Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-16


 Herbert L. Bodman, of New York, was elected a member of the Chicago
 The Ferguson Steel & iron Co.,, Inc, of Buffalo, increased it's capitl from
 $3oo.00o to $S00,ooo. A terrific gas explosion wrecked the home of Max Enlow at Pittsburgh and injured four persons. Fire totally destroyed steffin's Ho- tel and bathing pavilion at Rockaway Beach. at loss of s5.ooO. was withdrawn from the sub-treasury
 for shipment to South America. The U. s. torpedo boat destroyer Sampson, No. 63, left the Brooklyn Navy Yard under sealed orders. The Delaware, Laekawanna & West ern Railroad Co. placed an embargo on all shipments east of Buffalo. The Department of Commerce re- ports the exports of cotton for the week ended Feb. 10 at 72,8O9 bales. Dr. Robt. A. KoenpeI, of New York, a retired physician, committed suicide
 in Bronx Park, by shooting himself.
 Approximately 2,5oo power craft of various types are available for duty | as scout patrols about American har- bors.
 The Ohio Senate passed the Rey- mold bill, 20 to Is, giving the Ohio l women the privilege of voting for President.
 Major Eugene c. Lewis, chairman of the board of directors of the Nashville, Chattanooga 6 St Louis Ky, died at Nashville
 Actual work on tabuIatins returns from the state on the military census was started last night at the state
 headquarters at Hartford. Four stores in the heart of the vi1- l lage of Pulaski, Oswego county, N. r., were destroyed by fire last night with a loss estimated at $50,000. Two men, posing as gas inspectors, blackjacked and robbed William IT. lSehutz. a jeweier, of Williamsburg, of
 rings and watches valued at s2,5oo-
 Fire following an explosion in the gasoline tank on a yacht in dry dock | at Amboy road Staten Island, injured The bursting of large. water main at Brookline, Mass, blocked street cars and tied up traffic on the branch
  road.
 President Wilson nominated William H. Heen to be third judge and Samuel B. Kent to be second judge of the Cir | cult Court of the First Circuit in Hon. Olulu.
 The playing of the "star spansIed Banner" in any dance hall either as a 1 single number or in a medley, as pro- hibited in a bill introduced in the Ohio Legislature.
 Fred H. Roberts president of F. H. Roberts Co, Inc, and president of the | Massachusetts Chocolate Co, was
 elected president of the United States | Trust Go, of Boston The cost of reproduction of the FL gin, Joliet & Eastern Railway and it's | two subsidiary roads, all owned by the | United States Steel Corporation, was I One hundred government officials | and inspectors arrived at Halifax, N. S., from Ottawa, to examine the
 steamer Frederik VIII which will stop
 on her way to Copenhagen. I On the tooth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, a public square at Fremont, Cabot and Hammond streets, in the Roxbury dis | trict, Boston was dedicated in his l honor.
 l Five measures relating to the en- 1 forcement of the prohibition law were l introduced in the House of Repre-
 senatives. in Maine. One provides ! straight jail sentence for persons con- victed of selling liquor. ] A recommendation that public
 schools establish class in tailoring
 was adopted by the National Associa- ! ton of Merchant Tailors in convention ! at Philadelphia The convention of | 1918 will be held in Detroit.
 A strike of 1000 workers in the cane 1 fields of Porto Rico was reported aft | CT the return of Santiago Iglesias. the | labor leader. from the United States.
 working day. A general strike is pre-
 dicted.
 l The Minnesota senate passed the ] house bill submitting to the people a proposed constitutional amendment for | statewide prohibition at the 1918 cleo I ton. July l, 1920, is fixed for the
 amendment to become effective in case | of adoption.
 1 President Wilson accepted an invi- tation to attend celebration of Geo. Washington's birthday anniversary at Washington under the joint auspices of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, Sons of the Revolution and Sons lof the American Revolution. l John Crosby and Omar Bailey, aged B and 12 years, respectively, were in- stantly killed last night while coasting down hilI when their sled was struck lby a special freight train on the old Berkshire line at West Cornwall Ct. The sled was almost upon the railroad tracks when the train bore down upon | it, and there was no escape.
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 May Withdraw Y. M. c. A. Workers. 1 washington, Feb. 15-Withdrawal of Americans working in prison camps in Germany for the international Y.