Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-05
Paps Largest Proportion

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 Condensed TeIegrams The LesisIaturs of Maine appropri- ated $1,00o,0o0 for general defense pur-
 poses.
 canada's customs revenue during
 the 12 months ended March s1 totalied $142.94s.107.
 High School left Philadelphia on a hikt to New York.
 Gold to the amount of $25o,o0o was withdrawn from the Sub Treasury for
 shipment to Cuba
 Trustees of Columbia University have adopted plans providing for a base
 hospital containing 1000 beds. The annual appropriation bill, car rying $48, 8,z46.69 was passed in the
 New York Senate by a vote of 33 to 10.
 l One man is reported killed and five others seriously injured in an explo- sion in the Erie Canal Coal Mine near Chandler, Ind.
 t American Ambassador Page held a conference with the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Arthur J. Balfour.
 Richardson Pratt, of New York, was the 18th Infantry, the negro National Guard regiment.
 Seven million dollars probably will
 be appropriated for preparedness with 1 ing the next week by the Pennsyl vania Legislature.
 A bill was introduced in the Pelxin Senate for the erecton of bronze statue of John Hay. former American Secretary of State. Four large buildings of the Bethle-
 hem Foundry & Machine Co.,, at South Bethlehem, Pa, were destroyed by fire
 at loss of s2oO,oOo. The lower house of the Illinois leg islature has unanimously concurred in the senate joint resolution favoring universal military training Chancellor Kirkland announced that Vanderbilt University for the rest of the term would provide military train ing for students desiring it. Fire destroyed the first three floors of a x-story building occupied by the Taylor Brothers Furniture Co.,, at Pittsburgh, at a loss of $15o.50o0 Jose SobeI Robles, one time viIIista and Zapatista, was executed at Oaxaca- He accepted amnesty from President Carranza and violated his pledge An order was placed by the Bos- lton Comnnfttee on Public Safety for six machine guns. which flI1be turned over to the CitS Police Department- Otto Carl Doerrier, a former Ger man army lieutenant, was arrested at Hermosa Beach, near Los Angeles, by Federal agents as German spy sus- pect- Theodore Wolff, of Jersey City, was |arrested charged with comphcity with Hans Schwartz and Fritz Kolb. ac- cused of causing the Black Tom dis aster-
 The names of the next 300 men who enlist in the navy at Baltimore will be cast in bronze. The tablets will be placed in public buildings throughout the city
 Thrushwood, the residence of Irving Bacheller, author. at Riverside. N. Y., was completely destroyed by fire last night, resulting in a loss estimated at s1O0. .000-
 Twelve men were killed and the plant of the Peoples Gas Co.,, at Brave, IS miles from Waynesburg, Pa, was de- stroyed by the explosion of 20-inch gas main.
 BiItn,ore, the estate of the late Geo. w Vanderbilt, near AsheyiIle N. C., was offered by Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt to the War Department as a mobili- zation camp.
 Governor Whitman signed the bill making the maximum peace strength of the naval militia 4,500 and giving the governor authority to increase the maximum in the event of war.
 of Maywood. N. J.. was sentenced to six months in the workhouse at New York yesterday for having attacked President Wilson in a public speech.
 General Pershing announced that orders will be issued directing Na- tional Guard troops called out in the southern department to proceed to state mobilization camps immediately
 Patrick Heaeney was killed and Bi- ovan Bundy was seriously injured when a freight elevator in the ware house of the Thomas P. Garvey Stor age Co.,, of New York, fell four stories
 The Mexican Government sent an announcement to Ecuador and Co., lombia that it accepted Ecuadors pro posal for a meeting in Montevideo of American nations to decide on a com mon policy to end the European war.
 Miss Margaret Wilson, the Presi- dents eldest daughter, left Washing ton for New York to prepare for a series of concerts in the South, the proceeds Of which will be devoted to Red Cross work in tn army and navy. Co. has ordered 500 gondola cars from the Pressed Steel Co-. 800 gcndola cars fro Y,nthe Standard Steel Co., 500 box