Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-29
Snow fell in Aroostook County. n

Reports of serious rioting in the
| northern part of the Malay Peninsu-
| la We're received at Toxic.
An organized Anglo Italian demon
| stration took place in front of the
Italian embassy in London.
A bill limiting the work-day of wo-
men to nine hours was defeated in
the lower house of the Illinois Legis-
lature.
Engine trouble, believed to be slight,
developed on the destroyer Gushing at
the close of her official trials off
Rockland, Me.
District Attorney Perkins declared
that no confession that Charles
Becker can make will save him from
the electric chair.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark is
sued formal notification of their neu-
trality in the war between Italy and
the Teuton allies.
About 200 relatives and friends at
tended memorial services for Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt at the home of
his mother in New York.
DR.. WaltoIe Brewer with seventeen
nurses from the American Red Cross
unit at Genoa will leave today for vi
emma, by way of Switzerland.
Hundreds of tourists are at the
Swiss border towns in the hope of
seeing the expected clash between the
Italian and Austrian armmies.
Congressman John r. Walker of VAL
dosta, Ga, is a patient at a BaIti-
more hospital where he is expected
to undergo a surgical operation.
The twenty six cases of beri beri
aboard the British freighter Dewa
from Cienfuegos, We're removed to
Hoffman Island and the ship fumigat-.
ed.
The War Department approved the
national militia boards recommended
ton for 200-yeard ranges for prmoo-
tion of rife practice among state mi,
litias.
Thousands of foreign born miners in
the Pittsburgh mining section have al
ready left to join the colors and about
5000 more men are expected to leave
within a few weeks.
Mrs. Julius p. Dodge, one of a party
of Washington autoistS travelling over
the Lincoln Highway to San Francis
co, was instantly killed when the auto
overturned near East Liverpool, Ohio.
Mayor and Mrs. Mitchell at the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition are pleading
for a curtailment of plans for their
entertainment, as they are unable to
go to all of the functions arranged
for them.
A report from Dublin states that
Lance Corporal O'Leary, one of the
best known of the winners of the
Victoria Cross in the war. was killed
in action during the last battle on the
western front.
The Master Cotton Spinners' Asso-
citation announced in Manchester.
return to work before June z, the
mills will be closed, locking out 14O,-
900 operatives.
The entire first and second classes
at the naval academy at Annapolis
underwent a examination in Span
ish because of suspicious the test
questions had been stolen and used
by some midshipmen.
No criminal charge is to be made
against Miss Bertha Kreider, a mid
dle-aged woman who placed a chloro-
formed pad over the face of her dy-
ing 73year old mother in a Philadel-
phia hospital to end her suffering.
John Haywood, just out of prison
for selling Central Park to a credulous
farmer for $120, was arrested on a
charge of working a coin matching
swindle on Arthur W. HawIey, of
Richmond, Va, to the extent of 5000.
In an address in Los Angeles, Sen
ator Works declared that the United
States should place an embargo on the
expectation of war munitions to the
Allies while England maintains a
blockade of Germany against Ameri-
can goods.
Rear Admiral Moore asked the Navy
Department to allow the cruiser
Maryland to remain at HonluIu at
present to take back to the United
States the bodies of the officers and
men of the submarine F-4, which is
expected to be raised soon.