Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-06

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 shrapneI ordered in Canada since the beginning of the war is estimat- ed to value $22,ooo,000.
 Protestant churches in the city of Newark, N. J., will celebrate Sunday, January IT, as ''Boys' Day."
 About four inches of snow covers the important wheat growing section of Klickitat Valley, Wash.
 During 1914, there were 1.2tO com panies Incorporated in New Jersey compared with 1,74S in 1913.
 The Bankers Trust Co., of Buffalo. N. Y., organized August last, paid an initial dividend of l per cent.
 The RockdaIe, IT,, plant of the American Steel Wire Go. resumed op- erations after six months idleness.
 Operations of the New York Assay Office in 1914 exceeded S60, ,50O, 900, an increase of more than s26,OO0,O00.
 George r. Marye, American Anbas- sador to Russia, has gone to the front to distribute Christmas presents from America.
 A strike which members of the Galesburg, III, Brickmalzers' Union has waged for four years. has been de- clared off.
 The first Candy Makers Union has been organized in New York and has applied for a charter to the Journey men Bakers.
 A wagon manufacturing company of Louisville, Ky. has begun work on 5000 portable kitchen wagons for the French army.
 Orleans Cotton Exchange next Friday. the Tooth anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans.
 The executive committee of the Bangor &5 Aroostook Railroad has vot- ed to reduce the semi-annuaI dividend to 1 per cent.
 Losses by fire in Canada and the United States during 1914 aggregated $235, 1850. nearly 11,000, 900 more than during 1913.
 The annual meeting of the Chicago Rock Island &5 Pacific Railway, to be held in Chicago, has been postponed again to March 16.
 
 The total capital issue in London in 1874 were approximately S2,75O, 000,- 0O0 including war loans compared with $1,250, 0,O00,000 for 1913.
 Grant Hall has been appointed vice. president and general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Winnipes of lines west Of Port Arthur.
 Articles of incorporation have been filed at Ottawa by the United States Coupon & Profit Sharing Co., Ltd, of Toronto, with capital of $5oo.0O
 To the tune of "Tfpperarys played by a. man guest dressed in pajamas, a fire in the basement of Hotel Albert New York was put out by fremen.
 Private Owen Ross of the British garrison at Gibraltar, was upheld for killing Ernest Palm, & German pris- oner of war who was trying to escape.
 An attempt to blow up St. Joachirn's Catholic Church in Trenton, N. J., was frustrated by the failure of a fuse to ignite 26 ounces of dynamite in a can.
 The extension to Rhode Island wo- men of the right to vote for President was advocated by Governor R. Living ston Beeckman in his inaugural ad- dress.
 Five hundred female inmates of the New York State Reformatory at Bed- ford Hills. are being allowed to skate, sleigh and frOlic on the ice on the grounds.
 The Japanese Cabinet has designat- ed Rear Admiral Baron Shigete Dewa. one of Japan's distinguished naval of ticers, as special envoy to the Panama Pacific Exposition
 Railroad bridges in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico and the only tunnel on the railroad, across the Isthnlus of Tehuntapec have been blown up by Mexican soldiers.
 More than 14,ooo employees of the Grand Trunk Railroad and thousands of men employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad have refused to ac- cept reductions in pay.
 ed a war cereal society to buy bread and cereals and supervise their con- sumption during critical months pre- ceding the new harvest.
 James stiIIman, former president of the National City Bank, New York, has increased by $1o0,O0O his contribution to the American clearing house for re- lief of French war victims in Paris.
 The Republicans are in full control of the Rhode Island general assembly, which convened in biennial session Tuesday. On a joint ballot they will outnumber the Democrats by ma jority of 109 votes.
 The Commercial block, a three story wooden structure on Main street, Palmer Mass, containing several stores and offices, and a small fruit store adjoining were burned. The loss was estimated at S4O.O00.
 Gold bars to the amout of S2oOO, ,ooo were withdrawn from the New York Assay Office. The operation is de- scribed as a. transfer and the identity of the parties concerned has not been disclosed.
 Word was received at Asheville, N. C., of the destruction by dynamite of the monument on Mount Mitchell, erected 26 years ago in memory of Prof. Elisha Mitchell, for whom the mountain was named.
 The corporation tax of $64es on the property of Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater, widow of Horatio Nelson Slater, a