Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-22


 Five hundred and ten thousand peo- pie have died ofs starvation in Syria.
 Fire destroyed the West End Hotel at Portland. Me, at loss of $1OO,00O
 Shortage of sugar in Denmark has forced the Goyernpent to adopt a cara system of purchase.
 Three hundred silk weavers em- ployed at the Summit, N. J., silk mills. went on strike. The French Government is consid- ering the question of advancing the legal time by one hour. James E. Carrado, a convict serving term for forgery in the state prison at Trenton, N. J., escaped.
 Fourteen men were fined $1 each by Magistrate Cornell in Harlem court in | the crusade against splitting. Gold coin to the amount of $76o,ooo was withdrawn from the Sub-TreaS- ury for shipment to South America. The offices and printing plant of the Clean Evening Herald at Clean, N. r., was destroyed by fire at loss of $60,- 900.
 Robert Lyon Batts; of Austin, Tex.,' | was nominated by President Wilson as United States Judge for the Fifth Circuit
 Earl Henry, chief of the Depart ment of Mines, announced that 375 miners had been killed in the mines during 1916.
 More than 1000 Americans have petitioned Ambassador Elzus at Con stantinople to get them out of Syria and Palestine.
 I Emperor Charles of Austria has dismissed Gen. Count Paar, who was senior aide de camp to Emperor Jo- seph for thirty years. 1 Mrs. Mary Van Nest Jackson, vii dow of Charles Carroll Jackson. who appraised at $2,26o.s75. | The wreckine steamer Rescue is proceeding from Norfolk to the as- sistance of the British steamer Sus- quehanna, which is aground off the | Virginia Cape.
 w. @. Lee, head of the Trainmen's Brotherood, presented a substitute lation to the House Commerce Com merce Committee.
 Mrs. Ruth Law Case William died at the home of relatives in Hartford 1 last night at the aged of 102 years. | She had enjoyed excellent health until a few days ago.
 The State Department announced i that the German government has withdrawn it's charge against Ameri- can Minister Vopicka, formerly sta toned at Bucharest.
 Dr. w. T. SteII, an American physi- elan of Guerrero, who was captured by the Villa troops last October, has reached the American lines, according to arrivals at Columbus, N. M.
 Senator Wadsworth introduced a resolution directing the engineering chief of the army to grant permission to the Woman's Titanic Association to erect a memorial on public grounds.
 President Wilson designated Secre- taries Baker, Lane and Houston to Government nitrate plant, for which $2O,000,O0O was authorized by Con gress.
 | William J. Champion and Thos. H. Macdonald, were rescued by the Coast Guard at Cuttyhunk, Mass, from their launch, the H. M. Champion, Whlch had gone ashore after breaking her rudder.
 Senator Poindexter of Washington, offered Woman Suffrage amendment to the Constitution. His amendment provides that no one sahll be. prevent ed from voting because Of race sex or color.'
 Oliver A. Brewer, who was indicted on a charge of conspiracy in con- lnection with the charges against liar ry K. Thaw, was released from the ITombs on $15 900 bond furnished by a surety company. 
 Three additional cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the vicinity of Fairmont, w. Va, according to an announcement by health officials. TWO | were found in F'airmont, while the third was in Barrackville, near there.
 The application of the Trustees of the College of the City of New York for a change of name of the station lat 137th street on the Broadway sub lway to City College-137th Street" was granted by the Public Service Commission.
 A resolution directing Secretary of State Lansing to order all United States consuls in Belgium to make reports on alleged trocities committed by German troops was introduced in the House by Representative Me lLemore of Texas.
 Joseph Cassidy, formerly Borough President of Queens, who was con- victed of bribery in selling to William WiIet, Jr., the Democratic nomina- : tion for justice of the. Supreme Court, received 9 pardon from Governor Whitman, restoring his citizenship.
 Premier Clam -Martino of Austria land Gen. Hofer, heod Of the Austrian war feeding department, held a con- ference on the food problem with Chancellor von Hollweg, Foreign Secretary Zimmerman and Adolph Batocki, German food con- T troller.
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