Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-24

;ES-96 COLUMNS necticut in Proportion to Condensed Telegrams The German Agriculture Leaaue met in convention at Berlin. T. Lawrence seibert, comic song Sir Robert Borden and hi. ,.r+~ have arrived safely in England The domestic output of quicksilver sa .n tsiS; IS was 2s.s42 fiasks. valued at Food ricts anens workmen havs caused the closing of all shops and the custom house at Piraeus. CT rAnglo-Patagonian. aground 20 miles east Of Rockaway Beach. failed. Sweden has made formal protest to Germany over the sinking of the ] Swedish steamer Hugo Hamilton Matthew kehE, of Wetaskiwin. AL Derta, was sentenced to be hanged on May ls. for the murder of H. AIIay. The tenth annual convention of tbe society for the Promotion of Indus trial Education opened at Indianapolfs The Iowa senate passed "bone dry bill, making the place of delivery or intoxicating liquor the place of sale. Two thousand barrels of potatoes were destroyed by fire in a potato house at Ashland. Maine. at a loss of $14,000.
 James w. Gerard, former American a1npassador at Berlin, arrived at Madrid. on his way to the United States.
 Reports have reached the war de- vessels in Philippine ports have been disabled.
 Rev. Renwiek Harper Martin was iinausurated president of Geneva Col lege at Beaver Falls. Pa, yesterday afternoon.
 Senator Sage introduced a bill ap- propriating $2.500.000 to purchase lands in the CatskiII and Adirondaclx State parks
 The New York Senate committee reported for passage the Douglas Rob- inson bill, imposing a tax of 75 cents a head on cats.
 The Leyland line freight steamship Stonian, with heavy cargo of mu- nitions and horses. sailed from Bos- ton for Liverpool,
 Jess Willard. the heavyweight champion, through his manager, sign ed an eight-month contract at Chicago to appear with a circus.
 The anti-shippins bill, which pro- htblts shipments of intoxicating liquor from a wet to dry county. was pass ed by the Delaware senate.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the Pocahontas Tanning company at Dur bin, W. Va The loss was estimated at s5OO,Oo The cause is unknown.
 President Franklin, of the Interna- tional Mercantile Marine, conferred with Secretary Daniels and Assist ant Secretary Roosevelt of the navy.
 A man giving the name of Wood and claiming to be an American was ar rested at Cartagena, Spain, charged with giving aid to German submarines
 Nine persons were injured when touring car containing a joy riding party collided with a taxi at 18th street and Amsterdam avenue, New York.
 The reintroduetion of the daylight saving scheme was unanimously rec CIV by the British parliament to con- slider the subject.
 Calvin Derrick, former warden of tendent of the new Westchester Coun- ty penitentiary, to be opened at East view next month.
 Thirty-two Bavarian and Prussian soldiers were killed and two hundred wounded as the result of a quarrel which resulted in a fight last week at Beverloc, Belgium.
 An embargo on the exportation of food products and other necessities of life is asked for in a resolution fn- troduced in the house by Representa- tive Bailey. of Pennsylvania.
 Announcement was made by J. P. Morgan & company of the arrival at the Philadelphia mint of $9.0O0.0 900 gold from Canada This makes total i'm ports of s162,ooO.oo0 since Jan. l.
 Charles F. Gettemy, director of pub lie statistics of Massachusetts called on Governor Holcomb for information in regard to the state military census measure which may be adopted by Massachusetts.
 Ordway R. Hall, manager of a tea company store at Boston, was shot and killed because he was slow in raising his hands at command of two robbers, who took 800 from the cash drawer and escaped.
 The total receipts for duties at the New York custom house Wednesday were s4Ss. .11O.56. of which s256, ,277O4 was for merchandise withdrawn from bonded warehouses and $22S.S for recent importations.