Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-15

Cable communication across the Att
 lantic was badly hampered by the wires between New York and Nova Scotia.
 Since the system of inspection of British prisoners camps was instf- tuted the staff of the United States embassy at Berlin has paid 155 visits to camps.
 Paucity of war news from Europe is explained as due to the storm which has interrupted communication along the land routes of the cable companies.
 The annual championship tourna- ment of the intercollegiate golf as- | sociation next autumn will be held on the links of the Oakmont club near Pittsburgh.
 The business district of the town of | Necedah Wis, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Two blocks of business houses were destroyed. The loss is Regular sales of Anglo French , per cent. bonds were made on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday at 95 7-S, establishing a new low record for this security. | Miroslav Siobinsky, a Ruthenian, | who in 1908 assassinated Count Andris l Potocki, governor of the Austrian province of Galicia, will be permitted to remain in the United States. Four families at Rumford, Me-, were forced to move into a bowling snow storm when damage estimated at $6,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in large wooden block. 
 pr. Henry Van Dyke, the American n | minister to Holland, has received from the Belgian relief committee in New York, $10.000 for the benefit of in termed Belgian soldiers in Holland and | their families.
 Herr Schroeder editor of the Am sterdam Telegraaf, was acquitted at the conclusion of his trial on the conclusion of his trial on the charge of having made improper uttterances in his newspaper.
 Investigation of the Congressional Union to find if it is employing lob- byists in the cause of woman suffrage was proposed in a resolution intro duced Tuesday by Representative Byrnes of South Carolina.
 When the State Department has filled all diplomatic and consular va cancies in Mexico the treasury de- partment will be called upon to send Approximately s50,00O annually to that country for salaries in addition to that now being paid.
 Tuesday was peace day at the Southern Commercial Congrecial Con- gress at Charleston, S. c. James Scott of the Carnegie Foundation, and Arthur D. Call, secretary of the American Peace Society, headed the list of speakers.
 At one time Tuesday the Western Union Telegraph company was virt- ually without a wire leading from New York city up the Hudson River and all the signal wires of the New York Central railroad used in operat- ing its trains were down.
 A hearing on the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Com pany's petition for the right to in crease fares from 5 cents to cents was begun before joint session of the Public Service Commissions of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
 The Greek government, it was learn ed at London, has communicated all Greek shipping in British and Amer ican ports in an effort to supply the deficiency in food and coal which ex- 1Sts in reece as a result of Gthe en- tente restrictions.
 Replying to a question in the house Of commons yesterday, Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under-secre- tary for war, said that it was calcu- lated that Turkey had 650,000 men in the field and that this force, under certain circumstances might be in- creased to a million.
 Edward B. Traitor, found guilty several days ago of holding up and robbing several stage coaches of tour ists in Yellowstone National Park in 1914 was sentenced in the United States district court at Cheyenne Wyo., to five years in the Federal pen itentiary at Leavenworth.
 The announcement by the Southern Pacific Company today that it had of fered to sell it's holdings of 10000 shares of Pacific Mail Steamship Company stock to W. R. Grace and Company was taken here to mean that the Stars and Stripes and the Pacific Mail flag will remain on the Pacific Ocean.
 The State department probably will accept the explanation made by Bar on Erich Zwiedinek, Charge of the Austria Hungarian embassy here, re- garding a letter he wrote to the Aus tro-Hungarian consul-general in New Yorwk suggesting that neutral pass ports be bought to assist reservists in