Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-24

The Navy Departments new radio |
station at Darien, Canal one, was |
placed in operatin.
Civil war veterans numbering about |
1,50O marched in review past Govern
or Whitman at Albany.
Mrs. Mary WorrelI. aged 81, died at
Lewiston, Pa, from the effects of a
mosquito bite on her lip.
President Wilson told callers at the
the White House that he had no new |
plan for peace in Europe.
The steamer Matilda Weems re-
ported sighting an unidentified schoon-
bottom side up, off New River, n. c.
An unknown man jumped from the
Williamsburg bridge into the East
River. His body was not recovered.
The total amount of credit voted
by France since the beginning of the
war is estimated at 1928, 900, 00O,O
Three hundred wounded villista SOL
Mexico military hospital was destroy
ed by fire.
Fire caused damage of $120,ooo in
the Thomas Potter 6, Sons Oil Cloth
works at Philadelphia. Two firemen
were killed.
The MiddIetown Car Company, of
Midtown, Pa, received an order for
5000 freight cars. All the cars will be
sent to Europe.
The principal ships of the Atlantic
fleet will assemble at Newport r. L,
Saturday for the opening of the Nav
al War College.
Freeborn G. Jewett, for 25 years con-
fidential secretary to secretaries OF
| state at Washington died at Month
cito, Cal, aged II.
The battIeship Vermont was placed
| in half commission at the Navy Yard
| at Norfolk, Va. and half of her com
| plement sent to other vessels.
The Columbus, Ohio plant of the
Carnegie Steel Co. closed for a year
and half. will reopen shortly giving
employment to about 500 men.
The British Foreign Office handed
to all neutral embassies a general
| statement of measures designed to al
leviate conditions governing neutral
trade.
Horse racing abolished in California
| several years ago. when betting was
! stopped, will be revived with thirty
day meet at the Panama Pacific Ex-
position.
Two thousand girls marched in an
| orderly manner from Public School No.
| g. in New York, when smoke from a
tre a few doors away drifted into the
| building.
Sir Arthur B. Markham, Liberal.
suggested in the House of Commons
that members of the House voluntarily
rel1nquish their salaries for the period
of the war.
The body of Lieut.. Reginald Warne-
ford was buried in London with fun
! military honOrs. Warneford gained
fame by destroying a Zeppelin from
Gunda the large elephant at the
Bronx Zoo who had been chained for
| several weeks because of his vicious
ness, was put to death. One bullet
did the trick.
The seth annual convention of the
| Connecticut Pharmaceutical associa-
| ton opened at Woodmont The ses-
sion will continue today when officers
will be elected.
Scores of frightened persons were
rescued from fire escapes in a fire that
did several hundred dollars damage TO
| a tenement at Clinton and Rivington
Streets New York
Three more of the ten submarines
under construction at the yards of the
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
for a belligerent European power will
be launched shortly.
The "nurder car" used bv New York
gunmen in the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, was wrecked at Thomaston.
Conn. Lawrence Belastro was killed
and two others injured.
After leaving note that he in
tended to take his own life, Daniel
Quint. a merchant. aged %. shot him
self through the head in his bedroom.
He had wife and child.
Governor Whitman will attend the
celebration o fthe 250th anniversary of
the installation of the first mayor and
bard of aldermen of New York, to be
held in the city hall today.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British
ambassador, and Lady Spring-Rice
arrived at Beverly, Mass. for the
summer. Several attaches of the en-
bassy staff accompanied them.
casts by wireless is the latest weather
| bureau experiment. Messages will he
transmitted at a speed slow enough to
accommodate amateur wireless operat-
OrS.
General Christian De Wet, one of
the leaders of the South African re-
bellion against the British Government
convicted of treason, was sentenced to
six years imprisonment, and fined
$4,000.
Hal Lissenbinn, a resident of Bangor,
Me-, missing since Tuesday noon, was
found by searchers mired to the waist
in the confines of Mud pond near
saltwater, and unable to move and
nearly exhausted.
The extent Of the ice blockade along
the northern Newfoundland and Lab
rador coasts was emphasized by word
brought by teh steamer Fogota that
500 fishing vessels bound for Labrador
had been. forced to put into various in
let's for. shelter.