Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-04

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Condensed TeIegrams Shipments of fresh cured meats
 from Chicago totaled 47.osS,ooo pounds The Granville Tire Co; was incorp- SIG. 100000.
 A United States destroyer anchored off the Hamburg American Line piers | in HobOken.
 The Marlin Arms Co. has closed 2 contract for the construction of 2,50t machine guns for Russia.
 | A man 55 years old was found dead
 a mile north of ineland, N J., by tht side of the West Jersey Railroad. The Fore River ShipbuiIdins corp.. employees will get an advance of IL
 per cent. in wages before June l. | A woman's suffrage amendment tt the Constitution was introduced by l Representative Baker of California. l The American Locomotive Go. Ire. | ceived orders for eight 97-ton Ma1lei 1 engines for South African arilways. |
 | A bill requiring the registration O. l Island general assembly and referred The tannery of the U. s. Leather Co., at Asheville, N- C., was burned al
 a loss estimated between $75o.o00 ant | S1 100000.
 A motor ambulance and motor trucI
 have been presented to the First Yer
 mont regiment by the family of Red Unter direction of the Wyoming Ma tional Guard the taking of a military census of all male residents of the State was begun.
 Both houses of the Florida legisla- | ture today adopted @ resolution l pledging the support of the state il | the present crisis Governor Manning has issued { ! proclamation designating "Wednesday April II. as Naval Recruiting Day for South Carolina
 A flying squadron with a machine gun mounted on a motor car for the protection of strategic points in To- | ledo will be organized.
 An order for fifty 11-ton Mikade locomotives for the Chicago & North
 western Railway was placed with the
 American Locomotive Go. Two hundred and fifty of the Home Guard of Hastings, which includes
 wealthy men and laborers, were drilled
 in the streets of Hastings. Gold to the amount of SIS, 900, 900 wa, received from Canada and deposited
 in the Philadelphia Mint to the ac-
 count of J. P. Morgan & CO Patrick F. MeGrath, who escaped
 from the State Hospital for the Insane at Worcester, Mass, was captured al his home in the Charlestown district. The Western Union Telegraph an Inounced that telegraphic communica- tion with San Miguel, the Azores and Guantanama, Cuba, has been restored. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has de- clared himself in favor of the Swiss military system for the United States Governor Graham, of ermont, an. inounced that he had signed the legis- Iative bill which removes Vermont's distinction as "Gretna Green State The new ambassador from Chile Washington and will probably present his credentials to President Wilson
 this week.
 Private Lester koutz, of Company 1 B, Sixth Ohio regiment, shot John Armstrong. tramp. of Syracuse, N Y., when he refused to obey com mand to halt.
 George F. Shaw, proprietor of a taxicab company at Binghamton was shot and killed by one of a party o1 four youths who had employed him to take them for a ride.
 The Minnesota Senate adopted unan-
 mously a resolution pledging support to President Wilson and Congress in the war crisis. A similar resolution was adopted in the house. The army general staff plan of com pulsory military service was proposed in bill introduced by Representative Kahn ranking epublican member of
 the House military committee Andrew Bonar Law. members of the British War Council, stated in the House of Common that the total cas- ualties suffered by the Turks in the battle of Gaza, in Palestine, was 5000. Officials of the Chinese Tones, which have been at war at Portland, re-, for several weeks. killing a number of men, have signed a 3o-day truce The agreement was signed in the presence of Mayor H. R. Albee.
 Graduation of the first class of cadets at West Point on April 20 was ordered by Secretary of War Baker to meet in part the shortage of officers in the regular army. The class comprises about 125 men.
 Under a suspension of rules in both
 houses, the Michigan legislature re-
 ceived and placed in position for pas sage a bill suggeSted by Governor
 Sleeper authorizing the state to bor-
 row s, ,00O, 900 for war purposes.
 A resolution placing at the disposal
 of President Wilson in case of war
 AS 900 members of the Polish Falcons
 Alliance of America was adopted at