Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-13

Condensed TeIeqrams


 The Spanish Government prohibited the exportation of potash.
 Governor Whitman's first boy was born in the Executive Mansion at AL bany.
 The widowed mothers pension bill passed the New York Senate unani- mOusly.
 Statistics on Swiss trade show inn provements during the last few weeks due largely to orders from England,
 Steady improvement in business during January and February was re- ported by the Postoffice Department. Two memberships of the Chicago Board of Trade were sold at S2,900, d reduction of $100 from the last previ- ous sale.
 President Wilson gave a recess ap- pointment to William A. Shelton as United States Marshal for western Missouri.
 4 jury in the United States Dis l trict Court in Trenton found the Gen. tral Railroad of New Jersey guilty of rebating.
 J.P. Morgan & Go. are forming an underwriting syndicate to offer S10,- 00O,00O Erie Railroad 5 per cent. one year notes.
 The steamer suriname, Buenos Ayres for Boston and New York, | aground near Buenos Ayres, was light ened and hoated. All lead mines in St. Francois coun- ty, Mo-, will resume operations in full March 16. Forty-five hundred em- ployes are affected. Fourteen persons were killed and eighteen injured when a landslide wrecked a passenger train on the Vigo- l Arsene line in Spain. The bill designed to prohibit men to hire out as ''hit-the-n -nigger'' dodgers at amusement resorts failed to pass the New York Senate. The cuIebra Cut channel which was | blocked by an earthSlide on March 6 was reopened. Twenty-siX ships were waiting to go through. By order of the Governor General 1 of Belgium, compulsory school at 1 tendance by all Belgian children will | be enforced henceforth. The entire fire fighting force of Mon treal was called out to fight a fire in callers, other than government of 1 fcfalS for the next three weeks. For a month, Government wireless l inspectors have been searching for a | secret high-powered wireless station believed to be in or around New York. l The Colorado house of representa- | tives has passed bill defining 1 treason against the state and providing penalties of life Imprisonment or 1 death.
 l One million dollars will be expend- l ed by the tSate of Minnesota in re-
 claiming 100000 acres of land in Beltrani and adjoining counties this
 spring.
 | Lieut.. Armori di ordiano and three | privates of the Italian army arrived at New York from Naples on the lin
 CT Ancone to buy cavalry and artillery horses.
 l After a party" Ed Strange walked
 saying T contain two pints of pure rye whiskey and six bottles of beer on his hat.
 | inc steamer maOonna drTlV0u al New York from Nice, France, bringing l the body of Mrs. Ellen Mcclellan. widow of Gen. G. B. Mcclellan, who died there.
 The America steamer Vitalia, de- tained since February 20 at Falmouth l England, was released, and her cargo reconsigned to the Netherlands' Over seas Trust Co.
 Suing the Erie railroad for s25, ,OOC for damage done to his wagon wher struck by a train, Frank V. Wilkin-
 son, of Newark, faces a counter claim
 of $100 for damaging the engine.
 Secretary Daniels ordered the des- troyers Drayton and McDougal iron
 Guantanamo to join the gunboat Dol phin'S watch on the interned liners
 in New York harbor.
 seven million dollar combine to bt
 known as the Olympia Theatre Co.
 was formed in Boston to take over al
 independent vaudeville and movie houses in New England. Fl It was announced last night by the
 commission for relief in Belgium thai pr. Grier Hibben, president of Prince ton University, has accepted the office of chairman of the New Jersey com. mittee of the commission. T Malachi L. Jennings, a member O.
 the Massachusetts ballot law commis. sion, died suddenly at his home il West Roxbury. He was a well know1 , attorney and was prominent in demo
 cratic politics.
 | Officers of the American-Hawaiiar Line steamship Nevadan, arriving al | New York from Bremen. where she delivered a cargo of cotton, reported that on February 26 while in the
 North Sea homeward bound, they were
 closely inspected by a big German submarine.
 : The Kentucky railroad commission won a victory in the United State. district court in Covington, Ky, wheI United States Judge Den1son, acting as
 special judge, refused an injunction