Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
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 Condensed Telegrams
 King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is se- riously ill
 The War Department issued call for 21,75o officers of the United States army.
 For the first time since the Civil busheL
 The Texas Pacific Coal Go. in- creased its capital from $2,5oo,ooo to
 Two six-ineh guns were mounted at Point, Long Island.
 Gold to the amount of ss,ooo,ooo was received from Canada for the account of J. P. Morgan & Co.
 Exports of specie from the port of New York from Feb 26 to March were valued at $5,S776S7.
 The American Steel 6 Wire Go. an- nounced an advance of s4 ton in the price of all wire products.
 Emperor Charles of Austria-Hun- gary dismissed Field Marshal Con- rad won Hoetzendorf, chief of staff.
 The. newly appointed American am bassador Henry P. Fletcher presented his credentials to General Carrazna.
 The Commission for Relief in Bel gium announced that receipts for the last week of ebruary totaled s49.o73.
 President Wilson signed the reve- nue bill, designed to raise $350, ,00O. .00g through special taxes and bond issues
 Hamilton Mckay TwonbIy, of New York, who died on Jan. II, 1910, left a New York estate valued at $4,470,602.
 All express trains throughout France with the exception of postal and long distance trains, were ordered discon- tinued.
 A charter was granted to the Amer ican General Electric Edison Corp oration of China, with a capital of S250,000.
 Tn command of capt' John Carlton the American freighter Silver Shell left New York for an unnamed port in France.
 impeachment charges against Gov the Texas House by Representative H. P. Davis.
 Chester GaIlow, of Workers, N. ", sending poison pen" letters to Miss May Trauss.
 A. Have, a German, was arrested while making sketches and maps on l the coast of Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Rio.
 Major EIvin R. Heibers, American military attache at Rome, was acci- Identally killed while visiting the Aus ttro-Italian front.
 The German imperial clothing com mittee has issued warning that styles | in women's clothes cannot be allowed to change every six months The Spanish Cabinet has decided to prohibit transmission of news con corning movements of merchant yes sels to and from Spanish ports.  The rules committee report, absolv- l ing public officials from blame for any l leak on the peace note, was unani- Nineteen sticks of dynamite were | found by employees of the Water De- partment in a catch basin connected
 with the towns water supply at Natick,
 Mass.
 l Count von Bernstorff, former Ger
 man ambassador to the United States,
 was nominated as a candidate for the
 Reichstag in place of the late Herr won
 Yielding.
 | Plans to recruit at least 50 members
 in the reserve officers corps, with the
 frank of lieutenant or captain in each congressional district, within 50 days
 were announced by the War Depart
 ment.
 l A commission of three senators and three members of the House was ap- pointed to investigate the pneumatic tube mail service in several cities. with | a view to having the tubes purchased by the Government. l The total receipts for duties at the New York Custom House Saturday
 were 5S2.2S2.37, of which $169, ,52154
 was for merchandise withdrawn from i bonded warehouses, and S412,7bO.SS TOT
 recent importations.
 Police Officers Ranson Gwattney and Patrick Riggin were killed and May or J. P. Keech was fatally wounded al Tarboro N. c. by W. c. Nelson when 1 the officials unearthed quantity of l whiskey in Nelson's home. | S. Dabney Crabshaw secretary of the
 yirginia-Carolina Chemical Co, was arrested at Charlottesville, Va, on a
 charge of gra ndlarceny and malicious | ly burning the chemical laboratory of | the University of Virginia, on Jan. 26 l Mayor Anthony Sunderland of Dan bury was renominated for that office by the democratic city convention last night He is now serving his second l term Mayor Sunderland is a heuten- ant in the coast artillery corps and ar aviator
 l Daniel Willard, president of the
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was elect i ed chairman of the advisory commis- sion of the Council of National De-