Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-24

The National Biscuit Co. has tn- creased the price of it's products about 20 per cent.
 The Texas Senate has adopted res olution endorsing the presidents plan of seiective conscription-
 Lloyd George has arrived in Eng land after a series of conferences with the French and Italian governments
 The long ending Minnesota blue sky law, which has been before the leg is lature for six years off and on, has been passed.
 Oregon is the first state to HI it's required quota of army enlistments, the last of the 800 men called for be- ing sworn in.
 The presidency of William Crannp x Sons Shipyards at Philadelphia will be offered to General Goethals when Hen ry s. Grove retires in July. Increase in postal savings deposits for March was A ,500, 900, or moro than twice that for March, 1916. In nine months deposits increased $40.010,0o0. At the urgent request of Senator Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, rhe Canadian government has discontinued the campaign to recruit farm laborers in the United States.
 The Government has taken four 6o-foot submarine chasers of the S0- mile type which were built for some foreign government by the GreenpoiDt Basin & Construction Co. Private James H. Sims, of the f7th regiment, U- s. Infantry. died at a hospital in Waterbury yesterday of pneumonia He was at his home on a flIrl0IIefh when taken i'll Five children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at Lincoln, Mass. With their mother and aunt they were trapped by the flames in the sleeping rooms. In order to conserve the British
 paper supply the publication of any from the Board of Trade has been prohibited in the United Kingdom. Congressman Charles Pope Caldwell,
 a bill for an appropriation of s3O0,0o0 for the purchase of a site and the
 erection of a postofice at Jamaica. On April 2s the National Herkinr ST
 County Bank of Little Falls, ~. Y. goes into liquidation, to be succeeded by the Herkimer County Trust Co. The National County Bank was founded in 1e3s. | The newly eonstructsd subnarine | iL-3, the first to be built at the Ports
 mouth Navy Yard, will be launched
 ter of Thomas A. Edison, will act as
 sponsor.
 | pr. Katherine 5en1ent Davis, pres nounced she would institute policy of supplying paroled prisoners to Long
 Island farmers from the city penal | institutions.
 l Magistrate House in Traffic Court sent John J. Gordon, chauffeur. of Hicksville, L. l., to prison for five days
 on a. charge of violating the so-caIled ieight-foot law of the traffic ordinanc es. Gordon was also fine $1O.
 | Books for half a million dollar war | 4oan bond issue authorized by the | Maine legislature were opened today land subscriptions totalling d,671,900
 were received. an over subscription of
 s1 100, 900, due May l, 1897. Elves residents of Railway and Belle vile. N. J., had a narrow escape from death when an automobile in which they were crossing the Erie Railroad tracks in Williams Street, BelleviIle,
 was struck by a passenger train. l The American Woolen Go. yester- day announced an advance in wages effective in all it's mills. The increase | will be +in no case less than five per cent" it was stated The readjust- ment will go into effect next Monday ! A demand that the United States should exact from Great Britain the immediate independence of Ireland as a preliminary to any further particI- patton in the war was formulated at a meeting of the United-Irfsh American
 societies.
 The government war risk insurance irate on ships and cargoes from the Limited States to Europe was advanced Saturday from three per cent. to five per cent in keeping with the recent advance made by bureaus of other gov Iernments.
 AIthouqh MidvaIe Steel has not ac-
 tual1y taken an order from the United Ipending. The number of rifles invoIv- led will probably be about 500000 and mot 100000 as has been claimed in
 Philadelphia.
 The Federal Trade Commission yes terday asked all state governors to send representatives of their food and
 market departments to Washington 1 April 30 for a conference to take up state cooperation in the commission's s food investigation.
 | James Macpherson, who was driV- I ing an automobile that ran over and l killed Victoria Tarditti. a child in Der lin was bound over to the June term | of the superior court on a charge o1 | mansIaughter after a hearing in the | Berlin town court yesterday. The Scandinavian-A n-American Line an Inounced that passenger service be- itween New York and Copenhagen has been resumed. A steamer with pas sengers from Denmark and Norway is inoW at sea and a sailing from an American port will take place shortly. KEEPER OF DUCK ISLAND | t.cur E0IrN, DEAn IN R0AT