Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-24

France, last Friday, returned to port with her steering gear disabled.
 A resolution protesting against the complete absence of any means of aerial defence was passed by he Town Council of Lowestoft, England.
 Five persons were killed and many others made sick when a can of wood alcohol found by a band of lepers on the island of Molokai was drunk.
 A report from Berlin says King Nicholas of Montenegro has been ord- cred by the Allies to abstain from all political activity until the end of the war
 The police department of Portland, Ore, is closely watching Chinatown there following the renewal of tong war between Hop Sings and Bing Kongs.
 Colombia will formally protest States of the islands of Little Corn and Big Corn, off the coast of Mica ragua.
 Miss Loretta Kelly, aged 40 who said her home was at Staten Island, N. Y, was found in a dazed condition on the steps of the Park Street Church in Boston.
 The management of the Gosnold mills, New Bedford, declared that enough loomfxers to keep 1,4O0 looms in operation wen to work at that plant yesterday.
 A report received at Fl Paso says that an American woman and her family have been murdered by MeXi can bandits near Cusihurriachio, Chihuahua.
 Passengers on the Nantucket steam CT Uncatena declared upon the arrival of the boat at New Bedford that the Uncatena in a dense fog had cut down skiff in the harbor.
 The British steamer Potomac, which went ashore near Herring Cove, Hall flax on Saturday, and which has since been leaking, was floated yesterday without the aid of tugs.
 Albert Thayer of New Milford pleaded guilty in the superior court at Winsted to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to state prison for from one to three years.
 Paul R. Haffner, Socialist candidate for comptroller of Tacoma, was ar rested for criminal libel, for assault ing the character of George Washing ton in a newspaper article.
 Eiaht hundred veteran Brooklyn volunteer firemen paraded through the streets of that city John H. Weatherbee, a veteran, aged 69, drop ped dead from the excitement.
 Heartbroken because her husband who is fighting in Europe, could not be with her on her 18th birthday, Mrs. James Glover drank lysol at her home i,, io Falls She will DrOha hlV die.
 The New York State AssennIy pass ed the Maier bill, appropriating S10.- 100000 for highway construction in upstate counties. The New York city administration had protested the bill.
 BuIoaria has apoIogized to Greece for the arrest of a diplomatic mes senger and the seizure of legal doc uments while the messenger was travelling from Constantinople to i Athens.
 A warning to persons wearing cer- | tain neck furs has been issued by the West Virginia Department of Health. | Aresnic used in the preparation of | these furs cause a rash-like diorder of the skin.
 The oriqin of the fire at Fall River on February 16 which resulted in a property loss of more than $1,000, 900 was not determined at an inquiry by George c. Neal deputy chief of the state police.
 In accordance wit ha request made several years ago. the body of James | A. Day, a Haverhill farmer, 75 years | of age, will be cremated and the ashes sprinkIed over the waters of the Mer- rimac river.
 1 Lewis R. Spears, president of the Massachusetts State Automobile As sociation and a former president of the American Automobile Association, died at his home at Newton, Mass, after a long illness.
 William M. Wagner the twelfth member of the party of German pris- oners of war who escaped from the detention camp at Amherst, N. S., on January IT, appeared at the immigra- tion office at Calais, Me, and applied for admission to the United States.