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Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
34 DEATHS FROM STORM
 AT NEW ALBANY, IND.
Relief Work For the Storm Sufferers
 is Now We'll in Hand.

New Albany. Ind. March 25. - The death list from the storm swept New Albany Friday evening remained to- day at 34. the names of two persons previously reported dead from unoff1 = cial sources being eliminated and the names of two others who died in St. Edwards hospital today being added.
 The task of giving immediate relief to the storm sufferers is now well in hand.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
lansing Visited New York.

New York. March 25.-Secretary of State Lansing and Mrs. Lansing who came to New York Saturday, returned to Washington today. The secretary said before his departure that he had come tothis city on private business and keep dinner engagement with Colonel E. M. House.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
TWO BODIES FOUND IN
 A CANAL NEAR SHELTON
One of Man Missing Since Jan. 18-
 The Other a Boy of 8.

Shelton, Conn, March 25.-Two bodies were found in a canal here to- day when the water was drawn off. was that of a man believed to be Landon Mcbride, missing from his home since January 13 last, and the other was that of Louis Zakowski, 8 years old, who disappeared, from his home last night. McBride's body was recovered when the water was partial ly run out and that of the boy after it had been eitirely emptied. McBride was 51 years old.>
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
SHOTS EXCHANGED AT
 PENNSYLVANIA ROAD BRIDGE
Between a Sentry and an Unknown
 Man in a Rowboat

Havre de Grace. Md, March 25.- Shots were exchanged early tonight between a sentry on duty at the Penn sylvania railroad bridge over the Sus- quehanna river and an unknown man in a rowboat who failed to move away from the bridge. The bcatman dis appeared in the dark. It is not known whether he was struck
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
FIRST CONN. REGIMENT
 WILL. MOBILIZE TODAY
Governor HoIconnb Has Issued Order Through Adjui.ant General Cole.

Hartford, Conn. March 25.-The First Regiment, Connecticut National, Guard, called into the federal service by direction of the president, will mo bilize tomorrow. Governor Hokconnb today issued orders through Adiutant General Cole for the various units to report at their armories Monday morning at a. m. Five companies are called in this city, the regimen tai headquarters, two in New Britain and one each in Middletown. Bristol, South Manchester, WilHmantic and Winsted.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
FLOODS ALONG NORTHERN
 NEW ENGLAND WATERSHEDS
Prospects Are They Will Be More so- rious Than They Have Been for Years.

Boston, March 25.-F'lood prospects along the northern New England watersheds are more serious than they have been for years. Advices received here today indicate that the greater part of the almost unprecedented snowfall this winter is still piled high in the north woods. where there has been no marked break in the long cold spell. Tn western Massachusetts. how ever, better conditions are reported. While banks of snow lie to a great depth along the upper reaches Of the Connecticut river valley. in New Hampshire and Vermont. the river is generally clear of thick ice in Massa chusetts and much of the snow already thaw, however. would mean disaster according to engineers whose duty it is to watch river conditions carefully.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
National Child Labor Conference.

Baltimore, Md. March 25.-The Na- tional Child Labor Conference closed here today with a mass meeting af which Owen R. Lovejoy of New York. general secretary os the child labor committed, Spoke on "Safeguardins children in peace or var" and the Rev. Dr. William J. Keroy of the Ca tholic University. also spoke.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Portland, Maine, March 25.-MiIitary services were held today for Private John Poor of the Third Artillery Coast company who was shot and killed on Friday morning while trying to halt two providers near the heavy batter ies at Fort Williams. Two companies escorted the body to the railroad sta tion, where it was shipped to his for mer home, Clarksdale. Ills.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

A forestry surveying trip expected to cover a circuit of neaEly a hundred miles in an almost inaccessible part of the White Mountains has been started by two New Hampshire Col leze professors.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The memorial to Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, erected in Mt Auburn ceme- tery at Cambridge, Mass. has been turned over to the Christian Science board of directors
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
CREW OF BELGIAN STEAMER
 NARcIS ARRIVE IN NEW YORK
Vessel Foundered in the Atlantic
 Ocean on March G.

