Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-05

qest in Connecticut in Pr
Condensed kilograms
Ten inches of snow fell at Boston.
A bill imposing tax on all shipping
is being formed by the Norwegian gov
ernment.
Five inches of snow fell in New York,
seriously hampering traffic on the city's
surface lines.
New Workers had an opportunity to
see the eclipse of the sun, which lasted
two hours and ten minutes.
King George signed proclamation
fixing Feb. 10 as the date on which the
conscription bill goes into effect.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
has issued an embargo against ship
ments of grain to Newport News.
Carrying 81 passengers and full
cargo of freight, the steamship lap
land sailed from New York for Liver
pool.
Seven hundred employees of the Tyler
Tube and Pipe company of Washington
received 10 per cent. increase in
wages.
The United States Steel corporation
will start work this spring on a series
! Of by-product coke ovens to cost $15,-
100000.
An Increase of 1 per cent. per hour
| In the pay OF all its machinists was
announced by the Baltimore and Ohio
| railroad.
A request for relief of the flood suf-
ferers at Hickman, KY, was placed
with the war department by Senator
| Ollie James.
Postal and teIeeraphio communica-
ton between German and the Scandi-
| navian countries is reported to have
been cut off.
The New York senate confirmed the
| nominations of Oscar s. Straus and
Henry w. Hodge to be public service
| commissioners.
| Field Marshal Linan Won Sanders
| has been appointed commander-in-
| chief of the Turkish forces on the
| Caucasian front.
| Orders for two small steamers were
| booked at Cleveland. Nearly all the
berths at the lake yards there for 1916
! delivery are taken.
| The Dutch motor ship Artenis was
| torpedoed off the Noordhinder by an
unknown torpedo boat. Badly leaking,
| the ship is making for Rotterdam
| Flood conditions along the Arkansas
| river were greatly improved, except at
| Gould, Ark, where 200 persons were
lmperiled by the breaking of a levee.
Forty-five rundred employees of the
| Eavemeyer refinery of the American
/ Sugar Refining company in Brooklyn
/ went on strike for an eight-hour day,
/ A proclamation calling on the nso-
I! pie of Massachusetts TO observe the
! birthday of--Abfallam Lincoln, Febru-
ary IL, was issued by Governor Nc
4 Call.
The Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co
earned 2S per cent. on the common
| stock during 1915, it was announced
after the annual meeting in Cleve-
land.
Effective Feb. 1, an increase of Il
per cent in wages of miners and other
workmen on and about the iron mines
in Marquette county, Mich. has beer
! granted.
Practically all the men on strike a
the Union mills of the Carnegie Stee
company at Youngstown returned tC
work, all but two of the mills resumine
operations.
Representative Isaac saeharaeh Of
| Atlantic City. n. J., was painfully in.
jured in Washington when the auto il
which he was riding was struck by
another car
Coroner's jury at Staffordshire, Eng.
names the kaiser and German granC
prince as accessories to the wilfu
murder of Is Zeppelin victims killed
last Monday.
Of the 10000 male teachers in the
German Teachers association, 81, ,00(
have been called into the army OF
this number, 5,161 have been awarded
the Iron Gross.
Gen. Rafael Castro, former member
of Villas bodyguard, and Bernardo
Del Torro, a Villa follower, were ar
rested at Ell .Paso, charged with re-
cruiting. men for Villa.
John Lewandoski, wanted in connec-
ton with the recent death of George
Maslanka, was arrested in Bridgeport
yesterday by State Policeman Hurley
and brought to Terryville.
Count Theodor Pejascevioh, former
member of the Hungarian cabinet, and
now Interned in France, will be ex-
changed for five French prisoners OF
rank held by the French.
| The Swiss government ordered the
immediate inspection of all citizens
between the age of 16 and so capable OF
| bearing arms, and advised all over sc
that they might volunteer.
Abraham KaIIman of New York, ar
rested at Laredo, Tex, last Saturday
charged with smuggling feathers VAL
ued at $4,000 into the United States,
was released on 5000 bail.
The London Times states that IL
learns from an authoritative source
that Russia is planning to float a
loan of s25.Ooo.o00 in Toxic in pay