Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-17

me Au3tfiah F2rtfan1ent VIII De Il summoned to meet in the middle of l May.
 Moses Russell. 1o5, said to be the | oldest man in northern New York, is I dead
 Gold coin amounting to S25o,0o0 was l withdrawn from the Sub Treasury for | shipment to Spain.
 The students of Syracuse University | are circulating petition for the re- | storation of athletics.
 One hundred thousand men by May is the recruiting aim set for the navy by Secretary Daniels.
 Fifteen thousand worImen met in | Zurich. Switzerland, to protest against | the high cost of living.
 Frequent eases of infantiIe paralysis | have been reported from outlying dis tricts in Sweden. Norway and Dem !! mark.
 Three hundred acres of New Jersey | America for cultivation, free of charge.
 British and French labor deputations sent to extend fraterna1 greetings to the Russian Government arrived at Petrograd.
 
 Manufacturers of bar iron in Pitts burgh have advanced their prices S1O a ton to the basis of 4c a pound for carload lots.
 May Irwin has offered her summer home Irwin Island, sixteen miles from Kingston. to the Red Cross Society as a home for convalescents.
 The British railroads, which are now State controlled, have announced the grant of the third wage bonus to their employees since the war began.
 Concentration of food resources of the island possessions of the United States for war purposes is provided in a bill introduced by Representative Clark of Florida.
 Capt. A. J. Robertson, chief of staff at the Boston Navy Yard, announced that 2,500 are enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve of the First National District.
 Two hundred and fifty women, from more than forty states, have enlisted First National Service School, which will open April 16.
 A call for 5,233 volunteers for the of the United States army. eastern de- pertinent, was issued from Governors Island headquarters. The American schooner Edwin R. Hunt of New York was abandoned by her crew under shell fire from a sub marine near Cape Gata, Spain, in the Mediterranean, April 7-
 Twelve cottages were today destroy ed by fire and twelve others damaged, with an estimated property loss of $20, 900, at Rockaway par, residential <,l TaIz
 "Most of all let us recognize saeri- fees as the best expression of patriot ism" Governor Mil1iken. of Maine, said yesterday in a proclamation designat- ing. April 19 as Patriots day. Col. Henry M. Bennett, of Oyster Bay who was convicted in Mineola of fenced to Sing Sing for not less than five years nor more than ten.
 German correspondents on the Rus sian and Swedish frontiers report that the Russian Provisional Govern ment intends to change the name of the capital back to St. Petersburg. Orders were received by the quar- termaster's corps headquarters at Governors Island authorizing the for nation of the quartermasters reserve corps auxiliary to the regular army corps.
 Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Dan- ie1s and George Creel. who compose the new government publicity bureau first meeting yesterday to map out a course of action.
 John D. RoekefeIIe- planned to leave New York yesterday for Cleveland to attend the funeral of his brother, Frank. who wied there Sunday un- reconciled after quarrel the two had some years ago.
 Four masked men entered the of fees of the Huguet Silk Go. at Hor- nell, N. r., bound and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and se- cured $4,00O in cash being held for the payroll. The burglars escaped. A 4o-foot. dinsey which was on the U. s. s. Oregon on her famous voyage during the Spanish American war has been offered to the government and is likely to be accepted for duty with the mosquito fleet for coast defence work.
 James p. Knapp, president of the American Photographic CO, has pre- l scented to the navy an airplane station to be equipped with three hangars and a wireless station on his property at Mastic, on the south shore of Long Island.
 Postmaster Paften, of New Vork, an InOunced that raw or unmanufactured cotton and cottonseed, including seed cotton and cottonseed hulls, are pro- hibited from importation in the mails from any foreign country, regardless | of their origin.
 President E. c. Grace, of the Beth lehem Steel Co. announced an increase of 10 per cent. in the warges of more l than 50,00O employees of the company ' in it's plants South Bethlehem, Pa, Shelton, Pa, Lebanon, Pa, and Spar rows Point, Md.
 The crews of the two German mer- chantmen interned at Wilmington, N. | C., made an attempt to escape from | the United States Marine Hospital, | where they are detained, but they were halted inside the high fence in closing the building.
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