New York. March 25-Captain Sv- tor and the crew of the Belgian stea rn- ship Narcis which fouSdered in the Atlantic ocean on March while on a voyage from Baltimore to Calias France, arrived here today from Der muda, whence they had been taken bv the British steamship Tamarao, which rescued them .. The Narcis.- carrying a crew of 34 men, was caught in a hur- ricane.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
FRENCH DRAWING
 NEARER ST. QUENTIN
Have Pushed Forward Over Front of About Two
 and Half Miles
HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN FRENCH GERMANS

Gains Were Also Made South of the Disc and North of SO sons-There Has Been Considerable Fighting in the Air Berlin Records the Loss of Seventeen AeroPanes by French and British-London Says Eight German Ma chimes Were Driven Out of Control-SPring Thaws Hindering Actions in Rumana.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Smith College authorities announced that SS047 had been subscribed by faculty and students in a one day can yass for funds for the relief of Flu ropean soldiers in prison camps.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

bill to amend the revised statutes to prevent the sale of cigarettes or cigarette papers was introduced in the Maine Legislature.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Rae Tanzer jury disagreed after sixty hours of deliberation. It stood eight for acquittal, four for con- viction.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

A regular course in military training will be started at Williams College to- day under the direction of an army of ficer.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Two deaths were recorded at Gales vile, H., as the result of a throat in lection which has attacked more than 200 persons.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Condensed TeIegrams.

The Vermont National Guard will be put on a war footing.
 The national child labor conference began a three days session at Balti- more.
 The Harlow Building, at Augusta. Me. was destroyed by fire at loss of $1o0,000.
 General AsuiIsr resigned as minister of foreign relations in the Carranza Cabinet.
 Great Britain has placed an order in Canada for 500 tons of canned salmon a month.
 Anton Hermes, of Passaic, N. J., was arersted at Alletown, Pa, charged with espionage.
 Thirty four men were killed by gas explosion in the Fushan coal mines in Manchuria.
 Four children were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home at Saginaw, Mich.
 The Fabre Line steamship Roma ar rived at Providence, R. l., from Lis bon and the Azores.
 The plant of the JcansviIEe Iron Works at Hazelton, Pa.. was damaged by fire at a loss of s75,o0ee
 Lieut. Col. Chester Harding, governor of the Canal Zone, was elected presi- dent of the Panama Railroad
 The Atlantic & Northwestern Rail- road Co was chartered at Richmond Va, with a capital of $5,O00,000. 
 President Wilson has nominated Mrs. Ampler F. Cardwell to be post mistress at Fortress Monroe Va.
 Four members of the tariff board were sworn in by Chief Clerk Will meth of the Treasury Department.
 Greek residents at Jacksonville, Fla, have volunteered their services to the iy, 4F
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Three men were killed in a rear end collision on the main line of the Le- high Valley Railroad near Rochester, N Y
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

While operating a circular saw in the Boston Navy Yard, George A Pitcher of Everett, a carpenter. was struck in the chest by a piece of flying wood and killed instantly. He was 60 wears old
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
One of Fourteen Regiments of National Guard Troops
 Called Out by War Department
FOR POLICE DUTY AND PURPOSES OF PROTECTION

Division of the United States Into Six Instead of Four M tary Departments Has Been Announced by War De- partmeE-New England States is to Comprise One of the New Departments, With Brisadier General Edward H. Hummer in Command-FMst Connecticut Will Mobilize Today.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The election Of John King Lord of Hanover, N. H., a trustee of Dart mouth college was announced yester- day. He fills the vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Francis Brown. Nr Lord is a grandson of former presi- Bent of Dartmouth, Nathan Lord.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

! Col. W. S. Pierce, coommandant at 1 the arsenal at Springfield, Mass, an
 !nounced that he had received authori- ty to increase the hours of operation 1 from Is to 20 hours.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Greek residents at Jacksonville, Fla, have volunteered their services to the United States in the vent of war.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

A membership in the New York Golf fee & Sugar Exchange -was-sold for s5,0o0, an advance of $200 over the last previous sale.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

