Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-23


 deficiency appropriation bill, in volving s1,300,0 ,0O0, was introduced in the New York legislature. The direct cable connecting San Francisco with Manila Pt l., via Guam, has been interrupted. William A. Pidsin, who was asso- ciated with the Lewiston, Me, Journ- al for nearly fifty years is dead. fire which broke out in the bus mess section of the city of Panama destroyed half a block of buildings.
 The Madison Beach hotel was partly burned Thursday. The older part was burned and a small part of the new section.
 An appropriation of $s1,5oo,ooo is asked for the development of the Merrimack- river from Hunts Falls in Lowell to the sea.
 George w. Luther, postmaster at Myricks. Mass, was killed by a New York New Haven & Hartford train at the station there.
 Senate Foreign relations committee determined that the Colombian treaty urged by he president could not be ratified this session.
 The steamer Sasona, of the Reed Line sent out a wireless call for help, stating that she had struck a mudbank off Louisburg-
 The Illinois supreme court declared the so-called Dunne Deep Waterway plan constitutional in a decision re- versing the lower court.
 Richard Cleveland, son of former President Grover Cleveland, has set forth his opposition to the present club system at Princeton university.
 Word was received at Chicago of the death of at Houghton, Mich, of c. W. Marquardt general passenger agent of the Copper Range Railroad.
 A resolution providing for a refer endum in September on the question of woman suffrage was passed by the lower branch of the Maine legislature, 113 to 35.
 Announcement was made at Hartford of the engagement of Miss Mary L.. Hamlin of Hartford to William M. Maltbie, executive secretary to Cover nor Holcomb.
 p. T. Dugan, for forty years a mer- chant in Bangor. Me, and regarded as an authority on horses and track events, died at his home there after a brief illness
 Cargo agents at Boston were advis- ed by cable that the steamer Borin- quen, from FayaI for Boston, was lowed into FHayal yesterday by the Dutch steamer.
 The British prize court disallowed the application of the crew of the British submarine Elf for prize ship GulgalmaI
 The Atlas Powder Company an- nounced an extra dividend of 3 per cent on the common stock, to- gether with the regular quaretrly dis bursement of per cent.
 The North German Lloyd Steamship Co. filed in the United States District Court at Boston a surety bond for $200 ,0O0 to cover the expense of mak- ing the vessel seaworthy.
 German crews who damaged their vessels in Honolulu harbor when re- Iations between the United States and Germany were broken destroyed even the scientific instruments.
 Agents of the conservation com mission have in their custody 450 live wild ducks captured in q raid on the game preserve of Henry Carnegie Phipps at Wantagh, l.. l.
 Rudolph kraus, a Nebraska farmer, today shot and killed his wife and two children, aged 4 and years, and then shot himself three times, infiicting wounds which probably will be fatal.
 pr. William C. AIpers, 66, dean of the Cleveland school of Pharmacy of former president of the American Pharmaceutical Association is dead.
 Captain Bradbury of the Newfound- land schooner Rose Dorothea reported to the owners at St. Johns that the vessel had been. sunk by German submarine and the crew landed at Lis bon.
 Miss Alice M. Book, aged 29, daugh- l ter of MT. and Mrs. Herman Book, and a teacher in the Meriden High school, | was killed Wednesday night while re- turning from a shopping trip at How 1 arth, N. J.
 Representative London, socialist, of | New York, introduced a bill in the | house to appropriate $5,000 for the | purchase and sale of food by govern | ment commission. It was referred to | a committee without debate.
 Following the finding of the body of | Bonnel Edwards, 14 years old, mur- | dered in the woods near his home at | Ind, Eugene Lynn, 40, step | father of the boy, was arrested and is | in jail here pending an 1nVestigatlon.
 Shippers who had hoped to send | goods to Europe by the big steam ships of the American line sailing | rom New York received definite as- surance that the company had no inn mediate intention of sending out its vessels.
 Senator Fletcher's bill to amend the | irrigation act so as to prevent grant ing of rights of way through the public | ands and reservations of the United States to private irrigation or drain ing projects was passed last night by | the senate without debate.
 Cuban Special Held Up.
 Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 25eA south pound Illinois Central passenger train, xnown as the Cuban Special. was held up by several men at East unction, south of this city. agOut midnight.