Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-24


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 Engineers in all but one of the inn portant shipyards of the Clyde went | on strike.
 The safe in the Citizens State Bank at FarmersbUrg, Ind, was blown open | by burglars who escaped with S5,OOO.
 The Norwegian freight steamer Cuba, London for Rotterdam, was sunk in collision in the North Sea f
 The Peruvian Government will inn port flour from the United States and sell it at cost price to reduce the cost of bread.
 The German Ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von El1hardt. accompanied by his suite, arrived at Galveston from Vera Cruz
 A firm of Berlin bankers presented to the German Crown Prince a com pletely equipped hospital train of thirty-siX cars.
 A limited traffic in cattle, the first since the imposition of the Federal quarantine began at the East Buffalo live stock yards.
 Such free press as this nation now has should meyer have been born. is the expressed opinion of Senator Fletcher of Florida.
 Major Thomas Dougherty, said to have been the first public school teacher in Colorado, died at Allen town, Pa., aged 78.
 A pair of lambs born in the sheep fold at Central Park on Washingtons birthday were named Martha and George Washington.
 Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian. organized band of pipers to tour Scotland and the north of England to stimulate recruiting.
 The British bark Hougomont, float ed at Fire Island Beach, where she stranded February 6, was lowed into New York harbor for repairs. George Lehraier, a wealthy Amer ican engineer, lost his suit against the Hotel Cecil in London for damages owing to his objection for noisy be- haviour.
 1 Charles R. Crane, wealthy manu- ] facturer of Chicago, will change his i legal residence to Woods Hole Mass. ! to escape the tax laws of the State of | Illinois.
 For the first time in the history of the prison, Sing Sings baseball team will be allowed to play outside teams this summer, all games to be played | 'at home"'
 Carl Lang, an old time burglar. was 1 shot and killed by a policeman as he was fleeing from greenhouse at Richmond Iiiu, N. T., with carnations valued at s.
 High Masonic dignitaries gathered 1 at Alexandria, Va, to attend the fifth annual convention of the George Washington National Masonic Me
 The engineer H. E. Maxwell, was killed, a mail clerk fatally injured and eight passengers hurt when a Chica- go Great Western train was wrecked at Talmadge, Iowa.
 John H. Williams, who claimed he i fired the shot that killed the Con 1 federate General Albert $. Johnson at the battle of Shiloh. died at his home in Mount Carmel, III. ..
 Women of Orange, N. j., started a weeks jubilee to celebrate the pass age by the New Jersey State Senate of the bill submitting to the voters the question of equal suffrage.
 The United Fruit steamship Santa l Marta, which lost her rudder in a heavy blow off wireless that she was proceeding for this port in tow of the Merritt-Chapman steamer Rescue.
 John Fitch of Windsor. Conn, and not Robert Fulton invented the steam boat, according to Representa- tive Lonergan of Connecticut, who spoke on the subject in the House County law officers throughout Ala bama are warning property owners | that billboards or other sign adver- 1 tisements of whislley are in violation of the new anti-iquor advertising law.
 Beaten back by continuous gales, steamer St. Paul came into New York harbor. So high were the waves when she left Liverpool, that she could not put off her pilot.
 The advance in transatlantic freight rates on deals since the be- I ginning of the war reached a new i high record of 13O shillings, a standard ! on shipments from St. Johns, New Brunswick, to England.
 The factions of the Daughters of Il the American Revolution are organ izing their forces for a contest ir April. when a successor to Mrs. Will jam Cummings Story as President General will be elected. Il Sheriff Conway of Marion County, | W. Va, appealed to Governor Hatfield for militia to queIl disturbances in the miners strike at Pennington, where d thousand strikers attacked a sherifs posse, injuring five men, one fatally.
 The Tipperary cocktail has made it's T appearance in Atlantic City, its com | ponents are things Irish and other | things not Irish, but nevertheless gree. As a fitting climax its inventor answers to the name of Jake Erpen- beck
 Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President made her distribution to the District of nColumbia "Donatio Week. in the shape of punches of Flowers from the White House con- servatories which were sold in the | Hobbies of theatres.