John Bumbers, 42, committed suicide at his home a New Haven yesterday by shooting in the head with re- volver. Dependency over a love affair Is said to have been the cause.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Mayor Mitchei received from Pres ident Wilson a letter of thanks for the city's offer of docks and recreation piers for use in time of emergency.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Four children were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home at Saginaw, Mich.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Four members of the tariff board were sworn in by Chief Clerk Will meth of the Treasury Department.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

News of the establishment of this barred zone in the waters giving ac- cess to the northern Russian ports was contained in Christian advices re- ccived on March 23 announcing that the German minister there had official Ky notified the Norwegian government of this extension of the area of unre- stricted submarine warfare.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Three persons were injured when the forward truck of a Nostrand Ave- nue car left the rails at Avenue D, F1atbush. and dropped eight feet into subway excavation.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Nineteen members of the Naval Ca det School of the sachusetts Naval Militia were graduated s ensigns in the naval reserve Saturday night, six months in advance of the usual time.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Illinois House of Representa- tiveS has adopted joint resolution urging that if the United States enter the European war it enter in the cause of smaller nations.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Illinois House of Representa- tiveS has adopted a joint resolution urging that if the United States enter the European war it enter in the cause of smaller nations
 Col. w. s. Pierce, coomra ndant at the arsenal at Springfield, Mass, an nounced that he had received authori- ty to increase the hours of operation from Is to 20 hours
 Three persons were injured when the forward truck of a Nostrand Ave- nue car left the rails at Avenue D, F-1atbush, and dropped eight feet into a. subway excavation
 John Bumbere, 42, committed suicide at his home at New Haven yesterday by shooting in the head with a re- voIver. Dependency over a love affair Is said to have been the cause.
 Smith College authorities announced that SS.047 had been subscribed by faculty and students in a one day can vass for funds for the relief of Flu ropean soldiers in prison camps.
 MetropoIitain park police were inves- tigating the death of James A. Doyle, a printer of Bea achmont. Mass, whose body was found in the roadway on the Winthrop Shore Drive Saturday.
 Nineteen members of the Naval Ca det School of the Massachusetts Naval Militia were graduated as ensigns in the naval reserve Saturday night. six months in advance of the usual time.
 The Massachusetts Coast Artillery Corps, comprising. 12 companies. was instructed by the War Department to make immediate requisition for equip ment needed to bring it to full war strength.
 While operating a circular saw in the Boston Navy Yard, George A. Pitcher of Everett, a carpenter, was struck in the chest by a piece of flying wood and killed instantly. He was 60 years old.
 A forestry surveying trip expected to cover a circuit of neaEly a hundred miles in an almost inaccessible part of the White Mountains has been started by two New Hampshire Col lege professors.
 The memorial to Mary Baker Eddy, church, erected in Mt. Auburn ceme- tery at Cambridge, Mass. has been turned over to the Christian Science board of directors
 The election of John King Lord of Hanover N. H., as a trustee of Dart mouth college was announced yester- day. He fills the vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Francis Brown MT. Lord is a grandson of a former presi- Dent of Da artmontl1 Nathan Lord
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Corps, comprising. 12 companies. was instructed by the War Department to make immediate requisition for equip ment needed to bring it to full war strength.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Atlantic & Northwestern Rail- road Co. was chartered at Richmond Va, with a capital of s5,O0O,OO0.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

Lieut. Col. Chester Harding, governor of the Canal Zone, was elected presi- dent of the Panama Railroad.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The national child labor conferenc, began a three days session at Baiti more.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

President Wilson has nominate Mrs. Ampler F. Cardwell to be post mistress at Fortress Monroe, Va.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

American Field Ambulance in Franco.
 Paris March 25. 11.05 a. m.-Four mere sections of the American Field Ambulance will be offered to the French army in April. Thus the or ganization will have more than 500 cars at the front
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

MetropoIitain park police were inves tigating the death of James A. Doyle, a printer of Bea achmont, Mass, whose body was found in the roadway on the Winthrop Shore Drive Saturday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Harlow Building, at August Me. was destroyed by fire at a loss $10O,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The New York Senate passed a bill which prohibits the selling of liquor within a quarter of mile of the United States reservation at Platts- burg.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
NEW BARRED ZONE.
 IN ARCTIC WATERS
Announced by German Admiralty in
 Official Statement.

