Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-01

w. E. Andrews, of Hastings, Neb., auditor of the Treasury since 1897. re- signed.
 The MiddIesex, Mass, county grand jury is investigating the sale of li- quors at Harvard clubs.
 Billy Sunday will speak before the N. J., next Tuesday morning.
 Governor Fielder called a special session of the New Jersey Legislature to convene at noon next Monday.
 The nnatron stakes, worth s9,OOO. a classic event of the Grand Circuit, will be raced at Grand Rapids this year.
 President Wilson promised to at tend, if possible, a meeting of the Brith Abraham in Philadelphia, May g and 10.
 The Bank of Warsaw, (N. VI closed its doors, after pressing demands of a number of creditors forced 1t into bankruptcy.
 After 10 years work and the @ex- penditure of $4,S50,0OO, the Dallesceli- Ii Canal at Big Eddy, Ore, was open ed to navigation.
 Charles H. (Pop) Baker, known as the oldest circus man in the world, died in the county infirmary at To- ledo, Ohio, aged 79.
 Three new buiIdines of the Medical School of Washington University were dedicated at St. Louis with elaborate ceremonies.
 Between fifty and sixty persons were injured, several perhaps fatally, when fUvn 4 frio met head on near Fremont, O.
 Borne on the wind for 40 miles, ash- es from Lassen Peak, continued to fall at Cottonwood, Cal, after a heavy precipitation lasting 24 hours.
 Frank CarIan, aged 22, and John Vanner, 20, both of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., were drowned in the Hudson off there when their canoe upset.
 Randolph Lowe, a wealthy resident of Pasasic, N. J., was fined and sen fenced to 30 days in jail for driving an automobile while intoxicated.
 The Wisconsin Senate voted to over- ride the Governors veto of the Boss- hard Anti-tipping bill, passing it for a second time by a vote of 20 to 10.
 For the first time in two years, the
 
 Hamilton and Dayton Railroad em- ploying 400 men will work a full month.
 The German government has given permission to reopen the race tracks without the operation of betting ma, chimes.
 Miss Martha kIeiner, aged p, died at Adams, Mass. from blood poisoning which resulted from the bite of a baby whom she was attending, three weeks ago.
 Oscar Parchnan, former star half back on the University of Arkansas self at the home of his parents, Van Buren, Ark.
 Eli E. Gregory, president of the de- funct Central City Deposit Bank, of Central City, Ky, was indicted and jailed for forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses
 Amended so that it shall not apply to stolen bonds, the Ohio Senate pass ed bill to provide for the reissue by the State or political sub- divisions of bonds lost or destroyed. A delegation of 800 suffraefsts called on Senator O'Gorman and asked him for his support for the Susan B. An thony amendment to remove from the ballot the qualification of sex. The Dutch steamship WouTdrichen from Rotterdam and St. MichaeIs, ar rived at New York with a wooden funnel, made to replace her original one that was washed overheard. The German Government ordered the l bestowa1 of an Iron Cross on Lieut. George Ritter von Trapp, commander | of the Austrian submarine Us, that sunk the French cruiser Leon Gam betta-
 Capt. Henry Clay Pierey, president of the H. c. & I. Piercy Contracting Co.,, of New York, was appointed a member of the International Jury of l Award for the Panama Pacific Ex- | position.
 The new class of officers and men to be designated for instruction in aeronautics at the Navy AeronauticaI | Station at Penascola, Fla, will be de- tailed about July 1, Secretary Daniels announced.
 Secretary McAdoo received at letter from the Boston Chamber of Com merce formally inviting the delegates from Central and South America to the an-American financial conference to visit Boston early in June. Minister Van Rappard, of the Meth | erlands informed Secretary Bryan that his government and China are negotiating an arbitration treaty which contains a provision naming the President of the United States as um- pire.
 l The high tension wires of the Con- | necticut Power company'S plant To- cated at Falls Village Conn, were put out of commission by a severe storm and the effect of the interruption was felt in Thomaston, Bristol and Tor rington.