Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-07


 four children, lost their lives in fire that destroyed their home at Fifth and Green Street, Philadelphia.
 The Second Kentucky Reaiment. Thomas from the Mexican border to be musterd out of the service.
 The Yokohama. Silk Exchange sus- pended operations owing to the slump in prices occasioned by the American diplomatic break with Germany.
 The Bolivian minister visited Dr.
 ITO Muller at Rio Janeiro and in
 d him that Bolivia supported
 --4lout reserve the American policy.
 John Borden, millionaire sportsman and Arctic explorer, of Chicago, tele- graphed the President placing at his disposal in emergency his yacht Kama Wha.
 Mrs. Margaret Sanger, leader in the birth control movement was sentenc- ed to serve 30 days in the workhouse for disseminating birth ccntrpl Atera- ture.
 Fl Diario of La Pax, Bolivia. de- nounceS the attitude of Germany and urges Latin America to make an ener- posed measures.
 The new motor tank steamship Day. iIte which was hoated recent ported again in difficulties 100 miles south of Cape Sable, N. S.
 The New York State Prison Com mission asked Governor Whitman to approve the Wingda1e, W. Y, site for the proposed 2,0Oo, 900 Prison Industrf- al Farm instead of Beekman.
 The An1erfczn Rad the appointment of Professor Archf- bald Cary Coolidge of Harvard, as q special representative to investigate the organizations work in Europe.
 Twenty Germans who have been re- moved from the working force on the Panama Canal and about eighty other Germans will be sent to New York on the United States transport Fitzpatrick
 The Rev. pr. S. Parkes cadman, pastor of the Central Congregational church of Brooklyn. and chaplain of Twenty-third Regiment, N Y- N. G., resigned his office in the National Guard.
 A nation-wide campaign was launch- ed by the George Washington Memor- ial Association to raise S1 ,000, 900 be- tween now and Feb. 22 to erect a memorial building to George Wash ington.
 Seven survivors of the ShaekIeton Antarctic expedition who were stranded on Elephant Island have been rescued by the relief steamer Aurora, which arrived at Cape Evans on January 10.
 Two men were killed and several injured when a new bridge under con struction across the Spokane river col lapsed. All of the men on the bridge were thrown into the river and most of them were rescued.
 Milton Baunan, alias Charles, Lana, who escaped from the penitentiary at Caldwell. N- D., during chapel Sunday night, was caught and brought back to that institution. The fugitive was taken from a train leaving for the West.
 Charges that French munitions man. ufacturers have made millions in ex- cessive profits on government contracts are contained in a report of a commit tee of the French senate outlined in despatches from Commercial Attache Yeditz at Paris.
 Captain Anderson of the Norwegian steamship Ageron, which arrived at Galveston, Tex, from Gibraltar re- ports having picked up on Jan. the captain and crew of 40 men of the Japanese steamship Chinto Maru 220 miles from land.
 The National association of real es- tate boards, representing 130 cities and more than 1000 members in the United States, has offered it's services to Sec retary of War Baker in obtaining sites for mobilization camps should such services be needed by the war deDaFt-