Berlin, March 25.-(By Wireless to Sayville) - Announcement of a new barred zone in Arctic waters was ma de today by the admiralty in an of1icia1 statement.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The annual 500 mile automobile race, scheduled for the Indiana polls Motor Speedway on Memorial Day, was de. clared off because of threatening war conditions.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The plant of the JcansviIIe Iror Works at Hazelton, Pa. was damaged by fire at loss of S75,00e.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26

The Cramp ShipbuiIdins Co. of New York was awarded d contract for con- structing two vessels for the United States government at a cost of about 5000, 900 each.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-26
FEDERAL CALL FOR THE FIRST
 REGIMENT OF CONN. INFANTRY
CabIed Paragraphs
Body of American Aviator Found

Paris, March %. 1130 a. m. = The body of Sergeant J. R. Mcconnell. the American aviator who was killed last week in an engagement with the Ger man machines. has been found by French cavalry. the Hearld says to- day. With the body was the wreck age of McConnelTs machine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
WINDSOR

WEST-The Ladies' Union will
meet at the parsonage Wednesday at
ternoon.
Rev. Linwood Jones Of South China
supplied the Baptist church Sunday
morning In the absence of Mrs. M. II.
Wakefield, who left Friday morning
for Biddeford on a business trip, eX-
pecting to return on Tuesday.
Mrs. Ralph Taber is entertaining a
friends, Miss Dora Norton of Gardi-
ner for an indefinite time.
Mrs. G.. T. Pierce Of South China
with her daughter, Mrs. Flora Taber
and son Edgar Lewis, were callers Fri
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. E.
NJ. Lamson, who also entertained as
callers MIR. and Mrs. S. P. Barton and
Mrs. Lizzie Dickey Of West Roxbury.
Mass. as a visitor for a few days. Mrs
Dickey left with an auto party for
Dresden Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Abbie Downs is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Georgia Williams OF Gardi-
ner.
Mrs. VIM. Black entertained as
guests last Wednesday Mrs. II. q.
Dickey Of South Vassalboro and Mrs.
Lizzie Dickey. who a been q visitor
Of relatives while on a business call at
the old homestead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler and son left
recently on a visit to relatives on the
coast for an indefinite time.
Mrs. Eben Hallowell passed Sunday
in Gardiner with her sister. Mrs. Gel
lispie.
Mrs. Flora Taber and son were the
guests last Sunday of her grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Margaret Pierce, Beech Grove
farm.
Casey brothers are harvesting the
potatoes and apples assisted by Ernest
Smart on t1e farm owned by the late
c. NJ. Dickey. South Vassalboro.
Mrs. w. s. Barton, who has return
ed from the Augusta General hospital,
is daily improving.
One Of the peculiar freaks Of nature
was the manner of growing of a Blue
Hubbard squash in the garden of ID.
G.. True. where he planted the seed n
the family and friends watched the
running Of the vine and h growth OF
the vegetable with great interest. i
vine run 90 or more feet when 1t
caught on a dropping limb of an apple
tree where it hung about IS feet from
the ground and developed into q beau
tifully grown squash Weighing q
rounds. This tree showed two varieties
Of fruit, one side loaded with apples
on the other side the vegetable. near
ly covered with the heavy foliage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
LOCALS
DELTA PI
Members Of Old High School Fraterni.
ty Plan Biz Get altogether

Former members of the old Delta ri
fraternity held an enthusiastic and well
attended meeting Monday evening at the
office of the superintendent Of Augusta
schools, at which time the first steps were
taken for a get-together of all the alumni
Frank Hewins was elected chairman
and r. H. Flynt secretary, and it was
voted that the affair be held between
Christmas and New Years day, the time
and place to be left in the hands Of the
entertainment committee. The members
of this committee are: Charles P. K!ns-
man, chairman: William B. Williamson,
George Seth williams, c. e. Davis and
Ohm s.. wadleigh. This committee was
given power to appoint subcommittee to
attend to some Of the details Of the get
together. A committee to correspond
with all members was appointed. its
members being: r. H. Flynt. chairman;
F.. F. Brown and E. c. Burleigh.
All present at the meeting expressed
their desire to hold the get-together and
It is very likely that the occasion may
become an annual affair. The committee
on correspondence is anxious to get the
addresses Of all members, especially those
who are out Of town, and will be glad to
hear from all the brothers. The arrange
ments for the get-together will be per-
fected in the near future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
ALBION

