Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-06

m Connecticut m | Condensed Telegrams
 Teaching of German was abolished
 in the high school at Washington, Pa.
 Three hundred houses were destroyed
 by earthquakes in Bogota, Colombia.
 The cadets at Australia's West nese.
 | The Federal Shipping Board has ap- proved flag for vessels of the new merchant marine.
 Earthquake shocks lasting as long as 20 seconds were reported in north lcentral Minnesota.
 A number of British officers will be soon attached to the American forces to assist in training.
 The British steamer Roanoke was sunk. No details of the sinking were given in the report.
 | No ceremony attended the depart | are yesterday of New Haven's quota of II men for the Aver camp.
 Serbians are starving owing to the Central Powers carrying off the har- vests of Serbia, which were very ,abun- dant.
 The American Red Cross unit left Rome for the Italian front. It was greeted at Turin by civil and military officers.
 I A spider web made overnight was found at Wilmington, Del, on which in plain letters, were America wins over Germany"
 Major John H. DuvaI, U. S. A., re- tired has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at Bow doin college. From June to June 17 one hundred ships were built, of which 63 were British. according to the Lloyd's reg ister in London. Thirty Italian airpIanes dropped nine tons of bombs on the Austrian naval base at Pola, causing destruction and large conf1agration. Mennonites in conference at Souder- ton, Pa., declared they prefer jail than to fight in the swar or even take part as non -combatants.
 A road eight miles long has been built in France by a company of Amer ican engineers assisted by the French engineering service.
 The body of Julian BiddIe an Amer ican aviator, born in Philadelphia, was cast ashore at the village of Egmond- Aan-Zee, north Holland.
 Camp Custer, the national army can tonment near Battle Creek, Mich, is ready for the Wisconsin and Michigan boys chosen for the draft.
 c. H. Wang, of Vale, was elected chairman of the Chinese students al- liance of the eastern states at the an- nuaT~ conference at Providence. fined $27, 900 for selling potatoes over l the maximum prices fixed by the Food | Controller at Spaulding, England.
 E. D. MoreI, one of the leaders of the | pacifist movement in England, was | sent to prison for inducing a woman l to take pamphlet to Switzerland.
 The provisional brigade at Fort Ad. ans before leaving was fitted out with | 900 comfort kits and many other nec- | essities by the residents of the sum- mer colony.
 Two deaths have resulted from a grade crossing accident at Green liar bor, Mass, in which automobile crashed into the side of freight To- comotive.
 Twelve saIoonkeepers in Long Island were taken to the county jail at Mi neola, l.. l., charged with selling liquor to soldiers of the 165th Regiment at Camp Mills.
 Examinations for assistant surgeons to fill sixty eight vacancies in the med various points throughout the country IT.
 Lieutenant Jacobs, a flying instruc- tor at the government aviation field at Mount Clemens, Mich, and cadet av- iator, were injured when their airplane fell 300 feet. +
 The Trades Union Congress in Eng land placed itself on record as op- posed to the Stockholm peace confer ence. The vote against 1t was 2,894,. poo and 91 900 for it.
 detailed life history of each man at Camp Devans is taken by the examining officers for the purpose ( of assigning him to the kind of service l for which he is best suited. lc
 The Italian Embassy received news i ,f the death of Senator Onorato Cae- 4 ,ani in Rome. He was formerly min z ster of foreign affairs and president f ,f the Italian National Geographic So- C ,iety. Adele Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. PankhurSt, the English suf- g ragist leader. was sentenced to nine F months imprisonment for holding an : unlawful demonstration at Melbourne. s Australia. Q A regiment of 2,4Oo negro stevedores or foreign service was authorized by F he War Department to meet the de- = nand- for experienced men to handle f he supplies for the American soldiers il n France. J
 OBITUARY
 Richard Davis -lC Middletown, Conn.,, Sept. 6.-Richard c )a wis who was sheriff of Middlesex G ,ounty for eight years, the only demo- rat to hold that office. died at his