Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-02

Condensed Telegrams

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 Food riotins in Lisbon, Portugal, was | resumed.
 Queen WilheImina of Holland is i'll of influenza.
 The Bank of England shipped es.o0o in sovereigns to the Continent. l Twenty thousand Chinese rebels, with 12 cannon, are marching on Pek- ing.
 The Dutch liner Maasdjik was beached after having been damaged by a mine.
 Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last week totaled 5O.617.- 900 pounds.
 | Great Britain has permitted Switz- erland to import 300,000 quintals of Egyptian cotton.
 Lieutenant Harold C. Tennyson, of the British Navy, grandson of the poet has been killed.
 The Pullman Go. will add 1000 men to its working force. making its num- Der Of employees 5000. Gen. Villa, bandit chief, is reported to be surrounded by Caranzista forces near Fl Valle, Mexico.
 Several anti-wsr demonstrations by | women have occurred at Dusseldorf and other German cities.
 France has released 16,ooo bales of | American cotton which had been stor- ed at llavre and Boulogne. Headquarters of the Caranza gov ernment, established at Queretaro, will be maintained there for a year. Six persons were reported to have been killed and many others injured during fresh food riots in Berlin. Burglars cracked the safe of the United Cigar Store at 113 Lenox Ave-, New York city, and escaped with 500. The storms of the past week in the West and Northwest are reported to have damaged the growing wheat crop.
 Prince Eric of Denmark arrived at New York on the steamship Olav. He will go to Canada to study agriculture. A voluntary increase of 1-2 cent per yard was granted to the 300 weavers of the Diamond Silk Co.,, of Paterson, N. J.
  The American steamship OrIeanian, which left New York for Malta on Dec. 23, is overdue, and has not been heard from.
 The Swedish steamship Vidar, seized by a German submarine Saturday and taken to Swinemuende, has been re- leased.
 A LIoyd's report from London states that the Dutch steamship Thurban has been damaged and lowed up the
 The capital stock of the Consolidat- ed Mining and Smelling Co. of Canada, Ltd, has been increased from S7,500,- eeG to s15,0OO,ooO.
 Successful wireless telephone com munication has been used by the bat tleships Texas and Wyoming during manoevres off Guantanamo.
 The Texas and Pacific Railway re- ceivership hearing, which was to have been held at Dallas. Tex, on Monday, was. postponed until Feb. 16.
 The Japanese Foreign Office denied report that Japan and England had signed a treaty recognizing Japan's superior right in the Far East.
 James Scott. clerk, shot and killed his fellow employe, Joseph Devine, in the League Island Navy Yard.
 Sadie Ostroff, a 12 year old school girl, committed suicide by leaping from the fifth floor of her home after she had failed to be promoted in school.
 Leo A. Struck, engraver of the DOT trait of Abraham Lincoln that is ac- knowledged as the best likeness, died at his home at Orange, N. J., aged 51.
 The British steamship Muneaster Castle, which left New York on Sat urday for Penang, Malay Peninsula, re- turned to port with her machinery dis abled.
 Representative Emerson of Cleveland will lead a fight to permit the United States to ship condensed milk to babies reported to be starving in Germany.
 Announcement was made in Rome that the American Academy has plac- ed at the disposal of the Italian Gov ernment the Villa Mirafiori for blind and mutilated soldiers.
 Arthur Seabright, assistant station agent of the Long Island Railroad at Floral Park, N. Y, was held up at noon by two masked men who escaped from the station with $500.
 A delegation of about fifty of the boyhood friends and acquaintances of Gov. Whitman of New York, escorted him to the nearby village of Garfield where the Governor spent his youth
 Twenty five girls employed by B. Lippman & Son, Hartford manufactur- CTS of women's garments, who went on strike Monday afternoon, went back to work. They refused to work when the firm replaced the forewoman with a man boss. The firm surrendered and also increased wages fifty cents a week. ZEPPELIN DROPPED
 BOMBS ON SALoNIKi, i Destroyed a Greek Warehouse Con- l
 taining Sugar. London, Feb. 1, 726 D. m.-A Zeppe- lin dropped bombs an Saloniki Mon |