Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-12

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Nearly 10000 Germans from Italy
crossed the Swiss frontier Saturday
and Sunday.
Six lines have been made fast to the
submarine F-4 81 the bottom of Hon
olulu harbor.
Auxiliary Bishop Patrick J. Hayes
of New York confirmed a class of fifty
inmates in Sing Sing prison.
John Owen, only letter carrier in the
country who was a graduate of Har-
ward college, died in Boston. aged 73.
Secretary McAdoo expects to be
back at his desk soon after an illness
of several weeks following an opera
ton.
Five persons were burned to death,
and two seriously injured in a fire that
destroyed a tenement house in Pitts
burgh.
Employing 1900 men, who work in
eight-hour shift, the Du Pont Powder
mills at Haskell, N. J., are running "a
hours a day.
The Boston Opera company which
produced grand opera in Boston for
six seasons, filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy.
At the War Department in Wash
ington, reports that General Wood had
been ordered to Washington We're en-
phatically denied.
A contract for the construction of a
big building at Eddystone, Pa, to cost
about $5O0,00O was let by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works.
Two hundred Indiana High School
students arrived at Culver, Ind, for a
Culver Military Academy.
Samuel D. Erwin, a war time rail-
road conductor, famous for aiding
many slaves to escape fro mthe South,
died in Philadelphia, aged so.
Ninety persons have cancelled pas
sage on the White Star liner Cymric,
scheduled to leave for Liverpool Fri
day. She flies the British flag.
Jay Gould, champion court tennis
player of the world, was arraigned in
Yorkville court for permitting his au-
tomobiIe to smoke. He was fined IS.
An unprecedented rush for this time
of the year, by tourists who wish to
sail under the American flag, was re-
ported by the American Steamship
Line.
Franklin D. Stafford, convicted of
perjury because of his testimony Civ
en- in the Rae Tanner case, was SEN
fenced to nine months imprisonment
and fined 81.
Three masked men gagged three en-
NIL of Mnnn1n1ITh Electric =
in the car barns at Shrewsbury, n. j.,
and blew open the safe, escaping with
more than 500.
Earl Fisher of Rockville Center, n.
Y, died as a result of a fractured
skull sustained when the rim and tire
of his auto exploded as he was pump
ing up the tire.
Governor Whitman signed the Mills
bill, designed to provide for the temp
orary assignment of three additional
magistrates to the New York Court of
Special Sessions.
Professor Edgar S. Brightman of Ne
appointed a committee to represent the
city in receiving subscriptions for the
relief of those left destitute by the
sinking of the Lusitania.
As a result of renewed attacks on
on avenging the sinking of the Lusi-
tania, Victoria, British Columbia, was
placed under martial law.
Governor HoIconb signed bill Ut
which concerns the making and trans
mission of electricity and repeals the
present law which permits makers of
current to sell to their neighbors.
Leo M. Frank was resentenced at At
I H.
%. for the murder of Mary Phagan.
In an address to the court, he again
declared that he is innocent.
Declaring that he would get even
with all mayors and city officials, an
n. J., city hall and ran breaking win
dows right and left until arrested.
Helen Palmer, 19 years old, of No.
5S1 Sion street jumped from the fourth
story window of the Hartford Ma
chine Screw company factory and is
in a serious condition at st. Francis
hospital
Lieut.. C. M. Cook, in command of
the submarine E-2, jumped from the
deck of his vessel in full uniform and
| rescued John Miranda and Gould Mi
randa, both II. whose canoe had over
turned, as they were viewing the fleet
in the Hudson.
Rumors that "Jack the Ripper"
| had slain several children in Brook
| lyn, and two at Astoria, L. L, led
more than $500 excited parents to
storm four schools in Brooklyn and
one at Astoria to learn if their chill
dren were safe.
Contributions amounting to 500 0ooo
collected in the United States for the
Belgian Red Cross went down with
the Lusitania- Nine Marie De Page,
wife of DR.. Antoine De Page, medical
director of the Belgian Red Cross, who
had it in charge, was lost.
Announcement was made of the
resignation of Professor Durant Drake,
head of the department of ethics and
philosophy of religion at Wesleyan
University. His successor will be
Proessor Edgar S. Brightman of Ne
braska Wesleyan University.
General A. G. L. D'Amade, one of
the French heroes of the war, was
summoned back to France on a gov
ernment mission. His post as conn
mander of the French forces on the