Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-05

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Lord cowdray was appointed chair
man of the British Air Board.
The French line steamer Espasns
arrived at New York from Bordeaux.
The English Government has pro-
hibited the expectation of coal to Nor
way.
John MecuIIash, ex-chief of Police
of New York, died suddenly at As
bury Park.
There are 1856 cases of small pox in
Connecticut. of which 100 are in
Waterbury.
KHAN & Co, Inc, Of New York, with i
a capital stock of 100000.
Fire destroyed the four story ware
house of the Robins Dry Dock and Re
pair Co., at Brooklyn, at a loss of $780,
900.
Exports from the United States
ing November 80, amounted to $780,
302,6 $50.
President Wilson appointed Lieut..
Col. Chester Harding, Army Engineer
Corps. to be Governor of the Panama
Canal Zone.
In November 55 railroads, reporting
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, earned 27,403,629 and expend-
ed $S4,721,003.
Four thousand employees at the
rnff of
lima have been given a 10 per cent.
increase in wages.
The loss of the barge T. E. Null
queen by sinking off Point Judith was
reported by the tug ]. O'Riorden,
which arrived at Newport.
Gov. Fielder of New Jersey an
nounced that he had no intention of
calling a special election in Somerset
County to elect a State seator.
More than 100 American manufac-
We're represented at the opening of the
Pittsburgh glass and pottery show.
The Navy Department opened bids
for the construction of three scout
cruisers to cost not more than $5,000,-
900 each. and one ammunition ship.
The 23d Infantry of Brooklyn left
to be mustered out of Federal service.
The Baltimore G. Ohio Railroad has
ordered 1000 steel hopper cars from
the Pullman Co, and 1000 composite
hopper cars from the Standard Steel
Co.
Permanent organization of the sug-
ar planters corporation to finance the
producing and selling of Cuban and
South American sugar was effected at
New York.
Argument for a motion for a new
trial for John Edward Teiper, con-
victed of the murder of his mother,
Mrs. Agnes NJ. Teiper, was postponed
until today.
Two firemen were killed and six
others injured when an auto engine
of Union Hill, N. j., answering an
alarm, skidded and ran into lot
against tree.
Fire destroyed the two upper
stories of the main building of the
Oakwood Seminary. a Friends school,
eight miles west of Auburn, N. Y, at
loss of $4,000.
One workman was killed, and
another. seriously injured when the
first floor of a house in course of con-
struction at No. 10 New York Avenue,
Brooklyn, collapsed.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, introduced
in the Senate a bill amending the
Ashbrcok law for the pensioning of
soldiers widows by reducing the pen
sioning age from 70 to 65 years.
State Senator Ogden L. Mills of
Manhattan is to be chairman of the
new standing committee of the Sen
ate, to be known as the committee on
the affairs of the City of New York.
Two passengers and a motornan |
were slightly injured when north |
bound Third Avenue trolley car ran |
into Westchester Avenue car at |
14Oth Street and Third Avenue, The |
Bronx. |
Increases of about 10 per cent. in |
of all teachers and other en- |
ployes of the Pittsburgh schools re- |
ceiVing SIS a month or less have |
been approved by the Board Of Edu- |
cation.
at Ell Paso Texas, died of typhus few !
er He contracted the disease while |
conducting campaign against ty-
phus brought to the border by Mexi- |
can refugees.
Chairman Henry of the House Rules
Committee conferred with President |
Wilson on the plans TO extend for one
year the me "a IiC Joiiit SOii O97lOi
al committee investigating transpor-
tation problems. e.,
The commission on the establish
ment of additional navy yards, which |
has been at San Francisco for sew
eral weeks examining potential sites
for new Pacific coast naval base, has
left for Portland.
A bill to permit American power
plants to withdraw 10000 feet of
water per second from Niagara Falls,
the full amount permitted by treaty
with Great Britain was passed by
the House, 247 to 80.
Hyman Suffrin, of New York was
struck by a 14th Street crosstown car
at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, and
taken to st. Vincent's Hospital un-
suffering from a possible
fracture of the skull.