Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-18

WiIiaf1 Es FboCtnSOHy WnO rec61VeQ the Victoria Cross for bringing down a Zeppelin in a recent raid on London was presented with a public gift of $2,500.
 Anna Iacono of New York, was crushed to death by an auto truck of the Adams Express Co.,, when it skidded at Second Avenue and 14th Street.
 Syracuse was selected for the next annual conference of the bricl7Iavers. masons and plasterers of New York at the closing session of this years meeting.
 Arrangements for the construction at Anniston, Alabama. of five electric steel furnaces at a cost of $1, ,0OO, 900 by the Alabama Power Co. was an nounced.
 Secretary of Navy, Daniels, an- nounced that plans have been made for the building of the worlds great est hospital ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
 Two light barges in tow from Bos- ton to Philadelphia were in collision with the steamer Gloucester, Balti- more to Boston, during a fog in Vine yard Sound.
 The British Press Bureau an- nounced that five persons were killed and fifteen injured in an explosion which took place in a government mu- nitions factory.
 The superdreadnough Arizona, just completed at the New York Navy Yard, will be commissioned under command of Captain John D. McDon- Eald on Oct. 15.
 According to a report made to the State Probation Commission. New York State has 12,251 residents who are on probation from some court or penal institution.
 Twenty thousand dollars in prizes will be awarded to aviators from all parts of the country in an aviation contest to be held in Wichita, Kan. from Oct. 25 to 27.
 The Dutch government is preparing a bill under which the state will be enabled to commander shipping to bring goods to Holland for distribution under state control. Lieut. Commander Watson reported to Navy Department that Waiter Saw yer, hrst-class seaman, had fallen overheard from the destroyer Erices- son and drowned in Hampton Roads. The French Government has in- structed the minister at Stockholm to l join with the Entente minister's in i presenting friendly but firm note tc Sweden in regard to it's policy of neu- | traliJy.
 Mayor James Lennon, of Yonkers wrote to the Public Service Commits sion at Albany complaining at the n lo n To- to take action toward settling the street car strike.
 The Coast Guard Board on Life Saving Appliances will meet in Bos- ton Sept. 25 to examine plans and 1 test inventions that have been sub- mitted to the service for saving life and property at sea.
 Arthur PeebIes Smith one time 2 we'll known photographic chemist, died | in the New Rochelle hospital from in ternal injuries received when he was struck by an automobile at the corner of North and Fifth Avenue, New Ro- chelle, N. Y.
 Col. Fl. J. SIocunn, who was com mander at Columbus, N M. when the | Villa raid took place, has been as- signed as brigade commander at Lare- | do, Texas, where he will take charge of the brigade composed of Maine an6 New Hampshire guardsmen. Greece to Maintain Neutrality. London, Sept. F. 7.10 D. m = M Kalogeropoulos, the new Greek pre-.
 mier, declares that the new govern. ment will observe the most benevolen neutrality towards the entente, says
 Reuter- despatch from Athens today
 ''He repudiates allegiations that he | is Germanophile,' adds the despatch although he confesses that he is al adnirer of Germany