Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-16

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Charles E. Hughes was unanimously
elected president of the New York Bar
Association.
Exports Of - ssnsraI ~ msrehandiss err
were valued at s15,O59.S51.
Senator Luis Alberto carbo, first
secretary of the Ecuadorial legation,
was made Charge d'Affaires.
The sraystone mansion of Mrs.
Nathan C. Scoville of New York, was
destroyed by fire at a loss of $275,0o0.
Two men were seriously injured
when they were struck by a taxicab at
23rd Street and Third Avenue. New
York.
Lady GrenfeII, widow of Vice Ad-
miral Sir Harry Grenfell, once COM
mander of the British China squadron,
is dead.
Margaret MeIeche, of New Bruns-
wick, N. j., was shot and instantly kill
ed when she refused to marry John
Colesar.
Statistics of Sing Sing for the year
1916, made public, show that in the
ed 1,138 prisoners:
Rear Admiral VIM. q. caperton, COM
mander of the Pacific fleet, was ordered
to take charge of the relief of the
cruiser Milwaukee.
The condition of Former Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii is again criti-
cal, according to advices received from
Honolulu.
Three persons were injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
crashed into telegraph pole at
Spencer Place, The Bronx.
Suit against Harry K. Thaw for
$4,000 was filed in White Plains by
Walter L. Rathbone, a New York at
torney. He is suing for fees
James HohI, Jr, private in the
quartermaster's corps at Fort Hamil-
ton, was shot in the back by a guard
when he attempted to escape from the
fort.
The American Society for the Relief
of French War Orphans cabled $780,
600 to Paris for distribution among
the children made fatherless by the
war.
A contribution of $25,o 900 from. Nor
timer A. Schiff was among those an
nounced by the American Jewish Re
lief Committee for the special $10,-
100000 fund.
The Department of Water Supply
announced that $20,000,000 gallons of
water was used Friday night in
Brooklyn to keep exposed plumbing
from freezing.
The total value of the exports in
voiced at the American Consulate in
Germany for the United States during
1916, was $S,349,9O2, as against $780,,
967 1S3 for 1915.
Manuel Dad Rodaz, of Oaxaca,
Mexico, nephew of the latet President
Porfirio Diaz, was found dead in
house at New Orleans with bullet
through his heart.
One child was mortaIIy burned and
two others were seriously injured
when fire swept their bedroom in the
four story dwelling at No. SIS West
18th Street, New York.
Forty needle straighteners went on a
strike at the plant of the Excelsior
Needle Co., Torrington, today. join
ing II who quit Saturday after de-
manding increased wages.
The National Special Aid Society at
a special meeting, voted to send Miss
Tessie Mcnamara, heroine of the Ca
madam Car & Foundry Co. fire at
Kingsland, N. J., check for $25.
The Harvard Memorial Society an
that it had begun the collec-
ton of data concerning the life and
experience of more than 400 Harvard
men engaged in the European war.
National Bank of Newburgh, is dead.
He was born on Governors Island, his
father, William A. Thornton, being the
general commanding the post at the
time.
The State Department ordered Con-
sui General Williams at San Luis Po-
tosi, Mexico, to investigate the suspi-
cious circumstances surrounding the
death of Luis d'Antin, former Ameri-
can diplomat.
bill extending for another year
the life of the War Risk Insurance
Bureau in the Treasury Department
the House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries.
The lumber schooner Daisy Putnam
was run down by the passenger
steamer Umatilla off southern Cali
'ornia. The Putnam was towed into
Los Angeles harbor in a sinking con-
lition. No lives were lost.
A petition from Massachusetts, car
.ying 1921 names, demanding sever
lnce of relations with Germany un-
ess the Belgian. deportations are
stopped, was forwarded by the State
Department to President Wilson.
Herr Haniel Won Haimhausen, coun-
IeIlor of the German Embassy ct
was informed by the |
German Foreign Office that Emperor |
William has appointed him as minister
in the German diplo-
natic service.
: The desertion of five soldiers from |
he punitive expedition Thursday is |
'e1ieved by army officers to have been |
for report hich gained |
REGULATION on the border that a large /
lumber of American soldiers had de-
erted the expedition.
The New York Churchman'S Asso-
inn NJ fod coil IfT7er