Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-21

George Baknneteff, former Russian
 Ambassador to the United States, Ina. decided to make his home in Wash ington.
 Plans are under way in Boston, tc care for wounded men who may bt
 brought back after American troops get into action in Europe.
 The four masted Schooner Maude M Mercy, named for the wife of former Mayor Frank A. Mercy, of Lewiston
 was launched at Bath, Me.
 Representative Daniel w. ComstocE of Indiana, died at Washington, o1 pneumonia. He was 77 years old and
 a veteran of the Civil War.
 Commander Wolf at PIattsburgh re- ceived 12,000 new blankets and distrib-
 uted them to thankful men. Shower baths were put in operation.
 The schooner Maggie Todd, which
 ran ashore near Provincetown, March
 23 while on a voyage from Boston for
 Venezuelan ports was fioated. pr. Arthur Warren Waite, under
 sentence of death for the murder of
 his father-in-law John Peck, was pro- nounced sane by a commission. The casualty list of the Canadian | overseas forces, issued by the war rec i ords office, includes the name of c. Cordette, Stamford, Conn.,, wounded. Julius Reeer was refused the right to prosecute a civil suit in Providence, R. l., on the ground that he was an alien enemy and had no legal standing. Colonel NIcholson's army of five thousand rockies at Fort Sheridan H., stormed and occupied every strategic point on the mess line, from oatmeal to coffee.
 1t is rumored at The Hague that a truce is about to be arranged be- tween Russia and the Central Powers as a result of political changes at Petrograd.
 An extraordinary meeting of the Spanish cabinet was called i1nmedi ately upon receipt of news of the sink ing of the Spanish steamer Patriotic, of $500 tons.
 The thermometer registered S7 de- grees in Chicago and there were many prostrations. The trench straw hats and the 1917 model mermaid made their appearance.
 Capt. T. L. Huston, one of the own CTS of the New York American League Baseball Club, went to Detroit to re- port for examination for entrance into the Engineer Corps.
 The large five story warehouse and office building of Rathbone, Sard 6 Co. Albany, N Y, stove manufacture CTS, was destroyed by fire The loss was estimated at $150,O00.
 Owing to the change from her win ter to summer equipment on May 15 the licensed carrying capacity of the Coney Island steamboat Taurus was increased to 541 passengers.
 Gov. Mccall, of Massachusetts an- nounced that the Joffre Fund contrib uted by the children of the New Eng land States for the fatherless chill dren of France reached s224,260.
 The military authorities of Baden temporarily closed all cigar factories in order to release the workers at the earliest possible moment for the har- vesting of crops regardless of sex.
 Mrs. Owen Picott, aged 60 years, was burned to death in a fire of un- determined origin which destroyed her home at Kittery Me. Three members
 Answering Senate criticism-voiced in secret session-of the Council of National Defense, Bernard Baruch de- cIared the body saved the Government $1O, 000, 900 in copper purchases alone. i
 Appeals to President Wilson and Congress for absolute prohibition in l the United States during the ar were | adopted and telegraphed to Washing | ton by the Southern Baptist Conven- ton.
 The Salvation Army will send and | maintain twenty fully equipped am | balances with the first overseas eX- | petition of troops for the battle fronts. | The plan was approved by the War | Department.
 Searching for evidence of activities of German agents in the engineers | strike, police in London raided meet from engineers delegates in the provinces.
 The body of c. Wharton Smith, of near a sanitorium, at Bethel, Me, at which he had been a patient for some ime. The police said he killed him. self by shooting.
 Edward HaviIand, dog fancier, of Wall township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, through counsel, declared hat because of the high cost of dog eed he was unable to pay his wife of $6 a week.
 The Brazilian government antici- ,ates no serious trouble with large colony of Germans in Brazil and was ssured of the loyalty of Brazilians of Herman decent, according to a note l landed to Secretary Lansing. II
 Former Police Capt. John F. TaPpin dismissed from the force by former Cropsy was granted a ew trial by the Appellate Division of he Supree Court, Brooklyn. Tappin - vas dismissed for making alleged false 
 Five hundred dollars for distribution | mong the war orphans of the town f Hesse- -Cassel, Germany, was one of ne bequests in the will of Julius randau, filed in Brooklyn. Mayor I anarden, of the Prussian town. is ( lade the executor.
 Massacre of Palestine Jews. t Stockholm, May 20. via London, II .5S V