Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-09


 A Canadian machine gun has been placed near the approach of the lower steel arch bridge at Niagara Falls, be- hind barricade of sandbags.
 The Rev. Samuel B: Hedges, pastor of St. Bridget's Catholic Church at Newark, N. J.. died of heart disease in the church after finishing mass.
 Pope Benedict is reported to have sent messages to President Wilson and Kaiser Wilhelm urging them to avoid a break In diplomatic relations.
 The Greek protected cruiser HeIli has been ordered to Panama to take part in the ceremonies attendant upon the Panama National Exposition.
 A circular threatening a general strike if conscription is attempted was issued by the Trades and Labor Con gress of the Dominion of Canada
 Capt. J. H. Worden, of Dallas, Tex, fell 2,500 feet and was instantly killed when his monoplane collapsed in a loop he-loop flight at Vickery, Tex.
 New York city's mass meeting to commemorate the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania was called off at the request of Mayor Mitchell.
 The Dutch steamer Gorrediik, Rot terdam for Philadelphia, and the Dan ish steamer Mary, Baltimore for Cop enhagen, have been taken into Kirk wall.
 Father Aeapius Houcharenko, for merly confessor of the novelist Tolstoi, died on a little ranch near Hayward, Cal. He was driven from Russia 30 years ago.
 As a result of puneturing his thumb with an instrument he was using in filling a patients tooth. Dr. Frank Zimmerman, of Chicago, died of blood poisoning.
 Ali Dinar, Innan of Darfur, a coun- try of southwestern Egypt with sew eraI million inhabitants, is reported to have proclaimed a holy war against the British.
 Haytis Senate was dispersed by police commanded by an American of f1cer when they persisted in holding a meeting in spite of the warning of Admiral Caperton.
 President Wilson nominated J. War ren Davis, present United States At torney at Trenton, N. J., to be United States Judge in the recently created New Jersey district.
 Mrs. Agnes Newman, sister of Sir Roger Basement, facing trial in Eng land for high treason, appealed to the State Department and British Em- bassy to save her brother from death.
 Twenty five horses burned to death when the stables of Strong Bros, at Hampton, N. Y, were set on fire, ac- cording to the police, by a former em- T1IOIy0 SdR1TfTO for a iy jail.
 While acting as piekpoeIoet in a | demonstration during the police par ade, Patrolman Christopher F. ReiEy was shot in the jaw by Detective Kid roy, who had not been told of the stunt
 A gigantic project for linking the North Sea and the Baltic with the Black Sea by a series of canals con- | meeting the rivers has received the official recognition of the German gov ernment-
 George Jordan, aged 8, of Ports l mouth. Ohio. confessed that he had accidentally shot and killed his mother last Tuesday. He had charged his father with the crime, and the latter had been arrested
 During an electrical storm last night | lightning struck a barn on the CaIef estate in Williams street, Middletown | setting the building on fire ssnd causing | it's complete destruction. A small au- tomobile in the barn was also de- stroyed.
 The Connecticut Typothetae Associa- ton, at it's annual meeting in New Haven. elected officers as follows: John A. Desmarest, president, New Haven; vice president, Fred NJ King, ! Middletown: secretary, ID. D. McDon- aid. New Haven; treasurer. R. H. Gil- Iespie. Stamford.