Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-05
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 R. c. Ronne of Fredericksburg, Texy butchered a Tamworth hog that weigh ed more than 500 pounds.
 Thomas A. Edison, predicted that 1915 will be a most prosperous year for manufacturing in this country.
 The Kaiser has been advised by his to undergo an operation at once for catarrh of the throat.
 New York coroners must go. says Commissioner of Accounts Leonard NJ Wallstein, in 8, report to Mayor Mitch
 Montgomery Wright of Kentucky Marshal of the United tSates Supreme Court since 1888, died after long ill., ness
 Mrs Donald Albright, of Duchess Junction, New York. hiccoughed to death after a fit that lasted eighteen hours.
 construction of the placements TOT coast defence batteries at Fort Arthur, on Point Firmin, Los Angeles Harbor, has begun.
 The Mexico Petroleum Co. has plans under way for a reinforced concrete oil plant to be constructed at Mariners Harbor, $. l., at a cost of S1,500,000
 The Bureau of Immigration reported Q of inn l. grants arriving in this country during the five months of the European war.
 Dr.. Frits B. Talbot, of Boston, an- noUnced that he has discovered a method to cure children of asthma by inOculatinS them with whites of eggs.
 Several wealthy New York business men including Percy Rockefeller and Commodore George Lanier, Jr., are to run a newspaper in Greenwich, Conn.
 The United States District court of Philadelphia handed down an opinion, refusing the governments petition to dissolve the Keystone Watch Case Co. Bedding, Pa, recently received a check from the Canadian Government for services rendered by him in Nova Scotia in 1866.
 Shipments of cotton to Mexico, held up for. several weeks on notice from Vera Cruz that no freight for interior points would be accepted there, will be resumed next week.
 The Anti Saloon League of New York State will attempt to get the Legislature to pass a bill requiring hat all advertisements on alcoholic Beverages be labelled poison.
 The appointment Of women as mem bers of the Board of Education and Board of Health of New Brunswick. N. J., was a feature of fthe fornra- tion of governing bodies for 1915
 Never in the history of the fruit trade was grapefruit as cheap as it is today. The best can be bought in New York for S2 Q. box. The average is about sixty grapefruit to the bix.
 Among passengers sailing from New York on the Santonio next Friday will be Mary Roberts Rinchart. the writeG on her way to the war front as a nurse She will write articles on the war
 Production of petroleum in the Unit cd States in 1914 was greater than ever before, according to preliminary figures by the geological survey, the output being estimated at 292,000.000 barrels.
 Three men were arraigned in York vile court, suspected of having been involved in thefts of silk from the firm of Theodore Piedermann Ss Sons of New York, during the last three months.
 Charles p. Sumner, General Agent, of the Cunard Line in the United States took over the management of the Anchor Line on the retirement of William Coverly after fifty years of service.
 It was announced that $1o.o0o had been obtained for the American hos pital in Paris at the Fifty Fifty and sale which closed recently at the studio of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New York.
 N. Parker Shortidge, the oldest di- rector of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co, died at his home in Wynnewood. a slight cold, which developed into pneumonia
 The NeversIip Manufacturing Co.,. of New Brunswick, N. J., will start night and day forces to work continuously contract for the Russian Government for horseshoe caIks.
 John Edward Schuyler, twice sen fenced to be hanged in California for murder, has returned to his former nome, at Vernoy, N. J., under a license to be at liberty, granted by the Cali fornia Pardon Board.
 Gilos W. EasterbrooIee began his sixth year as mayor of Pawtucket. R l. In his inaugural message he re- comments a bond issue of 1000. 900 to meet the expense of eliminating the grade crossings in the city.
 A bill to prohibit the serving of in toxicatinS liquors to minors on Amer tcan vessels in waters within the fur isdiction of the United States was passed yesterday by the house It would impose fine of $500 for viola tions.
 The youngest noncomnissioned of ficer in the French army is Marcel Vernier, 13. He followed the artillery as kitchen helper at the opening of the war and learned to ride a horse and was quickly promoted to be g, cor