Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-01

ShlpnentS or freSh and cured meats from Chicago last week totaled 4o.254,- 900 pounds.
 William LemueI Skidmore, once mill itary secretary to Governor Edward D. Morgan, is dead.
 General Feng kwo-chane was elect ed vice-president of the Chinese Re- public by Parliament.
 The Doheny Paeefic Petroleum Go. was incorporated at Sacramento, Cal, with capital of $1,000,000.
 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has ordered several thousand tulip bulbs set out in the White House gardens.
 General BerthoIet of the French army has been appointed commander in chief of the Rumanian army.
 The Chicago 6, Northwestern Rail- way has ordered TT large locomotives from the American Locomotive Co., was instantly killed when hit by a train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
 Women of the country contributed $101 ,944 to the campaign fund of the National Hughes Alliance Women's SOhAAAAIICC.
 Michael Poke, of Philadelphia, was killed when he walked out of the third story window of his home while asleep.
 Private Lee Furtic of Troop A, North Carolina Cavalry, was killed in his tent by the accidental discharge of his pistol.
 The power and electrical depart ments of the plant of the Standard Steel Car Co at Butler, Pa, was de- stroyed by fire.
 The body of six-months' old qirI baby, its head battered, was found in a vacant lot at Provost and Freeman street, Greenpoint.
 Brigadier General w. M. Crozier, chief of ordnance, United States army, arrived at San Antonio, Texas, on an inspection tour of the border.
 Two persons were burned to death and three others injured when their automobile overturned and the gaso- line tank exploded near Kent, Ohio. Jacob Kaiser, q wealthy grain deal CT, was burned to death in a fire which destfoyedAs a barn and three large | tgfanaries on his farm at Columbus, 0. The American Defense Society an nounced campaign to hurry through the three-year naval building pro- gram with an appropriation of $313,- 300,000.
 Andrew Carnegie has purchased from $. P. Shotter, of Savannah, Ga. the Shadow Brook estate in Lenox Mass, and will occupy it as summer l home.
 While examining a new automa atic revolver, given him as a birthday present, Thomas Fenton, of Humphrey N. Y.. accidentally shot and killed himself
 Donald Scoops, one armed Beloit | College student, received notice thai l he had been awarded a Carnegie med al and s2,000 for saving two girls from | drowning.
 The $15oo,o0o steam yacht Cyprus owned by D. c. lacking, of Sar | Fanrcisco, narrowly escaped beins | wrecked in the Hell Gate whirlpoo when her steering gear broke. 1 The Navy Department has awarded | contracts for twenty-six 16-inch guns | Thirteen went to the Midyele Steel S | Ordnance Co. at S116,00O each and 1: to the Bethlehem Steel Co. at s116,9 l each.
 Unable to obtain medical aid to ore. vent hemorrhage after having beer shot in the leg while duck hunting l William Prudy Shannon, of New York l died at the home of his uncle at LonE | Island.
 John de AngeIius, 20 years old, O | Bridgeport, was almost instantly lxillec Tuesday afternoon when he was rul | over by a motortruck at Housatoni and North avenues. His skull wa 1 fractured.
 A call for special meeting of tn, National Council of the Chamber O Commerce of the United States il Washington on November IT and | has been announced from the Cham ber's headquarters.
 The establishment of direct steam ship service between St. Nazaire France and Halifax, during the winte months and beginning November s was announced by the Marine Naviga tion Co.,, of London.
 A collection of the personal beIonq ings of Major General Lawton iron the time he enlisted as a volunteer il 1886 until he fell in the Philippine in 1899 has been placed in the Nationa Museum at Washington.
 Louise Menehini. aged 17, who wa struck by Police Commissioner J. A Murray's automobile last Sunday il
 New Haven, died last night in hos pital from her injuries. The auto wa | driven by MT. Murrays son.
 Miss Chang daughter of Gen. Cham Ts-ping, a member of the Chimes | general staff, was dangerously injure
 in an aeroplane accident at the frs public exhibition of the army aviation
 corps, held at Nanyuan, near Picking
 Lieut. Gen. won Stein, commando
 of the 14th Reserve Army Corps, wa Appointed Minister of War by tn
 Kaiser, succeeding Lieut.. Gen. Will
 von Hohenhorn, who will take com
 mand of an army group on the Anglo
 French frs-.
 Earthquake Recorded. | Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 31.-An earth
 quake of considerable intensity wa
 recorded on the seismograph at Can
 isius college here today. The dis | La 4 9