Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-06

TEN PAGES-SO rgest in Connecticut in F l Condensed Telegrams | A Bursting prindstone killed Paul Rebeat, aged Ss. at Higganum l Many steamships due to leave Bar celona have postponed their sailings. canada's customs revenues for the month of January amounted to $12,- i 963,314.
 l Fire destroyed the H. H. Freedman store at Bay Shore, L. l., at loss Of s6O,00e.
 The Standard Oil Go. has added Bayonne, N. J.
 James c. Brewer, of New York, was elected vice president of the New York County National Bank. The Utica national suardsmen, Companies A and B and Company M of Mohawk, left Utica for Albany. Capt. Harold L. CoIbeth, of MeIrose, was appointed superintendent of the Cape Cod Canal, succeeding Capt. F. R. Geer, resigned.
 The Turkish grand visier has re- signed, according a Reuter- despatch from Constantinople, received by way of Amsterdam
 The records of drunkenness for 1916 in English cities, with populations of more than 0O,000, show that there were 46,63S convictions. King Gustave of Sweden arrived at Copenhagen on board the torpedo cruiser Gas Uggla. escorted by tor pedo boats and an ice breaker
 Three British steamships, all out ward bound, are ashore within one mile of each other on the Middle Ground, directly off Cape Henry. Gov. Whitman appointed George L. Ingraham as commissioner to hear the charges preferred against District At torney Edward Swann of New York city.
 Count Romanones, the premier, am nounces that Spain's reply to the Ger man note on submarine warfare will be handed to the German ambassador today.
 pr. Henry Van Dyke, the former American minister at The Hague, ar rived at London, from France, where he had been visiting the British and French fronts.
 Mayor Clinton H. Blake of Engle- wood, N. J.. offered to Governor Edge the services of the First Motorcycle Battery of Englewood in case of war with Germany.
 CA at I Mass, announced that no contracts would be accepted hereafter for the manufacture of Shell casting for a foreign nation
 The Swedish Government has taken steps to request Germany to grant Sweden the same privileges accorded to the United States and Holland for a weekly steamer to England.
 The Spanish Government has teie- graphed the Central Empires asking for an extension of time in which Spanish vessels now at sea in the blockade zones can return to port.
 A bill to place inediately in the hands of the president $50,000.0O0 % now in construction was introduced by Representative Emerson of Ohio.
 The plant of the New England W6StlnRhOuSe which has been filling a rifle contract for the Russian government, has shut down until next Thursday for inven- tory.
 There was no opposition before the Public Utilities commission to the pe- titiOn of the city of Bridgeport for approval of plans for an industrial spur track on Water street, in that city.
 The Kansas Legislature adopted a resolution directing message to be sent to President Wilson pledging the support of the State to the fullest ex- tent of the crisis which confronts the nation.
 Richard Fernandez Guardia, form erly Costa Rican Minister of Foreign Affairs, left San Jose for Washington, where he will act the confidential agent of the present Costa Rican Government.
 Captain Eberie, superintendent of the Naval Academy, received word that the Navy Department has ap- proved of his recommendations that 72 midshipmen should be asked for their resignations.
 Orders to double the guard after dark and to light the entire plant of the Fore River Shipbuilding Corp oration at Quincy. Mass, which is building 35 Warships for the United States, were issued.
 Operation of all transportation of the Belgian Relief Commission has been suspended, and the ships in American, Argentine, Indian and Eu- ropean ports have been ordered to re- main there until further notice.
 Frank w. Bowling and Edward Murphy. arrested in Waterbury Sat urday for stealing 75 pairs of shoes from a railroad car in interstate com merce, were bound over to the Unit ed States court at New Haven.
 James Speyer, chairman, and Albert H. Wiggin, treasurer of the Bankers Brokers Auxiliary of the United Hospital Fund of New York. report new subscriptions, which will bring the total for this year to $23,S95.
 Four persons were burned to death and three others were injured in a