Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-20
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 4 municipal organ for Denver is
 planned by public Subscriptions total ing $50.000.
 l Virgil P. Kline, personal attorney
 for John D. Rockefeller, died suddenly
 at Cleveland.
 | The Charcoal Iron Go. of Detroit,
 five cents a gallon.
 Another effort to raise the cruiser.
 Yankee which sank in Buzzard's Bay
 in 1909. has been begun.
 l Charles Lathrop Park, of Cleveland, I was reelected president of the Ameri-
 can Forestry Association.
 The senate committee on naval af- l fairs has begun series of hearings on the Phelan oil leasing bill
 A charter was granted to the Pa
 York, with capital of $5,0O0,0OO. l Hugo Hess of New York, was taken | to the Polyclinic hospital under ar rest, charged with attempted suicide.
 The British steamer sasquehanna,
 Boston for Baltimore, stranded four miles southeast of Cobb's Island, Va. The schooner M. D. cressv went aground in New Cut Channel, Hanp- | ton Roads. while bound out for Port land, Me.
 A grand jury dismissed the charge 1 against Charles Lenker. of Freeport, l l.. l., that he had insulted the Amer, ican flag.
 Captain John G. Curtis, who re- ceived a gold medal from congress for bravery in the Civil war, died at 1 Bridgeport.
 Figures compiled by the department of health show that 2.03O of the 1O,- l 101 deaths in Pittsburgh in 1916 were from pneumonia.
 Lieut.. AngeIl, American naval at tache to the embassy at Berlin slJf- fered a breakdown and was transcfer- red to sanitarium.
 Representative Randall, of Califor- mia, has re-lntroduced as a separate bill his proposal for increases in sec ond class mail rates. The weekly statement of the Bank of France shows an increase of Ill., 230,O 900 frs. in gold and a decrease of 1,ss1.o 900 frs. in silver. to the new $S00,900 building donated by congress. as a memorial to the women of the Civil war.
 The treasury department announced that Ludington, Mich. was abolished as a port of entry. The business will be transferred to Detroit.
 Th~ A,s~>~d- af>..rr,.. fe.~ ,,,,.,,,,, ed per cent, increase irr wages to employees in lumber camps in the western part of Montana.
 A call for. an America first educa- tional conference to be held at Wash ington Feb. was issued by Dr. P. P. l Claxton, commissioner of education.
 Representative Rodenburg of H. linois, introduced resolution design ed to make illegal the purchase of government supplies from any foreign l firm.
 Samuel Untermyer, New York law ! yer, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital l eral decline in health. His condition 1 is not serious.
 President Wilson recommended to | the senate the promotion of Lieut.. Col. | George O. Squire of the Signal Corps | to be chief signal officer with the rank | of brigadfer general.
 Capt Hatfield, of St. Johns. N. F., and his crew of eight are believed to l have perished when Dominion Dredge No. ran ashore off Sag Ledges. Tor Bay, Guysboro coast.
 The war department announced the appointment of Brigadier General Jo- sep1 E. Kuhn as president of the War 1 College and assistant to Major Gen eral Scott, chief of staff.
 Change of name of the Danish West Indies to The Dewey Islands, in honor of Admiral Dewey. was proposed in joint resolution introduced by Repre- | sentative Allen of Ohio.
 wireless telegraph distance rec ord of 11,500 miles was established by the steamship Somoma, which picked F up messages from Eitvtise, Germany, when two days off Australia.
 Cattle Commissioner J. o. Phelps today issued an order that dogs in | should be muzzled for three months, owing to prevalence of rabies.
 The Brooks National bank of Tor missioner for permission to change to a state bank and trust company. A hearing will be held February 6.
 President Wilson sent to the senate the nomination of Albert c. Wolfe of La Crosse, Wis, as United States at- torney. He will succeed his brother who dropped dead last Octo- Der.
 The war department sent orders to General Funston to withdraw one company from each of the three regi- ments of Kentucky militia now on the border and send them home without | ] delay.
 pr. Edward Fitch Northrup, re- search physicist of Princeton llniver- | sity, was awarded the Elliott Cresson I medal by the Franklin Institute 'in | of his electrical inventions and high temperature Investigations"
 joint conference in Washington of military and naval officers, educators