Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-13

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 Thomas A. Edison was elected pres ident for life of the Naval Consulting Board.
 the Texas border into Mexico during the last 15 days.
 E Controller of the Currency Williams issued a call for the condition of na- tional banks as of March 5.
 Four freight steamships arrived at New York after braving the U-boat perils in the submarine zones
 Eight cases of triehinosis, a disease caused by eating underdone pork, have been discovered in Elizabeth, N. J.
 Col. John Boyd, one of the organiz- CTS of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co.,, died at Washington.
 
 The port of Santiago, Cuba, closed to navigation during the rebel occu- patton of the city, has been reopened.
 The Laeakawanna Railroad has placed armed guards along it's property in Paterson and at points beyond the city.
 John B. Lennon, labor leader and treasurer of the American Federation of oI Sc at n ton, III.
 Peter GoeIet Geary, first Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, will be assigned to the Senate committee on naval affairs.
 The funeral of Professor William Beebe of Yale university will be held ing at 11.30. Gold to the amount of ss,ooo,ooo was received from Canada and deposited at the assay office for the account of J. P. Morgan & Co.
 "kins" Fraenis SchIatter selft styled divine healer, was found guilty at Los Angeles on a charge of using the mails to defraud. The Norwegian Government has proposed to the Council of State to au-
  ment of Industrial Supply. A company to complete the roster of the 9th Coast Defense Command Of the New York National Guard is to be organized at Far Rockaway. The British tank steamer Pima, with a cargo of oil from Gulf ports was sunk by a German submarine on Feb. II, about 20 miles off the Irish coast 
 Three investigations are under way to determine the cause of the fire vator of the Detroit Railroad Elevator Co.
 1 Stephen FarreIIy, directing manager and vice president of the American News Co, was elected president of the | United State Catholic Historical Soci- iety.
 1 A 10 per cent. wage increase for 13, 900 shoe workers, effective May l, was announced by the Brockton Man ufacturers' Association of Brockton, Mass.
 I Word was received from the War Department that all of the National Guard troops on the border will be mustered out of Federal service by April 1. The United Hebrew Charities, which held the first Bundle Day. in April, i1916, will hold this year a Bundle Week., the date being from March 26 to April 2.
 The Idaho Legislature, which ad- journed at midnight Saturday night, permits an anti-alien bill and a bill forbidding intermarriage of whites | and Japanese to die. Captain Oscar ScheIberg, an en- gineering instructor at West Point, has had his name changed to the French spelling, Schelbert. He is desceno- ant of a Frenchman. The Rev. William p. Williams, of | New Haven, has been appointed chap a. position provided for in Navy De- partment orders issued in 1916. Subscriptions to the. work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, as LcoIlected under the auspices of the I New York Chamber of Commerce, up I to and including March 9, amounted to SIT, 7,495. Eight hundred and sixty non-com- missioned officers in the Fl Paso dis ] trict were recommended to the War Department by Brigadier General George Bell, Jr., for commission in the regular army.
 A statement by the Japanese foreign minister, expressing the nations regret at the death of George w. Guthrie, the American ambassador at Tokio. was cabled to the State Department by the American Embassy. | American passengers on the Wolvin Galveston, from Vera Cruz, state that line steamship Herald which arrived at powerful radio station is being erected on a hill near Mexico City under the direction of German engineers. 1 Mrs. Alice WheeIdon, her daughter. Mrs. Winifred Mason, and the latters husband, Alfred George Mason, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder Premier Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson, member of the war council.