Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26

Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 Warning Chine tongs at Portland, Ore, signed a 30 day truce.
 Lieut.. RidgeIy Hunt, U. s. N., re- tired, died at Washington, aged s5.
 Inquiries for 11,o0o freight cars are reported in the equipment market.
 The old state building at Lansing, Mich, was seriously damaged by fire.
 Astria-Hunsary has taken steps to centralize and regulate foreign ex- change.
 Rumania has arranged to sell 100000 carloads of grain to an Austro-German syndicate.
 Canadian munitions manufacturers have made large purchases Of antimony in New York.
 Fire destroyed the H. L. Joyce furni- ture warehouse at BinghamtOn, N- r., | at a loss of S50,OOO.
 Lawrence KilIian, said to belong in | Boston, died of heart disease in chair at a Hartford hotel.
 During 1915 the New York Central handled 4,5O7,759 carloads of freight, 1 one every seven seconds. Great Britain is considering Ievying a heavy tax on American soaps to re- duce the quantity of imports. The Pittsburgh Steamship company ! has ordered two steamers from the American Shipbuilding company.
 The condition of the bakeries in | New Britain are not satisfactory to ! the board of health of that city
 A large acid and chemical manufac- | turing plant will be erected at Wash i ingtOn, Del, by the Pyrites Go, Ltd i The giant cunard liner Mauretania, i sister ship of the ill-fated Lusitania, will resume it's transatlantic schedule. | Hartford has the oldest postman in i point of service in the United States. He is William H. Shaffer, "A years i old.
 l Burglars blew open a safe in St | escaped with service articles valued at i S1,o0O.
 The Merchants 6 Miners Steamship | Go. steamer Junita, Baltimore for Bos- ton, is fast aground in Vineyard | sound, Mass.
 Machinists from all shops in Rich | mond. Berkeley and Portsmouth, Va, voted to go on strike for higher wages and shorter hours. Canada has officially decided to hon. i or the Tnartyred Edith Cavell. British war nurse, by naming a large western mountain peak for her.
 Hans Wagner, veteran star of the | Pittsburgh Pirates. and the oldest ac- tive player in the big leagues, cele- brated his fist birthday.
 President Wilson has consented to allow the Georgia Democratic dele l gates to the National convention to | use h1s name for renomination.
 A strike involving 45o employees took l place today at the Williams and Clark | plant of the American Agricultural i Chemical company at Roosevelt, N. J.
 A call has been issued for all Con | necticut men who attended camp at 1 Plattsburgh, \. Y, last summer ko l meet at the New Haven Lawn club Feb. 29.
 Kansas grain dealers and growers | estimated that the probable wheat | yield has been reduced 25,O00,0O0 | bushels by the coating of ice on the l ground.
 Nearly 1000 employees of the Erie 1 Railroad shop in Meadville, Pa, are to be given an increase in wages. The | advance amounts to from one to two cents m hour.
 The Swedish steamship Roland bound for Hartlepool, England, from Norway, England. from Norway, has l been sunk in the North sea The crew was saved.
 Senator WaIsh's amendment about which the fight on the Shield dam bill has centered in the senate for sev- eral days, was defeated yesterday by a vote of 34 to IS.
 About 54,ooo square feet of land or Halsted street. Chicago, has been pur- chased by the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road Terminal Co., at a price report ed to be S435,0OO.
 c. c. James, United States post of. fee inspector famous for the detec- ton and capture of many post office robbers, died at his home at Sauger- ties, N. Y, aged 67.
 The pay of 1,7oo employees will be increased by seven and one-half pe1 cent. beginning March 1, it was an nounced at Houghton, Mich, by the Quincy Mining company.
 Damage of s2o,ooo was caused wher the 3-inch field gun of Battery of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind. and 1,200 Krag rifles with 1000 rounds of ammunition were destroyed by fire
 A woman secured naturalization pa- pers in the United States court al Hartford. giving as her reason that it would be easier going back and forth between this country and Den mark.
 The John Hubbard Curtis prize al Yale, the income of a fund of s2,500 has been awarded to Morris Hadley son of the president of the university The prize is awarded for excellence 1T | literary work