Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-01

me Ohio River at Evansville, Ind, IS rapidly rising. Government warn ings have been issued.
 Russian and Turkish troops in the Caucasus are fighting in snow four teen feet deep in some places. noEns President i'd wisoe q has has dselsed to az r.. as treasurer of Porto Rico.
 Pupils of Public School No. 40, in The Bronx, deposited S4,251.69 in the school bank during the past term. undated following the breaking of the levee of the Illinois river at Hart well.
 to arrange a meeting between King Ferdinand and Prince George of Greece
 Brig: Gen. George N. Hodson, of the Indian army, who was wounded at the Dardanelles. died at Malta of his injuries.
 Eight persons were injured, two seri- ously, when a bomb exploded during lecture at the Military School at Halifax.
 The American steamer Moreni, Phil adelphia for Copenhagen with petrole- um and naphtha, has been taken into Kirkwall.
 The Greek steamship Pontopores, New York for Rotterdam anchored in the Downs, England, after having been damaged in collision
 King Albert of Belgium has placed Emile VandQTUalda the Socialist member of the Cabinet at the head of the Commissary Department:
 pr. Lois F. MansfieId,s believed to in the United States, died at her home at Santa Barbara, Cal, aged S6. Two of the seven men burned in the explosion at the Du Pont plant at Carney's Point, N. J.. have died, and three others are expected to die. The body of Fritz Norden, a Bel gian, suspected of being a spy in the employ of the Germans. has been found in Ixelles Lake. near Brussels. Damage of $1oo,ooo was caused to the furniture store of Howell Brothers | in west New York Four firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting the | flames.
 In a clash between a small reindeer named David and a giant elk named Goliath in the Washington park Zoo at Portland, Ore, the reindeer defeated the elk.
 The battIeship Oklahoma, built by the New York Shipbuilding Co.,, re- turned to the company's yards at Cam den, N. J.. after successfully under going tests.
 Specialists were summoned from New York yesterday to attend John S. | Hyde, president of the Bath Iron works, who is seriously i'll at his home at Bath, Me.
 G. Douglas Wardrop, editor of the | Aerial Age told the cadets and in- structors at West Point Military Academy that the United Army needs 1000 aeroplanes.
 A report from Rome says that American detectives have discovered one of the men who killed Lieut.. Pe- | trosino of the New York police, in Palermo in 1909.
 The president would be authorized to | negotiate with the CarranZa govern ment for purchase of Lower California by a resolution introduced by Repre- sentative Britton of Illinois.
 A bill providing for a tax of 10 per cent. on war munitions, except those manufactured for the United States, was introduced in the House by Representative Flood of Virginia
 Severe loss of life from heavy snow slides in southwestern Colorado is feared. The entire district is cut of from communication, the snow in drifts being from 30 to 40 feet deep. | Anyone can get a job in America | but an American" said Charles Will jams, full blooded Cherokee Indian and Carlisle graduate, to the Chicago police as he asked them to get him a position.
 | Eben D. Jordan, who built the Bos-
 ton Opera house six years ago. dis posed of his interest in that property | today. The sale was subject to exist | ing leases, all of which expire with the present season.
 | The status of the national guard in any preparedness plan that may be worked out by the present congress was discussed in detail by witnesses yesterday before the senate and house military committees. Ambassador Morgenthau has been ordered to ask the Turkish govern ment for permission for Jewish char itable institutions in this country to send shipload of whole wheat to starving Jews in Syria E pr. George H. M. Rowe. who for 30 years was superintendent of the Bos- | ton City hospital, died Sunday MT, Rowe who was a native of Lowell and a graduate of Dartmouth college and the Harvard Medical school. retired in
 1908.
 Charles B.. Munday, former vice president of the defunct La Sale St Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago was sentenced to serve five years in | the Joliet penitentiary for conspiracy in connection with the wreckage o1
 the bank.
 All first class maiIs between the | United States and foreign countries which enter British territorial waters keven though such vessels do not touch
 a British port are liable to search by ithe British censor, tr "hief posta
 censor announced