Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-17

 rgest in Connecticut in Pr Condensed TeIegrams
 The French Line steamer Chicago arrived at New York from Bordeaux Roland Lueeke, national liberal I lin.
 the Minnesota bone dry bill, 49 to | Is. Three attempts were made to shoot | | sentries guarding the State armory at | Oswego, N. Y. The 74th New York Infantry left | McAllen, Tex, for Buffalo, to be mus | tered out from service. Fire destroyed one of the buiIdinqs 1 of the Mass & waIstein Chemical Co.'S | plant at Newark, N. J.
 Geld 10 the amount of $7, 900 was | received from Canada for the account l of J. P. Morgan & Co.
 Two additional cases of smallpox | were reported to the state board of | health from Waterbury.
 the port of New York Wednesday | were valued at s19,04S,5O1.
 The French line steamship Rocham- | beau, which left New York on Feb. 4, | arrived safely at Bordeaux. |
 
 farewell reception to Rear Admiral | Austin M. Knight was given by officers | of the Newport naval station.
 Bids for six new scout cruisers, to | cost s6,000,000 each, will be opened | at the Navy Department March IA. Representative Gardner of Mass. l urged the ,vernment to furnish arm | ament for American merchant ships. A "bone dry" resolution failed to l pass finally in the Texas house by q | vote of 93 to fl. Two more votes | were needed. One woman was killed and eight l others seriously injured when the l Fairmont Mill, near Spartanburg, s. l C., collapsed. The weekly statemnet of the Bank of | France shows an increase of 6,O22, 900 | francs in gold, and a decrease of D. | 2sO.ooO francs in silver
 The State Department received in formation that train containing | American consuls in Germany is pro- | ceeding from Munich to Switzerland. |
 William R. WiIIeox, chairman of the Republican National Committee, call | ed on President Wilson and offered his | CO., operation in the international cri- | sis.
 Eight foreign steamers were loading ] at Boston under hurry orders which ] and French ports within the next few | days.
 The Federal fisheries bureau re- landed at New England ports in Jan uary amounted to 12,4S3,O73 pounds, | valued at $505,033. Tke railroads of the United States have informed President Wilson that | the resources of their organiza tion are | at the disposal of the government in the event of war.
 Richard. Sack of Richmond, S. l., who was convicted two weeks ago of | ance frauds, was sentenced to Sing 1 prison for one year.
 Democrats of Michigan met in State |
 
 nate two candidates for justices of the ! Supreme Court and to choose for sev- ! eral minor state offices.
 Patrick Cox, 70, was found un- conscious from gas poisoning at his 1 boarding house at New Haven and died ! later at a hospital. Death is believed l to have been accidental |
 By a vote of 3S to IS the Senate 1 rejected an amendment to the post | office appropriation bill to make it un- | lawful to send cigarette advertise i ments of any sort through the mails. 1 An embargo on carload shipments | of all but perishabIe goods and coal | to the Fast was announced by the At | chison. Topeka Santa Fe Railroad, | and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy | Railroad.
 A delegation of suffragists from Bal timore, New York and PhiIadelphit | and Washington called on Cardinal Gibbons in an effort to change his hos tile attitude toward votes for women.
 R. w. Boiling, President Wilson's brother-in-law, who testified. during the House note leak investigation, re- signed as a member of the Washing ton brokerage firm of F A. Connolly & Company.
 Proposed increased freight rates on grain and flour from Minnesota and other parts of the north to gulf ports for export were suspended by the In terstate Commerce Commission until June Is for investigation.
 Nine women and three men were | arrested at the opening of a strike of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union at Chicago while dis tributing handbills giving notice that the strike had been ordered.
 Students of Smith College, acting through class meetings, have reject ed new honor system prepared by l. the student council and sanctioned by | the majority of the faculty, it was an nounced Friday. The vote was 745 to 466. A prize of Sfo,coo for the crew of l.