Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-29

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 Condensed TeIegrams
 Georges DufayeI, founder of the arge Paris stores bearing his name, is | lead.
 Fire destroyed the monastery of the l rrappist monks, at oka, Que, at oss of $250,000.
 Bandits blew the safe of the Faxon | State Bank, at Faxon, Okla, and es- | ,aped with $3,000.
 The Hotel Michigan at Fall River, Mass, was damaged by fire at a | oss of about s50,000.
 The Federal Dyestuff 6 Chemical Corporation increased it's capital from S1,500,000 to $2,000,000.
 The steamship Sanksku Maru is aground off Chefoo, with crew and totaling 400.
 Mrs. Mary Talbot, a former slave, CSiSpTdLCu HeI' 1GULIle dnn1- versary at Ottumwa, Ia
 G. H. Usher, general superintend- ent of the southern division of the Postal Telegraph Cable Cot, is dead.
 Members of the New York State Shorthand Reporters Association opened their 41st annual convention at New York.
  w. H. MaIburn, Asst. Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Judiciary af- fairs is to resign within the next three weeks.
 Fire destroyed three dining cars Of the Baltimore 6 Ohio Railroad at Mariners Harbor, Richmond, at a loss of about $10,000.
 The Southern Pacific Go. announced the appointment of pr. George W. Tape as manager of the Paso Robles Hot Springs to be effective Jan. l.
 Bernard F. HawIey, of Lake George, in jail since Saturday, under an in dictment charging theft of $30,OO0 from a mail pouch, was released in $25,00O bail.
 Major Powell Clayton, formerly at tached to the General Staff, War De- partment, and recently assigned to the Sixteenth cavalry on the Mexican border, is dead.
 The PaIeontoIigicaI society, in annu- al meeting elected J. c. Merriman, University of California, president. pr. R. S. Lull, Yale university was chosen secretary.
 Dr.. Frank D. Adams of the Universi- ty of Toronto last night was chosen sHfesident of the Geological Society of 4merica at the organizations annual meeting at Albany.
 More than 1000 college men from all parts of the country arrived at Pittsburgh to attend the biennial na- tional convention of the Sigma Ep- silon Fraternity.
 The trial of Josiah V. Thompson for misapp1ication of the funds of the First National Bank of Uniontown was set for Jan. in the United States Court at Pittsburgh. Jeremiah Jackson, negro, of Marysville, Cal, is in a hospital as a result of being kicked in the head by mule. The mules leg was broken and it had to be shot. ne new TOTTGSG FFcLLymant chaplain of the United States Sen ate, was asked to accept the pastorate of the Greene Memorial Methodist church at Roanoke, Va. Two hundred and forty-one second
 lieutenants appointed to the regular army from civil life were ordered to 1 service schools for training before l joining their commands. 1 The Department of Commerce re-
 ports the exports of cotton for the ! week ended Dec. 23 at 16S.403 bales
 against 121, 192 bales in the corre-
 spending week last year. A general arbitration treaty be- l tween Brazil and Uruguay was sign-
 ed by Dr. Lauro Muller, Brazilian for 1 eign minister. and a special anbas- 1 sador to Rio Janeiro by Montevideo 1 Students of practically every ma. l tionality represented in American col
 leges gathered at New Haven, for the 10th annual convention of the Cosmo- politan Clubs, or Corde F'ratres Soci- ety.
 1 The Norwegian steamer Snetoppen
 bound from New York to Havre witf
 a general cargo, put into port at Hal flax, N. S., with water in her hold ! missing.
 The Baldwin Locomotive Work: received orders for three mallet typs locomotives from the Union Pacific 1 two ten-wheelers from the Jersey Cen traI, and 30 Santa F'e type from tht St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. Resolutions asking congressional
 action for the relief of the presen countrywide scarcity of news prin paper were telegraphed last night t. l the Kentucky representatives and sen
 ators by the Kentucky Press associa tion
 Thomas Butkiewiez, Jr., Universit. of Pennsylvania football star ant later assistant district attorney in Lu
 zerne county, Pa., is fighting witl the French army, according to a letter received by friends in Wilkes-Barre.