Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-03

Frank T. BuIIen, the lecturer and l author of many stories of the sea, died died at Madeira.
 An interim dividend of 21a per cent. was declared by the British American Tobacco Company.
 St. Anthony's Roman Catholic church Staten Island, was destroyed by fire at a loss of $15,oo0.
 Nearly 5000 men began work on plant at Michigan City, Ind.
 Two young girls were killed and another fatally injured in a grade crossing accident near Kokomo, Ind
 For the first time since 1s47, the population of Ireland showed an in- crease last year. The gain was 13 900.
 The winter just ending was one of the mildest in the 42 years that the Boston official weather reports have been kept.
 Pig iron production in the United States during 1914 was the smallest since 1908. There were 23,322, PA tons produced.
 The Conomo Hotel and four cottag- es at Conomo Point summer resort on Ipswich Bay, were burned with a loss of $20,0OO.
 In session at Hartford less than two hours yesterday, the supreme court adjourned without day after one of the shortest sessions on record.
 Eight inspectors of the reorganized Massachusetts State Board of Health, seven of whom served under the old board, were appointed yesterday.
 American Sheet & Tin Plate Co.,, sheet mill at Farrell, Pa, is operating at full capacity this week, for the first time in nearly two years.
 About 75 motor ambuIances bought by English women and girls are be- ing made ready for service at the front by the British Red Cross.
 The Secretary of Agriculture re- leased more than 2S,00O square miles of territory in several southern states from the Texas fever quarantine
 bill was introduced in the Tex as Legislature providing that corpo- rations convicted of violating the an thrust laws may re-ente rthe state
 Many fIocks of quail, seen at Corn ing, Kan., for the first time in four years, are threatened with extinc- tion by the recent heavy snows and cold.
 A. J. Loguin, managing director of the Petrograd Metal Works Co.,, one of Russia's largest corporations is at Pittsburgh to close contracts for ma terials.
 
 Seven pictures, including a Madon- na by Lucas van Leyden, valued at $35,0O0, were stolen on Sunday from the famous Castle of Lichtenstein in Austria
 Minister of Agriculture CavasoIa of Italy, announced that the total amount | of wheat contracted for by Italy in the United States and Argentina was 40,500,000 bushels.
 Evarice Vachon, aged five years and Eulaiie Mercier, three years of age, broke through the ice on Bakers pond at Fftchburg, Mass, and were drown ed.
 Charles Enber, Jr, and Walter Meyers were arrested in connection with the shooting of Bernard Schwab b last Saturday night in a barn near | Westport. Ten mine experiment stations and seven more anime rescue stations are | authorized in 2, senate bill passed by the house and sent to President Will son for his signature.
 The Goodrich Transportation Co.,. Milwaukee, Wis, will build two steamers, one a passenger steamer and the other a freight vessel. The cost of both will be $725,00O.
 The Dayton Manufacturing Co.,, i Dayton, Ohio, closed contract amounting to nearly s2,OO0 for sup plying the English Government with shells to be used in the war.
 At mass meetings in Calumet, Mich, five thousand Finnish miners decided to drive Socialists and labor agitat- ors from the district because of their influence in creating discomfort.
 John Henry Lawson, brother of Thomas W. Lawson, the fnancier died suddenly at the home of his | daughter, Mrs. Walter L. Shepard at Melrose, Mass. He was 56 years old. He is survived by three children 1 E. B. Strong, s2 years old, pioneer Chicago banker and capitalist and one | Of the founders of the National Bank of the Republic of Chicago and a di- rector of that institution, died in Pas adena, Cal.
 | Grant Watson, formerly secratary of the British legation at Brussels and at one time connected with the Bri- l tish embassy at Washington, is to be one of the civil prisoners exchang- ed by Germany.
 Samuel Rubin, who was found guil- ty by a jury on Friday of having em- bezzled $500 from Mark Sniffen o1