Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-15


 Condensed TeIegrams
 France has ordered several billion cigarettes for her troops.
 Exports of cotton for the week ended March 10 were 31. 160 bales.
 Hans voIIrnosiler, a prominent Ger man aviator. was killed by a fall dur ing flight
 Cigarette sales in the United States during the month of February totalled 2,416. 762,000.
 Exports of general merchandise at the port of New York, on March IF, totalIed ss.s1s,23s.
 About 60 German submarines were captured and destroyed between Jan uary 1 and Feb. Is.
 was withdrawn from the Sub-Treasu ry for shipment to Cuba.
 The Copper Queen Consolidated Min ing Co.,, of New York, increased its capital from $2.000,O00 to $5o,ooo.oo0.
 Plans for cooperation in military and industrial preparedness were discussed by governors of the six New England states.
 Judge Samuel J. Bryant of the Orange court, i'll with pneumonia, is extremely i'll at his home in West Haven.
 Senator Boylan and Assemblyman Callahan introduced a bill ito repeal the charter of the Rockefeller Foun- dation.
 The Tufts College faculty has insti- tuted a course of military instruction, and about 150 students have enrolled in the course.
 The Pacific Mail steamer Ecuador went ashore on a mud spit about four miles off the Yangtse-Kiang river, on the China coast.
 Sergeant Mayor RoauI Lufbery, rhe American aviator in the French army, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
 Reuben Miller, aged v. former pres ident of the Crucible Steel Company of America, died at his home in Pitts burgh of pneumonia.
 Twenty two Mexicans were reported to have been killed when a heavy truck rolled over the edge of the Ridge Route Road, 22 miles north of Saugus.
 Herbert c. Hoover, director general of the Commission for Relief in Bel gium sailed from New York for Cadiz, Spain, on the steamship Antonio Lo- peg.
 Governor Ferpuson of Texas, signed the law passed by the Legislature of the State of Texas. permitting the Pierce OH Corporation to do business in Texas.
 President Wilson received applica- tions for pardons for. Maury l. Disgs and F. Drew Caminetti, convicted In California of violation of the White
 The State Department ordered an investigation of the arrest and deten- tion of Professor Ralph Hoyt Thayer, ities at Tokio.
 A quarterly dividend of 8 share and an extra dividend of " a snare at the general offices of the Prairie oil and Gas company.
 Oscar G. Murray, aged 70, chairman more and Ohio railroad and former president of the system, died at Bal timore after a long Illness.
 Plans are being made for a cam paign in East Orange, N. J., to raise $40, 900 for the5ssupport of the city s home guard, recently organized at the request of Mayor Mountain
 Patrick Murphy, railroad carpen- ter, 62 and single. at work on rail- road dock at New Haven. was struck by the grease box of a car as 1t pass ed, and was crushed to death.
 Denial was made at Dayton, Ohio, by Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter Of President Wilson, that she was en- eaged to be married to Frank K. Compton, a publisher of Chicago.
 The Boston & Albany Railroad an- nounced that lon account of the threatened strike of employees in train service" 1t had instructed agents to accept all freight subject to delay.
 John F. Mayer was killed and tfree other persons were seriously injured when a motor car in which they were riding skidded into a telegraph pole and struck a street car at Chicago.
 Resolutions piedgins support to