Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-04

ported 10 De raVageo by Heck or spot
ted typhus, smallpox and cholera
Fishermen in the Pocono Mountains
say that conditions have seldom been
better for the spring trout season
ported 419 fewer fires in New York
city during March last than In March,
1915.
Hydro for use by the
Mexican expeditionary forces were
Mass.
During the first three weeks Of the
campa'En to recruit the Jd!ted States
al my to war strength S2,25) man were
enlisted.
Gov. Mccall of Massachusetts, We
toed a bill which would permit ma
tional banks to act as administrators
and executors.
William n. Hasey, a stationery
salesman of New York, was arrested
in Ansonia, charged with passing
worthless checks.
Captain Fred Shauehnessy, second
son Of Lord Shaughnessy, head of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. has been
killed in action
Apri; "a will be obs we'd in the
sCEools of New York state as State
Bird Day. to encourage stuIy and
care ot the birds.
Lieut.. lie Bourhis, the first French
military aviator to use a parachute,
died of wound received in an aerial
| encounter at Verdun.
More than s15o,poo for the relief of
Jewish sufferers from the European
war was collected during the bazaar
in New York, just ended.
James D. Clark, coin eounterfeiter,
was arrested and jailed at Los An
geles after having been traiied by Sc
cret Service men for months
William C. MeAdoo and the other
American members OF the Information
al High Commission which is to meet
at Buenos Aires. rrived there.
Albert Kennedy. 10 years old. of The
4 Bronx. died Of a fracture of the skull
received when struck on the head by
a baseball while watching practice.
A number of painters, paperhang-
ers and decorators employed in ten
shops of New Bedford, Mass. struck
for increased wages and shorter hours.
| Information was received by the
/ American Red Cros that Turkey, for
the first time, is ready to accept a;d
for 100000 of her people who face
starvation.
Four Socialists arrested at Glasgow
i in connection with the strike of muni-
tions workers. have been remanded
for trial before the High Court Of
Edinburgh.
! About 200 members of the painters
| union at Pawtucket, r. l. went on
strike when their employers refused to
increase wages from IL to 45 1-2 ceits
an hour.
More than 900 journeynen painters
| and paperhangers, employed by mast
er painters and contractors in Prov
idence and Olneyville, went on strike
dateowhP
Forty-t~o head of Ayrshire cattle,
valued at $4,000 were burned to death
in a fire that caused from $4,000 TO
$4,000 damage to the Tarleton Farm
at Plattburgh, N Y
The Iectaire medal, annually award
ed q distinguished Roman Catholic lay
man by the University Of Notre Dame,
will go this year to DR.. Thomas ].
Walsh of New York.
One man was killed and several fire.
men injured by the fire that destroy
ed $4,000 gallons of oil at the w. ID,
Fenton Co. at Middletown, y. Y,
causing $4,000 damages.
Staten Island sehoolboys have org
anized a troop Of cavalry, in which
they will receive training to fit them
for admission to the reserve forces OF
the army in time OF need
Joseph n. johnson formerly clerk OF
the United States Senate finance COM
mittee and later a door-keeper in the
United States Senate. died at Provi-
dence from pneumonia He was 81
years old.
One hundred thousand women
| Daughers of the American Revolution
are making a nationwide campaign for
, contributions for relief of the $1,000
600 destitute -combatants in Bel
gium and northern France
Establishment by the stste of n bell
lime railroad connecting the city's rail-
road terminals, at n cost OF $4,000 0Ol
was recommended by he Boston Spe-
| cial Terminal Commission as a solu.
ton to the freight congestion problem
Movements of Steamships.
Barcelona, March 25 - Arrived
Steamer Antonio Lopez. New York
? Gibraltar. March 30-Sailed: Steam.
! er Giuseppe Verdi 0rom Genoa) New
York.
Glasgow. April 1.-Sailed: Steame
Carthaginian, Portland. Maine.
r New York, April 3-Signalled
| Steamer E,spagne Bordeaux for New