Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-10

William Sickeis, letter carrier, of f last New York, dropped dead, after @ ght in a cafe near his home.
 Count von Donna sehIodion, com- lander of the German cruiser Moewe, ,as killed in battle in France.
 Two men were seriously injured in a ght between striking carpenters and ockbuilders working in Long Island ,ity.
 Paul Boethy, president of the Hun ,arian House of Representatives, ormer1y minister of commerce, is lead.
 BIando Vineenze aged Al, a Iaberer, vas eltrocuted at Burnside when he anne into contact with charged rolley pole.
 A memorial meeting in honor of the ate James Whitcomb Riley was held It Indianapolis on the anniversary of he poets birth.
 he East River was identified as that 1 1f the missing Cornell student, Rob- 1 ert N. Blackhal1.
 Four boys were injured by the col lapse of 8 scaffold in a partially con-
  Avenue, the Bronx.
 Mr. and Mrs. w. Vanderbilt, who have been visiting hospitals at the front, sailed for New York on the Lafayette.
 King Constantine of Greece, person. ally called at the home of Dionysis and asked the aged states man, who is i'll abed, to form a Cab inet.
 Figures compiled by the British Board of Trade for the month of Sep tember show that imports increased $36,010, while exports increased $55,- 845, 900.
 One man was killed and two were badly injured when a furniture van of CoWperthwait & Sons, furniture deal- CTS, overturned at LenOX Avenue and 45th Street.
 Mothers of Engewood, N. J., are up in arms against the change in school hours to S:30 in the morning and dis crimination in favor of children of wealthy families.
 Eight persons. were injured when a heavy automobile truck of the Empire Carting Co, crashed head-on with a wese-bev4Fel~ 56t Street scrosstown car near Fifth eAyenue,..-.-.-->e-s.--.s--
 The will of Thomas L. James, Post master General under President Gar field. was admitted to probate at Hackensack N. J. He left an estate valued at $1,OOo,0OO.
 Mrs. Mary Copeland, aged 65, wid- ow, was struck by the engine of an express train at a crossing at East Hartford and died while being rushed to a Hortford Hospital.
 George Anito, five, of The Bronx, New York dide at Lebanon Hospital caught fire from Q small bonfire built by boys in a vacant lot.
 James Medskar, arrested in St. Louis, confessed he was one of three men who held up the New York Chi cago Express on the Michigan Rail- road, near Detroit, on Sept. 27. Contributions at the rate of $f0O a minute for twenty minutes were pledg- ed for foreign mission at the Euclid Avenue Baptsit Church as John D. Rockefeller smiled his approval.
 The Robert Bacon Senatorial League received $64, ,739.46 and spent S64,71S.6O on it's unsuccessful campaign to have US cdnuludIo IlOullndl6u or C01ISC States Senator by the Republicans. LouIa Long, widely known as a hoSewoman, was seriously injured when she was shrown from her mount in a potato race at the American Roy al Livestock Show at Kansas City. Jim Jacques, negro well known all over the country a few years ago as the keeper of the most notorious dive in New England, died at the home of friends in Bridgeport, aged about 79 Demands for a seven hour day will be made by coal miners of the coun- | try at the coming wage conferences according to John P. White, president i of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica.
 1 Two trainmen were killed when an eastbound Cincinnati, Indianapolis & 1 Western freight train crashed into a west bound freight which was switch ing cars on to siding at Maplewood | Ind.
 i The British steamer Hawksheac reached Newport News under her owr steam apparently not much damaged
 by her collision in the harbor with the l Chesapeake line steamer City of Nor folk.
 J. Percy Evans of Warranton, Va. died in the Polyclinic Hospital, New
 York, as the result of injuries receiv-
 ed when his horse fell with him or
 Sept. 30 in a steeplechase at Belmont
 Park.
 Chief R. w. kappenburg of the Eas Hartford police department died in { hospital at Hartford as the result O. injuries received on September 19 when he was struck by an automobil. while directing traffic. in East Hart ford.
 Rev. Charles F. Taylor, pastor 0
 the Second Congregational church a Greenwich, and prominent in the DO litical affairs of the town, announces
 his resignation to take effect Novem
 Der 5.
 William Howell Ellis, who is prom
 inent socially in Philadelphia, shot an,
 killed his wife and then attempted su
 icide by shooting himself at his hom
 'rHollyhock' on the Bethlehem turn pike near Amber.
 A posse of 150 citizens was soourin the woods near Cromwell for an un