Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23

Three men were severely burned by |
an explosion in Woolwich Arsenal, 10 |
Gated in suburb of London.
Directors of the Dow Chemical Co.,
of Cleveland, declared an interim div |
ldend of 1 per cent, payable April 26. |
The New York Senate adopted a
resolution calling for the final ad- |
journment of the Legislature at noon |
on Saturday.
Estates owned by wealthy New York |
and New Jersey residents were threat |
ened by forest fires in the Cranberry
Lake, N. J. region.
The City and Suburban handicap
of 1000 sovereigns run at EPSON
Downs, England, was won by ]. B.
JoePs Black Jester.
De Baker of Los Angeles was fixed
at $423,0oO by court appraisers on a
valuation of s7,ooo.o0O.
The bill to re-organize the state
boxing cvmossion passed the New
York Senate, 27 to 20. 1t now goes to
the governor for his action.
The Canadian Pacific Railway was
appointed purchasing agent for the
British Government to cover all war
orders placed in Canada.
The Republic Rubber Co., of Youngs-
town;\ Pa, received an order for TO-
900 auto truck tires for one of the bel
ligerent European nations.
Jacob L. WeitzeI, manager of the
Readville, Pa, club of the Tri-State
League, shot and fatally injured him.
self at Mineral Park Springs.
Advices received at Belfast, say that
Lord Crichton, reported wounded and
captured by the Germans, died in bat
tie and was buried at the front
Boy Scouts are searching for Sid
ney Rogers, 16, of Riverside Drive
New York, who ran away from home
after earning 16 demerits at school
A loaded freight car was sunk in
New York Bay when two floats col
lided off the Battery more than 1000
auto horns in. the car were silenced.
DR.. Edward X. Ineraham was in
augurated president of the University
of North Carolina, the oldest state
supported university in the United
States.
Edward odardi, a teamster died
Willie UC1ilS ldhCu " New Haven OIL
injuries suffered when his team was
struck by an express train at North
Haven.
Stockholders Of the Franklin Min
ing Co, in Boston, voted to increase
the number of directors from six to
seven and to create the office of vice
president.
Mrs. Virginia SchIey, aged rs, aunt
of the late Rear Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley was killed when struck
by an automobile in front Of her house
in Atlanta.
Governor Philip Of Wisconsin ord
cred the shutdown of the State prison
binding twine factory, as he asserts
that it is being operated at an annual
A greater part of the ice supply of
Newton, Mass, ran back into Crystal
Lake at Newton Center as the result
of a fire which destroyed eight we'll
filed ice houses.
The Carranza consulate at Browns
vile announced that travellers reach
ing Rio Grande city, Texas, from Mon
terey said the city was being evacu-
ated by the Villa forces.
American Ambassador Stimson in
Argentine reported to the state de
partment that the trans-Andean rail-
wya had been blocked by a big land
slide. He gave no details.
A deed covering the sale in 1908 of
the franchise and the property of the
New England Railroad to the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road for $27, 100000 was filed in Prov
idence.
Church federation was opposed by
Bishop Richard K. J. Cooke, of Port
land, Ore, in his address as presiding
officer Of the Vermont Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church at
Brattleboro, VT.
The Egyptian merchant named
Khalli, who on April s made an I'M
successful attempt to assasinate Hus-
sein Kamel Sultan of Egypt, was SEN
fenced to die by hanging, by military
court in Cairo.
Fred Cote, aged %, while driving
his milk cart over the Lincoln avenue
crossing at Rumford, Me, was struck
by a Maine Central passenger train
and SO severely injured that he died
three hours later.
Eddie Ainsmith, catcher for the
Washington American League base
ball team was sentenced to 80 days in
the workhouse and Joe Engel, pitcher,
was fined $50 on a charge Of assault
ing a motorman.
Two masked women attacked Mar
tha Schultz, fifteen-year- old daughter
of a well-to-do farmer, of Connells-
vile, Pa, and pressed on each cheek
an uncorked bottle of acid, badly
burning her face.
Trial of Captain w. L. Luhn, Tenth
United States cavalry, on charge Of
shipping personal baggage on an
another officers baggage allowance,
was begun by court martial at Fort
Leavenworth. Kansas.
Physicians attending Evelyn Jones,
II years of age, who was found un-
conscious, bound and gagged on the
shore of Lake Winnepesaukee, said
that the child woul drecover although
her condition was serious.
In their home at the foot of the
Watching Mountain near Somerville,
N J., two sisters, Mrs. Hester E.
Wooley, aged 50, and Miss Jane
Smith, aged So, died within a few