Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-16

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 More than 10000 Jews are serving with the British army and navy.
 The Bank of England bought 747.- 900 pounds bar gold and sold 262, ,O0O 1
 The new st2ooo buIkheads installed at Seabright, \. J., were destroyed by heavy seas.
 Call money can be borrowed at Bal timore at 6 per cent for the first time in six months.
 The Illinois Public Utilities Commis- sion approved St. PauTs $20141, 300 convertible bonds.
 The Tonopah ore shipments for the week ended January totaIled 10,3S2 valued at s21,036.
 Switzerland spent $22,ooo, 900 on nail- itary preparations in the first five mouths of the war. The United Cigar Stores Co. has taken over the United Chemists Go, d retail drug concern
 Business at the western plant of the Quaker Oats Co, at Saskatoon, Sasl1., increased 5 per cent.
 General Carranza issued a decree closing down the Aguilar Petroleum Co. and the Penn-AIex Oil Co. All over night offers for wheat at Winnipeg were accepted at the highest prices for the season to date.
 James L. Martin, United States Dis trict Judge for Vermont, dropped dead in railway station at Montpelier.
 The Great Eastern Railroad has ask ed the British Parliament for permis- sion to issue 1,00O,000 pounds of new stock.
 Life savers rescued the crew of the schooner Gladys which was driven on the shoals off Dight, \. C., in a heavy storm.
 The American Red Cross headquart- CTS in Washington announced it will open fund for Itatlian earthquake sufferers.
 William Taylor, of Jersey City, hurl- ed brick through the window of the First National Bank there, when re- fused $l5,000,090.
 At Banquet at the Chicago Ath- 1etic Association, Chicago, Dr. Richard d. Tiven defined love as a disease Its name is anyphlaxis. An explosion of chemicals in the chemical laboratory of AIeadville col lege. caused a fire which did damage estimated at $50.00e- The finest military dog is the AIre- dale in the opinion of Major E. II. Richardson, Of the British army a breeder of war dogs. Governor Whitman of New York will go to the Panama-PGcific Elxpo- sition in May if the Legislature has adjourned by that time.
 4 threat that something will happen if Billy Sunday ever comes to Passaic. i x. J., was received through the mail ! by the chief of police there. Efforts are being made by the Wash l inStOn Human Society to have laws l enacted prohibiting the exportation of horses and mules to the war. ] Because of the appearance of vir- ulent cases of foot-and mouth disease i the Union Stock Yards in Cincinnati were placed under quarantine. Kaiser Wilhelm has presented the
 Turkish Government with a series of ] motion pictures of German soldiers in battle along the wester front. l The Rumanian Legation in Switz- erland announced that all deserteTs from the Roumanian army will be par ! doned if they return and esrve.
 Smith 6 McNeIPs New York hotel and restaurant. which failed shows li- abilities of $47,43c, nominal assets of 1 $S,e00, and actual assets of S4.924. William Howard Taft addressed the l National Institute of Social Sciences ! at the opening session yesterday of its 1 second annual meeting in New York.
 Harry Q. Sims will resign as private i secretary to John D. Rockefeller to be- come a clerk in a Cleveland grocery store in order to be near his brides ! folks.
 Babe" $1o,oOo hippopotamus is l dead at the circus winter quarters in i the Black rock. Bridgeport, district, 1 following an illness of less than 24 hours.
 A bill appropriating $5,o0o for the relief of the Italian earthquake suf- ferers was introduced in the Rhode ] Island legislature and was referred to 1 a committee
 The appointment of pr Karl Helff- erich, director of the Deuchebanlz. ! as secretary of the imperial treasury, is impending, according to the over 1 seas news agency.
 l The steamer Manitou, which arrived l at New York from London and Ply mouth. colided with the British pa 1 troI cruiser CIopatra near Beachy 1 Head, December 24. | Ten Erglishmen, in an official ca l pacity, secured positions with amnluni- 1 tion factories in Waterbury, Conn, to ! observe American methods of manu- facturing brass shells. l Members of the University of Penn i sylvaIia crew will be inoculated with typhoid vaccine. to make them inn mune from typhoid which last year broke I'D s powerful crew