Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-24


Chairman Padsett of the House
Naval Committee introduced a bill
giving the President power to enforce
| prohibition in the navy.
A group of Western citizens. form
ally adopted" the French town of
| Noyon. These patriots pledged them
selves to raise 100000.
| Naval stations along the Maine
coast announced they were trying to
run down reports that a submarine
was seen in that vicinity.
Edward M. Healy, So, teacher in
Pratt Institute. Brooklyn. N. Y, COM
| mitted suicide by hanging at the home
| of his mother in New Haven.
Mrs. Louise Hull, 46 years old, wife
| of Representative Harry Z. Hull, of
Iowa, died at Washington from BIZ
chloride of mercury poisoning.
Substantially all the employees in the
office of the New York State Civil
Service Commission at Albany sub
scribed to the Liberty bond issue
President Wilson contributed 25
| baseball paraphernalia to be distrib
uted among army training camps.
stroIIins through Gwynns Falls
Park, Baltimore, Marian Riley was
shot by a sentry when she and ner es-
cort failed to obey the sentry's order
| to halt.
Twelve trainmen are believed killed
and a number of others seriously in
jured when a wreck on the j. X O
crashed into a freight train at Wal
lace, w Va.
The Machoid bill, authorizing the
New York State Attorney General to
main tain a secret service bureau, one
of the war measures, was signed by
Governor Whitman.
Two Americans appear in Canada's
casualty Hsts-Lance Corporal w. T.
Rowland, Minneapolis, wounded. and
Private M. G.. Smith, Detroit, suffer-
ing from shell shock.
Wage increases averaging 10 per
more than 1000 operatives in Adams.
Mass, paper and cotton mills were
announced here yesterday.
Cotton manufacturers of the North
and producers and manufacturers OF
the South met in Washington in con-
ference to appoint a committee to
deal with the Government
Consul Wesley Frost of Queenstown
was granted leave of absence and
will be given a new post latter. He
will be succeeded by Consul Hathaway
Orders were given that 12 Govern
ment barges and two Government
steamers on the Mississippi be placed
in immediate commercial service in
order to relieve freight congestion.
NichoIa Bentiveena of Waterbury
pleaded guilty to a charge of man
yIo1 TI1f0 In,
Bridgeport yesterday and was sentence
ed TO from three to seven years in pris-
on.
The bill to increase the membership
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion from seven to nine members and
allowing them to divide into sections for
the expediting of business was passed
by the Senate.
Six youths arrested on allegations of
having insulted militiamen on guard
duty on railroad property at Meriden,
were charged in court with trespass-
ing on railroad property.
Senator Nelson introduced an
amendment to the Administration food
bill authorizing the President to close
up dealers in grain futures whom he
may deem as working against the in
terests of the public.
Miss Emma Matzen, the Red Cross
nurse injured Sunday on board the
Mongolia. when two of her companions
were killed, was said by the Red
Cross officials to be doing nicely, and
is expected to recover.
The National Federation of Cloth
WeaVers in convention in Lawrence,
Mass, voted to support all worthy eff
fort to obtain wage increases and 6e-
mand more rigid enforcement of labor
laws and better sanitary conditions.
Ryndam, the first neutral vessel to
take advantage of Eng'land's re-
cent announcement that the route to
Holland was Comparatively safe from
submarine attacks" arrived at Rotter-
dam.
Mayer Mitchell and a committee of
prominent New York citizens will go
to Washington Monday next to ex-
tend a formal invitation to the mem |
bers o fthe Italian war commission to |
visit this city. it was announced last |
night
With forty vessels caught in the |
ice within a two-naile radius of the |
harbor entrance, Duluth witnessed an |
arctic scene with green grass and bud |
ding trees as the background. The
ice field extends nearly seven miles on
the Minnesota shoe
Richard C. CrowIy, former secretary
to James B. Brady, informed Surro-
gate Cohalan he was unable to locate
two of the benef1ciaries named in Mr..
Brady's will. They are the Railroad |
Employees Hospital and the Fresh Air
Fund of New York. Each was left
$4,000.
Thieves at Work in New Haven.
New Haven, Conn.,, May 2S.-LOot
a ggregating $850 in silver ware and