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Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
NOW WILLING TO
 TALK COMPROMISE
Germany Ready to Abandon Blockade If Allies Permit Shipment of Food
 stuff to Non-C -CombatantS

population of Germany were remov- ed Otherwise, the note announced, Germany proposed to put into effect the original proclamation, adding also that it was strewing mines in the waters surrounding Great Britain and Ireland.
 The state department instructed Ambassador Page to submit to the British foreign office the official evi- dence given by the owners of the American steamer Wilhelmina to prove that her cargo consists of food stuffs consigned to non-combatants, and is not subject to seizure. The suggestion was made that unless Great Britain produced sufficient grounds. not yet advanced, for doing otherwise, that the ship be permitted to at once proceed with its cargo to its destination.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
-O-------- URGES WHEAT EMBARGO

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15- President Wilson received letter from Mayor Mitchell of New York urging an embargo on the exporta- ton Of wheat to check the rise in the prices of bread and flour. The p-esi- dent previously has taken the stand that congress alone can declare an embargo. Representative Farr of Pennsylvania has bill pending in the house for that purpose.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
TRADE OPPORTUNITY

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15.- President Wilson received a cable gram from the American consulate at Milan saying: Italy needs one mil lion tons of coal, three hundred thou sand tons of steel, and hundreds ot tons of American goods" That Am ericans get this entire trade perman- ently, he begs the government tc furnish ships.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
CHIEF CLERK OF CLAIMS AGENT
 MURDERED
By Associated Press.

%ASoSOAoNSA
 SEATTLE, Feb. Is. - Richard Imento, laborer, entered the office of A. NJ. Lee, assistant general claims agent of the Northern Pacific rail road, shot and killed Charles Dryden Lees chief clerk and shot and prob ably fatally wounded R. E. Patton, a clerk in nearby office, who was at tracted by the shots. Imento, also known as Nicholas Kelomenen, was probably fatally shot by the police.
 The shooting followed Dryden's re- fusal to give Imento fifty cents. I'm ento was cornered in an office build ing across the street and shot in a battle with the police.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

DETROIT, Feb. 15.-The Ameri- cay Ceramic Society, which aims to strengthen the ceramic industries by cooperation, opened its seventeenth annual meeting here today with a large attendance. During the three days of the convention there will be numerous papers and addresses deal ing with various problems of the clay industry, enameling, etc.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
QUAKE ZONE OF ITALY AGAIN
 TREMBLING
ONE INJURED AND SIX ARE KILLED BY COLLAPSE OF HOUSE; BELFRY OF CON- VENT FALLS
By Associated Press.

ROME, Feb. 15.-Renewed earth quake shocks occurred today in parts of the central Italy district, which suffered shocks several weeks ago. One person was killed and six were injured in the collapse of a house at Mazhano. At Sinibaldi the belfry of the Santa Marie convent fell upon several houses burying ten persons. Cittaducale was entirely wrcked and at Veroli several houses were render ed uninhabitabie.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
CARNIVAL AT PENSACOLA

PENSACOLA, Fla, Feb. 15-With the formal entry of King Priscus and his court the annual Mardi Gras car nival in Pensacola was inaugurated today. The city is profusely decor ated and the streets are thronged with hundreds of visitors, among whom are many tourists from the north.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
FOOD IS RUSHED ID RELIEF OF
 MANUANS
By Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Is. - Eighty tons of food-stuffs for the re- lief of the starving natives of Manua island, in American Samoa, which was swept by terrific gale recently, were rushed aboard the steamer Sonoma at Mare Island navy yards on orders from Washington. The Sonoma sails tomorrow and will reach the islands the beginning of March.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
STICK TO SHIP BILL

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.- A democratic caucus of the house at 2:30 o'clock this morning committed itself to the administration compro- mise ship purchase bill by vote of 154 to %. No record vote was taken.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
AUTOMOBILE SHOW

