Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
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Tie Bank of England bought 765,- 900 pounds of bar gold.
 Ocean freight rates on cotton from Galveston are declining.
 All French soldiers are being inocu- lated with lockjaW serum.
 The Du Pont Powed Go. purchased 500 acres of land six miles from Butte.
 The Bank of England minimum rate of discount is unchanged at 3 per cent.
 The American soup and bread Iitch- en in Brussels feeds 5o.000 people daily.
 Congressman Eugene F. Kinkhesd of New Jersey resigned his seat in Con- gress-
 New Jersey is thrsatened with a de- felt of more than $2.000,000 in it's State finances.
 One man was killed and another badly injured in a freight wreck near Metuchen, x. J.
 The Argentine Senate voted an appropriation of $100,000 to aid the Belgian sufferers.
 Miss Billie Burke, the actress, was operated on in New York. Her con- dition is excellent.
 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 5raddon, Eng fish authOress and playwright, died at her home near London.
 The Roumanian Government ordered a. large quantity of ammunition in Italy, to be delivered in April.
 John w. Hughes. aged 57, fell fifteen stories to his death, from the window of a. physicians office in Atlanta.
 of detectives to stand guard at all rail- road stations to keep crooks from the city.
 The association of hotel and restau- rant keepers in Berlin decided to 1 charge extra for all bread served at meals.
 President Wilson today nominated John J. Mitchell of Marlboro, Mass, United States marshal for Nassachu- etts.
 Business men of Reno, Ne, are mak- ] ing plans for a jubilee to celebrate Reno's reversion to a get-divorced- quick law.
 All merchants in Iow-Tying sections ofCincinnau are moving their goods to
 upper floors, in preparation. of an ex- i pected flood. 1 cortez Wageoner. high school ! student of Wichita Falls, Texas, died i from injuries received in a game o1 ! basketball.
 The schooner Benjamin 4. Van Brunt was badly damaged when il 1 crashed into a barge in lower Chesa- 1 peake Bay.
 l Sixty-s refugees from IIfachow, China, captured by Japanese and Eng ] fish. arrived at New York on the ! steamer Creole The Illinois Steel Co.'S mill at Gary, | will resume operations Monday with l enough orders on hand to keep the plant running for three months. The Remington Arms factory at Bridgeport, Conn, is running night
 and day to fill orders for millions oi rounds oTn ammunition for the allies. Michael O'TooIe, entering a hoteI i in St. Louis whistling TipperaTy was l bitten by Stein, Q, daschund. O'Toole
 is in the hospital and Stein is waiting
 to be shot.
 An epidemic of small pox is sweep ing Vienna, causing Emperor Franz i Josef and members of the court to fec
 the city, according to a dispatch from
 Amsterdam.
 The Clyde liner Navahoe, New York | for Bremen, with a cargo Of cotton
 ran ashore outside of the harbor al
 esbjerg, Denmark. It was lowed into
 the harbor.
 1 The total value of gold produced ir the United States from 1792 to Jan ! uary 1, 1914, is estimated by the Unit 1 ed States Geographical Survey al l 3,549, T99, 400.
 ] Viscount Northland, son of Earl ot 1 Ranfurly, a descendant of William ] Penn, died of wounds received at La Bassee, where he served in the Cold ! stream Guards. The threatened strike at the Read ing Iron Go. plant at Reading, Pa. was averted by the acceptance by puddlers and helpers of a cut in wages from
 s to $4.5O a ton. | Resident of Germantown, Pa. asked 1 the Pennsylvania State Legislature to improve the statue erected there by a | State commission to commemorate the
 battle of Germanown. In trials of men charged with cleo | ton frauds, eleven were convicted and
 four acquitted at PikevilIe, Ky. A fine of S10O and disfranchisenent was i'm posed on all lthose found guilty. 1 R. T. Harlow, secretary of the North l Shore Carpeters' Association at Salem, ] Mass. announced that because of the fire last summer. no increase in wages would be asked this year. l Foremen, fire bosses, driver bosses and others having charge of employees ! of the Delaware, Lackawanna SS West ] ern Coal Co.,. WtIkesBarre, Pa, were warned to keep from saloons. ] The hope that Wesleyan University would never grow bigger was ex- pressed by President Shanklin at the annual meeting of the New England | Alumni Association in Boston. | The army estimates, to which the British Parliament will devote the first part of next weeks session, give the