Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-08

oOO. 900 to s5.Oo0.OoO.
jacques S. HaIla of New York, who
died two weeks ago, left an estate
valued at 100000:
The body of Mrs. Lydia Brown, of
Rockaway Park, Queens Borough, was
found in Jamaica bay.
Gov. Fielder of New Jersey, issued
proclamation designating next Sun
day as tuberculosis day.
Exports from the port of PhiIa-
delphia for the month of November
were valued at $38,000,000.
Fire aboard the eteamer Great City,
in dock in the Erie Basin, Brooklyn,
destroyed grain worth $4,000.
No reports of the death of foreign
ers in Mexico had been received last
night at the state department.
Gold coin to the amount Of 81 900 900
was Withdrawn from the Sub Treasury
for shipment to San Francisco.
The international Paper Co, of
Watertown, N. Y, announced an in
crease of 10 per cent in wages.
Bids for the four largest and swiftest
DdIL1e cruisers ever auLQOrlZeO were
opened at the Navy Department.
Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, who was
Admiral Jellicoe's second in command
of the Grand Fleet, waS appointed
Sea Lord.
Gold coin to the amount of 81 600 900
was withdrawn from the treasury
for shipment to South America and
100000 to Spain.
William j. Maier, chairman of the
assembly ways and means committee.
was appointed deputy fiscal supervisor
of state charities.
Alexander SehIieke, president of the
German Metal Trades Labor Union,
was appointed a member of the War
Office Department.
Prohibition of betting on eIectiono
was proposed in an amendment to the
corrupt practices bill offered by Sen
ator Kenyon of Iowa.
AdoIph LoeffIer, of New York, plead
/ ed guilty before Judge Mott in General
Session to a charge of grand larceny
in the second degree.
The Bureau of Navigation of the
! Navy Department announced that the
! Atlantic fleet win be sent to the Pan
anna Canal next spring.
Charles @. HiIdebrandt, secretary of
| state, ordered statewide invec tiga-
| ton of charges of fraud and error in
| the recent Ohio election.
President Wilson sent a telegram to
| George G. Boldt, expressing sorrow for
the death of Mr.. Boldt's father, man
ager of the Waldorf Astoria
|
Robert NJ. Harper, of Washington
| was ceiected as chairman of the COM
mittee to have charge of President
Wilson's second Inauguration cere-
monies
| Harry M. Landis, treasurer of Pitts.
| burgh and one of tl1S best known
] bankers in the city, oled at his resi-
/ dence yesterdav at Pittsburgh of heart
1 disease, aged 53.
| Commissioner of Weights and Meas
ures Hartigan announced that investi-
gatons made by him have proved tina,
twelve men are responsible for high
food prices in New York.
i Proposed advances in. lumber rates
on railroads operating from points in
! Arkansas to Pensacola, Fla, were sus
pended by the Interstate Commerce
Commission until April 2.
4
The strike of the stage hands ir
F! Hartford in progress for more thar
two weeks, had been settled. The men
are given an increase in wages and
double pay for Sunday work.
The Council of National Defense Gre
ated by the National Defense Act and
composed of six Cabinet officers an6
seven civilians, held its first forma
meeting at the War Department.
The 160 rivetere employed on the
ibattleships New. Mexico under con,
struction in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
i who struck for 20 per cent. increase
in wages, will return to work today.
Leonard M. WaIstein, Commissions
of Accounts, New York. sent to Police
dealers who have agreed to sell Goa
to poor families at firm 81 to $8 a ton.
Josephue Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, signed a contract with Homer
r. Ferguson, president of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
for the construction of two battleships
Jesse Taylor, director general of tn.
| National Highways Association o1
| Washington, d. c., and president of the
Ohio Good Roads Federation, died al
his home at jamestown. Ohio, yester-
| day.
| A lone robber threw pepper in the
| face of an express wagon guard in the
rea: of a downtown Dlilding at Los
Angeles. seized $4,000 in gold and Cur
rency from the express wagon and
escaped.
| One hundred members of the crew
| of the Spanish steamship Pho TX. from
| New Orleans for Barcelona, were
drowned by the sinking of the veseel
in a storm when 200 miles off the Ca
nary Islands
| The Russian Government informed
the State Department it will not per-
init American physicians to enter Rus
sia for the pupose of administering te
German civilian and war prisoners in
Russan camps.
The police of Nashua, NJ. H., Joined
with the selectmen and posse of the
town of Hollis in searching for Mrs
Samuel Hayden, 80 years oe age, who
disappeared Wednesday night from
her nome in the latter town
The Scandinavian American line,