Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-18

To date Prussian losses during the war in killed wounded and captured, total 1,050,029.
 A four story, brick block in Her kimer, N. Y, was destroyed by fire at a loss of $10O,O0O.
 Five hundred Italian reserVists sail ed from New York on the White Star liner Canopic for Naples.
 By vote of 26 to 30, the New Jersey Senate defeated the first of the Morriss Canal abandonment bills. call off his conferences at Albany and return to the Executive Mansion.
 Distribution of bread by the ticket system, already in use in Berlin, will be introduced in Vienna after March 28.
 Two women were killed, third fat ally burned, and many others hurt in fire in a Los Angeles apartment house.
 Lord Bradbourne, a Iieuteant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in ac- tion while serving with his regiment in France.
 Governor Whitman, Cardinal Farley and other prominent men reviewed the St. Patrick's Day parade up Fifth Ave nue, New York.
 Until further notice, the Treasury Department will issue no. war risks on vessels bound for the belIigerent European countries.
 A permit was issued to the Penn sylvania Railroad by the Chicago City Engineer for the beginning of work on the new Union depot.
 In spite of storm of protests, the Jockey Club of Great Britain decided to continue racing throughout England for the coming season. There are now no German members ofthe French Academy of Science, the last four members having their names stricken from the list. The exportation of Prussiate acid of soda from Canada was prohibited, eX- cept under special license from the Department of Customs. l According to statement of the British Admiralty, 166 English mer- | chant ships were interned, captured or OCoIA Oy CO uEJ lO N1CI Cu 1U Many large vessels of various lines are tied up at Seattle as a result of a boycott by union longshoremen | against the Royal Mail Line. The third disastrous fire at Quincy, H., within week destroyed three plants at a loss of S15O,O0O; three quarters, of which was insured.
 Ten officers and 2s men of the | steamer Dacia, seized by the French, were returned to the United States | on the French liner Rochembeau Application to organize the Lumber mems and Northwestern National Bank, of Portland, Ore, was approved by the Controller of the Currency The Chicago Association Q of Com 1 merce received a cable inquiry from | Montevideo for 224,0OO pounds of iron the first ever received from there. ] A parliamentary report on the | Italian earthquake of January 13 gives l the number of deaths reported to the | Italian Government thus far as 2997S l Edward Seyfert, a farmer and his wife were found dead hanging from a beam in their barn at Reading, Pa They are believed to have committed | suicide.
 Count Carl Benradotte, nephew ot 1 King Gustave of Sweden was married in Stockholm to the daughter o1 Baron LeGeers colonel of the Kings 1 Horse Guards.
 Nicholas BogoiavIensky, Russian 1 conSuI-general at cattle, ordered Ru- sian reservists in Washington, Oregon I 1rvner IoI Russia and join the colors. Witnesses in the Terre Haute cleo ton fraud case testified that dead mems names were placed on regis | tration books, and many persons were l registerede from vacant lots
 William Laurence Breese, a prom | inent New Yorker, who became 6 uoM pue 4oefqns usI4Ia pezHeInleu a commission in the Royal Horse | Guards, was killed in action. | Four hundred and eighteen horses part of a shipment destined for the
 German army, were placed under quarantine at Dunwoodie, N. r., be- cause of foot-and-mouth disease.
 The Woodbury shoe factory at Der
 by N. H., owned for two years by a l citizens assication was burned to the | ground, throwing 400 workers out o1
 employment and entailing a loss ot | $75,000.
 Two anniversaries, those of the 1 evacuation of Boston by the British troops in the Revolutionary war ano I the birth of St. Patrick, were cele-
 brated at Boston under wintry condi- | tlonS yesterday.
 A sub committee of the Public Ser. | vice Commissions of New Hampshire | and Massachusetts and the Public | Utilities Commissio nof Maine com.
 pleted it's draft of the Boston & Maine reorganization bill
 A bill compelling the use of fire sig.
 nals in all factories over two stories
 in height and employing 25 or more
 hands was favorably reported in the Massachusetts senate by the legisla. tive committee on labor. President Wilson continued consider. ing means to settle the Ohio coa strike. Former Governor Cox anl Senator Pomerene called on the presi dent, but said the strike situation hal not been discussed.