Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-02

of her husband. Frank Burns of Not 1 tingham on December 26 in the superb
 o rcourt.
 l Chicagoans spend a garter of a mil 1 lion dollars for food and drink while welcoming in the New Year, according i to estimates Of leading cafe and hotel i owners.
 Wallace Davis, 12 years old, of Mel 1 rose. Mass, died from injuries receiv- l ed while coasting. The boy was
 thrown from his sled and sustained fractured skull.
 A suit, charging the National stock yards of East St. Louis with being a | trust in restraint of trade, was field in the circuit court by the Attorney
 General of Illinois.
 The collier Wagana, which left 1 Boston in ballast for Louisburg, c. B., returned to Boston leaking having struck a ledge off Cape Sable during
 thick fog Tuesday.
 Frank L. Staples, former judge of i the Bath, Me, Municipal Court and prominent in legal circles throughout | the state, is dead. He was born at
 ToPsham 48 years ago.
 The biennial American chimpfonship i checker tournament will be held in l Chicago, opening January il. Sixty 1 contenders from all parts of the coun-
 try are expected to compete. 1 Congressional action to vest the president with power to prohibit ex- port of war supplies was urged before
 the House foreign affairs committee l by Representative Towner of Illinois. Mayor Mitchell of New York is | sued POP all-night licenses for the eel i e5ration of New Years eve Every 1 reputable restaurant applying and re- 1 ceiving the concentration of the police
 was given license.
 With decks awash and rnasts car
 ried away, the schooner Warren l Adams, from Charleston, for Phila- delphia, abandoned Sunday off Cape Hatteras, was brought into Newport News by the revenue cutter Itasca.
 immigration through the port of 1 New York for 1914 fell off to the ex- 1 tent of 601, 40 persons or 45 per cent | as compared with 1913, according to | ngpres compiled by the commissioner
 of immigration and made public yes l terday.
 spryos Sarandakas Of Lowell, Mass, was held for the grand jury without [ S5
 wife Athena under $10.O00 bonds as an l accessory before the fact in connec- 1 tion with the death of Nicholas Psih-
 ramas.
 1 This years apple crop was the larg- 1 est ever produced in the United States
 Estimates announced by the depart ment of agriculture placed the 1914 yield at 259,0O0,0O0 bushels, of 114.0OO, = 600 bushels more than was produced last year.
 Homer A. Rodsheaver, the Evange- ! lishc singer, announced at Pfttsbrre h Pa. that he had settled for money | consideration the $50,000 breach of
 promise action brought against him by Miss Georgia Jay, a Chicago setn- ] ographer.
 Although the European war has enormously increased the volume of l food products exported by the United l States in the last few months the level 1 of prices of meat animals in this 1 country has declined as compared
 with prices a year ago.
 The Folk Tunnel through the Pyr- 1 enees has been pierced. It is part of a
 new line of railroad communication 1 between Paris and Barcelona by way ! of Toulouse. The last link in this line from Aix-les-T -Thermes to Ripon. Spain.
 is now in course of construction.
 Richard Stewart, 2f colored, claim | ing Boston as his home was arrested l at New Bedford, charged with sauIt upon Mrs. Louise Smith, 75, in her nome. The woman was struck three times on the head with 6 hatchet lock ed in room unconscious, and her house was then ransacked. Mayor Mitchell of New York an- 1 nounced that he expected to confer shortly with Major General T.eonaT,f7 Wood, commanding officer of inc East ern department Of the United States army as. to the advisability of intro ducing system of military trainins-
 in New York's high schools.
 Commander Omar of the cruiser North Carolina cabled the navy de- partment news of the death of .Tobn Pug1lese Of Fall River. Mass, coal
 passer. and Thomas ?. Ryan of B,,ffa-
 10, fireman, st Beirut, Syria, Dec. 26. The men were drowned while swim
 Beirut, 'od A' The trial bsfore general coprt laaTJlaI nj rJ at the Philadelphia navy yard of Captain Albert P. NibIack. corn mandet: of the battieship Michigan. to
 place the responsibility, if any. for the grounding of the big warsFip off
 Hampton Roads during a storm in the latter part of November has been con cludeG. As practically every officer and saa- mtIi on board the steamer DaItorhaII IS q r1aident Of West Hartlepool. Eng
 they were greatly alarmed when fbsy
 learned for the first time upon their s-lI1V.sl l., rom Fowoy, Eng, that Hartle- pool and other towns on the east 600 e+ Of England, had been bombarded bv German cgUissEE N@ ''