Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-24

Journed.
 Gov. Whitman signed the Mills bill, reenaeting the secured tax law.
 Richard Strauss, the Austrian com- poser is reported seriously III at War saw.
 President Wilson nominated J. E. Long to be postmaster at Huntington, ". Va
 when they paraded through the streets of Marseilles.
 Much of the 1915 apple crop has not been sold, according to statement of the Department of Agriculture.
 Joe Lee, aged s3, a negro, was exc cuted for murder in the electric chair at the Virginia State Prison at Rich mond-
 The eighteen delegates from Arkan- sas to the National Progressive Con- yention have been instTncted for
 Two eonViets, Peter Cullen, a "trus- ty," and John Boris, escaped from Sing Sing Prison The men escaped separately.
 A wage increase of 2 per cent to all employees not mebers of any union was announced by the Norfolk S Western Railroad Co.
 Mrs. Catherine Reddinston, aged 100. died at her home at Pittston, Pa She had been a smoker of strong tobacco since girlhood.
 For the first time in the history of Sing Sing Prison, Good Friday ser vices were held for the Catholic in- mates of the prison.
 Capt. Julius Mueller, captain of a Philadelphia & Reading coal barge, committed suicide in Philadelphia after his crew had deserted
 duit & Cable Co. strikers, z5O employees Of the HabIshaw Wire Co, at Hastings \. r., went on strike.
 Ernest. oehIensehlaaer, aged 1s, of Dayton. O. was instantly killed when lightning struck a factory in Dayton where he was employed.
 Lieut.. J. M. Hazsn, of the Canadian Artillery, son af J. D. Hazen. Canadian Minister of Marine and Naval Affairs has been killed in action.
 Capt. Edward Davis, Ist U. S. Cavalry, the first military attache to serve at the American Embassy in Greece, arrived at Athens.
 According to officers of the Forest | Service. approximately 1000 head of | elk are now roaming the Olympic Pe- ninsula in Washington ! Two floors of the Abbott AIsaloidal Co. factory at Chicago were wrecked by an explosion The company was working on a war order. The newly formed Young Women's | Rifle Club of the State Department, ! consisting of 10 girls, left Washington for Winthrop, Md, for target practice.
 Representation of the Russian Gov eTnment have completed arTangements \ to purchase the Fort William, Ont, eeiah' g.. or the Canadian Car x Foundry
 Methedists who attempted to have negro bishops provided for work sanction of the Methodist Epsicpal | church, at Chicago
 ! PennsyIvania constabuIary were called to the PittstOn district to stop | rioting btween l. w. w. organizers and members Of the United Mine | Workers of America.
 The Spanish Ambassador in Vienna has informed Princess Natalie of Mon- ko. second son of Prince Nicholas, is at a sanitarium in Vienna
 Four Portuguese army aViators whC
 have been learning aviation at the I United States training school at SaI |. I T1fnn~n Tnl haUa haan nr-Tarnd ff
 France to complete their course.
 George F. Wills, of Auburn, N. Y.
 former president of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, and of thu
 Common Council, died of injuries re Orders were received at the Leagui Island Navy Yard by the commander of he battleships Connecticut anC Kansas to be in instant readiness |, ! sail. Their destination was not stated Fireman Frank Cook was killed ant | Engineer H. W. Anderson seriousl! injured when they jumped from { Burlington passenger train near Stew edt'viii'' edi Mo- after the boiler '1Oi'd Fire destroyed the Iowa Union, mems student dormitory at the Uni NerSity or IOWA aI Iowa tlLN. MlCn causing s350. 900 damage. after 1t hai
 spread to the business section of th city.
 Arrangements have been made by tn
 British Admiralty and the govern
 ment of Newfoundland whereby tn
 necessary number of vessels will b
 supplied to take care of the colony trade.
 Surprise and indignation" has bee
 caused in the foreign colony of Mexic
 City by reports of anti-Americal , demonstrations published in Americal newspapers, it was said in. a des patch.
 , Clinton, Mass, was chosen as Fur Verein Headquarters for the New Eng land district of Turn Verein clubs fo . the coming year at the district con vention that came to a close in Spring 3 field yestaR1ay.