Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-06

cticut in Proportion to Il
Condensed kilograms
The Belgian Relief Fund totals ST.
012,508
Governor Whitman Of New York has
signed 200 bills.
King Christian of Denmark is re-
covering from an operation.
The annual parade Of the New York
police will take place April "a.
State land valued at $3,ooo,ooo will
be sold this month by South Dakota
The submarine Ia was launched at
Quincy, Mass, at the third attempt.
No relief has yet been decided upon
for the cruiser Tennessee at Alexandra,
Egypt.
Magnolia Hotel, at Pass Christian,
Miss, was destroyed by fire at a loss
Of S50,00O.
A bill introduced in the New York
senate pTOV1O0S 1OI pdITOl"Oul0n 1OT
New York City.
All motor manufacturing plants in
Scotland were taken possession Of by
the British Government.
The San Francisco Press Club dedi-
Gated it's official quarters at the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition.
Casimir-Perier, son Of a former
President Of France, was killed at the
front, it was announced in Paris.
Rowboats and small launches were
used to carry passengers through the
streets of Norfolk, Va, owing to high
tides.
Five American Army officers, attach
ed to the German army in the capac-
fty of observers, were ordered to re-
turn home.
The largest of the ships of the New
return to their ports, because Of the
danger from ice foes.
3. F. Finn, the original ''Huckle-
berry Finn" Of Mark Twain's books,
celebrated his Goth birthday at his
ranch near Portland, Ore.
Contracts for 100000 pounds of
meats and lards have been made by
the Commission for Relief of Belgium
within the last few days.
According to story from Sarasota,
Fla, 1,100 pound shark that had to
be landed with a mule team was
caught by a fishing party.
Despite the danger from submarines
and mines, more ships entered and
left RntfaICaro la vUaak
previous week during the war.
The scout cruiser Chester at the
Boston Navy Yard was ordered to the
Mediterranean to relieve the cruiser
North Carolina, now at Beirut, Asia
Minor.
Pope Benedict has founded a ma
| t1onal institution to be known as the
Good Press, to oppose anti-clerical and
sectarian press opposed to Cotholic-
| ism.
Discouraged because he was out of
work during Easter Week, Charles
| Scallen, a florist, committed suicide
with gas in his furnished room in New
| York
Beginning today, the British Home
Office will enforce the regulation pro-
| hibiting unauthorized persons from
| carrying written messages or letters
| to and from England.
Curtis Guild, former Governor of
Massachusetts, and former ambassador
to Russia, who was stricken with
pneumonia last Friday at Boston, was
reported to be dangerously i'll.
| American Red Cross surgeons and
nurses who have been working in the
| hospitals in Serbia and Germany re-
turned on the steamer Cretic arriving
at Boston from Mediterranean ports.
Attorney General Gregory will name
an attorney from the Department OF
Justice to represent Tse- -Ne-Gat and
other Piute Indians who recently sur
rendered to General Scott in Utah.
Il In anticipation of receiving a large
/ order for munitions to be placed in the
i United States by the Allies, the Unit
/ ed Steel Corporation is planning tc
enlarge the Crucible Steel Co. plant
at Harrison, KY.
i David S. Crater, aged sixty nine
Secretary of State of New Jersey
dropped dead in Cortland Street nea1
Broadway, New York, as he was or
his way to a train to go to his home
in Freehold, N. J.
i Seven thousand employees of the
Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.
at Yonkers, N. Y, were notified thai
beginning Thursday the mills will
close days a week, Indefinitely, be-
cause of lack of dyes
i Because of the damage done BY
white ants the wooden partitions an6
floors of the administration buildins
} of the State Agricultural college a.
Manhattan, Kan, will be torn out an6
4 cement f1oorss and walls substituted.
John z. Connors, barber, was ar.
rested at Gardner, Me-, on the charg
of murder and bound over to the su.
perior court. He is alleged to have
killed James Callaghan, a young man
who was shot Saturday night, as h.
passed Connors' shop on Water street
Movements OF Steamships.