Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-21

this year of baby week are under way in at least 34 states.
 The American Salvage Co. of New Jersey increased it's capital from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.
 The Copper Range Railroad has ordered two 100-ton engines from the American Locomotive Co.
 Four men were entombed by an ex- plosion in the mine of the Hecla Coal
 6 Coke Co.,, near Brownsville, Pa.
 Esther Kelsey, 70 years old, of Gif- lords Lane, Richmond, was instantly killed by falling down flight of stairs.
 A call for 20 additional physicians for the New York division of the Nav
 New York Health Department.
 ignaeio BoniIIas, Mexican ambassa- dor to the United States, received his ranza and left for Washington.
 Alfred Q. 5uess, who suffered a
 broken back in a fall from a scaffold
 on August 15 last, died at the Meri-
 den hospital yesterday afternoon.
 Premier Lloyd George announced in
 the House of Commons that on Thurs 0ay ne WOuIQ move a InOI1On or con- graduation to the Russian Duma.
 Twenty five hundred students and also a number of professors in Cornell University Init the traiP' at three ser vices Billy Sunday conducted at Ith- aca.
 The Farm Loan Board announced that the interest rate on all loans made to farmers throughout the counry by WOIIl6 a < cent.
 Negroes at a mass meeting at Ashe-
 vile, N. C., subscribed funds sufficient | to adopt 50 Belgian babies. The money vii buy food for the babies three months.
 Peter Ham Rimers, a German, was
 arrested at Yuma. Ariz:. by govern l ment agents after meeting with two Mexicans at the Southern Pacific l bridge near Yuma.
 Daylight saving by setting the clock ahead for an hour for the entire year was recommended by the special com mittee on daylight saving of the Bos- 1 ton Chamber of Commerce.. The Merchants & Miners Transpor- tation Co. announced that beginning today it's steamship service between Boston and Baltimore would be sus- pended until furthern notice. A Royal Daniesh proclamation an nouncing the transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States and bidding farewell to the subject of King Christian, was issued at St. Thomas. Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife ot i the United States Senator from Hi nois, announced that she will be can didate for president-general of the | tUN -l-A kL-- arr .1aTf1 ion | Felix Ribot, minister of finance 1T the retiring Briand Cabinet, called or | President Poincare and informed him regarding the progress of negotiations with a view to forming a new Cabinet Frank Voucher, an Austrian em- p1oyed by the Aetna Explosive Co.,, al Emporium, Pa, is under arrest in con- nection with the explosion on last Wednesday. in which six men were killed.
 Freight rates on sheep and goats from Utah. Idaho and Oregon points on the oregon Short Line Railroad tc Los Angeles were found to be unreas- enable by the Interstate Chamber ot Commerce Commission.
 1 Immediate nationaIization of railroad control was urged by Robert s. Iovett chairman of the board of the Union
 Pacific, in testifying' before the con- gressional committee Investigating al phases of the railway problem. Minnesota's Railroad Commission, b' | a Supreme Court order was prohibited | from abolishing Minneapolis grain switching charges of the Minneapolis
 Eastern Railroad pending the courts determination as to their validity. | American aircraft manufacturers i have been called to meet in confer ence at Washington next Thursday with the national committee for aero nautics to discuss ways and means of speeding up he manufacture of air planes
 l Charles H. Boynton of New York president of the American Russian Chamber of Commerce, arrived at To- kio on his way to Petrosrad to pro-
 mote the development of commercial relations between Russia and Ameri- ca after the war.
 A bill which would permit either party to a case before the superior court to challenge the judge assigned to the case on the ground of personal bias or prejudice was defeat ted by the Massachusetts house of representatives on a voice vote.
 OPPOSITION TO coNTRIBUTORY SYSTEM OF OLD AGE PENSIONS Developed at Legislative Hearing ir