Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

BY a vote of to 6, the New York
Assembly Excise Committee killed the
local option and statewide prohibition
bills.
Major GtneraI George F. Gorrfnee,
with the British NIesopotamia forces
has been promoted to lieutenant-gen-
eral.
Captain commandant Worth G. Ross,
United States coast guard service, re-
tired. died at his home at New Bed
ford.
Count Zeppelin in the Prussian
House of Deputies announced that he IS
working on new type OF motor for
his airships.
minister or war, has been removed by
the Czar as a member Of the Council
Of the Empire.
Retiring directors were reelected at
the annual meeting OF the stockholders
in Jersey City.
Six Iosbooks of the British cruiser
Cumberland drifted ashore at the Chi
comico Light station on the North
Carolina coast.
The federal Grand Jury at Chicago
indicted the Cudahy Packing Co. and
the Chicago & Alton Railroad for al
legged rebating.
While playing on the ice on the Con-
| necticut river at Hartford, Ernest
Johnson. aged II. fell into open water
and was drowned. ..-.
Following the disastrous IRE at Au-
l gusta, Ca, which made 1000 persons
homeless, militia We're placed on qua I'd
to prevent looting.
II Or. Henry Van Dyke, American min
lister to the Netherlands. arrived at The
Il Hague after spending n brief vacation
in the United States.
Lieut. Col. Samuel Rebsr, chief of
army ayiation service. fell three stories
at his homo in Washington. He was
not seriously injured.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
submitted February earnings showing
a gross increase of s2,441, 900. with 8
Denial was made in London Of the
reported torpedoing of the GallopeT
lightship. off the mouth OF the Thames
River in the North Sea
The State Department ruled that the
armed italian liner Regina dItalia and
Caserta may clear from New Yorb
with their guns mounted.
The American section OF the Inter
national High Commission. headed by
Secretary McAdoo, arrived at Bahia
Brazil, on the cruiser Tennessee.
Owing to a shortage CT gasoline
Switzerland will prohibit the use OF
private automobiles, and impose re-
strictions on the use OF military cars
A man believed by the police to be
Joseph Greenfell,, aged 30. committed
suicide by leapinE before an elevated
train at the Bridge Street station
, Brooklyn
Preliminary arguments in the $780,
libel suit brought by John a. Patter
and T. c. Patten- Jr-, owners OF this
: Chattanooga Medicine company. was
continued in Chicago.
The steamship HonoIuIan besar
loading at Tacoma the most valuable
cargo ever taken from Puget Sound
; consisting OF S7.O0e.O0O worth OF waI
supplies for ladivostOk-
! Henry p. Fletcher, new American
, Ambassador to Mexico, left Panama foI
! ! New York on the steamer Corilio. eT
route to Washington from his former
post at Santiago. Chile
Federal customs officials at FL Paso
Tex. have begun rightly to cnfurct
the immiRration laws, turning bacl
many persons who seek TO enter tn,
country as ''undesiraoles."
Hearings on Representative Buchan
ans impeachment charges agains
United States Attorney Marshall a
New York were resumed before tn
house judiciary committee
A public Fearing on the quo, tion O
7 extending the existing quarantine
against Indian corn from Java. Indi:
and parts cf Oceania viii be held a
J the Department OF Agriculture.
: The submarine D-1 is tempo-arir
3 out OF commission at the New yori
navy yard. with some OF her plate
dented and ono OF her amateur shaft
crecked. TIE repairs cannot be com
pleted before several weeks.
Tho Society of Colonial Wars a
Hartford nominated the following CT
= feers for the election TO be held fl
May: Governor, John H Perry
Southport; deputy governor. Professo
y. WlnIston Walker. New Haven; secre
tary. A Barber, Hartford; treasurer
{. R. W. Cutler. Hartford.
Washington despatch says favorabl
5 report on the house bill fo= leasIn
| ordered today by the senate publ
: lands committee. with an amendmen
u eliminating coal and sodium land
from its provisions. As amended IN
measure would direct the secretary {
the interior to lease for twenty yea