Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
oaI ,cuaiOn Largest in Connecticut Proportion to CNs Population
Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams
 Charleston, 8. C. had its first snow- fall in two years.
 The Bank of England shipped 10000 pounds in sovereigns to America
 King Peter of servia is on his way to Rome as the guest of the italian | government.
 President Rea of the PennsyIvania Railroad returned to active duty at his | office in Philadelphia.
 The National Bank of Cuba, in New York, has received S1,OOO,0O0 in | French gold from Cuba.
 William Stewart and Samuel Bland, | two negroes, accused of murder, were lynched at Eastman, Ga.
 Spain is in the market for s2O. .OoO.- 900 worth of war munitions. and mu- milton making machinery.
 The Hungarian Parliament voted to extend the limit for obligatory mil itary service from 45 to, 55 years.
 A bill imposing tax on war pro- fits in Germany passed second and third reading in the German Retchstag.
 w. H. Taft still is suffering from throat trouble and has been advised by a physician to refrain from using his voice.
 Henry Ford's departure from Chris tania with his peace party for Stock holm, was postponed, owing to Fords illness.
 Settlement of the threatened strike of f.09J switchmen employed by the railroads entering Chicago has been announced.
 srigadier- General Levi Robbins Bernard, who served through the Civ il War, died at Newark, \. J. He was S7 years old.
 The Central Trust Co.,, of New York is distri ibuting Christmas bonuses to the employees of 50 per cent. of their yearly salary.
 Officials Of the Illinois Traction sys- tenn at Bloomington. H., granted an increase in wages of about 10 per cent. to all employees.
 An order for 5000 tons of steel rails and fittings, to cost $2,5O0,O0O, was re- CeIyed from the French government by the Maryland Steel Co.  The British treasury advanceI 200. = 0OC,OO pounds to British firms to enable them to meet their obligations during 1 the early days of the war. The steamer Kroonland, of the l Panama-Pacific Line from san Fran l cisco to London, arrived at Rio de JaneirO after being relocated. A report from Archangel, Russia, | states that the French packet Bre- | tagne was wrecked when she struck an iceberg in the White Sea. Gov. Whitman granted a two-weeks' | respite to Anton Ponton, a Porto Ri can, sentenced to be electrocuted at Sing Sing this week for murder.
 John Dale, aged 64, a New York ! banker, was injured when he fell while 1 descending the stairway at the en- trance to the Wall street subway sta tion-
 /! The Bank of Cuba in New York de- Clared a bonus of 10 per cent. of the 1 yearly salary to it's employees and S2O.-
 900 was put aside for the pension fund
 Two youths. Elmer Chamberlain and David Coleman, of Lynn. Mass, were found in Philadelphia. They said that they had been without food for three days.
 The Wisconsin republican state cen tral committee met at Milwaukee and selected 26 tentative delegates to the
 national convention in Chicago next
 June.
 The directors of the Pennsylvania company. which operates Pennsylva-
 mia railroad lines west of Pittsburg, declared a semi-annual dividend of 1 per cent.
 Mrs. Asquith, wife of the British Premier. was granted an injunction
 in London to prevent the London
 Globe" from further publication of H-
 bels against her The State Department at Wash ington has made another protest , against the presence of British cruisers off New York and other American ports
 William M. Cole. Of Haekensaok, N J.. was awarded S3.OOO in his sui l against the Pennsylvania Railroad fol the loss of his eye in an accident 1T the machine shops.
 Twenty delegates from Costa Rica Bolivia. Peru and Chile arrived il New York on the steamer Metapan |,
 attend the 6cond Pan-American Con g. ess at Washington. s A manifesto to the people of tn, 2 country was issued over the signaturt !. of a score of leading English banker
 and finanCiers on the subject of tn lcOuntry's financial position. Gen. Christian De Wet, one of tn leaders of the South African uprisint ! against Great Britain in 1914, convict
 ed of treason, was released from pris
 on, with 1lS other prisoners. pr. Maxim Bey, a leader of tn l Young Turks, announced on his arriv ! al at Berlin that Turkey has plent , of food supplies and cotton that cal s he sent to Germany, necessary.