Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-21

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Senior Don Jose Pardo was re-elect-
ed president of Peru.
orrin Curry of Red Bank, N. j., cell
ebrated his Tooth birthday.
Governor Whitman cut $4,000 from
the adjutant-generaPs appropriation.
All reserve officers Of the Bulgarian
army were called to the colors for
months training.
Gen. Thomas n. Hubbard, fiinancier
and railroad man, died at his home in
New York aged n.
France will requistion all stocks of
wheat in the republic at a uniform
price of $3.50 per 100 lbs.
Diplomatic interests of Switzerland
in China will be cared for hereafter
by the American Minister at Peking.
Dr.. Felix AguiIar reported from La
Plata, Argentine, the discovery of
comet visible through a small tele-
scope.
Three manufacturing concerns were
burned out in a fire that did $4,000
damage at No. 113 West 9th Street,
New York.
Herbert Thomas, an American, died
in Margate, France of wounds receiv-
ed while serving with the Canadian
contingent.
The Rev. Sr. Robert J. FIoody, who
originated the plan of garden city
work for boys and girls, died in Wor-
cester Mass.
Hundreds of delegates attended the
opening of the eighth annual conven-
ton of the Northern Baptist Conven-
tion in Los Angeles.
Miss Harriet A. Graham was retired
on pension by the Pittsburgh Board
of Education after having taught for
So years in the local schools.
SaItiIIo capital of the Mexican state
of Coahuila, was captured by Carranza
forces Monday. according to persons
arriving at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Beginning next Saturday the 1927
convicts in the West Virginia peniten-
tiary will enjoy a Saturday half -holi-
day during the summer months
The Norwegian steamer Anita, which
stranded on North Caicos Island on
December 19, was refoated and taken
to Grand Turk Island for repairs.
Mayor Mitchell and party returned to
Cody, Wyoming, and the journey to
San Francisco was resumed. The
Mayor was not successful in bagging
a bear.
After an uneventfuI voyage, the Ital-
ian Line steamer Stampalia arrived at
New York from Palermo with 1922
passengers and a large amount of
freight.
Commander McNamee of the cruiser
Sacramento, at Tampico, Mexico, re-
ported the drowning while in bathing,
of Lee Ora Eek second class qaurter-
master.
The total catch of the Newfoundland
seal fishery season just closed is es-
timated at 1884. Last years catch
was 223,76S Adverse ice conditions
caused the loss.
With women voting on the question,
residents of South Orange, N j. re-
jected a proposition of the Board of
Education to issue 3,4O0 bonds for
two school sites.
Leo Shapiro, 1e, of the Bronx, was
| arrested in connection with the theft
of jewelry valued at $500 from the
apartment of Mrs. Raymond McCune
in West 10th Street.
Following the discovery of a small
blaze in Public School No. New
York, the fire gong was sounded and
1000 boys and girls marched from
the building in order
Edward j. King, fugitive cashier of
| the Dugger, Ind, State Bank, who
disappeared leaving an alleged short
age of $4,000 in his accounts, sur
rendered in Sanborn, Ind.
Mrs. Catherine S. Rogers, defending
a divorce suit brought by Ernest r.
Rogers, testified she first left her hus-
band because he refused to serve tur-
key on their first New Years Eve.
The Rev. w. McF. Alexander of
of the Southern Presbyterian church
at the opening session of the denomi-
nations annual assembly at Newport
News, Va.,.
The strike of coal miners in the
"Black Country" in England became
serious when it became known that
| many other industries are threatened
with forced suspension because of the
| lack of coal.