Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-13

:. secretary Daniels forwarded to the
conscience fund" OF the treasury 81,
from Newport, r. /
Miss Margaret w. Crosby, aged IA.
OF Brooklyn. was drowned while bath
ing at Greenwood Lake. N. Y.
The farm of Bob" Fitzimmon.,
former champion pugiiist, was sold al
auction to satisfy his creditors
Singing patriotic songs, 1.4oo ItaI-
ian reservtsts sailed from Boston for
home on the steamer Cretic today.
Elmer ~. Hancock, editor Of the |
Savannah Morning News" died at |
Savannah, Ga He was IL years old |
According to the Department of
Commerce, the American Merchant
Marine Is second only to that of Eng
land.
To provide more naval officers, the
roster Of the Naval Academy at An
napolis will be increased from 1000
to 400.
severely burned in a IRE IN the lab
oratory OF Elmer g. Amend, New
York druggists.
Mrs. L. Rebeeea Gates, mother Of
Governor Charles W. Gates, Of Yer
mont. died after a long Illness. She
was 81 years Of age.
Denial of reports that HeiDsr o.
Shaughnessy has bsen dropped from
the diplomatic service was made at
the State Department
Crown Prince Humbert passed
through Venice en- route for the front
to spend his eleventh birthday with
King Victor Emmanuel.
The Navy Department denied that
three destroyers had been sent from
the New York Navy Yard to convoy
into port the liner Lapland.
Germans at constantinople are re-
ported TO be breaking up old Turkish
battleships to use the metal in the
manufacture OF ammunition
The steamer kankakee, formerly
the Lapland. arrived in New York
from Barrow-in-F Furness. where she
was held by British authorities.
Official announcement was made in
London that a German spy had been
executed by shooting in the Tower of
London His name was not given
Samuel Lash, aged 20, Of New York,
/ was seriously injured when drawn ESQ
feet through an outlet pipe from a
/ swimming pool at Asbury Park n. J.
| T. =. Lowry has been appointed
! superintendent of the Rocky Mountain
division OF the Northern Pacific Rail-
road with headquarters at Missoula,
Mont.
/ A specimen of coIored cotton,
grown in the South. was exhibited on
the floor OF the Savannah Cotton Ex-
change. II was pronounced a perfect
production
John NJ. Duriek of Boston Jumped
from the 26th story OF the new Boston
Custom House. and was killed. He
is believed to have been unnerved by
the heat
All hope has been given up for the
| United Fruit steamer. Morowi1ne. lost
in the recent Gulf hurricane She is
thought to have founded with all pas
Vessels drawing not more than SO
feet of water are expected to be able
to go through the Panama Canal to-
day. when part Of the slide will have
been cleared away.
Alexander w. Mack, manager of the
Raritan Woolen Mills, Somerville n
J., died of acute indigestion brought
about by the excitement caused by q
strike Of 700 operatives at the plant.
President Wilson accepted an invi-
tation of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public to lay the cornerstone Of thS
! tional Cemetery during Encampmen
Week.
The German Socialist leaders, West
| kamp and Eehel, were arrested a
Dusseldorf and sentenced to thre,
, months Imprisonment each for dis
! t-ibuting literature hostile to German
interests.
After serving two and one-haI
yeers Of a sentence OF from five to tel
years for manslaughter, Daniel A
Dugan. Jr., of Orange. n. J.. wa
paroled. He ran down and killed
man with his motor car.
{ Sir William Van Horne, for year
4 prominent in transcontinenatl railroa
development in Canada. Is dying in tn
: Royal Victoria hospital at Montrea
Virtually all hope for his recovery ha
been abandoned by his physicians
8 Sheridan Ladd, for IS years chic
: electrician for the Bridgeport polio
: department. and who recently resigns,
i
~ in the city's outskirts Near IN
body was a bottle which had contains
> poison
:, Representative Of 100000 col
L. miners, assembled at Wilkeebarre. Pa
= urged the state to refuse further ar
n proprtations to the University
/ Pennsylvania. because Of the dismiss
e OF Professor Scott Nearing, for b
Is "Socialistic Views"
Five men were among those VINO lie
their employment in Waterbury fat
tories last week and took part
clashes with the police. were sentences
70 jail by the city court One Of u
y, linen who carried loaded revolver WI
0, given a 80 days sentence and $50 nm
/ 6ernstorff Goes to Washington.
:. New York. Sept. 12-Count w
~ Bernstorff. the German ambassadc
left here today for Washington accon
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