Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-15

the institution, 164, was graduated at
West Point.
Residents of Southampton, N.Y. cell
ebrated the 275th anniversary of the
founding of the city.
Marconi is reported to have invented
a device for paralyzing the motors of
aeroplanes by means of wireless.
Miss Mary Huberty, aged IS, of
Brooklyn, committed suicide by drown
ing in Kiamesha Lake, near MonticeI-
10, n. Y.
The inventory f'the estate Of SEN
ator John Hinchliffe of Paterson, n. J.,
shows that he left property worth
$685,353.
A ten pound boy was born to Mr..
and Mrs John D. Rockefeller, Jr at
their New York home This is the
fifth son.
M ore than 1000 people witnessed
the Inauguration of Herman c. Bum
pus, as president of Tufts College,
Medford, Mass.
Robert r. spier of the sophomore
class of Princeton was killed when an
automobile he was driving skidded
and overturned.
There are now 300 armed men,
mounted and unmounted. on guard at
the du Pont Powder Co.'s plant at
City Point, Va.
Kentucky is added to the states in
which extensive internal revenue
frauds have been disclosed in the
manufacture of whiskey.
"La Guerre sociaIe," the Paris So
cialist newspaper which has been sup
pressed several times recently, was
permitted to resume publication.
The Federation of the Rumanian Jews
Of America sent a petition backed by
5000 members to Governor Slaton Of
Georgia to pardon Leo NJ. Frank
Farmers in Missouri are trying to
get rid of the chinch bug which is at
tacking wheat and oat crops The
fields are set afire to destroy the pests.
The Austro Hungarian Government
addressed a note to the Powers pro-
testing against the Italian decree pro
claiming a blockade of the Albanian
coast.
While pIowing near Switz City, Ind,
DreyfuI BOnham, a farmer, discovered
an old can containing 1859 in half dol
lars which had been buried half a
century.
President Wilson expects to attend
the pageant to be given at Great Che
bague Island, Casco Bay, Me, on July
IT, He will probably make the trip
on the Mayfower.
John Mitchell, aged IA, of Evans
vile. Ind, broke one arm, and s1f
fered slight injuries when he jumped
from barn with a pair of wings
strapped to him.
Seventeen hundred years in maxi
mum sentences have been given to
criminals by Judge Louis D. Gibbs of
the Bronx County Court, since he took
office Is months ago.
Hugh H. Sullivan, former GUARD at
Sing Sing prison, sued out writ of
habeas corpus to compel Warden
Thomas M. Osborne to show why he
should not be reinstated.
The honorary degree of doctor of
laws was conferred on Henry Morgen-
thau, United States ambassador to
Turkey, at the 25th annual commence
ment of Constantinople college.
General Victoriana Huerta, former
dictator of Mexico, sent a check for
500 for a box for his family at the
New York police games and carnival
to be held at Brighton Beach on July
Thirty-six firemen narrowly escaped
death in two explosions of chemicals
at fire that did $4,000 damage to
the paint factory of the Johnson &
Oswarld Co, at No. $50 Pearl street,
New York.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
philadelphia, received a cable order
from the Russian government for 25O
locomotives to be built before the
close of the year at a total cost of
$250,00O, 900.
ground in the vicinity of a large cof-
fin shaped rock near Cherokee. Cal.
where gold and silver stolen from the
early settlers by the Indians is believ-
ed to be hidden.
The triumph of the party of ex-
Premier Venezifos in the Greek cleo
tlons to be held on June "a is regard
ed as certain. A crowd paraded
through the streets of Athens cheer
ing NJ. Venizelos.
Many British worErnen now at the
front were ordered released from duty
that they might return to the muni-
ton factories where they were form
erly employed, and where they are
now badly needed.
A large number of men who served
in the Rough Hiders' regiment under
Colonel Roosevelt are expected to
participate in the reception by the
San Diego Exposition to Colonel
Roosevelt next month.
John Nelson, alias James O'Leary,
surrendered to a posse that pursued
him into the cedar swamp at Carlstadt.
n. j., He was charged with being one
of the men who robbed collectors of a
tobacco company of $500.
John H. McCoIion, professor erneri-
tus of contagious diseases at the
Harvard Medical school and former
superintendent of the Boston Citv
hospital, died yesterday. DR. McCol
lom was born at Pittston, Me, in 1S43.
Returns From Greece Elections.
Athens, Via Paris, June Ia, 11.35 D..
m-The latest returns from the gen
era1 elections, while confirming the
success of the Venizelos party, are
not yet definite enough to indicate
the exact majority. The government