Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-09

The Glen Cove Bank, or Glen Cove. N. Y, increased its capital from $50,- 900 to $75,000.
 Chicago and Eastern Illinois telegra- phers have asked for wage in crease aggregating 35 per cent.
 Shipments of currency from Chica- go last month were $20,246, ,554, against
 s10.2ss.27s in February last year.
 Subscriptions for the sixth German
 war loan VI be opened March Is and the books will be closed on April Is.
 PhiIio Houseman, a former hotel
 proprietor in Orangeburg, N Y, was
 found dead at his home at Bergenfield,
 N. J.
 sota House indefinitely postponed ac-
 tion on the Henderson statuatory pro-
 hibition law.
 The steamer Frederik VIII, bearing
 former German Ambassador won Bern
 storff. is expected to reach Copenhag- en Saturday.
 The New York State Senate made the women suffrage amendment to the
 Constitution a special order for action
 next Monday night
 he Italian government mas QeclQeQ to arm practically all merchant ships and to offer prizes for merchantmen that sink submarines.
 Senator Dore, of Pawnee County, in troduced a bill making an appropria- ton of $25,000 to exterminate the Eng fish sparrow in Kansas. Twenty thousand kiIos of coffee be- longing to the Belgian Relief Com mission were lost in fire which de- stroyed storehouse at Hasselt. William A. Morgan, president of the Buffalo Copper & Brass Rolling Mill, announced an increase in wages of 5 cents an hour for 5000 employees. The Reading Railroad Go. has placed an order with the Baldwin Locomotive Works for five Mallet locomotives and for 20 other heavy freight engines. The Western Union Telegraph Co.'s central cable office was informed by the Tuckerton wireless station that the latter will accept telegrams for central Europe.
 Seventeen officials of Monroe and Green County, Wis, sent telegram to Senator La Toilette indorsing his atti- tude toward the armed neutrality esolution.
 A reduction of more than 19 per cent. in the humber of freight cars tied up throughout the country by congestion was recorded during the week ending February 24- The highest price for hogs recorded in the country since the Civil War was East St. Louis, when heavy hogs brought SIS a hundred pounds. Governor Harris of Georgia called a special session of the Georgia legisla- ture to meet March 20 to consider a 'bone dry bill and a deficit of ESQ., | 900 in the Confederate pension fund.
 Purchase of s2,2ee acres of land in the southern Appalachian and White Mountains for inclusion in the Eastern National Forests was authorized by the National Forest Reservation Commis- sion.
 Orders were received by southern department headquarters to speed up' the return movement of State troops | tions will be home for muster out | April 1.
 The War Department has directed men of the army be designated by | regimentaI commanders for commits | sion as company officers in whatever army may be raised. Statistics compiled by the agricul- | ture department indicate that cream cry butter held in cold storage March | 1 was per cent less than a year ago. | Holdings of IA, ,5S2, ,975 pounds were re- ported by 215 storage houses. l Fire of undetermined origin destroy
 ed the Baptist Temple in Brooklyn. | The loss was estimated at $200, 900.
 The structure, erected about twenty years ago. was one of the finest Bap-
 tist churches in the Greater City. The Ned Harriean Club, of New | York, presented to President Wilson
 an engraving in which the President is
 the central figure, surrounded by pie | lures of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick
 Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Grant and | Lee.
 Sir Ralph Spencer Paset, the Brit ish minister, cabled to London asking
 direct to Halifax without call at Kirk | wall, to enable a large number of
 Americans at Copenhagen to reach home.
 i The British war office announced i that Major-General Frederick Stanley Maude, commander of the British
 forces at Kut-el-Amarra. has been recognition of his defeat of the Turk ] ish forces.
 Thomas A. Edison, chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, has threaten ed to resign unless the new naval ex- perimental laboratory is located in the vicinity of New York instead of at Am napolis. as most of the naval officer would prefer.
 The nominations of Chas. w. Baker. l of Montclair, N. J., and W. Averill
 Hartman. of Arden. as members of the Interstate Palisades Park Commits sion, were confirmed by the Senate, having been favorably reported by the finance committee.
 A joint resolution authorizing Gov ernor Williams to "pay a reward of $10O to the first American gunner who destroys a German submarine. caught in an attempt to sink an American ship, or any ship carrying American passengers,' was introduced in the Oklahoma lower house.