Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-03

Condensed Telegrams

Tristan souther, former Harvard
Fifty-four persons were Iynched in
the United States in 1916.
The American liner ST. Louis arriv-
ed at New York from Liverpool.
Albert F. Sleeper, of Badaxe, Re-
publican, was inaugurated Governor
of Michigan.
Hamilton Wright Mabie, author.
lecturer, critic, and for Is years as
sociate editor of the Outlook, is dead.
Postmaster Horace C. Phaneuf of
Nashua. N. H, died at his home after
| a brief illness. He was 81 years of
age.
The appointment of w. C. Kendall
as superintendent of transportation of
| the Boston and Maine railroad was an
| nounced.
The Hampton Terrace Hotel. a wint-
err tourist resort near Augusta, Ga,
was destroyed by fire at a loss of
100000.
Automobiles killed 72s persons last
year on the streets and highways of
New York State, as compared with
663 in 1915.
Mr.. and Mrs. William o'NeiT, who
were found dead in bed at their home
in the South Boston district, had been
frozen to death.
The bankruptcies in Germany for
the year 1916 numbered 2,227, as COM
pared with $3.50 and 7,73S in 1915 and
1914, respectively.
Charles Wilson, 20 years old, and
his wife, 80, were asphyxiated in their
home at No; 1861 Greene Avenue,
Avenue, Brooklyn
John Wilkes Booth, last of the
famous family of actors, was buried
at LeadviIle, Col He was a nephew of
Lincoln's assassin.
Henry HoItgrew, of Cincinnati,
who several years ago, was reputed
to be the champion heavyweight lift
er in the world is dead.
Mayor Mitchell has appointed a COM
mittee of several hundred citizens to
arrange a celebration to mark the
completicn of the Catskill Aqueduct.
Victor Brown, master of the Amer
lean schooner George w. Truitt, Jr.,
was washed overheard and drowned
in a gale off Cape Hatteras, December
Is.
Frank n. Allen of Worcester, Mass.
purchasing agent of the Holyoke Ma
into an air hole on Lake Quinsiga-
mond.
State Senator Sterling r. catIin, was
Barre, after the flames had almost
enveIoped the room in which the SEN
ator slept.
seriously, in a headGon crash between !
two seven passenger touring cars on |
Ocean Parkway, near Avenue p. |
Brooklyn.
Richard William Sylvester, for 20 |
years president of the Maryland Ag |
ricuIturaI College, until his retirement |
four years ago, on account of i'll |
health, is dead.
Mrs. Annie stolImack of Brooklyn,
and her three daughters are in the
Jewish Hospital in F1atbush, in a Sc
rious condition from bichloride of
poisoning.
Ten persons, were injured in the
Hudson & Manhattan tube when a
train from New York to Newark
jumped the track as it left the station
at Exchange Place, Jersey City.
Germany has decided to release for
nternment in Switzerland, one hun
dred French prisoners, fathers of three
Or more childre, and inmates of Ger
man prison camps for eighteen
months.
Col Roosevelt sent a New Years
greeting to the persons who assembl-
I'd in Madison Square for the New
ears celebration, held under the aus
0ices of the Citizens New Years Eve
Committee.
Twenty one survivors of the crew of
he Liverpool steamer Alondra arriv-
I'd at Queenstown. They report that
hier vessel was wrecked on the rocks
,ff Baltimore on the southwest coast
If County Cork.
:. EIdridge D. Atwood, who killed
Dr.. WiIfred Z. Harris, president of the
Massachusetts, College of OSteopathy,
IN July 10, entered plea of guilty to
curder in the second degree and was
to life Imprisonment. =
Increased freiqht rates, averaging 10
ent a ton on bituminous and camel I
,oaI from western Pennsylvania to G
colchester and New York and New +
England, were found JUSTIFIED by the {
Interstate Commerce Commission. f
Henry Lan1nn, republican nominee
or governor Of Wisconsin, at the re- /
ent election has signed a petition for '
ion. Frederick d. Gardner, demo-
rat, holds the certificate of election. S
A Iona list of naval and military i,
onors conferred on the occasion of
he New Year includes the promotion
f General Sir Douglas Haig, COM
lander-in-ch of the British forces n
/ France and Belgium, to be field
larsI1ai.
For a vicious attack on Arthur +
'erguson, a keeper, in the prison y
toreroom, Joe Palmer, an inmate n
f Sing Sing, has been locked up in {
olitary confinement for an indefinite g
eriod. following a trial before Ward n
a William Meyer Il
Two young women and a man We're :,
illed and another mortally injured | e
hen the automobile in which they -
ere returning from a New Years
ance was struck by a New York