Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-23

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Copper exports in January totalied 115,771 pounds.
 Seven persons were killed and eight injured in tornado near Little Rock, The Third Ohio infantry left EI Psso
 for Fort Riley, Kan. for -demopiliza- The Christian Church at Frsni<Iin. Fl. was destroyed by lire at a loss The Liberty oil ( Gas cohporation wa sincorporated at Dover, Del, with
 capital of s25o.ooo
 Gold coin to the amount of s5o,ooo was withdrawn from the sub-treasury
 for shipment to Spain.
 Reprensentative Gordon Lee, who is seriously ill with pneumonia, at Wash lington, was reported improved. The Cable Insulated Wire C Cable
 Co, of Trenton \, J, increased its
 capital from s25o,oo0 to s1.oo0.ooo The Gulf Refining Co.'s steamer Win Hired is ashore near Tampico, and is reported in dangerous condition. The new American Women's Hospital for officers in the West End of London,
 overlooking Hyde Park. was opened. 1 The New Hampshire Leeisiature passed bill appropriatins s50o.0O0 to
 be used for state and national defense. Eighty one civilians, mossly women and children, were killed in the bonn bardment of Monastir by Bulgarian artillery
 Ten Cleveland coal dealers were
 arrested on grand jury indictments charging them with violation of the an- ti-trust laws.
 4 loan of 312ooo,ooo marks (s74,s75,- : 900) by Prussian railroads was ap- proved by the budget comittee of the proposal to establish artificial fishing banks off the south shore of Long Island was approved by the bu- Joaquin Sanchez, minister of war and marine at Montevideo, has re- signed. He was appointed minister of
 The United States Government pur-
 chased 1000 acres of the William Rus
 sell Allen Stock farm aat Pittsheld
 Mass. The price was s25o.ooo.
 The 17th United States Infantry left
 El Paso, Tex, for Fort OgeIthorpe and
 Fort McPherison, Ga, where they will guard interned German sailors
 Instruction in military medicine to students of the medical schools of Harvard. Tufts College and Boston University was begun yesterday
 Secretary of the Navy Daniels di- rected that the date Tor Aopening bids on the Is new destroyers be advanced Il days. from April to March 24.
 The American Wooien Co.,, of Bos- ton, received from the United States government a contract for 445.000 yards of cloth for overcoats to cost s1, ,500,0O0-
 The New York Assembly adopted a resolution formally urging Congress in behalf of New York State to provide for system of universal military ser vice and training.
 A. complete census and inventory of the military resources of the state IS called for in the Robinson bill, re- ported favoPably by the. New York Senate finance committee.
 The bill granting to women the right to vote under certain conditions in in- corporated villages for all town officers, except road commissioners, was pass ed by the Vermont senate.
 Prohibition against publication of news of the arrival and departure of all Japanese merchantmen sailing in the Pacific and Indian ocean was an by the Japanese Government.
 Charles Moat, of Toledo, was killed and several others weres slightly in jured when a westbound New York Central passenger train No. 19 ran in- to freight wreck near Waterloo, Ind
 Consul Stephens at Plymouth inform ed the State Department that five were drowned in the sink ing of the Viliglancia, the other ten sailors who were lost being of other nationality.
 The committee of munition manufac- l turers and others connected with the l muni.ion industry, which was organ 1 zed D der the auspices of the Coun- | gil oI : ational Defence, held its first l neeti . at the War Department.
 Both houses of the Rhode Island Legislature passed an emergency | o call into service for public safety III military or civic organizations and | o enroll volunteer constabulary-
 Col Ernest Janicly, Lieut.-col. will | am D. Baldwin and the Rev. Percy | Edrop (chaplain) of the filth regiment |  n Brooklyn, have rendered their resig- lations for business reasons and have Lsked to be placed on the reserve list
 The Illinois house of representations .dopted joint resolution urging that f the United States enter the Eu- opean war. it enter in the cause of mailer nations and liberty The reso- utions will go to the senate for con urrence-
 Without the breaking of flock or he jimmying of a door the tfifie Of 2, 700 worth of postage stamps dis ppeared from the State Industrial office. No 230 Fifth Ave- ue, New York, between Tuesday night nd yesterday morning.
 Henry J. KnoyxIton, formerly finan- ial secretary Of the Nashua N. H. ,dge of the Order of Maccabees, was rrested at Bridgeport on a warrant harginsW Whe embezz1ement of $9,000 |, rom the lodge. KnowltOn had been