OMAHA, Feb. 15.-The tenth an nual Omaha Automobile show, which opened in the Coliseum today for a weeks engagement, is a record breaking exhibition in many respects.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
Last Russian Is
 Out Of Bukowino
By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. Is. - A private dispatch from the Austro- Hungary foreign office to the em- bassy here announced the complete evacuation of Bukowina by the Rus Sians.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
PLACES BAN ON PRODUCTS OF
 CHILD LABOR
By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15.- The Palmer bill to bar the products of child labor from interstate com merce was passed by the house to- night by a vote of 232 to A after a lively debate and the issuance of a writ for the arrest of absentees to suppress a flibuster. The bill now goes to the senate.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
Report Denied.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. IS. - The German embassy tonight author ized denial of the report that Am bassador Von Bernstorff has been summoned to Berlin or is contemplat- ing leaving the United States for any purpose.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-Close: May wheat --1.5911, corn SO1S, oats 61.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
Won Bernstorff
 Is Called Home
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 LONDON, Feb. 15.-An Amstcr- dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph gives a rumon from Berlin that graph gives a rumor from Berlin that ambassador to the United States, has been summoned to Berlin.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
Probing Into The
 High Of Dying
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IS. - A probe into the high cost of dying was begun today by the law and leg islative committee of the San Fran cisco labor council The investiga- tion was instituted by officials who declared the cost of burying members had increased 100 per cent in the last ten years.
 
 COPPER NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-Electro- lytic, $l462A to $1487H.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
DISASTROUS BATTLE

LONDON, Feb. l5.-It is unoffi-
 cially announced from Berlin that Field Marshal Von Hindenberg's third battle in East Prussia is likely to prove more disastrous to the Rus sians than the others. Forty thou sand Russians are reported to have been captured, and Prussia, it is now said. has been cleared of the invaders.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
SILVER

NEW YORK, Feb. Is. - Silver, 481lc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
A HEAVY BURDEN
A Bad Back Makes Life Miserable For
 Many Norwich People,

A bad back is a heavy burden.
 A burden at night when bedtime comes.
 Just as bothersome in the morning.
 Ever try Doan's Kidney Pills for it?
 Know they are for kidney back ache-and for other kidney ills?
 If you don't, some Norwich people do.
 Read a case of it:
 John Connen, s2 Forest St. Nor wich, says: T strained my back and my kidneys were affected. Nothing helped me until procured Deans Kidney Pills at N. D. Sevin & Sons Drug Store. They acted like charm and I have had no kidney trouble since"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for kidney remedy-gei Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that MT. Connen had. -Milburn Co. Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
Washington County, R. I.
STAFFORD
Miss Edith Crskman to Lecture on Kindergarten Work-Business Mems Social.

Miss Margaret Glovers of Boston was the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. r. J. Glover, over Sunday.
 Carl w. Lasbury expects to be the owner of a new automobile April l. Mrs. Rena St. Mary and infant son returned to the home of MT, and Mrs. Edgar St. Mary yesterday from the Johnson hospital.
 Miss Mildred Webster is making good recovery after an operation for appendicitis performed in the Massa- chusetts Homeopathic hospital re- gently.
 Mrs. Emily Thompson is i'll at her home with pneumonia She is being cared for by Mrs. L. Fisher. Her son, Rev. George Thompson Of Laconia, N. H., came Monday.
 Public Lecture.
 Miss Edith Cushman of the Springs is to give a public illustrated talk on Kindergarten Work in the Sunday School room of the Universalist church today Saturday, at 3 p. m.
 Special Meetings.
 Special meetings are being held at the Baptist church this week. Dr. A B. Coats, superintendent of mission speaking each night.
 The monthly social of the Stafford Business Mems association was held at the club rooms Friday evening Lynch's orchestra furnished the mu- sic.
 A party of eight last Friday evening attended the presentation of Cram berry Corners, by the Piedmont Dramatic society.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
RICHMOND

