Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-16
bs That Any Other Paper and Total Circulation the Largest
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 Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Am left Washington for Ottawa, Canada
 The Standard oil Go. of Louisiana the price of heavy Caddo crude oil 5c barrel.
 Passenger service on Norwegian ships from the United States to Nor way is to be resumed. than 1900 tons were sunk during the week ending March H.
 The Indian Government has prohib- ited labor emigration from India ex- cept to Ceylon and Malay States.
 The Third PennsyIvania Field Ar tfllery left Fl Paso for Sunbury and Wilkes-Barre, Pa, for demobilizaticn.
 William Francis sheehan, Demo- cartic national committeeman and former Lieutenant Governor of New York, is dead.
 The Missouri Senate has passed the bill submitting prohibition consti- tutional amendment to the voters in the 1918 elects4n
 Military authorities at St. Johns N. B., received word that Canada Is about ot recruit a unit of Serbians to num- Der from 1000 to 1,5oo.
 Patrick Henry Callahan, of Louis- vile. offered an appointment by Pres ident Wilson to the Federal Tariff Commission. has declined.
 s;x r,.r ware kiiIed in an explosjon which demolished the solvent factory at the Howard plant of the Aetna Ex- plosives Co. at Emporium, Pa.
 Nelson Judd, convicted of violation of the narcotic drug law and given four years at Atlanta, filed an appeal in the federal court at New Haven.
 Director. of the reorsanized Inter- national Mercantile Marine company today declared an initial dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred stock.
 John Reoan has been denied priv1- leges of the Cuban American Jockey Club Conduct detrimental to the best interests of racing" was the cause.
 Samuel Pasco, former United States Senator from Florida, and a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1880 to 1900. died at Tampa, Fla.
  relations with Germany and providing for arming American merchant ships was indorsed by the Women's Repub- Hcan Club
 Twelve potato dealers from Aroos- took county, Me, arrived at Boston to give testimony before the Federal Grand Jury at it's inquiry into the high cost of foodstuffs.
 The British Government has received formal notification from the State De pertinent at Washington of the deci- sion to place armed guards on Amer ican merchantmen.
 Holland has protested to Great Brit ain against detention in British ports of more than a dozen steamships load ed with foodstufs and supplied for the Dutch government.>
 The Senate Naval Affairs Committee ordered favorable report on the nom ination of Dr. Cary T. Grayson to be Medical Director of the Navy with the rank of Rear-Admiral.
 Governor Edge of New Jersey an nounced that the states of New York and New Jersey have agreed upon a cooperation plan for the development of the port of New York.
 Representatives of 10000 Alabama
 
 at Dothan, Ala, unanimously pledged their loyalty and support to President Wilson in the international crisis.
 Fifty thousand dollars is to be rais- ed in Chicago by public subscription to provide uniforms for high school ca dets under a scheme adopted by the Chicago Association of Commerce
 Herainqs on Transportation prob lems suspended during the last session of Congress will be resumed in Wash ington, March 19, by the Newlands joint Congressional committee on In terstate Commerce
 Thirty thousand public houses in Great Britain will probably be closed during the next few months. The measure is proposed as a solution or the difficulty arising from the compul- sory restriction of the beer output
 Former Senator William E. Chiffon of West Virginia, who was defeated for reelection to the United States Senate by Howard Sutherland. fled with the Senate a formal request for a senatorial investigation of the cleo tion.
 Editors of New Hampshire news papers have been asked to join the New Hampshire League for National Defence in it's arrangement for pre- paring the State for it's part in the general plan of adequate national de- fence.
 Ambassador EIkus has informed the State Department that at his request Turkey has again sought from Bernn and Vienna safe conduct for the Amer jean cruiser Des Mones and the collier Caesar now at Alexandria Egypt. to Jaffa and Beirut.
 CRIMSON NOMINATION IS
 CONFIRMED BY SENATE. President Wilson's Physician Becomes
 Medical Director and Rear Ad-
 mirai.