Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-26

scriptions to the latest Austrian war
loan.
Governor Whitman and his party
are scheduled to leave Albany today
for a trip to the Panama-Pacif1c ex-
position.
Enrico Caruso notified the Italian
Red Cross that his villa near Flor
ence is at its disposal until the end of
the war.
With three survivors and nine bodies
from the LuSitania,. the American liner
New York arrived at New York from
Liverpool.
Hanna, volcano, and an unknown
peak on the west coast of Cook Inlet,
Alaska, have been in eruption since
last Tuesday.
The three Italian commissioners at
the Panama Pacific exposition an
nounced they would leave for Rome
next Saturday.
Two men were burned to death and
several women were overcome by
smoke when fire destroyed the Raleigh
hotel at Peekskill.
Daniel Denehey was killed, and II
other persons were injured in a COL
lision of cars on a roller coaster at
Youngstown, Ohio.
Joseph Lang, one of the last of the
| old-time negro minstrels. died at his
home in Chicago, after an illness of
more than three years.
Residents of Hat Creek Valley, CAL,
have left their homes because of the
eruptions of Mt. Lassen, which have
buried their farms with mud
A dispatch from Florence states that
| the headquarters of the Red Cross So
ciety there will become the residence
| of the Italian court during the war.
Charged with having committed
murder at Cherry Valley, ILL.,, Henri
| FIorentini was committed in London
| awaiting extradition to the United
States.
Five persons were killed when the
| boiler of a sand dredging machine
blew up on the Pennsylvania side of
the Delaware river. opposite Borden
town, N. ].
Observation and photographs re-
Gently made of the Mellish comet at
the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff,
Ariz indicate that the comet has
broken up.
Political meetings in Toxic de-
nounced the cabinet for failure of its
negotiations with China. 1t was urged
that the outstanding questions be set
| tied at once.
John D. Rockefeller has contributed
500, 900 towards paying off the debts
of the Baptist missionary societies, it
was announced at the convention in
Los Angeles.
John Penny, wanted for murder in
| Elmira, N Y, where a reward of $4,000
for his arrest is offered, is fighting
with the Canadian contingent in the
trenches in Belgium.
| The return of the old frigate Con
stellation to Newport as a permanent
fixture and exhibit at the naval train
| ing station was celebrated yesterday by
exercises at Fort Green.
| Fire that had burned for nearly
week, doing considerable damage, on
the American steamer Standard, was
extinguished when the vessel reached
Key West Fla, in tow.
The Lexington, Mass. pageant, COM
memorating 100 years of peace be-
tween Great Britain and the United
| States, will be opened on June 81 on
signal from President Wilson.
Kenneth Weeks a young American
| from Cambridge, Mass, was commend
ed in British army orders for dis
tinguished conduct at the taking of La
Targette and Neuville st. Vaast.
There were 1892 deaths and death
rate of 13.41 per thousand in New
York during the past week. This is
a decrease of exactly 100 deaths from
the figures for the same week of 1914.
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News of the death in France of Sec
ond Lieutenant Harry G. Byng, a
student of engineering at Harvard
three years ago, was received at Bos-
ton by his father-in-law, Allen Curtis.
Miss Olive Starr of WoodfieId, Ohio,
was shot and killed in the home of
Ernest Zogg, at Wellsburg, w. Va,
where she was visiting, by Thomas
Herbert, of Follansbee. W. Va, who
then killed himself
A rejected suitor shot and fatally
| injured Angelina Posno at her home in
CHARTERS, Pa, and shot her mother
Mrs. Came1ia Posno, as she tried to
shield her daughter. A large posse is
hunting the slayer.
Because of the action of the con-
troller Of the treasury in disappearing
last years expenditures by the war
department in holding student military
camps, the department virtually aban-
doned plans to hold camps this year.
Willard Muroh, one of the founders
of the Gideon society of Michigan, and
| the Michigan traveller from Lambert
| & Lowman, Detroit chemists, since the
/ organization of the firm. died of pneu-
monia at his daughters home in To-
1edo.
| The tornado boat DESTROYER CUSHING
| showed a wide margin above contract
| requirements on her official standard
ization trial. Her fastest mile was
! made at the rate Of 306 knots per