Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

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 Shipments of fresh and cured meats
 from Chicago last week totaled 4l ,6S2,- 900 pounds.
 The tenth annual convention of the Connecticut state Optical society was
 held at Hartford.
 The Ely G Walker Dry Goods Co.,, of St Louis increased it's capital from
 $4,5oo.oo0 to s6.oOo,oOO.
 Sing prison from 1894 to 1901, died at his home at Catsldll, N. Y.
 The Willis Wood Theatre, one of Kansas City's oldest playhouses, was destroyed by fire, at loss of $6O, 1000.
 The Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania ] National Guard from eastern Penn sylvanfa, left Fl Paso, Texas, for home.
 John FinIayson, 1o5, explorer, for whom Finlayson river and F'inlayson Lake, in Yukon Territory, were amed, i is dead.
 The Magnolia Petroleum Co.,, of Ardmore, Okla, advanced the price of crude oil 5 cents a barrel to S5 cents a barrel
 ] The body of an unidentified man, with a wound in his neck was found 1 in the gutter of Terrier Avenue, East Trenton.
 The first two floors and basement of I a building at 319 Grand Street, New York, were destroyed by fire at a loss of $1o,0Oo.
 Operating revenues of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for the six months ending December 31 were
 James Murray of Evansville, Ind, and James McDevitt, of Cincinnati, were arrested at New York, charged with robbery.
 The $4,ooo,ooo endowment fund which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started to raise last June has been secured.
 A short course in business for retail merchants is offered at the University of Illinois during the four days from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2.
 Alfred J. L. RoueIIe, an artist, com n1itted suicide by inhaling gas in the kitchen of his home at No 269S Valen- tine Avenue, The Bronx.
 Leonida BissoIati, leader of the re- form socialists and Minister without portfolio in the Italian Cabinet, was awarded the military medal
 Rev. Edwin Flynn, assistant pastor of St. Joseph church, Meriden, has been transferred, effective Thursday, to
 A certificate has been filed with the secretary of state by Richards & Co, of Stamford showing an increase in capital from $15o,0o0 to $2,oOo,oOo.
 Dinner favors of S1oo bills were dis tributed at a banquet given by George F. Johnson, to 30 foremen in the Endi- cott-Johnson factories at Binghamton, N. Y.
 M. Rerriot, minister of supplies, de- cided that rations of sugar for the French people shall be one pound and half for each person a month after Feb. 1.
 Frederick w. Whitridse, late presi- dent of the Third Avenue Railway Co., who died Dec. 30, bequeathed his entire estate to his widow, Mrs. Lucy Arnold Whitridge.
 Three men, said to be wanted by po- lice of several middle western cities on charges of Swindling banks and merchants out of between $15,0O0 and $2O 1000 were arrested at Chicago.
 A petition filed with the secretary of state to the general assembly an nounces that the Eagle Lock Co.,, of TerryVille will ask permission to in $5,00O,O00.
 Three men were injured when a | wagon in which they were riding was | struck by a westbound train of the the | Staten Island Rapid Transit line at | the Parkerson Avenue Crossing in l GraSSmere, S. l.
 Secretary Daniels appealed to Chair man Tillman, of the Senate naval to defeat the compromise ! legislation to give claimants leases on the navy petroleum fuel reserve in California and Wyoming.
 President Wilson as President of the American Red Cross Society, has is sued an appeal for renewed subscr1p- its war relief work. which is in serious danger from lack of funds.
 Private Frank w. HiIIiker, of the base hospital at Columbus, N. M, of pneumonia, yesterday. He was mem Der of the punitive expedition. His home was in Lanesville. N. J.
 The State Department cabled to Am oassador Gerard at Berlin requesting ! report on the speech he is said to nave made at the banquet of the American Association of Commerce md Trade last Saturday night.
 The Chicago Flat Janitors' Union las given It's executive committee au- .hority to call a strike on every apartment building in the city where he owners have refused to grant an increase of pay averaging 10 per cent.
 Officers of the Thirty first Regiment ,f the Michigan National Guard be- gan an investigation of charges made 1y three officers of the regiment that hex were refused service in a res