Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-23

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 Two women were suffocated in a fire which burned out three story wooden building containing stores and tenements in Winchester, \. II.
 Ones man was suffocated and three others were injured during a fire that partly destroyed the home of Dr- Ma than Blumberg at Philadelphia.
 The American steamship l. LLucll- enbach, which left Boston January 27, with a cargo of cotton and wool for Bremen has arrived at the latter port.
 A round of official entertainments are being arranged by the state depart ment in honor of pr. Juan Carlos Blanco, Uruaguayan minister of pub lie works.
 The first counterfeit of the Federal reserve note has appeared. It is a 8 bank, printed from poorly executed ! etched plates.
 The coining mill of the American Powder company blew LID at Acton. Mass, killing David SpIaine. an enl- ploye and causing a loss to the com pany of S6,G0o.
 A decree prohibiting the exportation of copper, copper wire, driving belts and leather for belts is expected to he promulgated immediately by the Meth erlands government.
 In view of the pressure of the Eu- ropean situation, the United States has postponed for a few days a decision on what it's policy should be in connection with the negotiations.
 Jobs for one hundred men on farms near Chicago are going begging. The farmers are offeing transporl lation and ; in some cases board, but the men re- i fuse to go to the farms. 1 Swiss manufacturers are facing 9 l serious problem growing out of the : congestion of traffic at Genoa Eight hundred thousand bales of cotton are piled on the wharves of the Italian | port.
 Germany and Austria, through their l ambassadors here, complained to the
 State department that aubarines were being built in the United States for i Great Britain and shipped in parts to i Canada.
 Governor 5eeoknan of Rhode Island
 announced that he would stop gambl- ing in Rhode Island. if it existed. at
 any cost He said he would go to the
 legislature if necessary, to obtain as-
 sistance.
 ! The Arkansas House of Represer t. atives by q vote of 56 to 26 defeated a ! bil which would have allowed Little Rock voters 10 decide whether base ; ball games should be permitted Sunday i afternoon.
 Locomotive sparks caused sixty per i cent of the fires on national forest i purchase areas in the White Noun tains of New England and the South- ern Appalachians in 1914, according to the forest service.
 Gold holdings of the Federal Reserve banks decreased about S75O0, ,000 dur legal tender notes, silver certificates and subsidiary coin increased a little more than that amount.
 Repeal of the old Spanish war tas,
 on mixed corn and wheat flour is be- ing advocated in congress as one means of increasing the breadstun ! supply and checking the increasing prices of wheat flour and bread
 Byron B. Johnson. who was first mayor in 1875, of WaItham. Mass died of heart failure, aged S1 years. He
 was counsel of the Watch and Ward society for many years and served for
 a time as United States marshal i Washington State College still is leading the field in the race for the college rife shooting championship of ! the country though closely pressed by Iowa state and Michigan and
 Massachusetts Agricultural college.
 The Standard Home Company. a Birmingham, Ala. loan organization which did business in many states and it's three chief officials were found guilty in the Federal court for using
 the mails to defraud. Sentences will be announced later.
 Fire early yesterday did over SIO0.- 900 damage to the Troy Store, a dry goods department house on Fourth and Pleasant streets at Fall River, Osborne in the same building suffered considerable damage.
 The Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania de- Icided to omit it's annual dinner on Washigton's birthday and instead sent
 d check for S40O to Ambassador Jus
 serand for the relief of wounded and disabled Belgian soldiers.
 ne second anniversary or of Francisco Medero and Jose Peno Suarez. the former president and vice president of Mexico. respectively, was ! observed al Vera Cruz officially yes tcrday with impressive ceremonies. | All business was suspended.
 Funeral services for the late Judge William NJ. kavanaugh, president of the Southern Baseball Association, will be held from the family residence at Little Rock. Ark, this afternoon. Both houses of the Arkansas legislature to- day voted to attend in body. Fifty five unguarded prisoners from the Federal military prison at Fort Leayeuxortl, came into town on on an electric ear, formed in line headed by a band, marched to a theatre where they gave 3. minstrel performa nee and returned to the prison with not a man missing. 1 Attorneys for Leo M Frank sem