Everett R. Moore called recently on John T. Wilcox and sister.
 Ralph and Fannie Moore called on MT. and Mrs Samuel Reynolds We'd negday.
 Walter R. Durfee of Providence spent Sunday and Monday with Rob- ert E. Moore and family.
 The social hop at Henry W. Whit ford's in Willow Valley Saturday night was a success. People from Hope Valley, Wyoming, West Exeter and Arcadia attended.
 Amy s. Weaver, who has been i'll, Is improved.
 MT. and Mrs. Edwin Smith and fam fly called on, Mrs. Everett R. Moore Sunday. also Joseph Dunn and Joseph Woodmansee
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Some Forms of Rheumatism Durable
 Rheumatism is a disease character ized by pains in the joints and in the muscles. The most common forms are: Acute and chronic rheumatism rheumatic headaches, sciatic rheuma- tism and lu1nbago. All of these types can be helped absolutely by applying some good lininent that penetrates. An application of Sloan's Liniment two or three times a day to the affected part will give instant relief. Sloan's Eminent is good for pain and espe- ctally rheumatic pain, because it pene- trates to the seat of the trouble, soothes the afflicted part and draws the pain. "Sloan's Liniment is all med icine." Get a 25c bottle now. Keep it handy in case of emergency.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
NEW LONDON AUTOPURCHASE HAL TED
Agreement Advisaby of Motor Fire Apparatus, but Deadlock Over Type-Taken to the Court-Annual Re port of Common Council Comes Five Months Late.

no occasion for even the slightest com. Plaint. With the exception of SIS ex- pended for the retreading of one of the tires, the apparatus has not cost the city one cent for repairs and has been out Of commission only twenty five minutes in twenty-five months of ac- tive service, an average of one minute month. And it a machine duplicate to this one, and as fully guaranteed, that the mayor Is restrained from pur- chasing, just to satisfy the whim of a member of the fire committee, who persists in having 8 SeagraVes ma chine. It Is specified in the specified tions and contract of the American La equipmenh required by the city will be furnished or anything else that is within reason will be furnished in the way of equipment In cities where these machines have been put to the service test orders have been dupli- -cated, but the injunction would indi- cate entry into the experimental game.
 Among the many immortal sayings of an old-time gentleman named thing like this: Better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not off, which is supplemented by some other chap of the long ago in the homely but truthful phrase that it is bad time to trade horses in
 
 be made applicable to the New Lon don situation. Alderman Gragan is a man of character and intelligence and probably has what he considers good cause for swearing out the injunction from his standpoint, but he, nor any alderman, or any other man in the city of New London, can truthfully say that the appartus protested against has not stood the test of hard service yes the hardest kind of service for over two years and has made a record that cannot be excelled by any other fire apparatus manufactured. There fore, the apparent serious opposition of the alderman, as indicated by the injunction, is puzzling to even his most intimate friends. He is earnest in his opposition and is drumming up his fellow members in the council to stand with him and against the mayor in this particular matter, regardless of the true merits of the case.
 After nearly five months of watch fuI waiting that interesting city doc ument with the long title, made its appearance this week, bearing these words on the title page and a repro auction of the city seal and with 1914 Reports of the City Treasurer and Several Departments to the Court of Common Council of the City of New London. Connecticut, for the Year Ending October 6, 1914, with Dedica- tion of Municipal Building" The pub lication can now be classed almost as
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
ROCKVILLE

Rev. W. G. Thomas of Hope Valley preached in the S. D. B. church here Saturday.
 S. A. Greene, Mrs. W. G. Thomas, Miss Ethel M. Kenyon and Miss Eunice Lynch all of Hope Valley, at tended church here Saturday.
 Miss Elsie Charnley has been i'll with gripp the past week.
 Miss Elmer E. Kenyon was taken suddenly i'll Friday.
 J. P. Greene who has been laid up with rheumatism is so much improved as to be working again
 Mrs. Emory c. Kenyon has returned home from visit with relatives in Putnam and other places in Connecti- cut.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
USQUEPAUGH

