Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-28

Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last week totailed 35.- 5000 pounds.
 Serious food and anti-war riots have taken place at Milan and other cities in central Italy.
 Gold to the amount of $1oo,o was withdrawn from the Sub-Treasury for shipment to Cuba.
 A charter was granted to the Thomp- son & Crooker Shoe Co.,, of Massachu- setts, with a capital of $500,0O0
 Three hundred Union College stu dents at Schenectady, N. Y., have be- gun course of military training. department at Harvard university will be affected in the event of war.
 The A. p. Bull Steamship Co.,, of Newark, N. J., increased it's capital stock from $2, 900 900 to $5, ,0OO, ,Oo0.
 The Ohio House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution con- graduating Russia on it's democracy. explorer and formerly American con- sul-general at Alexandria, Egypt, is dead.
 The YaIe- Harvard boat race of this year will be cancelled at once in the event of a declaration of war by con- gress.
 Governor Edge of New Jersey is- sued proclamation urging enlistment in the National Guard regiments of the States.
 The university library at Harvard contains 1,963,e37 volumes and ranks among the great collections of the world.
 Sheriff J. C. Mecants, of Taylor County, who was fatally wounded in a pistol fight with negroes near Butler, Is dead.
 2 The United States Government granted safe conduct for German of ficials in China to pass through this country.
 Immediate transfer Of the prixs ship Appam, at Newport News. Va, to the British owners, was ordered by the Supreme Court.
 Gold to the amonnt of $5,o0o,o0o was received from Ottawa and deposited at the Assay Office for the account of J. P. Morgan & Co. ...-:
 
 Frank Kelly, of Brooklyn, convicted of murder in the second degree. was sentenced to from 20 years to life in Sing Sing prison.
 In the week ended March 23 the Co. handled 28,6g2 loaded cars, against 28,788 a year ago.
 Three girls were injured when a Madison Avenue trolley car crashed in- to the rear of stalled car at 76th Street, New York.
 Anna TerreI, aged five, of Yonkers was run over while playing in the road in front of her home, and instantly killed by an automobile truck
 Three persons were killed and two badly burned in a fire which destroyed the five story tenement house at No. 1464 Second Avenue. New York.
 Forty thousand shoewerkers at Brockton, Mass, will receive 10 per cent increase in wages and a Sat urday half holiday. beginning May 1.
 Commodore William R. Cole of the Volunteer Yacht Club. at Lynn, Mass, President Wilson offering the club house as a rendezvous for the naval brigade.
 Edwin Gould, of Ardsley -on-the- will Be appointed admins trator of the estate of his son, Edwin Gould, Jr., who was killed while hunt Ing at Brunswick, Ga.
 Approximately 300 men applied for in the national guard of within 24 hours of the call for mobilizing the Sec ,nd and Ninth regiments.
 The first industrial plant in the employing negro help ex- ,lusively has been opened at Detroit. Fifty girls are employed to make ,rousers and several are clerks.
 Orders for six 15o Pacific type loco motives and two s5-ton switchers for he Richmond, Fredericksburg & Po- omac Railroad Co. have been placed with the American Locomotive Co.
 Harold Ellis YarnaiI, secretary reasurer of the Midland Valley Rail- 'oad -died from a bullet wound receiv- d while defending his wife from a ne- ITO burglar at their home at Philadel- l ,hia. The annual farmers week at Massa- ,husetts Agricultural college opened | with a meeting at which speakers em- l 'hasized the reed Of developing an Idequate system of agricultural edu- | atiOn. A motor boat recruiting fiotilIa to | -isit every port on the Great Lakes to | ather men for the navy is being or ,anized by Capt. w. A. Moffet, com nandant at the Great Lakes Naval | Station. Vincenzo Gracefa of Waltham, fass., retracting a plea of not guilty | 0 the murder of Salvatore Parisi in | hat city two months ago, pleaded | uilty and was sentenced to serve from | 5 to 20 years Tn state prison. The A. B. F.@B. Permanent Line Re- ef War Fund, supported by Ameri- an contribution, has promised 3200,- % yearly for five years to the French l ommittee conducting relief work mong blinded French soldiers.
 The State Department received from onsul Krogh at Rotterdam a com 1ete report of the sinking of the tandard Oil tanker Healdton, show lg that eight American members of he crew were drowned or sufrocated vhen the ship was sunk.