Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-28

closed since Monday.
 Chinese revoIutionists have ordered | a rebel attack on Pekin. capital of | China
 The Pure Oil Go. declared a dividend | Of per cent. and an extra dividend i of 30 per cent
 Four Swedish officers, commanding l the police in Persia. have been arrest ed by the Russians.
 Ono thousand South Sea islanders are on their way to Europe to join the entente forces
 Currency amounting to S2coo.coo was transferred to san Francisco by the New York Sub-Treasury.
 According to a report of the State Mining Bureau. California produced ss.24o.s2o barrels of oil in 1915.
 The second mems national mission ary congress convened at Washington. with President Wilson in attendance John A. Patten, whose suit aGains: the American Medical Association is on in Chicago. died there unexpected The Baltimore & Ohio RaiIroad | raised its embargo on corn on all | points except points east of Pitts Ourgh.
 Prince Albert of Monaco sent a ca | ble to President Wilson congratulat- | ing him on his firm attitude toward | Germany.
 ProsPeetors are reported to havo made a rich gold strike at Boob and | Iolstoi creeks, in the lnno district of Alaska
 Corporal Emit Troiso, of New York city. a member of the Sixth Infantry. | died at the San Antonio. Mexico. hos pital camp.
 Pittsburgh has forbidden Pittsburgh cops to interfere with "spooners" in the city parks.
 A number of employees at a promI- nent hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.
 being German spies.
 4 Villa captain who wore seven pounds of silver lace decorating his
 uniform, was killed by American
 troops near Namiquipa-
 As result of the recent escape oi
 two conyicts, Gov. Whitman has or
 dered n rigid investigation of condi-
 tons at Sing Sing prison
 A new corporation, 10 be known nr
 tho Sun Shlp5uilding Corporation. wIi
 establish another shipyard on thC Delaware river at Philadelphia. The eenats judiciary eennnitte,
 again considered but took no actlo1 upon the nomination of Louis ID. Bran.
 deis for the supreme court of the U Tho Norwegian steamship Stroms naeg. bound for Lubeck. with carg, of herring from Norway. has beer
 hlown up and sunk of CJedser, Den,
 mark.
 President John D. Cooper filed { petition in the superior court nskini
 that the Cooper Aircraft Co..of Bridge port be thrown into the hands of a re-
 ceiver.
 New York state will bottle and dis. | tribute wntcra from tho ntate reserva, [ ton nt Saratoga Springs, the Conser' vation Commission at Albany an | nounced.
 3 President Wilson shook hands witi , i.50o tourists from New York an, ! other sections of tho country, the inrg est number he hns ever handled h l one day.
 otHoiaI denial wac made of the re
 port that water had been found Tn on , of the Penn-AeN Fuel Co.'S wells Il Y | Mexico, by the management of th : company.
 , Mrs. Mary A, Ragan oF New Britain 1 an aged woman who was partly blind
 died Of burns she received whom sh n walked blindly Into bonfire in he back yard.
 Extra guards have bean stationed a
 the British consulate in New Yort
 following an attempt made by sup ! posed German agents to steal Impor
 tant papers.
 4 report from Mexico City Eays tha l many German officers are directin
 the new 0ustemnlan revolt, while Ja = panese agents are furnishing the arm 2 and ammunition,
 t Fire destroyed the cotton eenpres . of the Gulf Compress Co. at Decatur r Ala Between 10000 and l3,ooo bale
 of cotton were burned, at an estimate y loss of t1.Ooo.oOO,
 - Fine granulstsd sugar touched in II highest price in the industry 1 nthl Y country when the Warner Sugar Re @ fining Go. advanced its price 10 point 5 10 irOO cents h pound. - British esaI mine owners have bee y notified bY the war office that 1e.o0 = miners skilled in tunneling and lum
 boring work are needed for the Brit
 ish forces in Flanders.
 Private P, H, Harris, of the Cana 8 dian army, station at Brantford, Ont
 was notified by British lawyers tha lt because of deaths in the war, he
 heir to an English earidom, f Because ef anti suffrage actIvltie =. State Senator Elen R, Brown of Wa r tertown, N, Y,, has been elected a - honorary membeF of the Jefferso 5 County Anti-6uffFags Association. o The changes In rates on milk an "a cream shipments sought by the Bosto " & Maine railroad were further SUI. t pended until August 90 by the Massa - ohusettH Public Service Commission,
 President Wllssn was requested
 designate the week preceding Asmol
 iai Sunday as a period of contribution a through the churches for the reIii
 of war sufferers in Europe and Asi