Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04

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 Condensed Telegrams Denmark has placed an embargo on coffee.
 Food riots. were reported from sev- eral parts of Spain.
 The town hall at HoIbrook, Mass, was burned at a loss of S25,000.
 The House voted, 1o5 to 46, to re- tain 20-cent mileage for representa- lives.
 George Cox, Republican leader of Cincinnati, stricken with paralysis, is dead.
 Bodies of three more victims of the MaloJa disaster were washed ashore at Dover, England.
 A bill to appropriate s2,ooo,ooo for the relief of Poland was introduced by | Senator Hitchcock.
 Oliver B. Hartman of New York has been designated as secretary to the American Embassy in Berlin. |
 Hollands cost of mobilization up to January, 1916, is estimaed at SIO3, ,OOO,- 900 by the Dutch War Minister.
 Foreign built vessels admitted to American registry since June 30, last, number S6, of S6,1 gross tons.
 
 Great Britain has prohibited spec ulatiOn in copper and all other metals required for the manufacture of war materials.
 British authorities detained the mail aboard the Dutch steamship Sommels- diuk. which arrived at Rotterdam from New York.
 Sweden has decided to prevent cit izens of any belliEerent country from addressing public gatherins in Sweden during the war.
 Reports from Manchester, Ena, state that S5OO.OO0 damage was caused by the burning of the British tanker Spi- req there Wednesday. Germany has issued an order temp orarily prohibiting the use of alcohol in beverages. as the alcohol is needed for technical purposes. As a result of the meat shortaae, | the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, issued an order stating that meat may be eaten only on i've days.
 Two hundred members of the Ger man colony at Lisbon, Portugal, left for Spain. Most of the German bus mess houses in Lisbon have been clos ed.
 Reports from Rome say that an un- successful attempt was made to as | during his journey from Sofia to Vi- enna-
 An act giving citizens of the Unit | employment on public works was up- | held by the Massachusetts Supreme | Court. -'T ''- '-'--,---'---'- ."- 70
 Australia has prohibited the sale of 1 typewriters made by the Remington, on the ground that that corporation is suspected of selling to enemies of the Allies.
 The du Pont Powder interests are re- ported to have offered to charter 12 of | Co.'S freighters, recently withdrawn from the San Francisco-New York service.
 l student nurses at the Bridgeport hos pital, died last night from typhoid few l CT contrateu in a private home where ! she was nursing a child. The annuI convention of the North | eastern District of the Delta Upsilon ! fraternity opened at Colby College, 1 choosing Herbert w. Congdon of Co., lumbia University as president | Johp F MoGratb sn a.o,,oI I-.i | attempted to force his way into Gov ] ernor McCalPs office in Boston. He | was subdued after a fierce struggle by Edward Horrigan, bodyguard to the | governor.
 l Frederieo AIphonso Pezet, ministe | from Peru, called at the White House | to give President Wilson his formal | farewell. Minister Pezet has resigned | because his government is unable to pay his larary.
 A Copenhagen newspaper estimates | that Swedish shipping to the amount of 5O,0OO tons has been destroyed by the American Hawiian Steamship German submarines. The lost ships were valued at S2,OOO,OOO.
 Mrs. Henrietta Williams. widow of General J. s. Williams, Mexican wa veteran, died at A1u4ut Sterling. Ky.
 
 ! Williams fitted out a full company of Confederate infantry at her own ex- pense..
 | Efforts to ascertain his identity hav- | ing failed. the body of a man of mid | pital few hours after the New Hay | pital a few hours aItre the New Hav- l en road wreck at Milford on February % was buried at the railroads ex- pense.
 Earl Levi, passenger. and Charles l Matthews, express messenger, are l thought to have been killed when | snowslide carried the express and bag gage ar of a Denver x Rio Grande train into the GunnisOn river near l Denver
 George Edward Aiken, for more than 1 fifty years prominent in musical cir | cles in New York and Boston, died today at the Mount Vernon. \. V | hospital, aged S2. He had charge of the music at the funeral of General | Grant.
 | William A. West, Princeton Uni versity and the bc~afiCio~v in the es-