Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-23

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versfty of Illinois arrived ,in New
York on the way to France.
President Wilson yesterday signed
strength of the navy to 10000 men
and the marine corps to 10000.
! The production of munitions in
deaf and dumb, who before the war
were excluded from factory work.
The parade, usually feature of ma
tional conventions of the Order of
Elks, will be omitted at the gather
ing in Boston in July because Of the
war.
A jury in the Queens County Su-
preme court awarded a verdict of
$60,011 to the Mechanics Bank of
Brooklyn against the City Of New
York.
Lawrence Dempsey, eoiored, was
taken from the jail by a mob. IN
Fulton, KY, and hanged to a telephone
cable Dempsey was charged with
murder.
| A New Jersey law compelling street
railway companies to transport police
officers including plain clothes men,
free is valid the U. S. Supreme Court
decided.
| A special navy recruiting train is
being run over the elevated railways
of Chicago. One car is modelled
after a battleship and others of sub
| marines.
Fifteen thousand Polish residents of
Toledo paraded through the street
and passed resolutions upholding
President Wilson for his action against
autocracy.
Three automobiles jannned in rear
| end collisions and two destroyed was
one days result of efforts of soldiers
on guard in New Jersey to halt and
inspect motor tourists.
Garrett Schmuck captain of a coal
scow making deliveries to the Brook
lyn Navy Yard, was arrested by po-
lice charged with taking $50 pounds of
copper from yard shop.
Continual attacks upon President
Wilson by Swiss papers supposed to
be more or less under German in
f1uence were repudiated Indignantly by
the more important journals.
Levi GoIdenberg, a department store
owner of Baltimore, must deposit
bond of $4,000 that he will not en-
ter any of the restricted zones after
June l. He is unnaturalized.
Most of Uncle Sans clerical en-
ployes are to be exempt from service
in the selective service army This
applies to Government employees
throughout the country generally.
Many prominent Catholic Iaymen
and ciergymen left New York to at
tend the annual state convention of
the knights of Columbus, which
meets at Utica for weeks session.
An appeal for autonomy for Ukraine
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Ukrainian affairs in the new Russian
Cabinet was made by a Congress of
Ukrainian military delegates at Kief.
Georqe w. jackson, formerly a New
York policeman wanted for many
years in connection with an $4,000
diamond swind1e, was arrested In
Brockville. Ont, for the New York
authorities.
sergeants c. C. johnson, of st.
Louis, and Willis Haviland, of Mime
apolis, were awarded the war cross
with a palm in recognition of the
number of enemy machines they
brought down in France.
James p. Kelly, lien clerk of Bridge
port, died Monday afternoon after an
illness of ten days Previous to his
election as lien clerk two weeks ago
when he appeared in perfect health |
he was assistant city clerk
A strike of ships carpenters and
caulkers in the yards of the Machias
Yacht Building Company, at Camden, |
N. J., has bee nsett1ed by federal medi- |
alton The company is doing con- |
struction work for the navy.
Private Richard Erwin of Jer-
sey City, member of Company !,
Fourth Regiment, detailed at the J
bridge near Scudders Falls. on the
Delaware, was drowned when wash
ing his undertaking from a scow.
The first death from infantile pa
ralysis in New Jersey since the end of
the epidemic last year occurred yes
terday when six-year-old Salvatore
Angelo, of Elizabeth, N. j. died. The
child had been sick for three weeks.
DR.. Hnery Van Dyke, former Amer
Ican minister to The Netherlands ar
rived at New York yesterday from
DR.. Van Dyke resigned his
position in the diplomatic service last
December and has since been in Eng
and and France.
President Charles r. Broo<er of the
American Brass company of Water
oury announced last night that the
corpora ton has taken another million
dollars worth of liberty loan bonds in
addition to a like amount subscribed
yesterday.
Harvard Medical Unit in England.
Washington, May 22-Arrival in
England of the Harvard Medical school
unit, officially known as Red Cross
base hospital No. 5, was announced to-
night in a cablegram to Chairman
Dawson of the Red Cross war council.
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