Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-30

t1alIaN TO England.
Senator Kern presented Thomas
Taggart, recently appointed Senator
from Indiana, to President Wilson.
Tho present gold ressr.e of the
German Reichsbank Is S61I,750,00O. an
increase of S274,7 $50 over last week.
Artiees of incorporation were fled
at Albany by the Foreign & Domestic
Transportation Co, capital s1,OOO.0OO
Senator Jones of chsnaneo introduc-
ed a bill in the New York Senate
abolishing the State Athletic Commits
sion.
A membership Of the Chicago Board
of Trade was sold for $4,000, a de-
crease OF 500 from the last previous
sale.
Potatoes at all shipping sections in
the Riverhead section OF Long Island
were advanced from S1-35 to s1.5O
bushel.
The Pittsburgh Bank of Savings,
which closed its doors last December.
will pay dividend Of so per cent on
April Is.
Many trolley cars at Newark, N. j.,
were stoned by strikers. Although
many windows were shattered, no one
was injured.
The Maryland House of Delegates,
by a vote of Sc to 26 passed the bill
providing for a state board Of motion
picture censors.
Ministers and lay delegates gathered
at Montpelier, VT. for the opening of
the annual session OF the Vermont
Episcopal Conference.
Prince August William, fourth son
| of the Kaiser, Will go to Brussels to
serve as assistant to Governor General
Won Bissing Of Belgium
Striking Ioneshoremen of the East
ern Steamship Corporation of New
| York returned to work, having been
! granted increased wages.
| One hundred men were entombed by
/ an explosion of the King Coal Co.'S
mine at Eimball. w. Va Four men
are known to have been killed.
According to the Copenhagen I'll
| deenstegn, 1876 Norwegian and Swedish
/ ships have been sunk by mines or tor
pedoes since the beginning Of the war.
The trustees of Purdue university at
| lafayette. Ind, have decided to build
| a $150.O0O srmory to replace the one
recently destroyed by a mysterious fire.
Carrying a large number of refugee
! families of oil operatives, the Gulf Re
filming Co. yacht Wild Duck is en- route
to Port Arthur, Texas, from Tampico.
The Tennessee Railroad Commission
| ordered the Illinois Central Railroad to
put into effect within 80 days a 1-2
cent passenger rate on interstate bus
! jnesss.
The United States torpedo boat
at Tampa Fla. a negro mess boy on
the ship contracted smallpox at Key
West. Fla.
Louis D. Mcrrion who was arrest
ed in Boston on January 2 for the
alleged larceny of 1900 in diamonds
from a store in Montreal was held for
extradition.
Boy Scouts from Cleveland, jackson
Detroit, Cincinnati and Columbus at
tended an older boys" conference at
Toledo. in the interest Of the scout
movement
A new contract for 1,ooo.o 900 pounds
of smokeless powder every month
while the war lasts has been received
by the Aetna Explosives Co, thT( (Igh
]. p. Morgan & Co.
Reports circulated on the Maritime
Exchange stated that the end of the
| war will see a new Russo-Japanese
steamship line operating between New
| York and Russian ports.
Mrs. John Simonds, 65 years of age
was killed at South Royalston, Mass.
when a sleigh in which she was riding
was struck by a passenger train on the
Boston & Maine Railroad.
The Bergen Point Brass & Foundry
Co. at Bayonne. II. J., was forced to
| shut down its plant, thieves having
stolen all the available brass from the
plant. The stolen metal was valued al
$4,000.
Or. George NJ. Dolbeek, aged IS, was
seriously injured when he fell down q
, flight Of stairs leading to the uptown
Fulton Street subway station in New
York city, after being seized with ar
attack Of vertigo.
It was announced at New York that
; funds had been deposited with ]. p
Morgan and Company by the French
government for the redemption OF the
S35. .000, 900 one year French treasury
. notes, which mature April 1.
SUED FOR $4,000;
GETS VERDICT FOR 81
Or. Russell A. Richards, Who Wa
Expelled from Boston A. A.