Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-18
Any Paper Largest in Connecticut Prop
cut in Proportion to the CiRs Population
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The United States transport Hancock
rrived at Vera Cruz.
Mrs Elizabeth MecandIess, aged 1o2
lied in Elizabeth. n. ].
Benjamin w.. Hitchcock. widely
lis home at Jersey City.
General PiehVe, retired, former Com
chief of the Russian North
srn Army, is dead at Moscow.
Damage estimated at $1,000, 900 was
lone when the Scheldt dixie broke near
Quatrecht, a few miles east of Client.
The White Star Liner Cedric arrived
1t New York with 1859 bags of first
class mail and SIT packages Of parcel
post mail
Melquiades Chaps and Jose Buen-
rostro, Mexicans convicted of killing A
L. Austin, of Sebastian. were sentenced
to be hanged on May 19.
Captain James M. Fulton, of the /
Coast Artillery, at Fort Grant, Panama, /
was dismissed from the army for vio- |
The body of John MiI<os, a fve-year-
old boy who disappeared from his |
home at Danbury. Saturday afternoon, |
was found in the Still river.
Lieutenant v. o. Herbster, assistant
naval attache at the American En-
bassy at Berlin, was ordered home for
duty in the Intelligence Bureau
Brown Committee. to decrease New
Yorks taxes. We're reported favorably
by the Assembly Rules Committee
Secreted in boxes, jars and cans,
more than $4,000 worth of opium was
found by detectives in the room of
Chin Chong, in Pell Street, New York.
The recent appeal OF the Greater New
York Committee of the Commission for
relief in Belgium for funds to aid the
destitute of Belgium, netted S24s,OOO-
Seventy-five men living near Fort
lotion, appeared on the parade grounds
there and went through formal mill
tary drills under officers from the fort.
Six men were seriously injured as
the result Of another clash between
the strikers and guards at the Inter-
national Paper Company's plant at Nj
agara Falls.
The Alaska Engineering Commits
sioH's tUgs Crosby and Annie W., with
I FIVE barges. bound from Seattle TO
! : ward. We're wrecked of Cape Spen-
I Ger. Alaska
One hundred and thirty-six under
4 graduates and one graduate student at
| Princeton University have enlisted for
| the various military camps to be held
this summer.
| The United Hebrew Charities has in
stitutsd Il campaign for names and ad-
dresses of persons who in the future
| will have cast-off clothing. for needy
Jews OF the city.
Guy 3. 5iddinser.. former police
sergeant Of Chicago, who is wanted in
that city on 50 charges embracing
bribery. extortion and grand larceny,
surrended to the police
Maojr- General J. Franklin Bell has
ordered the dispatch of the machine
gun corps, numbering 30 men stationed
at Vancouver, Wash. to Calexico, Cal
on the Mexican border.
Forest fires which already have done
great damage in Cumberland, Carolina
and other countries of Eastern North
Carolina We're reported spreading rap
idly before high winds.
The Whitney bill, putting the Sara
toga Springs Reservation under tht
Jurisdiction of the Conservation Com
mission, passed the New York Senate
1t now goes to the Assembly.
President James A. Campbell Of tn,
| Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
. announced a 10 per cent. increase II
wages of all employees excepting thos'
on salaries, effective May l.
A reduction of working hours from
55 to so a week without any reduction
in wages. will so into effect May L
at the mills of the Clarke Thread Co.
in Newark and East Newark.
j The coast guard cutter Mohawk hal
gone to the assistance Of the schoone
William P. Hood. Cuba for New York
reported in distress 81 miles southeas
: of Five Fathom Bank Lightship.
} Caleb Rassett. arrested at Manehes
D ter, charged with attempted arson
5 pleaded guilty when arraigned in tn
t town court and was held for the su
perior court under bonds Of $4,000.
Results Of 80 days lreeruiting. an
b. Inounced by the War Department 70
the additional 10000 men authorizes
v 1
tfons and acceptances OF 1927 recruits
1 Construction work on some new fac
r tory building at Meriden was inter
3 rupted by a strike of union laborers
n The strikers are seeking for an in
q crease in wages from s2.25 to SIS
n a day.
= Charles Diever is being held by tn
= New Britain police for trial Thursday
= charged with stabbing his cousir
: Louis Diever. in the stomach Sunda
e evening during quarrel owe
: cigarettes.
e On the steamship Antonio Lope;