Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-31


 pr. George M. Forbers, of the Uni
 versity of Rochester, opposed teaching
 of German in elementary schools.
 When the New York night schools
 reopen a special course will be given
 for women in machine shop work.
 Miss Mary Robinson, s2, magazine
 writer and author of book of travel,
 died at Suftield Conn.,, of pneumonia.
 Count Julius Andrassy, former Hun
 Sarian Premier, declared that, the United States must save the Entente" A Dutch steamer from the West In
 dies brought the body of Captain Mar
 tin of the United States Marine Corps. Amer;ca's first soldiers to arrive in Italy were number of young aviators who arrived in the southern part to train.
 The exceptionally cold wave in north ern France has been shifting to the southern part where it is generally warm.
 Several persons were killed in an ex-
 plosion of a blast furnace in the plant
 of the Inland Steel Co.,. at Indiana HarbOr, Ind.
 Americans serving in the French army may apply to American camps in France and be transferred to the American army.
 The American army now has it's mil | itary police operating in Paris. This is the thrd military polce force to op- crate in that city.
 fire, thought to be of incendiary | origin, burned a tobacco shed con- 1 taining the crop of one and a half
 acres at Windsor, Conn. The question of extending conscrip- 1 ton to Ireland will be considered at | the next meeting of Parliament after the Christmas holiday.
 l Hyman Borrok, a, shirtwaist manu- i facturer, of New York, pleaded guilty l to a charge Of hoarding sugar. His 1 sentence was suspended.
 The American lcavalr-ymen who pur-
 sued the Mexican bandits into Mexico l killed 50 of them and took oil the loot
 and plunder the bandits had. Twenty nine of the thirty govern | nent motor trucks manufactured at Detroit sent to Baltimore under their own power have arrived intact. I German and Austrian troops have talk
 en all art objects that could be re- moved from the northern part of Italy. It was announced in London that 1 White Russia has established an in dependent Republic. A rada or Iegis- l lative body has been assembled at I Minsk.
 A corporal of the American en- | gineers was killed and a private was
 wounded by a German shell dropped l near party of American engineers on Christmas Eve.
 Temporary use of the Laurel, Md, 1 race track for engineer troops has l been arranged by the War Depart | ment. This will not interefere with l the spring races. Mrs. Elizabeth c. Paul, Queen of 1 Ireland" who insisted she could bring l about the "abdication" of President | Wilson, was sent to the Washington | Asylum Hospital. For three days snow has been falling intermittently at the American train | ing camp in France, and many roads 1 sable by the drift. Morris D. Bradford, an instructor, l pleaded guilty to murder in the first l degree at Laconia, N. H., and was sem | fenced to life Imprisonment. He kille5 | Miss Alice Black, teacher A recruiting officer at Dallas, Tex, was confronted with a serious puzzle when man physically fit and who | said he had no name or place to call i home, aplied for enlistment The 27th division United States In- 1 fantry is going to have a big shake up in officers in command. Fifty of i ficers will be dropped because of un- 1 fitness physically for overseas duty. President Wilson directed that max | inum prices previously fixed upon iron ore coke, pig iron iron, steel and steel products be continued in effect until March 31. They were subject to re : vision January 1.
 Charles Lloyd, a veteran of the Civil war. who lived alone in a house near the Pennington river. was found dead there fate yesterday, When suppbsed that he perished of the cold,
 Joel G. Foster, an aged contractor of Danbury, had a close call last night from death when he was overcome by smoke while in bed. His home had caught fire from an overloaded fur
 mace and firemen found Mir. Foster nearly suffocated.
 1 Two officers training camps will be opened at Chickamauga Park next l Saturday instead of one, as at first l contemplated. Announcement was l made that second camp would be organized at Fort Ogletho-pe and that l 2,000 men would be entered as stu dents. l 69 Degrees Below Zero. I Glens Falls, N. Y, Dec. 39.-Uno6i- cial reports from the nor..: ern section | of Warren county state that the tenn l rerature this morning ranged from 52 to 69 degrees be.ow zero, the lowest
 mark being recorded at Thurma n