Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-24

There are 5000 cases of smallpox in Germany.
 Submarine L-5 was launched by the Lake Torpedo Boat Co.,. at Bridgeport.
 Shipments of coke from Councils vile, Pa. last week. totaled 360,000 tons.
 King Alfonso signed decree for the insuring of the safety of Spanish mar itime commerce.
 Fire destroyed the Spring Street Grammar school at Nashua. N. Fl. at a loss of $1O0.000.
 Gold coin to the amount of $500, 1000 | was withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment to Cuba.
 The New Hampshire house of rep resentatives passed a bill which would | establish statewide prohibition May 1, 1918.
 The United States government has placed an order with Kansas City lum- Der dealers for 15.O0O.O0O feet of sof- pine lumber. Governor Edge of New Jersey an- nounced after a spirited hearing before him that he would approve the bill to repeal the full crew law. 
 The weekly statement of the Bank of France shows an increase of 16,434,- 900 francs in gold and a decrease of i,446.00o francs in silver. Austin Bushaw, of Charleston, Vt, was shot and killed when a revolver in the hands of his 15-year-oId daught- CT was accidentally discharged. The Boston Metropolitan chapter of the American Red Cross announced that more than 1000 women had been enrolled for government service. The first regular train service be- ! tween Paris and Soissons since the early days of the war will be started today by the Northern railroad The 22nd Infantry, now at NogaIes, was ordered to Governors Island to re place the 29th Infantry sent to the Panama Canal zone two years ago. A foreign offer of contracts for six S,S00-ton steel steamships, to cost over $8.000, 900, was received by the Anderson Shipbuilding Co.,. of Seattle. Governor Mccall, of Massachusetts, l sent special message to the legis- lature recommending the creation of a | home guard to be raised in time of 1 war.
 | George White of New Britain, more 1 than sixty years of age, tried to com 1 init suicide by taking poison. He is
 now at a hospital and it is believed l he will recover. l A bill to prohibit liquor inportations into Georgia for medicinal and sacra- 1 Georgia state senate s4 to G. It now 1 goes to the house.
 1 Governor Whitman has accepted an
 invitation Of the executive commit tee of the Billy Sunday campaign to speak at the dedication. of the taber- nacle, Sunday. April l.
 | Police Commissioner Woods of l New York has requested the board of aldermen to permit the immediate ex- penditure of $100.000 for equipment of the new aqueduct- police; l One man was fatally burned and 1,- | 900 others were compelled to quit work 1 when two fues of boiler at the Henry R. Worthington pump works, at | Harrison, N. J.. blew out. | Thomas J. Mcclure, of Caldwell, N. J., pleaded guilty to having con- spired to blow up the Times Square subwal station. and was sentenced to serve three years in prison.
 Julius RosenwaId, president of the | Sears -Roebuck Co.,. of Chicago, wired | tne Aner1can Jew1Sh Relief commit Ftee that he would give $10O0. 900 to | feed and clothe Jewish war sufferers
 The body of man found on the
 shore of Long Island sound. north of | Riverhead, N. Y, on March 12. was identified as that of Frederick A. Jor- dan. keeper of Penf1eId Reef lighthouse, 1 near Bridgeport.
 Governor Brunbure, of PennsyIva- 1 nia, announced the appointment of | committee of prominent men to make l an inventory of the industries and re-
 sources of the state, for purposes of | safety and defense"
 Mayor Kirkpatrick of Charlotte, N. C., issued a proclamation calling up>
 on every able bodied male citizen of | Mecklenberg county who will bear arms if the nation becomes involved
 in war to enroll at the mayors office.
 Former President Taft, speaking to a large audience at Atlanta. Ga, who | wildly cheered his utterances, declared that armed American merchantmen 1 should await no warnings from Sub-
 marines, but should "sink them on the | spot"
 military census of all men in Ohio
 between the ages of IS and A years
 may be taken under authority of an act introduced and passed by the Ohio
 senate emergency measure, to
 take effect as soon as it has passed
 the house.
 The strike of POO men constructing
 the Ha Ha Bay Sulphite Pulp com
 pany's new plants near Bagotville. | Quebec, ended when, upon promises
 from the provincial police of immu-
 nifty from arrest, the strikers filed out
 of the works which they had seized. kiIIineIy Nan Appointed. ] Hartford Conn. March 23-Wi1liam
 E. Labelle of Killingly was today ap-
 pointed by Governor Holcomb a trus-
 tee of the colony for epileptics to fill
 the vacancy caused by the death of
 William P. Kelley. His term will ex-
 pire Sept. 16. 1920.
 Italians Expelled from Guatemala. 1 San lose GuatamaJa Marcb %