Lorraine Parliament voted to support
the 1915 budget The measure was
! opposed by all the Socialist members.
Doctors attending Mrs. Gertrude
Atherton, seriously i'll of pneumonia
in st. Lukes hospital, pronounced
her condition as very comfortable"
| About 400 men will get employment
| by the immediate reopening of the
| Mountain Consolidated mine one of
the larger Of the Anaconda Copper
| producers.
John DiIey, farmer of Ringoes, n.
J., was seriously injured when a. bull
| he was leading to a railroad station to
be weighed became unruly and at
| tackled him.
The national committee of the Pro-
| hibition party selected the Twin Cities
ST. Paul and Minneapolis as the meet
\ ing place of the 1915 convention, tc
be held July 10.
Champlin Burrase, at present Ii
! brarian of Manchested College Oxford
| has been elected librarian of the John
Carter Brown library of Brown Uni
! Versity.
| Twelve lights, which will act as
i guides to vessels approaching the
1 Buzzard's Bay entrance to the Cape
4 Cod canal will go into operation on
May 1.
sailed from Woods Hole, Mass, to as
sist two unknown schooners reported
in distress on Hawes Shoal, Nantuck-
ct Sound.
A general strike of all laborers il
Milan as a protest against the killing
of a Socialist by a policeman in al
anti-war demonstration Sunday, was
launched at Milan.
Il Louis Rothstein aged II of Brook.
1yn, was seriously injured when three
Illuminating caps he found in a junl
/ shop exploded after he had pounded
them with hammer.
II was announced in the House o
promotions to commissions from th
ranks in the British army since tn,
beginning of the war.
Ths six masted schooner Edwart
B. Winslow. was towed into New Yorl
: harbor in a damaged condition as
? result of her collision with a British
r warship off Sandy Hook.
A force of eonviets from the Yves
4 Virginia State Penitentiary began a
e Moundsville the task of restoring tn
e works of the Ohio Valley mound build
erS.
e The New York Assembly passed tn
Dill auInOT1ZlnSs InS PUBIC S0rV1C
= commission to order the issuance O
e transfers between subway, surface an
\ elevated lines anywhere in New Yor
d city.
:. Special police bodyguards will b
: furnished Colonel Roosevelt and Will
t lam Barnes, at the trial of the lat
= ter's $4,000 libel suit against Co
n Roosevelt, to be held at Syracus
n Monday.
: The proposal for a subsidized ma
p service between Sydney, Australia
Y and San Francisco was turned dow
t by the Australian government on tn
grounds that circumstances do nc
It warrant it.
= Governor j. r. A. Strong signe
= the bill passed by the Alaska Terri
g torial Legislature submitting tn
Q question of prohibition throughou
d Alaska to the voters at the electio
n November 4, 1916.
s The ibill putting an annual tax o
: motorcycles was amended in the Ne
p York Assembly to reduce the propose
e tax from So to 81. The bill is e1
g pected to pass. Thirtytwo thousan
= motorcyclists are affected.