Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-05

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 Condensed Telegrams
 n. Senate passed the Wright pro-
 The Senate passed the notifications bil carrying s51,eeo,ooo.
 Oregon's anti i-aIien bill was with drawn from the Legislature
 The exports of copper for the week ended February were s,3o6 tons.
 The total tax assessment of taxable property in Greenwich, Conn, is s4s,-
 The Boston Bar Association paid tribute to former Governor John D. Long, one of it's founders.
 Gross earnings of the Boston Eae- vatsd in January show an increase of $122,0o0 over January last year.
 A tornado struck Lincoln county, Ky, blowing away half of the two story high school at HustonviIle.
 Merehandise entered for warehouse at the port of New York for the week ended January 26 totaIed s,415,7o4.
 Owing to coat shortage the swed- ish Government has ordered the re- strictfon of passenger traffic on rail- roads.
 The Postoffice Department has de- cided to continue the dispatch of mails to Europe despite Germans submarine threat.
 Baron de Carter de Marchienne, Belgian minister at Picking, was ap- pointed minister of Belgium at Wash ington.
 Chariestown Navy Yard was closed to visitors Saturday and a long pre- pared emrgency program became ef- fective.
 The federal guard on the North German Lloyd liner Kronprezessin Cecilie. tied up at Boston has been in creased.
 Henry s. Hyde, for many years a di- rector and vice president of the New England Telephone 6 Telegraph Co.,, is dead.
 Four trans-AtIantic steamers sailed l from Philadelphia yesterday, bound direct for the prohibited German U- boat zone.
 The body of middle e-aaed man | was found on the southbound express | tracks of the subway, near 26th St., New York.
 | The Tennessee Senate defeated by a vote of 51 to 21, a bill extending linn | ited suffrage to women. The bill had passed the House. The United States Government has begun thorough investigation of the sinking of the German steamship Lieb- fels at Charleston, s. c. Germany has decided upon martial law at Brussels. in view of the forth I coming new deportation orders for 6o, 900 Belgian workmen. | Secretary of the Navy Daniels ord- cred the battleship Maine and three destroyers to proceed to Nv Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration.
 The Holland American liner Neuw Amsterdam, which left Rotterdam Thursday for New York, was recalled lowing to the submarine situation.
 Because of the possibilities of dang CT from the present international sit uation, army officials have taken steps for extra precautions at the Panama canal
 It was announced at the Lynn, Mass plant of the General Electric Co. that no contracts would be accepted here after for shell casting for a foreign nation.
 A statement made public by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows that 59 railroads during De- lcember earned S1,531, AT, and ex- pended s5s,954,273.
 The steamship Tampieo, which struck on Great Point Rip while bound Ifrom Boston to Newport News in bal Hast, was pulled oy by the coast guard lcutter AchushnetI
 The British Ministers of Munitions Iordered a census of the coal tar and lcoke by products industry, especial fly those by-products that arc used iI
 making munitions.
 | A minimum temperature of three degrees below zero, the coldeSt record ed in Boston in three years, was shown by official records of the wealth ier bureau Saturday.
 The United States Cast Iron Pipe
 & Foundry Co.,, of Cottdale, near Con- inellsville, Pa, received an order fol iiron pipe totalling $3,500,0o0 from the
 Aregtntine Republic.
 Benedict w. Rossano, keeper al IRikers Island. was discharged from the service of the Department o1 iCorrection, being charged with smugg- Hing drugs to prisoners.
 1 Two business blocks were virtually destroyed and a third was badly dam aged in a fire wrich broke out al Newport, N. H., early Saturday morn ling. The loss is estimated at $40,OO0. 
 A torpedo boat destroyer steamed from the League Island navy yard al Philadelphia with orders to hold III any ship that might attempt to leave the Delaware river without clearanct papers.
 An amendment to the charter of thu
 Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky. in