Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-18

John Sweeney, so, and forty horses
were burned to death in a fire that
destroyed the Arlington Livery Stable
at Newark, N. ].
Hereafter frog hunters in Simson
County, Kentucky, will be required to
take out a license provided they op-
crate with a gun.
The Eagle Mountain House at Jack
son, N. H., one of the best known
hostelries in tho White Mountains was
destroyed by fire.
Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, in a
letter to the village trustees Of Os-
sining, declined to stop Sunday base
ball at Sing Sing prison.
Extra guards of enlisted men have
been placed around the naval torpedo
station and around the magazines on
Roe's Island, Newport, R. I.
The eastern section of the New York
State Barge Canal as far west as Rex
ford was formally opened by Governor
Whitman and other State officers.
William n. Way, aged SO years,
former president of the Curtiss- Way
Company, printers, died at Meriden
after six months illness of diabetes.
The New York Municipal Council
of the United Irish League Of Amer
lea, passed a resolution indorsing
President Wilson's stand with Ger
mnay.
Frederick Moss, So, a New York bus
mess man living in Montclair, N. J.,
was instantly killed when he was run
down by a trolley car in the front of
his home.
Aliens under order of deportation to
England and France are to be sent
through the German war zone around
Great Britain only on ships flying the
American flag.
Lieut.. Clarence Lyman of the Fourth
cavalry, U. S. A, whose skull was
ractured in a collision with Walter
Dillingham; in polo game at Honlulu
Saturday, died yesterday.
Wong Shu- chen, a Chinese provin-
cial delegate to the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition, was probably
fatally injured when run down by an
automobile at Berkeley, Cal.
Thomas Campbell, a well known in
surance man, died at Hartford, aged so
years. He was for a. number of years
secretary of the Hartford Fire Insur-
ance Company, retiring recently.
Marcus M. Marks, Borough Presi-
dent of Manhattan, on behalf of the
city administration started from the
City Hall the first automobile tour
over the Lincoln Memorial Highway.
Armed with knives, axes and other
weapons, hundreds of Italians search
ed houses in First Avenue, New York,
in the hope of capturing the man be-
heved to have been Jack the Ripper"
Bernard Cooper of New York has
brought suit to recover .$25,00 dam
ages from the city for the loss of his
10-year-old son, who, he charges, died
on June 20, 1914, after being vaccinat-
ed.
Six thousand Arnenians have been
massacred at Van, in Armenia, Asiatic
Turkey, according to a despatch re-
ceiVed in official quarters in London
from the Russian consul at Urumiah,
Persia.
Boat crews from the battIeships in
the Hudson River rescued forty pas
SengerS, men, women and children,
when the motorboat Vfci, began to
sink opposite 105th street. No one
injured.
Jersey accompanied by Mrs. Fielder
and party of 20 friends arrived at
Los Angeles. The party will go first
to the San Diego Fair and thence to
San Francisco.
Plans were filed with Building In
spector D. F. Maher by the CrucibIe
Steel Company of America for an en-
largement of it's plant at Harrison.
N. J., which will mean an outlay of
about 100000.
In the arrest of Bernard Corn of
New York, held a prisoner on a homi-
eide charge the police believe they are
close to the solution of the murder
of Charles Miller, night clerk at the
Atlantic Hotel March II.
Despite the reticence of the officials
of the Midvale Steel Works of Phila-
delphia, it became known that the
plant had received a contract from
the United States Government to make
$4,000 fourteen-inch Shells
William Thaw of Pittsburgh, who is
serving as pilot in the French Mill
tary Aviation Corps, has been COM
| mended in army orders for his brill
| liant services and has received the re-
Gently established Military Cross.
A dozen men were arrested in Chi
cago charged with gambling. The po-
| lice made two raids in an effort to
| stop gambling on baseball a practice
| which, they say has developed rapidly
| in Chicago and other important cities
A still house at the smokeless powder
plant of the Du Pont company, al
! Carney's Point, n. J., opposite Will
mington, Del, was destroyed by two
| explosions. 1t wrecked the building
and started fire. No one was in the
| structure.
| The published reports that 100000
! belonging to the Melis-D -Depage Belgian
| Red Cross Field Hospital Fund were
| lost with Nine De Page in the sinking
| of the Lusitania, were declared to be
erroneous by DR.. Richard H. Harte, OF
| Philadelphia.
Following hurried order from
| Washington, a detachment of fifteer
marines each was sent from the New
York Navy Yard to Iona Island. in the
Hudson River, just below West Point
and to Dover, N. j., to guard the Gov
| ernment magazines.
| With the idea of demonstrating the
practicability of the Cape Cod Cana
| for coastwise steamships, the James
S. Whitney, of the Eastern STEAMSHIP
Co.'s fleet, will be sent through the