Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-15

| The Norwegian bark Skarv arrived
at New York from Rouen after a voy-
age of sixty days
The fifth annual convention of Dis
! trict School Superintendents opened
at Rochester, N. Y.
Fire destroyed the Walnut Street
| Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia
at loss of 100000.
Count Alexander constaninovitch
iBeckendorff, Russian Ambassador to
Great Britain, is dead.
John Mccormack, the singer, applied
| to the Federal Court at Phiiadefphia
for American citizenship.
| Thomas w. Lamont, of New York,
was appointed as chief marshal at the
Harvard commencement exercises next
| June.
A labor union of federal employees in
Chicago has been formed, to be aff1l-
lated with the American Federation of
Labor.
James H. ToIIes, mayor of Nashua,
| n. H, from 1886 to 1888, died sudden
ly at his home there. He was II years
of age.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
| GLI 1llIlOlS ny Tie buII0T iron Co., OF
Missouri, with a capital stock of
| 81, 100000.
Ambassador Moan presented Presi-
| dent Wilson an autograph letter from
the recently inaugurated president of
| Argentina.
A man with a bullet hole over the
heart was found on the westbound
| tracks of the White line trolley in
Carlstadt, n. j.
The body of woman was found in
! a room of the Hotel Deshler at Colum-
bus, o. Her throat was cut and her
| face had been slashed.
The Board of Estimate appropriated
so gasoline propelled pumping engines
for the Fire Department.
A bill as introduced in the New
York Legislature to remove the $685.
100000 capital limit on manufacturing
and mercantile operations.
jacksonville, Fla, was selected for
| the 1917 meet of the national rifie
matches by the National Board of
Promotion of Rife Practice.
John Jakowsky, a chauffeur of New
York, died in Flower Hospital of in
juries received when a car he was
driving. struck an elevated railroad
pier.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, visited
the White House for the first time
since the Taft administration. She
was the guest at luncheon of Mrs.
Wilson.
A bill to prevent railway strikes,
pending. investigation. of disputes
will be favorabIy reported to the Sen
ate by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
The Senate Committee on Printing
after an investigation, reported the
possibility of saving $4,000 annually
by the elimination of useless public
documents.
Congress has been asked by Sec
retary McAdoo to pass a bill to for
bid and punish by a fine and impris-
Onnent impersonation of secret ser
vice agents.
Headed by the flagship Pennsyl-
vania, the Atlantic battleship fleet
sailed from the southern drill grounds
for Guantanamo for manoeuvreS and |
target practice.
Three women were killed and six !
other persons injured when an Illinois |
Central train struck a street car at a |
crossing at Rockford, ILL.,, hurting the |
car into a creek.
A measure for constitutional |
amendment granting full suffrage to |
women and another providing for linn
tied suffrage, were passed by the |
North Dakota Senate.
Count Ottokar Czernin Won Chude-
nitz, the AuStro- Hungarian foreign !
minister, is i'll in bed as result of an
abscess of the upper jaw. says Reuters
Amsterdam correspondent.
The American Locomotive Co. has
taken orders for 40 1S4ton and five
cific and "a large Santa Fe engines
for the Southern Pacific.
The Nova Scotia schooner Harry
loaded with fish from st.
Johns, n. F.. for Mediterranean port
was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay,
according to vable advices received
here.
Otto n. Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
of New York for % years, filed appIi-
cation at Morristown, n. J., his legal
residence, to become a citizen of the
United States.
C. C. HuddIes*on, of Huntington, w
pillar at Third Avenue and 46th st.
Va, was shot and killed by Robert B.
Franklin, retail lumber dealer of
KY, while riding on a |
Louisville & Nashville train near
KY.
Joseph Bousa, his wife and their ten
children were driven from their home
in the Farm Hill district, at Middle
town, by a fire that destroyed the
dwelling late last night. The blaze
started from an overheated stove. The
loss is $35, 900.
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