Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-12


 during the month of December amount ed to 224.8S7.626.
 During the month of. January the Allies lost 55 aeroplanes and three ob- servation balloons. Exports of copper from Atlantic ports for the week ended February 8 totaled 7,657 tons.
 Fire destroyed an entire block of business houses at Welch, w. Va. at a loss of $25o,o0o.
 Henry Eben Burnhan,, United States senators from New Hampshire from l 1901 to 1913 is dead. The French Cabinet decided on the reduction in the number of pages of the daily newspapers All naval militia ordnance in Wis consin is to be shipped Immediately to Brooklyn navy yard The United States Government plac- ed a s3,o00,0O0 order with the MidvaIe Steel Co. for 16-inch guns. | Gold coin to the amount of $510,0oO | was withdrawn from the sub-treas- ury for shipment to South America. A heavy guard was placed on the double track railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Thebes. III. The strike of electrical workers and | other trade unions at Washoe smelter of the Anaconda Copper Co. has been settled.
 About $500, 1000 will be spent by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- way Go. for the installation of block signals
  completed it's news print paper in- vestigation and will send it's report to Congress today.
 pounds at the HerTs Island stock yards at Pittsburg, the price being the highest since 1869. interests in Japan, which were cared for by the United States before its breach with Germany. The Illinois Public Utilities Com Service Co of northern Illinois to issue $5.000,0oo debenture bonds. l Frank Crawford, of Lancaster, Pa., was instantly killed by being caught in a belt in the Lititz paper mill and carried under heavy rolls.
 
 of alien residents who declared their intention of becoming citizens of the United States totaled 1000.
 Gov. Walter Edqe of New Jersey called at the White House with assur- ances of New Jerseys full support in case of war with Germany.
 The French Chamber of Deputies passed a bill authoriing the Minister of Ffnancez to lend $10O, ,00O, 900 to the Allies and friendly nations.
 "It is a wenan's privilege to take money out of her husbands pocket" Magistrate James J. Conway, of the Jamaica police court, so ruled.
 The British Government has re- quested the State Department to sus- pend the publication of all ship move ments of sailing in the newspapers AIexandre Ribot, minister of fin- once, introduced a bill in the Frnech Chamber of Deputies empowering the government to call up the 1918 class. Walker Percy, general counsel Tor the Tennessee Coal, Iron G Railroad Co, accedinetally shot and killed him self at his home at Birmingham, Ala. Ernest C. Quick, a contractor, of Somerville, N. J., shot and killed Julius Slater, policeman, who tried to precent him from committing suicide. Claus SpreckeIs, president of the Federal Sugar Refining Co, announced an increase of three cents an hour to 1000 employees of the refinery at Yonkers.
 A bill providing for physical and military training in the common and also the high schools of West Virginia was introduced in the Senate by Sen ator Carter.
 The nomination of County Judge George R. Salisbury. of Saratoga, to be a Supreme Court Justic for the Fourth Judicial District, was sent to the New York Senate.
 The Senate Rules Committee decid- ed to recommend employment of 50 additional policemen to guard the Cap itol against bomb plots, feared as a re- suit of the German crisis.
 Bernard Listmann, 76, violinist, founder of the Boston Philharmonic Society in 1879 and once concert master of the Thomas Orchestra in New York, died in Chicago. kimer, N. Y., destroyed the Munger Department Store, the Masonic Tenn pie and the Grange Mercantile Ex- change building at a loss of $300,00O.
 The Hotel Lenox, at Exeter and and Boylston street, in the Back Bay district, Boston, was severely dam aged by fire early Saturday,. All of the 250 guests and the employees were able to get out, but several sustained minor injuries.
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