Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-02

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Field Artillery. Connecticut National
Guard.
The Grand Duchess aMria PavIovna
was arrested at kisiivdsik, following
a letter she had written to the Grand
Duke Boris.
An order for 1000 sondoIa ears for
the Chicago & Northwestern hallway
was placed with the American Car SI
Foundry Co.
The New York Assembly advanced
/ to the order of inss reading the con-
stitutional amen,<-ent providing for
| woman suffrage.
The Navy league of the United
States plans to raise fund of $iO.-
| ee9, ,eOOe to aid families of naval velun-
teers in case of war.
| Gsvernsr 1rumbagh, of Pennsyl-
vania has pledged President Wilson
the cooperation of the Pennsylvania
Committee of Public Safety.
The New York Assembly passed the
TaIlmage bill prohibiting the shooting
of domestic wild ducks at any time
except during the open season:
A freight train crew of five men on
the New Haven railroad were arrest
ed at the companys freight yards, in
The Navy Department awarded
contract fer 100 steel nets 1.5GO feet In
length and 36 feet deep 70 the Ameri-
sshn Tucker, ffon,ef U. g.. marshall
at Chickasha, Okla, pleaded guilty to
vfolataig the liquor laws and was SEN
tenced to two years In the penitentiaT.-.
Four hundred thousand pupils in
Chicago public schools will assemble
In patriotic meetings next Monday, at
the hour set for the cenyening of
Congress.
Several PASSENGERS were injured
| when the Royal Palm Filler nthe Big
Four Railroad, Jacksonville to Chicago,
was wrecked by broken rail near
Cleves, Ohio.
Mrs. George Donaldson, of New Jer-
sey; was indicted for manslaughter in
Bergen county, n. j., for causing the
death of Robert Paulsonj who was
struck by her automobile.
Senator chas. r. Murphy, of Brook
| lyn introduced a bill in the New
York Senate increasing the salaries of
the PRESIDENTS of the five boroughs of
New York to $4,000 year.
Sergeant Clyde RaIsIey, the Ameri-
IAN aviator who was wounded in an
aerial battle i'll France last June, has
been operated on by Professor Gau-
dier. He is now out of danger.
| The advisory committee of the
Council Of National Defense met to
consider tbs plans for mobilization of
try to meet the preseit emergency.
The New York State Auton1obiIe As
sociation notified Governor Whitma Il
- 1le,ra nf al q
members at the disposal of military
authorities in event of an emergency.
Eli n. Redman, one of the men con-
victed In connection with the alleged
election conspiracy at Terre Haute.
| Ind. died in the Federal penitentiary,
where he was serving five year SEN
tence.
The body Of q man killed by a Lack
awanna freight train, near over. n. J.,
was identified as George r. Griff1th, Of
Elmont. L. 1. He was on his way to
the Hercules Powder Co.'S plant when
struck.
Copies were received at Juarez. Mex
leo. Of a decree issued by General
Murguia, commander of the north
eastern military zone. ordering that all
who sold liquors of any kind be put to
death at once without trial.
Supreme Court Justice Ordway dis
missed the complaint of James Pierno,
nine years of age, for $4,000 damages
from the Board of Education of the
City of New York. Pierno was injur-
ed on a playground by defective to-
boggan.
A movement was started at the
University of Virginia to erect a me-
mortal to Sergeant James Rogers
MacConne1l, an alumnus of that insti-
tuition, who was killed in France while
in the service of the French army as
an aviator.
Patriotic Meeting in New Haven.
New Haven, Conn. April 1.-Woolsey
hall was the scene tonight of the
largest and most enthusiastic patriotic
mass meeting here here since the
Spanish american war. Every avail
able bit of space inside the hall was