Mrs. W. B. Wilcox of Norwich Town, Conn, spent several days last week with her father, A W. Kenyon, who Is very i'll.
 Miss Mary A. Sherman of Waite's Corner is visiting Mrs. B. B. Ken yon.
 Mrs. B. L. Simmons has gone to work at one of the state institutions as an attendant
 The supper that was to be held Fri day evening. of this week, was post poned.
 Mrs. Hattie Holgate has gone to Waites Corner. to care for Mrs. Sher- man. mother of Mrs. Arnold Knowles
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

the cost. The potash is in them. It Is in them in inexhaustible quantities. But 1t Is so chemically combined with other elements that the cost of sepa- prohibittve just now. This does not mean that it will always be prohibi- tive.
 We can all remember when alum mum was about as precious a metal as gold. The world is full of 1t. It con- stitutes the base of many rock for1na- tions; every clay-bed is a mine of it's ore. But for years no way was known to tear 1t away from its combinations, except by costly laboratory processes, involving so much power and evolving such microscopical results that the commercial production of the metal was regarded, as quite impracticable. Nevertheless chemists and metallurg- ists kept banging away at the problem, till now it can be and is being made cheaply and plentifully enough for use in kitchen utensils.
 There's no reason to doubt that the same thing may happen with our i'm me.se deposits of potash-bearing has seen aluminium so cheapened that, instead of being regarded as a semi precious metal, it is used to make stew-pans of, why may not the next turned into potash cheaply enough so we can use them for fertilizer?
 For the immediate future, however, the Pacific kelp beds are likely to be drawn on in annually increasing amount.
 Perhaps even the Atlantic kelps may come into demand. They are, however, less plentiful than those on the other shore, smaller in size, and much poorer in potash content. Ton for ton the Pacific kelps analyze about thirty per cent richer in potash than any others yet discovered. This does not mean than any others that may
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Where there is smoke there is of course some fire, but there is more smoke than fire in the apparent nlixup over the purchase of a motor-d driven city service truck for the Hook and Ladder company in which Alderman Thomas F. Gragan, member of the fire committee and foreman of the company named has sworn out an in- junction restraining the mayor and a part of the committee from contract ing for the purchase of a truck of the American LaFTance make, as Alder man Gragan prefers truck of the Seagraves type. As injunction pro- ceedings is a court matter discussion of that phase of the situation would not be well timed just at present. Mayor Mahan fayors an American La France machine because he knows, that an apparatus of that type has been in active service in New London for over two years and has given per feet satisfaction and is even better than the builders guaranteed and is therefore averse to experimenting at the expense of the people, What the machine has done in New London 1t has done in every city where located and there are nearly a thousand ma chimes of the same kind in active use in the United States. Just what re- suit the injunction will have in deter mining the selection of the machine remains to be seen.
 In this connection the record of the triple action American LaFrance ap- paratus which is assigned to the Mi agara company will be of special in terest. The machine arrived in New London February 8, 1913, on a Satur- day afternoon, and was unloaded the following Monday. It was given se- were pumping tests two days later, and went into commission February 27, 1913, having in the meantime been subjected to road tests and instruction to drivers. Since then the apparatus has responded to S4 bell alarms and 138 still alarms within the city limits, and responded to out of town calls by order of the chief engineer nine times as follows: To Waterford twice, to East Lyme four times and once each to MontViIIe, Groton and Lyme. Since being in commission the apparatus has travelled S74 miles. the pumps have been worked 59 1-2 hours, which means the equivalent of 40 miles of travel an hour, making practically a total amount of distance travelled 325S miles. In some of the out-of- town runs the apparatus has been driven over roads that were in almost impossible condition, and required to be backed down steep inclines to get water. and subjected to unusually rough useage, yet without the slight est trouble in running, operation or pumping.
 All calls have been responded to without any delay and there has been
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
HOPKINTON
Brush Fire Burns Over Number of Aeres-St. Patrick's Night Social Meatinu.