E. G. Tilton of Boston visited his
mother and sister, Mrs. Hannah Cros-
by, Saturday. DR.. Earle E.. Tilton and
family also visited at Mrs. Crosby's
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Crosby return
ed from Boston Saturday, where they
have been visiting friends.
Mrs. Matilda Buck, who has been
passing the hummer with her sister,
Mrs. s. B. Stratton. has returned to
her home in Massachusetts,.
George Brown of Abbott is visiting
relatives in town.
Ella Fuller Of Waterville has been
the guest of her sister, Mrs. j. c.
Gould. for a few days.
Mrs. Emma Carr, who has been with
relatives in Waterville for a few weeks,
was the guest of relatives in town a
few days last week.
c.. E. Wilson picked ripe strawber-
ries Saturday. Oct. 10, in his garden.
There were blossoms and green ones
also on the vines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
NAMES SUBSCRIPTION
REACHES S3,272,OOo

Washington, Oct. l5.-The treasury de-
partment tonight estimated tina sub
scriptions TO the second Liberty Loan had
passed the $500. 000,o0 mark, or Is per cent.
Of the 5000, 600, 900 hoped for.
Unofficial and incomplete returns from
eight of the IL reserve banks, which are
known to be less than actual subscrip-
tons, show a grand total Of approximate
ly s7o5, 600. zoo. The $500, 0o0, 900 estimate,
which is thought to be liberal, it was
said, included probably sales in the Min
neapolis district, from which no report
has been received, and increase In the
other districts for which no fresh figures
are available.
Totals to date include: New York 5000, :
100000: Boston s73.o0o,0Oo. New England
states reported the following totals:
Massachusetts $40. S9s.N0: Rhode Island
so. $4,000. Connecticut s9.605. Goo; Maine
So, 22NN; New Hampshire 2.494, 600, n
VERMONT 81, $4,000.
.Thirty-one thousand persons have
bought honds in Chicago, bringing the to-
tai for the city up to s13. 742 $50.
Official figures of the sum actually paid
on subscriptions reported to the reserve
banks were unohtairable. Meantime the
campaign has only 10 more working DAYS
to TO and approximately $4,000 600 600 must
be raised If the 5000 0o. 200 goal is reach
"a.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
,ut off from the northern part of the

cut offrfrom the northern part of the
island.
German torpedo boats, the statement
adds. penetrated the inner waters be-
tween the island of Oesel and Dago
and in repeated engagements pressed
back the Russian naval forces in the
Moonesund.
Making Rapid Progress
The text reads:
Rapid progress has been made on
the island of Oesel. Pressing impet-
uously forward, our infantry regiments
and cyclist battalions without waiting
for the artillery repeatedly overcame
the enemy at the places where he
made-a stand. The Sverb peninsula
was cut off from the north while the
fire of u ships silenced the land bat
teries. We are before Arensburg. which
is burning and are advancing in the
eastern portion of the island towards
the east coast. IN which the Russian
forces are rapidly r%etreating to escape
over the mole which the is
land of Oesel with Moon island. Our
torpedo boats penetrated into the in
ner waters bewteen Oesel and Dago
islands and in repeated engagements
pressed back the Russian naval forces
into the Moonsund."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
KORNILOFF
is NOT BLAMED

Petrograd. Oct. 15.-General Chablov-
sky, president of the commission of
inquiry into the Korniloff affair. has
returned to Petrograd and in an in
terview with local newspaper men de-
clared that he did not see in the ac-
tions of General korniloff and the
other accused officers any character
of high treason.
1t was proved, he said, that General
Korniloff throughout the movement
committed no act of a nature to weak
en- the fighting front. General Chab-
lovsky expressed the opinion that Gen.
eral korniloff can be sentenced only
under article 100, dealing with attempts
against the established regime and in
volving the penalty of life imprison-
ment.