Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-05

a deSpaCCn from ouIOn says S,0UO
parcel post packages from Germany
were seized aboard various ships by
allied cruisers last week.
Many of the rs cases pending before
the Supl eme court are expected to be
decided when the court resumes ses-
Sions today after a two weeks recess
devoted to writing opinions.
Former Senator Nelson w. Aldrich
of Rhode Island led brigade at
fire which destroyed buildings on his
Warwick estate worth 100000.
Another effort for the enactment of
a workmen's compensation law will be
made at the next session of Con-
gress by Senator Sutherland Of Utah.
Officials of the Washington Zoo say
there is a big shortage in the supply
of wild animals of all kinds owing to
the interruption of shipping due to the
war.
The report that F. D. Underwood,
president of the Erie, had been ope1 at
ed upon for appendicitis is an error.
The operation was minor one and
successful.
According to reports made by Sec
retary Redfeld at a meeting of the
Cabinet, business conditions through
out the country show a steady inn
provement.
Norbert Wiener, aged 10, was ap-
pointed by special vote of the Harry
ard faculty to lecture on "The Theory
of knowledge" to Harvard students
next year.
were at work in the old Todd mill sol
lapsed. Captain O'Neill sustained
broken arm. Three firemen were sent
to a hospital.
The qunboat Machias was order
ed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
Vera Cruz to fill the demand for
another light draft vessel on the Mex
lean east coast.
rived at New York in ballast after
long and stormy passage, during
which she lost her propeller and drift
ed for four days.
Suffrage advocates in Washington
have agreed to plant big beds of yell
| low flowers in their yards this year
to show all passersby that they favor
votes for women.
Imports of dry goods at New York
for the week ended last Saturday were
vious week and s2,S08,534 for the cor
responding week of last year.
Robert Smith, who killed Mrs Grace
Steinhauser in Saginaw, Mich, was
| captured, tried and convicted and
| began to serve his life imprisonment
all within space of "a hours.
The receipts for duties at the Gus
| tom House were $257, 7,266.09, of which
A g.
| drawn from bonded warehouses and
| $138,975 for recent importations.
Physicians will amputate the right
| leg of DR.. WilkS O'NeiIl, mayor of
| Bergenfield, N. J., whose left leg was
taken off above the knee a few months
ago. Blood poisoning is the cause.
Theodore F. Shonts, president of the
New York Railways Co., has written
| to Commissioner of Health Goldwater
protesting against the order, against
overcrowding on the Lexington Ave
nue. trolley line.
Four packages of Jewels, valued at
| $486,517 will be admitted free of duty
at the port of San Francisco. They
! are to be displayed at the Panama
Pacific Exposition by the Legion of
Honor of France.
| When the Fall River liner Plymouth
arrived at Fall River, from New York
it was learned that r. Eaton Alden, of
| Newark, N. J., was missing and had
probably committed suicide during the
trip up the Sound.
Dwight e. Hewitt, an eccentric
| farmer of Weston, Conn.,, having pre-
| monition Of death, dug his grave and
| ordered his tombstone. When inter-
ment was attempted it was found
that the grave was eight inches too
short
Because after a White House visit.
| Secretary General Applaud, of the
Paris Temps" cabled to France a
| purported interview with President
Wilson on the war situation, the Pres
ident will receive no more foreign
journalists.
| According to despatch to the Der
| lin Lokal Anzeigcr from Beirut, Syria,
| a Catholic priest named Yusef Elhait
has been sentenced to death by hang
| ing for sending letter to the presi-
| dent of the French chamber of deputies
| regarding the situation In Lebanon.
Jacob Horowitz, who was arrested
in Brooklyn because he refused to
| leave trolley car when the conductor
| found there were too many passengers
to comply with Board Of Heaith's
order against overcrowding. was held
| for trial in Special Session.
| President Wilson's invitation to the
countries of Central and South Amer-
Ifca to participate in the PSn-Amer-
icon financial conference beginning
here May IA was formally accepted
by Argentina. The acceptance of
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