Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-16
Condensed Telegrams
Cuba is to increase her army.

The town hall at stapIeton, Staten
Island, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is $4,000.
Henry Ford presented the captain
of the peace ship Oscar II. with one
of his motor cars.
An order for $4,000 rough shell
forgings was receive by the General
Railway Signal Co.
Speaker Champ Clark is considering
retiring from Congress to run for
governor of Missouri.
A general strike was called through
out Portugal. Police and strikers
clashed at many points.
American Smelling & Refining Co.
advanced its price of lead from 5.25
cents to $40 cents per pound.
The torpedo flotilIa tender Dixie
left the Charleston Navy Yard for
Philadelphia to go into service.
. The Los Angeles board of education
defeated q proposal to introduce mil
itary training in the high schools
The Miners Bank and the Peoples
Bank, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, have been
merged, under the title Of the former.
Austria =as called to the ooIors the
class of 1898, consisting of youths
who will become is years Of age in
1916.
Fire caused heavy damage to the to-
bacco cargo of the Spanish steamship
Antonio Lopez in port at Toulon,
France.
Standard Oil Co., of New York ad-
vanced the price of all grades and
packages of kerosene for export 25
points.
During the month of October 25,-
25O aliens were admitted into this
country, compared with 3O,416 in Oc-
tOber, 1914.
Edward Barry, his wife Josia, and
Aron BarabarO were burned TO death
when fire destroyed a Chicago lodg-
ing house.
An embargo on all grain for export
through Baltimore, declared by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, goes into
effect today.
The Peruvian government has is
sued a decree putting into effect the
new coinage law recently passed by
the Congress.
J. p. Morgan & Co., placed an order
for 10000 aeroplane guns for Great
Britain with the briggs -Seabury
Ordnance Co.
Kentucky tobacco dealers are pre-
pairing an appeal to England to lift
| the embargo on the shipments of to-
bacco to Europe at once.
Announcement was made by the
Western Union telegraph CO. that
| telegraphic communication between
Greece and Serbia is interrupted.
Sir Frederic T. Barker chief justice
of New Brunswick, y. E., died at his
home at St. John. He was u years
of age.
r. D. Wilson, a machinsts employed
| in a POughkeepsie factory, was ar
| rested charged with stealing blue
prints from the Navy Department.
The steamer senIac Charlottetown.
| for St Johns, y. F. caught fire off
St. Johns and was burned to the
waters edge. The crew was saved.
The bill authorizing the State to
| purchase a fleet of 80 merchant ships
! from a British firm was withdrawn
from the French Chamber of Com
merce.
| The navy transport under construc-
| ton at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
will be named Henderson, in honor of
honor of Brigadier General Archibald
| Henderson.
A further appropriation of 5O.oOO,-
900 guilderS for military expenses
caused by keeping the army mobiliz-
ed for defense will be asked by the
/ government of Holland.
DAMAGE of 5000 was caused when
| the gymnasium at Riverview Military
Academy at Poughkeepsie. n. Y. was
wrecked. when the roof, weighted
down with snow. collapsed.
The British stemaer sronwen, AL
| giers for Hampton Roads, and the
| Norwegian steamer Aase, New York
for Gothenburg, put into port at St
Michaels damaged by the storm.
/ Merchants, manufacturers, teach
ers and other professional men under
arms in Austria are allowed to wear
a yellow armIet to distinguish them
from soldiers in inferior social posi-
ton.
Trolley service between Naugatuck
| and Waterbury was resumed last
night having been prostrated since
| Mondays storm. There are no con-
nections yet with lines south OF the
borough.
| The Haitien commission here tc
discuss establishment Of an American
potectorate was received by Secretary
Lansing. \ series of conferences will
be arranged later to discuss details
not fixed by the pending treaty.
| The State department reported tC
Congress that the United States haC
spent S24,159 for relief and trans
portation of Americans in Mexico
during the last fiscal year, including
1855 for destitute Americans there.
! Clinton S. Streeter was killed by al
automobile driven by Albert II
Mitchell in East Providence. Street
er stepped from in back of the deliv'
cry wagon of which he was driver
directly into the path Of the matoI
car.
Navajo Blanket for Mrs. Gait.
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