Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-27

Gold coin to the amount of $35O,OOO was withdrawn from the Sub-Treasury for shipment to Spain.
 Police Commissioner Woods appoint ed 231 special patrolmen to guard the bridges of New York city.
 The production of gold in Rhodesia, South Africa, in February, was G9;257 fine ounces, valued at 92S9,734.
 Five power boats were offered to the Navy Department for coast patrol duty in the First Naval District.
 Miss Elizabeth Harriet, of Newport, was enlisted in the United States Navy, with a third class womens rating.
 The Chinese minister at Berlin an nounced the rupture of diplomatic re- lation between Germany and China.
 General AIexi E. Evert was replaced by General Letchitzky as commander of the Russian army on the central front.
 A regular two-years' course in mili- tary training will be started at Will jams College. under the direction of army officer.
 Harvard university must offer higher salaries to it's professors if it is to meet the competition of the state uni versailles of the west.
 The schooner Maggie Todd, bound from Boston for Nenzuelan port, ran ashore off the Wood End Light house, in a heavy gale.
 The Boston committee on public safety, by means of first page adver- tisement sin the newspapers, appealed for recruits for the national guard.
 Three negro workmen were killed and seven injured by dynamite eX- plosion at the bottom of a shaft being sunk on Blackwelrs Island
 Fifteen thousand Columbia Uni- versity alumni and students have sig nified their willingness to enroll in various capacities in case of war.
 Fire damaged the church of St. Francis Xavier the S500,000 edifice at Sixth Avenue and Carroll Street Brooklyn; at a loss of about $10,00O.
 Governor Bamberger of Utah issued an official proclamation calling upon all eligible able-bodied men of the State to enlist in the National uard. Sinking of the Norwegian steamer Ronald with one American on board, was reported to the State Depart ment by Ambassador Sharp, at Paris The Williamsburg division of the Chicago and North Michigan Railroad, a branch of the Pere Marquette sys- tenn, was sold at auction yesterday for $525,0 900.
 The Cambridge historical pageant, | which was to have been presented in the Harvard Stadium next June, was postponed because of the international situation.
 Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio. will appear before ! 1e.et | this week and urge liberalization of l railroads.
 The three schooner Tattler,
 which sailed from Boston two weeks ago for St. Johns, N. F., with a gen. eral cargo, is stranded in Trepassey 1 Bay, N. F.
 i The State Department announced ! that Minister Brand Whitlock had been withdrawn from Belgium, along with American consuls and agents now ! in that country.
 Contributions to a Red Cross fund 1 for erection and equipment of two base 1 hospitals at San Francisco, one for the army and another for the navy, passed i the $30,000 mark.
 1 Johannes Schmidt, a German miner, was sentenced at Mayberry, w. Va, to | 60 days in jail on charge of at
 tempting to wreck machinery in mine | in which he was employed. Three persons were drowned, one seriously injured and several others slightly injured when an ice gorge swept out, bridge over the Reyapa-
 ha River, at Brocksburg, Neb. Several hundred persons were se--
 verely shaken, but no one was injured
 when express train No. 36 of the Long | TaIa EasI GI dI iF1fn e of an empty local at Babylon station. Morsienor Louis Lesraive, vicar
 general to Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, was sentenced to nine
 months imprisonment and deported to
 Germany for sheltering a discharged French soldier.
 A bill was introduced for introdue- l ton in the Illinois state senate yester- day asking an emergency appropr1a- | ton of $1,000,000 to be spent as the governor and Adjutant General Dick | enson should direct. A call to newspapers of Massachu setts, New Hampshire and Rhore lsl- and to cooperate in efforts to stimu- | late recruiting for the navy was sent out by Captain William R. Rush, conn
 mandant of the Boston navy yard. Governor Edge of New Jersey, called | a meeting of the chairman of public l safety committees in New Jersey for l Wednesday. March 2S, at the State 1 House to formulate a statewide plan
 of preparedness in the event of war. | Two panel paintings by the famous Venetian master Cittore Carpaccio. dis
 covered recently in an Italian home 1 where they had been hidden for near l lIy 400 years. were placed on exhibi- | tion at the Boston Museum of Fine | Arts.
 | Henry L. Stin1son, Frederic R. Cou- dert and Rear-Admiral Peary will 1 leave New York next Sunday on a tour 1 through the middle West to speak on universal military training before the chambers of commerce and at public | meetings
 Baltimore City Employees to Drill. l Baltimore. March 26.-Mayor Pres