Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-20

| ANr left an estate valued at s25s.o0o.
 Fire destroyed three buiIdinas at 0niontown, Pa. at a loss of $25o,ooO. A total of 2,7so vessels passed through the Panama Canal up to Jan l uary l.
 Fire destroyed the Read Bros. ship yard at South Somerset, Mass at a loss of $150,O00.
 Judge w. H. Hardy, known as the father of Gulfport," died at his home at Gulfport. aged 80
 The Mineral Paint Zine Go. of Newark N. J., increased it's capital from $4oo.ooo to ss.5ooeoo.
 The Rt. Rev. Samuel c. EdsaII, bish- op of the Episcopal diocese of Minne- sota, died at Rochester. Minn The Postoffiee Department announc- ed that the net increase in postal say ings for January, 1917, was $3.6oO,0Oo. The American tank steamer Illinois, tente Allies, left New York for Lon don.
 Fire damaged the plant of the Her cules Powder Co. at Gillespie, near New Brunswick, N. J., at a loss of $15,000.
 A force of 100000 men is required for the British navy. according to the naval estimates for the coming fln- ancial year.
 Monroe IsIes" was suggested in a resolution introduced by Represent alive Murray as a name for the Dan ish West Indies.
 Employees of the American Sugar Re- fining Co, at Jersey City, went on strike in sympathy with the Brook lyn refinery strikers.
 Search has been started in the Mo- jave desert for four miners who en- tered the desert Nov. 20 last and have not been heard from since.
 The British War Office issued a hurry call for 1000 young women to duty with various units in the army.
 An amendment was made to the Porto Rican citizenship bill granting the islanders the right to say wheth- CT or not they are to have phohibition.
 Chase Barber, 75, one of the couns try,s t1s,t most expert sngEavers e ,,s and seF mint, died at his home at Philadel- 4 phia. \
 The sending of messages to CaIAasE guey. Santiago de Cuba, Santa Cfuk del Sur and Jucaro, Cuba, has beent prohibited by the Commercial Cable Company. M
 The Philadelphia Electric Go. ap-I piled to the Pennsylvania Public Ser vice Commission for authority to in-d crease its capital from $25,o0o,0oO to $5O, ,oo0,00
 
 Captain George Steuenberg, U. S. A., applied for retirement from active ser vice because of failing health, due to a nervous breakdown suffered two years ago.
 The secretary of state of Connecti- cut has authorized the change in the name of the Rubber Co. of America, | Inc, to the Rubber Association of America, Inc.
 The armor plant board of the navy, | charged with selecting site for the for an investigation of suggested l southern sites. |
 Orders withdrawing the entire Ma | tional Guard force from the border and l for muster out of all units remaining | in the Federal service were sent to | General Funston by the War Depart ment-
  Joseph C. Grew, formerly secretary | of the American Embassy at Berlin, | who returned to New York after the | break in diplomatic relations with the | United States, left New York for Vii | enna- The National Assembly of Panama | passed a, law authorizing the United | States for the construction of road and | railroads throughout the country, the | erraxy nT1fC fn ho aF1G equally.
 Among 72 mothers with 635 children no case of death from disease and no commitment for delinquency has been in the year passed since the widows pension law went into effect | n New York state.
 Individual subscriptions by the mem oers of the New York Chamber of Commerce to the Belgian relief fund mounts to S6,980 in cash payments, besides pledges for monthly contribu- ions of $54e each month
 American Minister VoPicta, accred-1 ted to Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, md recently ordered home, reported would sail on the Danish steamer United States next week.
 The Senate Finance Committee re- P<1SodS5O OA IL4C 1IOuSC OAA attending the life of the War Risk In- surance Bureau to Sept l. 1918, with an increasing the appropria- ion of the bureau from $5,0Oo.OOO to Is ,0O0, 900.
 Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, and Heating of Colorado, interstate shipment of goods made in introduced identical bill to prohibit whole or in part by women employed nore than eight hours a day or more han six days a week
 Three foreigners employed as labor ITS at the power plant of the Common wealth Edison Co. at Chicago were aken into custody and questioned by he police in connection with a re- ,ort that they had entered into plot o blow up the plant Officers and crew of the German teamship Liebenfels, sunk in Charles , on Harbor Feb 1, who have been de- aimed at Charleston, s. C., pending an f11<z |