Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-10

Condensed TeIeqrams

William B. Garlic was selected for postmaster at Chicago
 All Dutch ports have been closed by l the Dutch ministry of marine. elected regent of the University of the State of New York.
 Mrs. Samuel sipe. 4o4, friend of Molly Pitcher, of revolutionary fame,
 died at Carlisle. Pa. Frank 3. Ensiow, of Huntington, W. Va, president of the West Virginia
 Board of Trade. is dead United States in 1916 were 2,607, ,491, 209 gallons, valued at $201, 732, ,563. Emery Kilmer of Torrington was acquitted of a charge of manslaugh- | ter by a jury in the superior court. Gold coin to the amount of $1,100,- | 900 was withdrawn from the sub- l treasury for shipment to South Amer The bill appropriatine S1,0oo, 900 for l military preparedness in New York | state was signed by Governor Whit l man.
 Miss Margaret Ney, of Queens, won I a verdict of $10.000 against George
 Emener, Jr, for breach of promise to l marry.
 l All the available 6-inch siege guns
 at West Point were shipped to New York for use at the forts protecting
 the city.
 1 The weekly statement of the Bank l of France shows decreases of 2,451,- 1 900 francs in gold and 2.493,0O0 francs
 in silver
 | General Funston received instruc- | tions from the war department to push the enrolment of applicants for ,! the reserve corps.
 1 The Pennsylvania railroad has , placed strong guard on it's three l mile bridge across Barnegat Bay to prevent its destruction.
 i A. c. Bedford, president of the | Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, was | Trust Co. of New York.
 II Secretary Daniels plans to ask
 capacity of the government torpedo Ii factory at Newport, R. l.
 Policeman George Horn of Newark was -dIuOAS several pcTSOuS Incu SA
 each for splitting in public places, in
 the criminal court of that city. | The Moscow Chamber of Commerce |f is taking steps to bring about the in 1auguration of a mail service with the
 United states by way of Vladivostok- Forty soldiers were injured when a train conveying the 23d battalion of i; rench Canadian troops eastward
 from Edmonton was wrecked west of
 Winnipeg.
 Sergeant Charles Shank, of the Sev-
 enteenth Infantry, who was. shot in the stomach while provost guard duty in the colored district of Colum-
 bus. N. M. died
 The Poole Engineering & Machine Co, of Baltimore, received a large or
 der from the United States govern
 ment for gun carriages for heavy coast defence guns.
 Senator Weeks introduced an
 the six new battle cruisers John Paul Jones, Marlborough, Decatur, Perry, F'arragut and Dewey. Miss Julia Claire Harris strakosch of New York, through counsel today withdrew from the superior court her appeal against the probating of the will of Carl Strakosch. Fl Paul Kruger and Al DoIton, who escaped July last from Great Mea- dow prison, where they were serv- ing sentences for grand larceny, were captured at Kenosha, Wis. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion suspended until Aug. 21 the pro- | posed increase on freight rate or
 grain from the west to Newport News = and Norfolk, Va, for export
  2 British steamship Hyacinthus, whicl , ? sailed from Galveston, Texas, for { northern French port, are said to b' American citizens. The Hyacinthn. Q carries a cargo of hay. t Consideration of the naval appropri
 i ation bill continued in the house yes
 terday, debate extending to vari ,; The measure virtually has been read! 2 for passage for several days. # Senator Charles F. Murphy, O e Brooklyn, introduced bills to repea s the Hewett law fixing the license fo T motor trucks and omnibusses and fo the appointment of a commission t' = prepare a new schedule of Hcens . rates.
 s Senator McCumber of North Dalo
 ta. introduced a resolution in the sen - ate asking the president to have tn d attorney-general submit a statemen e clearly defining the position Of tn 1T United States on limiting the use 0
 submarines.
 = The New York senate finance com :. mittee decided to report favOrdbl. e the nominations of Henry ID. Saver, o ', New York, as member of the stat : industrial commission, and w. H = Knapp, of Canandaigua, to succee'
 himself as 8 state tax commissioner it MOONEY CONVICTED OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE pes Labor Aaitator Connected With Bonn I Explosion in San Francisco.
 San Francisco, Feb. 9.-Thomas
 Mooney labor agitator, was conSicte l sr. tInn raf dReyrnn hN- a