Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-15

1 The Virginia House of Delegates ad- l journed Saturday in memory of Pres ident Lincoln, for the first time in | history.
 The White Star liner Adriatic ar rived at New York from Liverpool with i $30,O00,0OO in gold and American se- curities.
 Russia has almost completed ar- engagements for directing freight from Canada to Russia, via Vancouver and Fladivostok.
 A general strike of Iaborers employ | ed on the Government railroad in Alaska has benn called. The men de- mand more wages.
 | The Italian aviator Barbati who re- l gently landed in Switzerland with a new aeroplane, has been returned to | Italy as a deserter. | A movement is under way to send another party of Red Cross nurses and | doctors to serve in Russian and Si- berian prison camps.
 1 Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian | Affairs, received a report from Tuba, Ariz., denying the reported uprising of the Navajo Indians.
 | A resolution authorizing the submis- sion of a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution was adopted by the Oklahoma House.
 Fire believed to have been incendi- ary origin destroyed the machine shop of the Jessop Steel Mill at Washing ton, Pa, at a loss of $2o,000.
 Capt. Won Papen, recalled German military attache to the United States has been decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle, fourth class.
 The Berlin "Norddeutsehe AIIege- incline Zeitung" denies the report that the Canadian Parliament Building was burned by German agents.
 Fire caused damage of $5o,ooo to the plant of the Canada Car & Foun- dryl Co, at Montreal. The ompany is filling a shell order for Russia.
 Spreading photographs of his wife and child on the floor in front of him, William A Ferrent, of Newport, R. l., shot and fatally injured himself there.
 Pleading for mercy, 30 farmers vol untarily appeared before the Grand Jury at Morganfield, Ky, and confessed being implicated in night rider raids.
 Four prisoners escaped from the country jail at Lancaster, Pa, by cut ting through the three-foot roof over their cells with rods torn from their beds.
 There are now 66,44e women in the French Red Cross volunteer army. Fifteen French hospitals have been | equipped with 118,0 beds by the Red Cross.
 The funeral of Dr. James Lloyd Vel lington, who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard, was conducted from Christ church, Swansea, Mass, Monday.
 The American Committee for Ar menian and Syrian Relief is now en- gagged in the work of ransoming girls and women captives held by the Turks and Kurds.
 Gen. Funston notified the War De- partment of the capture of Ancieto Pisaro, noted Mexican bandit, for whose capture the Governor of Texas offered s1,OOO reward. Pope Benedict issued a decree pro- viding that priests in all countries, at Sunday mass, after reading the Evang- el in Latin, shall repeat it in the lang uage of their hearers.
 Floyd Smith, chief pilot for the | Martin Aeroplane Co.,, established a new reord when he ascended 5000 feet in a huge hydroaeroplane carrying two passengers near San Diego, Cal. Five million gallons of alcohol, con- | tained in 100000 barrels, and con | tracted for in western states by the England through the Port of New Allies, is being shipped to France and York.
 Richard Wyckoff, an old farmer, and Catherine Fischer, his housekeep- CT, were found murdered in their home on Sourland Mountain, near Plainfield, N. J. The assailant had footed the house. Every edition of every United States newspaper will be examined by officers of the Canadian militia, and refused admission to Canada if containing the welfare of Canada" William T. Bedding of New York was elected a member of the board of trustees of the University of Penn sylvania to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Dickson.
 Major General Wood told the Har- ward college military battalion that he had found sentiment in the south unanimously in favor of federalizing the present state militia
 The St. Jean building at Marlboro, Mass, owned by the St. Jean Baptiste society and occupied by three business establishments and the society, was de- stroyed by fire. The loss was estimated at $25,000.
 As a result of the receipt of a large number of death threats received by United States District Attorney Pres ton. at San Francisco for his &C., Preston. at San Francisco, for his ac tivity in neutrality cases, bodyguard