Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-05

Priority for coal shipments. to the New York, Ontario and Western rail- road was ordered yesterday by the fuel administration.
 The Hon. John Oliver will serve as acting Premier of Victoria, B. C., un- til after the funeral of the late Pre- mier Brewster. a#
 Aleck Yessuf, an Albanian iaborer, was held up and robbed of $900 while walking along a central street in Wa terbury yesterday.
 Postmasters will be held responsible for accepting infammable articles and alcohol to be forwarded to American soldier in France.
 Two Italian societies in New Brit ain adopted resolutions favoring q boycott of German made products at a meeting yesterday.
 Second Lieut.. George F. Hubbard, son of Judge Hubbard of the Borough Court at Greenwich, Conn. was injur- ed in action in France.
 The furniture and fittings of the trial room at police headquarters, New York, were destroyed by fire. A loss of s1o,O0o was incurred.
 The body of. William White, of Tren- ton, who had been missing since Nov ember, was discovered at Syracuse frozn in the Erie Canal. Secretary of Labor Wilson announce ed the plans for the rounding up for deportation of all l. w. W. members and other urging sabotage. General Pershins, yesterday advised the war. departent that First Lieuten- ant Stewart ". Hoover, infantry, Blackfooot, Idaho, was killed in action March I.
 Secretary Daniels has commended Horace s. Davis, chief gunner's mate of the U. s. S. Margaret, for gallan- i try in jumping overheard at night and rescuing a sailor.
 Charles Phillips, former Columbia student, who objected to the draft, was rejected from the army at Camp Upton as felon. He was chased from the camp.
 Special regulations devised to re- strict the manufacture of malt Ito the minimum absolutely required for le- gitimate reasons" were announced by the Food Administration. George Robinson, of New Britain, aged 3 years, was badly burned Mon- day afternoon while playing with matches. He. is now at the hospital and is not expected to live Rear Admiral Edward w. EberIe, superintendent of the naval academy, probably will be relieved of that duty 1 ut the present term, June 1. and given ] an important sea assignment. Henry Q. Saver, of Albany, was ap- 1 pointed Federal director of employ ment for the State of New York by I the United States Employment Ser vice of the Department of Labor. Paul Troeder of Bellevilie, N. l., was accused of trying to smuggle rubber to Germany. A supply of rubber, two
 loaded rifles loaded shotgun and an
 extra quantity of ammunition was found 1 in his home
 Representative Doremus of Miehiqan has announced that he would not again serve as chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee, be- cause he could not spare the time from other duties. Otto Graf, German alien resid- ling in Waterville, was taken into GUS
 tody yesterday by the police of this lefty. Graf is charged with violating This enemy alien permit by making In a
 | When Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell declared in an address before
 the Political Equality League of Chi cago that only persons who had no I voice in the Government should be
 drafted, he was hissed.
 Nicolas Riseigno, aged three years,
 was killed at New Haven, yesterday
 by an automobile driven by Tony
 Augniera of this city. No arrest was
 made. The police say the child ran in front of the machine.
 The lower house of the Texas legis
 lature concurred in a. minor amend ment by the senate to the resolution for the ratification of the federal pro hibition amendment. The resolution
 now goes to the governor
 The Comptroller of the Currency an-
 nounced the appointement of National
 Bank Examiner Woltef B. Wilcox as
 acting chief national bank examiner
 for the 18th Federal Reserve District with headquarters at San Francisco. ii 4 man named Ferrarico, carrying q
 large sum of money and who was be- lieved to have been enroute to Ger
 many from Peru. has been arrested by the authorities at the Panama Canal
 zone, the state department is advised Il Sergeant Michael Krcehmally, oi
 Perth Amboy, N. r.. died March 2 o ! septicemia, and Private Walter T. , EGreenlaw, of Providence. R. l., died tn,
 samc day from meningitis, the war de, tpartInent was advised yesterday bl , General PerShing