Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25

wholly or in part the needs of the navy, is under consideration" by the Department.
 An investigation of the New York National Guard was proposed at the opening meeting of the Assembly com mittee on military affairs.
 The Half Moon, the reproduction of the ship in which Hendrix Hudson sailed up the North River, sunk at her moorings off Bear Mountain.
 Constant strain of pounding seas has broken in two the United States transport Sumner, which grounded on the Barnegat shoals Dec. Il.
 Six men were injured when the scaffold on which they were working on the new William Edwards Co. building at Cleveland, collapsed.
 The Anti Saloon. proposing State wide prohibition in illinois in 1918, through referendum, was introduced in both Houses of the Illinois Assembly. BuIlard Machine Tool Co, at Bridge port, Conn, was robbed by two men who escaped with about $3,00O in cash.
 Sergeant Major ouigIey of Govern oTs Island, notified police head quarters that Homer A. Stewart, a mil tary prisoner on the island, had escap- ed
 The Arkansas Senate and House passed a bill that prohibits the ship meT.t Of liquor into Arkansas for any purpose save medicinal or the sacra- ment.
 Thomas G. Reidy, 3 brakeman e1n- ployed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was run down and killed by a drill locomotive in the Communipaw yards.
 The Rev Arthur Worthing, former ly pastor of a Presbyterian church in New Hamburg, N. Y., was brought to Orange County from Virginia on q
 John J. C'Brien, chauffeur, of Brooklyn, was sent to the workhouse for thirty days by the Brooklyn Court tomobile while intoxicated.
 Lewis Faust, convicted of 2S rob berries in Harrisburg, Pa, and who Pennsylvania cities, was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.
 Mayor Mitchei, of New York, rep resenting the Training Camps Associ- ation of the United States, appeared before the Senate Military Committee to advocate military training. California oil producers, told the pub lie lands committee of the House that of 5000 acres in government tracts, but 120 acres were owned by the Standard Oil Co.
 The Commission for Relief in Bel gium announces it has received dur ing the last three days gifts of $100.- 900 each and one of s20O,oco for it's special fund for an extra meal daily for Belgian school children.
 Warren l. Lee, State Deputy Comp trol1er of New York resigned his po- sition for more remuneratiVe one in the same department. His new ioD will be assistant to Corporation Tax Attorney Lafayette B. Gleason.
 The Employment Bureau of the De- partment of Labor announced that it had completed arrangements with the War Department to obtain employ ment for National Guardsmen return ing from the border who may be out of work.
 Henry schenkIer, 24 years old, married few months ago. committed suicide tonight by strangling at New Haven He tied a rope around lis neck. Despondency becau he Was unable to obtain work is believed to be the reason for the act.
 The Baltimore Sun announced last night that owing to the increased cost in paper and other materials the Suns combination of six morning and six evening issues and the Sunday Sun at the rate of 13 issues for ten cents a week, will after February be 13 cents a week.
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