Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-14

ihe-Sf' raul. FaltFoad increased It's capital stock from S223,1So,0o0 to s3oe,-
 100000.
 A biscuit factory, 12 houses and a
 big oil tank in MerXem, a. suburb, were
 destroyed by fire.
 Ir1 the last few weeks British orders
 placed in Canada, aggregate between
 s25,Go0,0oO and s3o,0O0,O00,
 The oeesno. an Italian freight
 Island, New York harbor. The production of coal from A1ichi-
 gan in 1914 amounted to about the
 same as in 1913, 1,281,7S6 short tons.
 A total of i'll vessels of sss. .sso
 gross tons have been granted AIneri-
 can registry under the emergency ship registry act.
 Norway has decided it will be i'm possible for 1t to send a Warship to take part in the naval ceremonies at the opening of the Panama Canal One hundred strikers against Con sumers Chemical Co, of Roosevelt, N. J., returned to work when the com pany announced a, wage of $2 a day. Ten thousand barrels of flour pur- chased by the Rockefeller Foundation
 were shipped from Louisville, Ky. to Norfolk for relief work in Belgium. The Controller of the Currency has received an application to organize the Hartman National Bank of Alas ka, at Seward, with capital of $25,00O. An advance of 20 cents q barrel brings flour in the Portland. Ore. mar ket to $6.6d or 9 cents above the highest previous price of January, 1910.
 The two cigar factories of the Dies eI-W emner Co., Lima. Ohio, employ 1 ing 1000 men and women, were re- opened after a shutdown of one month.
 A charter has been issued to the ] Bankers Farm Mortgage Co, of Dov- 1 CT, Del, with a capital of S1, ,000,0 900 to | deal in mortgages, bonds and other se- ! curlties.
 Martin B. eIennan and Joseph 1 Glennon, brothers, aged about 46, were 6uHocated d in tenement house at | Portland, Me.
 Many German towns are issuing 1 special loans for the purpose of sup porting the families of soldiers at the front Dresden has issued enc for { $75O,oo0.
 ], A large lighter laden with 500 tons ! of granite blocks. and with no one on l beard DI - ioIse from US n2Oorings ] at the Ne" Nahsnt breakwater yes ! terday and drifted swiftly to sea ] Several prominent clubs Of London are facing bankruptcy as a result of { the war, the membership having fall
 en off and few members are spending any thing.
 i "I just heard about them movies and l the grub at Sing SiEg and just want l ed to break in,' said Joseph Edwin. ! when arrested for holding up a woman ! in New York.
 1 Seventeen automobile arbuIances ! Tor use in the war zone have D er bought by the American Red Cross <. with money contributed by Yale and Harvard students.
 ! Governor Oakley c. Curtis of { Maine announced the appointment oe i his son. Ersar A. Curtis of Pohtla1I ] 1 as an aid-de-camp on his staff with 1 the rank Of major.
 Felix Vadenais, under arrest oharo- ! ed with the murder of Joseph S. Gold 1 berg, at Manchaug, Mass. Decent, I,,.r. ! 2l, was discharged in the district 1 'ourt ata Worce ster.
 Two women were sIfaFtlv injured 1 by rear end collision of electric cars l in the new Boylston Street subway at l Boston, yesterday. Traffic was deia,-. i Cd for a short time.
 Five of the smaller silk firms in Pat- i erson, N. J., have been forced ito l bankruptcy during the past three | weeks because of conditions arising from the European war. 1 The Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Com mission has received inquiries from 1 Bordeaux, France, for 5000 tons Of l steel bars, 1000 tons of refined lead
 and 1000 tons of copper.
 Bakers and retailers of Toledo, O.. have decided to cut one ounce from each loaf of bread and charge one i cent more q loaf, because of the ad- vance in the price Of flour.
 The police of Paterson, N. j., are l searching for burglars who sawed l through electrically charged iron at | the W. II. Mills store and escaped with hardware worth $1,0O0.
 The passengers and crew of the Peninsular x Oriental steamship Nile, wrecked on q reef in the Inland Sea- 1 Japan, arrived at Kobe on the Fuku- ! Ju Mal'u. No lives were lost. The establishment of more state scholarships in existing institutions instead of the founding of state uni , Versity was recommended in the an- nual rerQrt of the Massachusetts State ! Board Of education.
 The highest tide since 1eo8 swept ! the state boulevard and forced the Nahant Street Railway Co. at Lynn Mass, to suspend operations more than a mile Of its tracks being 1 foot under Waater.
 The New Hampshire house passed a resolution urging congress to. use every legal means ito recover mil lions alleged to have been Wrongfully diverted from New England railroads through deals carried through during the past few years"
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