Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-08

Swifchnen m the Chicago railroad yards have voted to strike.
 The Treasury Department is con sidering revising its marine rates.
 The Fairhaven Mills of New Bedford Mass, was Incorporated with a capi-
 Fire damaged the plant of the Brewster Cocoa Co.,, at Jersey City at a loss of $25o,oG0.
 wreck on the Reid Newfoundland railroad near Glenwood. 1 Plans are under way to move the German prize ship Appam from New port News to Norfolk.
 in January were ss,iSs,o45. The re- ceipts were $14,06o.5O9.
 Charles H Boynton resigned as president and director of the ConsoIi- dated Copper Mines Co l Domestic exports from the port of | New York for the week ended Feb 3 amounted to s52.77s,63S
 The Illinois Legislature in joint | = it's support to President Wilson. i Chief of Police chas. E. Brooks, of Waverly, R. l., committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
 Gold coin to the amount of $500, GOO was withdrawn from the sub Urea sury for shipment to South America.
 Josiah H. Benton, president of the board of trustees of the Boston Li- brary, died at the age of 73 years. The Dutch Government, after nego- tiatinE with England and France. has agreed to take over the Belgian re- work.
 Anna Haraon, of Pttston, Pa., is under arrest charged with forging checks and collecting considerable money from merchants. The Maryland hospital for consump- tIVes at Towson was offered to the United States Government for hospital purposes i'll case of war.
 Congress by a majority of IA adopted a resolution urging the Pres ident to obtain the withdrawal of the American forces in Nicaragua.
 The resignation of all but one of the 72 midshipmen who were deficient in the recent examinations at the Naval Academy have been submitted.
 The R. I. house concurred with the senate in. the adoption of resolutions endorsing the action of the President In secering diplomatic relations with Germany.
 The commanding officer at Fort Leavenworth has received an order from the War Department to stop the la of 1r1f ff-uf ffV1er saF ficers' club.
 w. H. Landon, agent at Newport News, Va, for the Old Dominion through the hatchway of the steam CT Jefferson.
 Rear Admiral Perry sent a memorial to President Wilson asking that a new force of hydro ro-aeroplanes for the protection of the American coasts be created without delay.
 Three persons were injured, one seriously, when an explosion wrecked the coal stove and set fire to the kitchen in the home of Julius Schu1- man, at Tomplinsville, Staten Island.
 AssembIyman F. A. Wells, chairman of the House Military Committee, in troduced bill to increase from 2,000 to 1000 the number of enlisted officers
  York.
 4 bill to appropriate $25,000, ,000 which the United States has agreed to pay Denmark for the Danish West Indies was introduced by Chairman Flood of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
 Former Congressman John R. Buck died at his home in Hartford after a long illness, aged S3 years. For many years he was a prominent figure in member of the bar.
 The schooner Bentley, reported as being in distress in the Gulf of Mex ico, 30 miles southeast of the Herald Bank Lightship, was picked up by the Coast Guard cutter Comanche and is being lowed to Galveston, Tex.
 James B. Haig, Jr, former cashier of the Fort Lee National Bank of New Jersey, pleaded guilty to one of three counts in the indictment found against him and was sentenced to five year in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta
 Patrol boats, which had been search ing for the British steamship Retlaw, reported ashore five miles south of Cape Sambro, notified the Depart ment of Marine that wreckage had been found cast of Egg Island, but that they had not located the dis abled craft.
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