Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02


 Condensed TeIegrams
 Three successive earthquake shocks were felt at Quebec. the Waterbury almshouse in good con- dition.
 Field Marshal van Maekensen will | visit King Constantine of Greece at Athens.
 Fire in the plant of the Ryan Leath- CT Co.,, Newark, N. J., caused S25, ,000 | damage. chanics vii be made public within a | few days.
 The war department asked congress to appropriate S40,000 for land de- lenses in Hawii.
 British casualties in all the war zones during February toalled 73e of fcers and 17s47 men. keeper of Smobrette, zacatecas, Mexi- co, was hanged by bandits.
 England has discontinued the pur- chase of horses and mules for war pur- poses in the United States
 British married men between the ages of 25 and 32 will be called to the colors the first week in April. Kern, a well-to-do business man of Newark, N. J., on a charge of arson.
 The high cost of funerals has been added to in New Jersey suburbs. Coaches now cost S6. an increase of S1.
 WiIliah J. Wells, past Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at Norristown, Pa, aged
 The Southern Pacific will spend nearly $5,50O,OOO in improvements on its lines in Texas and Louisinana this year.
 Sixty thousand tons of canned pine land by the growers of Hawaii this year.
 The Iowa anti-tipping law was held to be unconstitutional by Judge Jepson, in the district court at Sioux City.
 The Norwegian steamship Voss, Glasgow for New York, is putting back to Glasgow in tow, badly dam aged.
 Nuri Bey, brother of Enver Pasha, Turkish war minister, has been killed in the recent fighting in western Egypt.
 
 struction in Japanese shipyards. The shipping plants are working day and nights.
 Rear Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair has been appointed to assist Lord Robert Cecil as British minister of war trade.
 Exports from Spain to the United States and possession in 1915 were valued at S2O,964,713, against s21,251,- 6S6 in 1914.
 The Westinghouse Air Brake is re- ported to be turning out 5000 shells daily for the Allies at it's plant at Wilmerding, Pa
 Denial was made by the Belgian gov gian government that James J. Hill Is to rebuild the Belgian railroads de- stroyed by the war.
 The steamship FifieId, San Francisco for Bandon. ran onto the rocks at Marshfield, Ore. Coast guards rescued passengers and crew.
 The proposal that the body of Hen ry James be inferred in Westminster Abbey has been taken up by several newspapers in London.
 Forty employees in the cartridge de- partment of the General Ordnance company of Derby. Conn, went on strike for higher wages.
 Charged with compIieity in the murder of two Ansonia men on Jan- uary 8, last, PaoIo vonone was arrest ed in New York at his home.
 Seven hundred men and fifty girls went on strike at the plant of the American Linoleum Co, at Lionleum- vile, Richmond, for higher pay.
 Announcement was made in the British House of Commons that Italy has requisitioned 34 of the 37 German steamers interned in Italian ports.
 Reports received at the State De- partment state that Drover C. Yarn, an American, was killed by Villa forces at his farm near Durango on Feb. 27.
 Sweden will grant special permis- sion for the export of chemical wood pulp in cases where the pulp is to be used exclusively in the United States.
 Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell, of Denver, was elected president of the Religious Education association, which closed its annual convention at Chi cago.
 Major Louis J. Hermann, of Staff ford, Conn.,, coast artillery corps, has been relieved from active service at his own request and transferred to the reserve.
 Reginald MeKenna, British Chancel- Tor of the Exchequer, estimated that British expenses for the current year will reach the total of e1,509,0 ,00O, 900 etp