Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

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The Red Star. liner LapIand arriv-
ed at New York from Liverpool.
The Right Hon. Thomas Chase Cos
grain, Postmaster General Of Canada,
is dead.
The Superior Stees Co. of Carnegie
Fa., was sold to- Eastern capitalists
for $11, 100000.
Exports of copper from Atlantic
ports for the week ended Dec. 2S, to-
tailed 3,675 tons.
Fire destroyed the Kings street
barns of the Toronto Railway Co. at
a loss of s1,0oo,0oo.
Three hundred persons, mostly Ia
borers, perished in the wreck of the
Sankaku Marco off Chefoo.
Three men were injured when two
trolley cars collided at 138th street
and Third avenue, The Bronx.
Marquis De ViIIaIosbar, Spanish
minister to Belgium, has started for
Madrid after visit to Berlin.
Articles Of Incorporation were filed
by L. Vog1estein Co., of New York,
with capital stock of $5o0.Ooo.
Eight buildings in the business dis
trict at Winnemucca, New, were de-
stroyed by fire, at a loss of $25,000.
Gold coin to the amount of s1,eoo,ooo
was Withdrawn from the Sub-TreaSu-
ry for shipment to Argentina
Five robbers blew open the safe of
the Hagernlan State Bank at Hager-
man, Texas. and escaped with $1,000.
Jacob Smith and his wife, were
burned to death when their home
near Meadville, Pa, was destroyed by
fire.
Glen Curtis has acquired three hum
dred acres Of everglade land for a
permanent aviation school at Miami,
Fla
Articles of incorpation were filed at
Dover, Del, by the Okumulgee Pro-
ducing & Refining Co.,with a capital
of $5,O0O,000.
The Rumanian Cabinet has been
reconstructed on a coalition basis,
with NJ. Bratiano as Premier and
Foreign Minister.
President Wilson and Secretary of
Labor Wilson completed the work of
selecting members of the Federal
Compensation Board.
Brio Gen. Edwin L. Hayes, of New
Jersey, the oldest officer of the Civil
War of his rank, will celebrate his
ninety seventh birthday.
Gold to the amount of $3.50, 900 was
received from Canada and deposited
at the Philadelphia mint for the ac-
count of J. p. Morgan & Co.
: A bill for civil mobilization of all
French citizens between the ages of
seventeen and sixty was introduced in
the Senate by Senator Henri Boringer.
DR.. A. Lounsbury, who pleaded
guilty to causing the death of Mrs.
Madeline Kramer through an illegal
operation, died at the Receiving Hos
pital, Detroit.
Two keepers and a former empIoye
of the Essex County Jail, at Caldwell,
N. j., were arrested charged with the
theft of a $6 barrel of apples belong
ing to the Jail
Commissioner Henderson of the De-
partment of Health appointed Alfred
E. Shipley of Brooklyn as secretary of
the board, to succeed DR.. Eugene w.
Scheffer, retired.
John J. Sharkey, policeman of
was sentenced to serve from
three months to three years in the
penitentiary for accepting a bribe to
change his testimony.
Harry n. Frazee, one of the owners
of the Red SoX, offered William F.
Carrigan $4,000 a year to continue
managing the team. Carrigan said he
would give an answer today.
Everett c. lnse, a salesman for a
fur corporation, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded by one of two
men who held up a dice game in a
theatre building at st. Louis.
William Richard Sylvester, for TWEEN
ty years president of the Maryland
Agricultural college, until his retire
ment four years ago, died at Balti-
more, yesterday. He was 80 years old.
Herman Mintz of Brooklyn, former
Iy confidential clerk for Robert Oily
phant, pleaded guilty in the Court of
General Sessions to an indictment
charging him with forgry in the sec
ond degree.
George w. Perkins, chairman of
Governor Whitman's special commit
tee appointed 10 investigate Inc
causes of the increased prices of food
stuffs, submitted his report to Gov
ernor Whitman.
Announcements of the members of
the Tariff Commission will be made
by President Wilson as soon as word
is received from Professor Frank w.
Tadssig of Harvard, whether he will
accept one of the places.
More than $4,000 students of the
Scranton public schools on strike be-
cause of the school boards refusal to
grant them the usual Christmas vaca-
ton will return to their classes to-
The strike has been won.
The Christian Endeavor Union of
Kansas represeting more than fifty
thousad young persons. has Joined in
the movement to prevent willie"
a negro from being hanged in the