Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-19

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 The British government has decided to takei3>ver. the Irish railways.
 The Italian steamship Giuseppe Yer ii arrived at New York from Genoa.
 A billion dollars will be spent in the United States for education next year.
 William Snyder of The Bronx, was killed by freight train at Bridgeport.
 A s2,ooo, 1000 postoffice building is to be erected at St. George, Staten Is- land.
 Princess Joachim of Prussia, daugh- ter -in-law of the German Emperor, gave birth to a son.
 The Duncan Electric Mfg. Go. of | Chicago, increased it's capital from | $3, 100000 to $10,000,000.
 Exports of specie from the port of | New York from Dec Il to Dec. Is | were valued at $13,564,679.
 The American liner St. Paul sailed l from New York for Liverpool with l 7,274 bags of Christmas mail.
 J. EIihu Root kunzman, a lawyer and broker of New York, was arrest | ed charged with grand larceny.
 Lieutenant William Thaw of the French Army Flying Corps sailed on the American liner St. Paul for Liver pool.
 Twenty four men, alleged to have been gambling in the rooms of the Commercial Club of New York. were arrested.
 The exports of general merchandise from the port of New York for the week ended Dec. were valued at S54,679, 192.
 Two persons were killed in an ex- plosion in the plant of the Smokeless Powder Co.,, at Morgan's Station, New Brunswick, N. J.
 Capt. August H. Cunning of the Fifth New Jersey Infantry was placed on trial before a court martial at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook.
 Fire said to have resulted from an S500,G00 in the plant of the Lleyellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles.
 The government will have to spend SS, ,500,000 to support the families Of National Guardsmen now at the border UGl"0SI IiO" dIlu lIlO CILA Ol q AiiO.
 Nelson Morris, chairman of the board of directors of Morris & Co.,, meat packers, of Chicago, announced gift of S175,000 to the pension fund of that company.
 Professor James Monroe Taylor, president emeritus of Vassar College, is critically i'll at a New.-Y erkI hotel, it was learned last night. lie Is 6S years old.
 The Ohio Oil Company and the Illi- nois Pipe Line Company has an- nounced cash bonus of 10 per cent. for employees whose salaries are $2,000 or less yearly
 Fire Commissioner Adamson of New York, accompanied by twenty-five uni formed policemen, arrested 131 men who were caught smoking in factory buildings.
 Fifty patients were rescued with difficulty and one fireman was injured during a fire which virtually destroyed Cooks hospital, a city institution at Fairmont. w. Va.
 Charles Hopkins, of New Haven, a | Yale senior and a member of the Uni versity tennis and swimming teams, was named as the Rhodes scholar to | Oxford from Connecticut. Long Branch, N. J., will celebrate 1 its golden jubilee as an incorporated 1 town April 12. Plans will be consid- cred by the Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting today. The War Department purchased | Chesapeake Bay near Fort Monroe for
 use as an aviation experimental and proving ground for the army.
 Police Commissioner Woods of New York announced that 900 had been subscribed to the fund for having a
 Santa Claus distribution for poor children in every police station. Otto H. Kahn, a banker of New York has been elected life member of the l corporation of the Massachusetts h. stitute of Technology, President Rich l ard c. McLaurin announced yester- day.
 The Interborough Rapid Transit Go reported that 4,624,47 more passeng- CTS were carried last month on the el- evated lines than in any preceding No- cember of the traction, company's his tory.
 Members of the Amaleamated Asso-
  Employees of America voted unanimous ly to continue the strike of car men
 on New York subway, elevated and
 surface car lines.
 Mrs. EIosi ConsaIve, of Morristown N. J., who sued the Lackawanna Rai- road for $1O,O0O damages for the loss of her right arm, obtained a verdict of $7,500 from a jury nSthe United States District Court at Newark.
 Ambassador Page at London official Fly notified the State Department that the allied naval commanders had beer instructed to grant unhindered passage to Count Tarnowski, the new Ambas- sador to the United States from Aus tria- Hungary.
 Four hundred men, women an6 children marched quietly to safety l when fire was discovered in moving picture theatre in Sullivan Street New York. Despite the heavy clouds of smoke pouring into the auditorium there was little confusion.