Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09

The steamship Santa Barbara was
reported in distress off Nehalen, Ore.
Capt. Joseph T. Jones of Buffalo,
capitalist, railroad builder and oil
man, is dead.
Thieves robbed the BotheII State
Bank at Washington, and escaped with
$4,000 in cash.
South Dakota in the November cleo
ton was 500.
The Chalmers Knitting Co. of Am
sterdam, N. Y, increased it's capital
from 100000 to $4,000.
The Indiana University School of
Medicine at Indianapolis, was damaged
by fire at a loss of $4,000.
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, has
Z. Hughes, at Washington.
Gold to the amount of S11,ooo,ooo
was received from Ottawa for the ac-
count of j. P. Morgan & Co.
The National MiiIers' Association
announced that this years French
wheat crop yielded 5.700.000 tons.
Harry Hoker, who shot and killed
Mrs. Minnie Beatty last May was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
A large part of the huge transfer
shed of the Baltimore &, Ohia Railroad
at Brunswick, Md, was destroyed by
tire.
Two hundred delegates attended the
opening session of the New York
State Fish. Game and Forest League
at Buffalo.
Approximately half a million for
eigners took steps to become natural
| lied American citizens during the year
ended in June.
The House passed the Burke bill
appropriating $685. 900 for the eStab-
| lishment of fish hatcheries and fish
culture stations.
Prince J.. KIuhio kaIanianaoIe, del
| egate to Congress from Hawaii, ar
rived at San Francisco, Cal, on his
| way to Washington.
Thursday was Telephone Day" in
| the $2,000,090 campaign of Jewish
| Philanthropic Societies. Total contri-
| buttons were So, 800.
Capt. MarschaII chiIds of the Twen-
| ty-ffth United States Infantry. is
| dead at Honolulu, where he had been
| stationed for four years.
| All Cornell University glasses We're
| suspended for one hour at noon dur
| ing the funeral in New York city of
| George c. Boldt, a trustee.
1t will cost Westecher County, N. "
| $4,000 to canvass the 220 votes or SOL
| diers from Westchester who are on
| duty on the MeSieaa -boEder-
/ Leslie MoNinarle, OF Matte Rock,
Pa, was instantly killed by falling
| under the wheels of a three-ton hay
/ baler in which he was riding.
/ Capt. Carol A. Gilman CaIkins, nav
flagship the Olympia, at Manila Bay, is
/ dying at his home at Berkeley. Cal
/ Nelson Wood, an inventor and form
er representative of the Tel-eIectric
| Piano Co, of New Jersey, committed
| suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor.
The Norwegian steamship Blue
fields, under charter to the United
about eleven miles east Of Puerto Cor
tez, Honduras.
| The state board of health yesterday
revoked the medical license of DR.
George e. Sleeper of Hartford, who
recently completed q prison sentence
for malpractice.
The Spanish Embassy in BerIir
has handed the German government {
protest from the Belgian government
against the removal of Belgian work.
men into Germany.
The final report of the treasurer O.
, the Democratic National Committee
filed with the Clerk of the House
shows total receipts $1,S08,34S; eX-
penditures, s1,684.589.
Mrs. Newton Baker, wife of tn,
: War Secretary. is to lobby for the fed
eral amendment for woman suffrag ge
She announced she would become {
, Congressional Aide"
The United States mail stage run
ming from Rogerson, Idaho to Jar
, bridge, New, was held up and rop
bed, and it's driver, F. Searcy was sno
: and killed by bandits.
Three 40,0o0-ton battIeships carryin,
a main battery of twelve 16-inch guns
; will form the backbone of the nava
. programme to be authorized at tn,
present session of Congress.
The Newfoundland government, ha
prohibited the admission into New
, foundland of the American publica
, tions that have been excluded from
. English and Canada territories.
Morris GIeekman, of New York, wa
sentenced in Special Sessions to servt
an indeterminate sentence of from 81,
months to three years in the peniten
tiary for selling obscene literature.
t The House named Representative
Rucker, of Missouri, Garret of Tennes
see and Mckinley of Illinois to makt
arrangements for the second inaugura
f ton of President Wilson on March 5.
f The Agricultural Department an
announced htat a plant will be erected
j on the southern Pacific coast to ex
pertinent on a commercial scale will
5 the problem of extracting potash from
kelp.
: The Antarctic expedition under tn
auspices of the United States Gov
ernment to acquire large areas of un
chartered land south of Cape Horl