Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-04
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 British forces have occupied Bou- gainville, the largest of the Solomon Islands.
 The Belgian Fund being collected in New York has reached a total of S761,561.
 Next Sunday is to be observed by the religious bodies of London as day of prayer and intercession. The new Red Star liner 5elseniand, the largest Belgian vessel ever built, was launched at Belfast, Ireland. Joseph olsive, of Cohoes, N- Y. drowned when his sled went over an ernbankmerit into the Fri Canal.
 Governor Cox of New Yorw, who Walter Diehl, who aided in lynching Carl Burlington, detective in 1911- The total value of Christmas gifts given by the people of France to Bel gian refugees Is estimated at $1,400,-
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 Charles Rodth of4 New York, who
  for shopufting, left an estate of $100,-
 Cardiff coal exports to New South Wales in 1914 tOtalled 32, 2,057,994 tOns ; a decrease of 100000 tons from the previous year.
 One man was killed and another one fatally injured when the floor of the new Harrick-Davis Theatre in Pittsburgh collapsed. Mime Poinvare, wife of the French President finished the distribution of | 6,OOO parcels of clothing and toys to the poor of Paris.
 An Austrian bipIane which attempt 1 ed to carry food to the Galician for tress of Prezemysl, was brought down l by Russian troops.
 Sir James Ouckworth, formerly a member of Parliament and president ! of the Union Methodist Free church, 1 died in London.
 Military authorities at Ottawa ord ] cred the release of three Canadian sol dietrs held for the shooting of two l American hunters. Yuan Shin Kaih has obtained the 1 passage of legislation in the Chinese l National Assembly which assures him
 the presidency for life. i Reserve deposits in the F Federal i Reserve banks showed an increase of more than S6,000,O0O at the close of l business December 31.
 More than 300 floating mines have drifted ashore on the Dutch coast ac- l cording to the commander of the Swedish steamer Ysra- The Canadian Parliament has been 1 called to meet February f. A short session, confined to consideration of war measures is expected. Harry Lauder, the comedian donat- ] ed 5000 to the Prince of Wales Fund | for the benefit of widows and families ! of British soldiers at the front. i Fernando Fuchs, Peruvian Minister ! of the Interior and Colonel April, Min 1 ister of War are the latest memebers
 of the Peruvian Cabinet to resign. Flight Commander Francis Hewlett, 1 son of the novelist, who was thought to have been lost during the British raid on Cuxhaven, is safe in Holland.
 John F. Hurley, five times salem's ] chief executive, who was recalled by LIl6 EOLGTS dL q SDGCtdi GIBctlCn IuSS- day, has reliquished the mayors of i fee.
 1 Miss Della c. Torrey, of -NIiddlebury, ] Mass, aunt of eX-President Taft pre- scented a large tract of land to the town of Middlebury to be used as a 1 park.
 ] John J. Sturgeon, of the New York l World" has taken the position of ex- i eceutive editor of the Philadelphia Pub i lie Ledger succeeding George w. Ochs.
 Delayed many days by unusually rough weather. the Swedish steamer, l SundsbalI for Baltimore, put in to St. 1 Johns, N. F., to replenish her coal bunkers.
 l D F. Henry, well known as the own CT of Pittsburgh hotels has field a voluntary petition in bankruptcy giv- l ing his liabilities as S1,505, 137 and aS- sets as $1,412,672.
 A residuary bequest of $5O,ooo to the 1 Harvard Medical School for the fOun-
 dation of 8 chair of gynecology is pro vided in the will of William H. Beker, of Waltham, Mass.
 Boston brokerage houses petitioned l the legislature for a suspension Of the state excise tax on stock transfers on the ground that the federal govern ment has a similar tax. Joseph Buell., twenty-one years old, l of Nutley, N. J., was shot and killed by d policemen as he and g. companion were breaking into a house in Newark while celebrating New Years. pr. James s. Shaw, we'll known in theatrical circles for many years and a brother of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman Suf- frage Association, died in Boston. Clarence l.. Howard, head of the
 Commonwealth Steel Co.,, of Granite City, H., refused an order for s2,00O, 900 of shrapnel for European hellig-
 erents, because he disapproves of war.