Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-17
Condensed TeIegrams

The Anchor liner comeronia arrived | safely at Liverpool.
 The New York Cotton Exchange will be closed Good Friday.
 Over 1000 lives were lost in Penn sylvania coal mines during 1914.
 A dividend of $3 a share was de- clared by the Ahmeek Mining Co.
 Cotton exports during February were almost twice those of February last year.
 Linseed oil prices were advanced 2 cents a gallon by the American Lin seed Co.
 Twenty-Five ministers in Scotland organized a Ministers Corps for Home Defense.
 The Dar Department let contract for 66 moving picture machines for use in the army. German banks at ConstantinopIe are reported to be shipping gold in large quantities to Berlin. The Delaware and Raritan Canal was opened to navigation from Borden 1 town to Trenton, N. J. A cut of five cents a barrel in all l grades of Pennsylvania oil was an- nounced in Pittsburgh. Shipping of cattle for slaughter at | eastern ponts was resumed at the Chi cago Union Stockyards.
 Orders for 100 steel flat cars were received at the Altoona, Pa, shops of l Damn cU1Ua nj aiIrna6 In order to lower prices, the Aus | tralian Government proposes to na- tionalize the bread industry. The steamer Lintrose, left St. Johns | New Brunswick, to take the place of the Earl Gray as ice breaker in the i White Sea.
 Mrs. Samuel kimbIin and her young their home at Casey, Ill.,, was destroy ed by fire.
 Over $4o,ooo,ooo of the new German war loan was authorized by banking | institutions in neutral countries and | private individuals. LIoyds in London are doing business | at 25 per cent to insure against an advance in taxes of petrol, tobacco and | tea in the next budget.
 Six persons were injured when the 1 gasoline tank of jitney bus ex- 1 ploded while preparing for a trip from Relay to Baltimore, Md. II Charles Baldwin, engineer, was kill Il ed, and the railroad station partly wrecked when the Dixie Flyer left 1 the rails at Shelburn, Ind.
  A forty-four pound turtle with the
 engraving q come from Noahs Ark ,. Don't disturb my wanderings," on it's shell, was caught at Clinton, Cal. Maurice MaeterIinck, the Belgian au- thor, attempting to stir up sentiment
 in favor of the Allies throughout Italy,
 criticised the Vatican for neutral at
 titude.
 II Frederick Zerbst, deputy warden of the Leavenworth Federal Peniten- tiary, was appointed warden of the Atlanta penitentiary. succeeding Warden Mover. !, Virtually all of the grain seized by the Germans in Antwerp has been , shipped to Germany, according to de- pendable information reaching Lon-
 don.
 l Lord Kitchener declared in the House of Lords that legislation al } lowing the Government to take over ! factories in Great Britain is an i'm } perative necessity" Official denial has been made by the Brazilian government of the report :. printed by newspapers that negotia- l tions are under way for floating a loaI of $15, ,000 in New York. l Commissioner Charles c. McChorc
 was elected chairman of the Interstate } Commerce Commission, succeeding Commissioner James S. Harlan, the
 chairman changing every year. Ten skilled machinists are being added to the force employed at the
 torpedo factory at Newport, R. l., each 1 week. There are seven hundred an6 fifty civilians on the payroll today.
 Governor Fielder of New Jersey is. sued a statement that he is opposed , to the Stevens bill to place the op-
 eration of the full crew law in the
 hands of the Public Utility Commis- ; sionerS.
 Two storehouses owned by the
 Blackstone Stocking. company at Gen. tral Falls, R. l., were destroyed by fire. The buildings were filled witf manufactured goods ready for ship ment
 , wireless message received at St Johns, N. F., brought word that eight