Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-02

More than 400 selected men will arrive at Camp Meade today from various parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
 The London Star says the British British government has taken over the British museum to be used as offices for the air board.
 Marcus H. Hoicomb yesterday gave an exhibition Vof preparedness when hel get in the Putnam Phalanx rifle range at Hartford,
 Judge George w. Wheeler, has &C., cepted from Gov.s Holcomb the ap- pointment of chairman of the war bu- reau in Bridgeport.
 Word was received in Bridgeport of the sudden death in Colon, Panama, of | Dr. Frederick M. Wilson, one of the best known eye specialists in the esat.
 Patrick Sherry, six feet tall and, live headquarters at Waterbury and | gave himself up as a deserter from | the 10th Canadians.
 While no festivities marked the | observance of New Years day at | Camp Meade, ther, were hundreds of | visitors from Pennsylvania, District | of Columbia and Maryland.
 K. Ohta, former Japanese charge at Mexico City, has arrived at Wash ington to confer with Japanese en1bas- sy officials about the situation in Mex irr fof nat ,iv,r +< Tnt
 4ritish forces in Paiestine have made further progress along the bat tie line north of Jerusalem. More than a thousand Turks were killed and 750 were taken prisoner. Word was received at Wallinsford last, night by the parents of Irving Delaney, a seiective Jarny soldiers, ! that he was dying in the Army ard Navy hospital in Washington.
 Twenty -one families lost all their belongings when they were driven to the street by flames which swept through two tenement buildings on Water street, Fltchburgh, Mass. | President Wilson has on the recom- mendation of Gov. Holcomb appointed Dr, Charles c, Beach of Hartford to take the place of the late Dr. E. J. Mcknight of district board No. 1. # Is reported that the BoIsheviki l have arrested the members of the Siberia, says a despatch to the Ex- change Telegraph from Petrograd. | Michael Trump, special assistant to the general manager was appointed acting general superintendent of l tranGportlticn. of q the TPennsylvaIlia Lines east of. Pittsburgh and riEe. s
 Ttss aersnan n political delegates who Fare visiting Fsetrosrad headed by Count Non Mirbach, are devoting
 much of their time to preliminary discussions of the question of trade relations.
 E The London Daily Mail says it is feared that the Antarctic relief ship | Aurora, which took part in the Shactleton expedition has been lost with, all hands while returning to England.
 Every available ranger of the Tex
 as force has been despatched to AL
 pine and vicinity by Adjutant Gen.
 eral Harley nreceipt of reports that Mexicans were planning 8 raid over | the border.
 | Three towns were raided and footed and Southern Pacific de Mexico train
 held up yesterday by bandits operat- ing between Nogales, Ariz., and Cana nea, Sonora according to reports
 reaching here.
 l William Clifford, 18 years old, 2
 brakeman in the employ of the New
 Haven road, was crushed between two
 cars while coupling them in the yard
 of the Scovill Manufacturing Com
 pany at Waterbury.
 Efforts are being made to connect
 blaze which razed the F. D. Brand
 Grain Elevator at Van Vert, Ohio. with a series of condagrations winicl have swept grain elevators in thi part of the state recently.
 As the first official act in his nev
 office of chancellor. or president, O. l the University of Sheffield. Lort Crewe in few days will confer -o1 honorary degree on the American Am bassador, Walter H. Page. 3 Dr. Asa w. Chamberlain, formeri.
 of Iowa, about to go on trial at Rich : mond, Va, for the murder of hi t brother, Judge Albert P. Chamberlain : will plead guilty and throw himsel 3 on the mercy of the court. e Three dwellings near Camp Stuar 6 on the outskirts of Newport News, Va : where fifteen thousand soldiers ar : quartered, were destroyed last nigh
 by fire Soldiers and firemen prevent
 ed the flames from reaching the carnl
 buildings.
 Director General of Railroads Nc Adoo ordered the Pennsylvania Rail }. road tunnels under the Hudson River
 heretofore used exclusively for pas
 senger trains, to be used for cos f trains for the relief of New. York cit :. and Brooklyn.
 Q More than $15ooo0 was pledge = toward the movement to re-peopl y Palestine with Jews and to re- ere
 ate one of the nations of antiquit ' by representatives of ten states at n tending the Middle West Zionist 8 convention at Chicago.
 One man was killed outright, tw l. others died later from injuries an e still another is near death in a. hos ,f pital the result of a terrific explosio
 yesterday which destroyed the Corn ! ing Mill of the Monongohela Powde
 Company's plant near Feirmont. V \, Ga.
 ,IsALE OF THRIFT AND