Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-07

| abolished at Chicago when sales were
 made at $15.75.
 Establishment of department of l munitions, with a seat in the cabinet is being considered.
 Six Allied hospital ships have been
 mined or sunk by submarines since the l opening of the war.
 Six or seven persons were killed and
 40 injured in an explosion which
 wrecked a building at Chicago.
 A Massachusetts charter was grant l ed to the Atlantic Chemical Co.,. of
 Boston, with capital of $sOo.000 Directors of the Chicago Board of | Trade passed a resolution favoring a | national food control commission. Gold coin to the amount of $500, ,ooo
 was withdrawn from the Sub-Treas- ury for shipment to South America
 The Panama canal terminal ports of Cristobal and Balboa will be closed to
 navigation between sunset and sunrise.
 Twelve buildings near the shelI-Ioad- 1 ing plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co.,. at New Castle, Del, were destroyed by l fire.
 Bridgeport now has . population of | 167,36 based on the usual propor- tionate figures taken from the military
 census.
 l The University of Pennsylvania is | organizing an aero squadron of 50 | students and will be equipped with six 1 airplanes-
 l Senator Foley's bill for State | Council of Defense was reported favor ahly by the New York Senate finance i committee.
 | An unidentified woman about e5 l years old was instantly killed by being 1 crushed in an elevator in a building | at 1133 Broadway. z l Governor Whitman signed the bill ! appropriating $2.JG0.o0 for the pur-
 chase of land on Rockaway Point for i fortification purposes.
 l Thrushwood, the home of Irving | Bacheller, author and playwright, at Greenwich. Conn. was destroyed by 1 fire at a loss of $100,o00. l Henry p. Oakman, s5, president of the Guardian Coeperatiye bank of Bos- 1 ton, and prominent in the cooperative l bank movement, is dead. ss-tsf | The secretary of asrieuiture was di- Irected by senate resolution passed i yesterday to submit plan to increase | the nations food supplies.
 James Apakian, 14-ysars- old boy i living in Boston district. is 1amenting 1 because his offer to enlist in the ma l rine corps has been refused. | Thomas coyIe and Joseph SehimpIo, I, of New Britain, Conn, were sentenced 1 to three months In prison for assault i ing two national guardsmen.
 New York Assembly passed under l an emergency message the Meyer bill, | which allows the governor to organize
 reserve and volunteed militia.
 Hale Holden, president of the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co.,, has been elected director of the l Mercants' Loan and Trust Co.
 Miss Margaret Wilson, the presi- dents daughter, handed the Red Cross her personal check for $1 ,0Oe, the pro-
 ceeds of her spring concert tour.
 The weekly statement of the Bank 1 of France shows an increase in gold
 crease of 2,143,OO0 francs in silver. Captain Manuel Lopis, of the Span l ish navy, a member of a commission
 Spanish Government. died at New Lon 1 don, Conn.,
 Frank Monahan, chief of police of l Jersey City, has resigned to remove legal obstacles to his. candidacy for city commissioner at the the election | next month.
 Stanley Deceado, a section hand, | employed by the New Haven road. was
 killed near Charter Oak Park, Conn.,. ! when he stepped fin front of a south bound New York express.
 Negotiations are under way with a | view to having the government Of the province of Quebec take over the re-
 maining 200 reindeer of the herd brought from Lap1and in 1907.
 The death at Rotterdam of J. V. EWierdsma, president-director of the lHolland-America Line. was announced at New York by the company. MT
 wierdsma was Fl years of age. The United States Brewers Associ- ciation, representing nearly $70o, o,0oO.- 1 900 capital and composed largely of men of German birth or percentage. | wired President Wilson strong pledge | of support.
 By unanimous vote the Teutonia i Singing Society of Fort Worth, Texas, 1 numbering 300 members, all of Ger
 man descent. adopted resolutions al ! f1rming allegiance to the American flag. l The military authorities at Browns ville Texas, are holding Martin Bur 1 lap, WnO Sa1d ne IS S"c0lSh odOyCSL- for investigation. Burlap was detained as he attempted to cross into Mexico i and after he was questioned by oncers. A meeting of American resident or sojourning in London was held In Queens hall to endorse the action Of | President Wilson and the American senate in declaring that a state Of war exists between the United States and ] Germany.
  RESOLUTION URGING CONGRESS TO REGULATE PRICE OF COAL | Presented in Massachusetts House by Federal Relations Committee. Boston April 6.-A resolution urg- ing congress to take such action as might be necessary to regulate the price of coal was presented to the