Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-20

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 Condensed TeIegrams Niearasua's custom receipts in De cernber were $95,S86, against $77,166 in December, 1915.
 Gold to the amount of $3oo,ooo was withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment to Cuba.
 The Chevrolet Motor company to- oay announced an initial dividend ot per cent. payable May 1. pr. Alberta Membrino, former pres ident of Honduras and now minister at Washington. is seriously ill., ceived contributions amounting to $1,724. making total of $763,931. Gold coin to the amount of $1 ,870 ,00C was withdrawn from the Sub-Treasu- ry for shipment to South America. Samuel Thurber, of Newton, was elected president of the New England Association of the Teachers of English General Murguia lost approximately 1,200 men in killed wounded and missing in a battle with Villa at Ro- Sario.
 pr. Pablo Desvernine, secretary of state for Cuba, held a conference with Counsellor Polk of the State Depart ment.
 
 genuine Republic arrived at Boston for a years study with the United States Navy.
 All emba.ges placed by the BaIti- more and Ohio. railroad on account of the threatened strike were lifted yes- terday.
 Edward oGerz, of Ridgewood, N. J. was killed by an express train on the Erie Railroad near the Glen Rock station.
 King Alfonso of Spain wrote to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, asking her cooperation in continuance of the relief work in Belgium. A plan to have incorrisibIe boys do farm work is outlined in the annual re- port of the Society for the Reformation of Delinquent Juveniles. Several houses were demolished and one person was killed in windstorm that swept the country between Tu- pelo and Vernoa, Mississippi. Charles J. Vopieka, of Illinois, Amer ican minister to the Balkan states for the last three and half years, arriv- ed in New York yesterday.
 Officials of the Nevada, California & Oregon Railroad state that deal has been closed for the purchase of that road by the Western Pacific.
 American foreign trade decreased ap- proximately $190.0Oo,00O during Febru- ary, the first month of Germany's un- Restricted submarine warfare.
 Reginald c. Vanderbilt of New York offered his estate at Portsmouth near Nedport, R. l., to the American Red Cross, for use for hospital purposes.
 Orders were received at Jackson, Miss. yesterday from Major General Wood not to demobilize the Mississip- pi troops just back from the border.
 Major General Zein, governor-gene- ral of Finland was arrested by the commander of the Baltic fleet on the order of the provisional government.
 Reports from the interior of Cuba show continued destruction of prop erty but no aggressive organized movement by the rebels is apparent.
 Rear Admiral William S. Benson. U. s. N., was selected as the recipient for the Laetare Medal for 1917, by the faculty of the University of Notre Dame.
 The police headquarters building at Gloucester, Mass, was virtually de- stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Some of the police and district court records were lost.
 William E. Chandler, secretary of the navy under President Arthur from 1882 to 1885, and senator from New Hampshire from 1887 to 1901, is i'll at his home at Washington
 The Chinese officials who took pos session of a German steamer interned at Annoy China, found it completely disabled, all the vital parts of the ma chinery having been removed.
 The York Cotton Mills, at Saco Me-, employing 2,3O0 hands, were closed for announced, as result of a strike Of 125 weavers for higher wages.
 The Naval Academy practice squad ron will consist this year of four bat tleships, the Missouri, Ohio, Maine and Wisconsin. The squadron will leave Annapolis the first week in June.
 Luis Terrazas, Jry formerly one of the largest land owners in the world, who was driven from his home in Mex ico by the bandit Villa, dropped dead in a grocery store in Los Angeles.
 Resolutions piedging the support of the Charitable Irish Society to Pres ident Wilson in the present interna- tional situation were adopted at the 18Oth anniversary meeting at Boston.
 Five of the best known yachts fly ing the American flag were offered, free of all expense, by their owners to the Naval Reserve Committee for gov ernment service in case of national 
 Lieut.. Edward A. Kelly, an Ameri- can aviator who for the last year and