A heavy brush fire was started Sum- day on the Tanner land, just north of Hopkinton City by some unknown means and burned through to the state road crossing the road for a short dis tance. Several acres of sprout land were burned over. This was one of several similar fires in different di- rections. The aggregate damage is considerable, though no buildings have been destroyed as the result of such fes.
 The community social was held at the home of A1onzo P. Kenyon Wed nesday evening, St. Patrick's day.
 Frank W. Mills has returned from South Kingstown and East Greenwich and resumed work in Westerly.
 Miss Edna Summers is with her grandmother in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
HAIR COMING OUT2

Dandruff causes a feverish irritation of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, Ioos- en and then the hair comes out fast To stop falling hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruIf, get 8 25-cent bottle of Dandarine at any drug store, pour a little in your hand and rub 1t into the scalp. After few applications the hair stops com ing out and you can't find any dai1druff
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Cwrftten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Two or three weeks ago, talking over the potash situation in this coun- try, I expressed belief that, if Uncle Sam couldn't get his usual supply from Kaiser Bill, somo sharp-eyed Yankee with brains behind his face would hunt up a supply of our own, right in our own door-yard, so to speak
 It's a great comfort to lots of us old 'uns to say 'T telrd ye so"! Let me quote from The N. Y. Times of March
 Tn New York last week 10000 tons of American potash made from sea- weed were sold at a price which was the same as that of the German potash salts during normal times"
 In other words, that Yankee spirit wrote of was at work long before l wrote, and Its first fruits are already on their way to the land.
 Of course. 10000 tons won't go far towards filling a demand which nor mally amounts to 5000 tons a day. But it helps some. More important that yet, it is the forerunner Of hun dreds of thousands of tons to come. Most important of all, 1t marks the or greed of a foreign monopoly. It is the beginning of new declaration of independence
 This particular shipment came from the Pacific coast. Years ago the ex- ports of the department of agriculture, employed to hunt down possible sources of supply for our domestic fer tiEzer needs in our own borders. dis covered that there was a practically everlasting supply of potash in the giant kelp beds of the Pacific coast, extending all the way from Point Ioma, near the Mexican border, to Puget Sounnd on the extreme north. 1t seems that a peculiar variety known as giant bladder kelp" is in- digenous to the waters of that shore. It grows in submarine groves cover ing beds varying from a fraction of an acre to areas five miles long and two miles wide. Fifty tons of the weed as gathered wet, afford five tons of a dried and processed product averaging twenty per cent Of potash, to say nothing of other things. The bulk of the potash imported from Germany before we were shut off there con- sisted of "kainit, analyZtng twelve and half per cent of potash. The other eighty-seven and half per cent was dirt and useless to the soil. Not only Is the seaweed product richer in actual potash content than the Ger man ealts, but the residue, instead of being inert waste, Is a vegetable humus in the soil which is almost as desirable as actual fertilizer.
 In 1910 and 1911 the departments surveyors traced out and mapped about a hundred square miles of the thing more than a preliminary pros pecting. They didn't pretend to cover all the actual beds nor even a large fraction of them They just went far was ample for all we could use in de-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
A Fine Advancement.

"The daily ration of Japanese soldier consists Of three little bags of rice and one Of dried fuit." Fine ar rangement. The rioe keeps him alive and the prunes keep him angry enough to lick his weight in wiIdca4s.-Louis- vile Courier-Journa1.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

her propeller and the vibration of the ship mightl oosen the earth and start another slide. Because of the danger of the slides it is not thought the United States battleships will 20 through the canal for several months.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
New Cuban Coinage.

A new coinage issue has been au- thorized in Cuba, with a gold peso of l,671S grammes G,5046 grammes flne) will be the 20. 10. 5, 4, 2 and 1-peso pieces, the 20. 10 and 5-peso pieces being of the same weight and value as the corresponding United States gold coins. The silver pieces will be the 1peso, 40, 20 and 10-cents, and the nickel coins, ,, 2 and 1-cent The coinage of gold is to be unlimited, but the silver minted is not to exceed the value of 12,000,00O pesos. The amount of nickel coined is to be determined by the national executive.