Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-10

at Salem was eliminated in favor of a motion picture play.
 Three men entorbed in the Ayrshire
 coal mine near Oakland City, Ind, on
 Sunday, were found dead, having
 been crushed by a fall of slate.
 Abdul Hannid the second, the Sick
 Man of Europe" escaped from prison
 where he was confined since 1909, ac-
 cording to dispatch from Bucharest.
 The Sheepshead Bay Speedway
 Corporation, capital $2,500. 900 was
 chartered at Albany. The corporation
 motordome.
 Arthur J. Morgan, owner of the Edge Hill coal mine near Bellaire, O.,
 announced his acceptance of the union
 wage scale and ordered 125 miners
 back to work.
 Suffrasists and anti suffraests
 crowded the Rhode Island state-house
 for a public hearing on a bill to grant
 women the right to vote for presiden-
 tial electors.
 Marshall Field, heir to one of the greatest American fortunes, is serious ly i'll of typhoid fever on his house.
 boat in Florida where he is spending IA1S 1IO41Cy
 Ezra S. Stearns, for 12 years Sec
 retary of State of New Hampshire and for five years a member of the
 legislature of that state, died at Fitchburg, Mass.
 The Supreme Court formally grant | ed the application. of the State of Vir- ginia for permission to sue J. F. Nor gan for the return of the will of Mar that Washington.
 Following an increase in New York
 smelter quotations of $2O a ton, a State investigation of an alleged smelter trust was begun at Joplin, Mo-, at the request of mine owners The easterIy section of Groveland. Mass, was threatened by fire, which destroyed two barns and set fire to eight buildings, including the Congre- gational church and Merrimack school.
 A decision in favor of New York was handed down by the Supreme Court in the suit of the Ramapo Water Go. to enjoin the City of New York from completing it's Catskil Mountain water system.
 Tobacco planters in the Paducah, | Ky, region, who have been terrorized by night riders, received letters threatening them with punishment if they sold crops for less than eight cents pound.
 A four story wooden block on Main | street, Marlboro, Mass, owned by | the United Brother Lodge of Masons l and occupied by small business firms, | sustained a loss of $25,0O0 by fire, | smoke and water.
 Brig.- Gen. Scott, Chief Of Staff of the army, began a 120-mile overland | journey from Denver into desert | country in Southeastern Utah in
 dian wanted for murder Wm. AIIaire Shortt, one time sec retary of the New York Democratic | state committee and known as an ex- 1 pert in constitutional law, died at his | home in Staten Island. MT. Shortt | was born in Florence, Mass, in 1859. Attorney General AttwiIl of Massa- chusetts, declared that a bill pending in the legislature to prohibit school boards. from making inquiry regard ing the religious beliefs of teachers | seeking positions was unconstitutional.
 The three year fight between the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
 and the Western Union Telegraph company over right of way privileges | reached climax in a test presented to the supreme court in oral argu- ments.
 Unable to speak in any of the Princeton University buildings be-
 cause of the opposition of President
 Hibben and the faculty. Billy Sunday delivered an address to students of | Princeton Theological Seminary in a church.
 Thomas H. Ryan was arrested at
 Salem, Mass, charged with the ab- duction of Susan Talent, IA years of age, in Boston last week. Ryan, the l police say, admitted his identity but ! denied charges that had been made