Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31

General Pershing reported the deaths of four more American troops from pneumonia.
 Eleven soldiers are in jail on a charge of trying to wreck train near Anniston, Alabama.
 The cunard liner Adania, which was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland, is safe in British port. \
 A code message sent from Nauen Germany, was picked up by wireless operator at Camp Meade.
 The United States Supreme Court will take it's midwinter recess Feb. 4, and will reconvepe March 4.
 Three thousand persons took part in riot in suburb against the cut ting down of the flour rations.
 The names of one American killed, one wounded and one gassed apeared on the Canadian casualties list.
 German prisoners working at Shef- field, Eng. refused to work alongside of pacifiSts and have gone on strike.
 The latest increases granted to rail- road workers in England add 99 230,- 900 to the annual payrolls of the rail- roads.
 The Night Police Court in New York, was set down on the list Of places, which must obey the order of the fuel administrator.
 Announcement was made last night of the election of William S. Whitmore of Hartford as secretary of the state council of defense.
 Fire of unknown origin, destroyed the Barton House, at Poughkeepsie, one of the oldest hotels in New York. The loss was $10.000.
 Three carpenters were killed and four injured when a Boston & Maine freight train crashed into their car while they were going to work.
 Captain John Wanarakef, Jr, has been placed in charge of the work of training dogs for war service at Camp Dix. Wrightstown, N. J. The interstate Commerce Commis- sion voted ' to that the Government should relinquish the control of the railroads one year after the war. Capt. Alexander s. Williams, the l first ,'czar'' of the New York Tender | loin. left a net estate of only $13.49 Williams ehristensd the Tenderloin. British salvage companies are al. i ready working out plans to recover | after the war fortunes lying at the 1 bottom of the sea in torpedode ships. ] Otto Praeer, second assistant to the 1 postmaster general, announced that 1 steamers for the first time are car rying parcel post to relieve the con- l gestion.. Fourteen steamboats in tke ohis River were swept away when huge ice foes above the .Paducab broks and ice released the vessels from theil n1oorings.
 ] The House merchant marine ana 1 fisheries committee reoprted favorablJ on the plan for the President to de. scribe a war zone around the ship I building plants.
 Residents of small village nea 1 Ashford, England, boasting only nin' inhabitants, have been warned by tht Government against collecting in { crowd in case of an air raid" At the annual meeting at Hartfors of the Connecticut Humane society thu following officers were reelected President, Rev. William DeLoss Love | Tay1
 Joseph DoIsiFIi, ii, of Chicago, i undergoing the process of thawing ou in New York, following a four-da, ride in a refrigerator car. The hea is being applied by friendly yard master.
 More than score of persons wer killed in series of explosions fol lowed by fire which destroyed the al cohol. refining plant and the primar. building of the Pioneer Furnace G at Marquette, Mich. + | A. PasqueIli. one of three boys wh ran away from the American Schoo lfor the Deaf at Hartford, was kille' by train about three miles. iron Stafford. The boys were attemptin
 
 Fish skins for shoes is the promis as the result of experiments made a Newark, N. J., with the skins of tn
 whale porpoise and sturgeon. It predicted that the price of shoes wi
 take a 50 per cent. drop.
 The Washington monument wa placed in the class of amusement falling under the Fuel Administration
 order Tuesday visitors desiring t see the view from it's top will have t walk up the 500-foot stairway. Two soldiers, John Linke, 19 year old, of Torrington, Conn, and Wilbu Perry, 20 years old, of Brooklyn wer given sentences of four to seven an one half years for holding up tw persons with their army revoNers. c. S. Thompeor, who has just re signed from the American Defense So ciety, has written in a book that "1 German spies were killed in the Unit ed States" and that 'ammunftion wa bein shipped abroad for enemy use was called before the Grand Jury. Private Eeroy Tyers, Company F 18th infantry, regular army, was kill ed at Newport News, Va, yesterd&
 by bullet from a rife which anothe soldier was unloading in his quarter
 beneath the room occupied by Tyer.
 Tyers enlisted from New Jersey. Marian Chapman, 54 years old, a
 employe at the Smith & Cooley mil
 Stafford Springs, was crushed |