Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02

 thrift stamps from Dec. to Feb. 25 amounted to 0,79S SS6. Chino Copper directors yesterday ds- clared a quarterly dividend of $1.5g against g three months ago.
 General Gosthals denied the state ment that Capt. Pereless was dropped | from the army because of ineficiency. i
 The Daughters of the American Revofution completed their building of the first of the French devastated villages.
 The safe at the office of the Gent ury heatre, New York, was robbed of S6,000, the receipts of the Gnu Chin Chow show.
 Miss Anne Morgan back iron, relief work in France says the French ask tor a chicken or rabbit before they ask for a bed.
 Four thousand striking cloth weav-l CTS in Philadeiphia asked Secretary Baker to conscrIpt them and put them back to work.
 Members of the Red Gross in France will have to learn how to execute a salute smaitly or they will not be kept in the service.
 w. A. McBirney of Buffalo, fire man on the New York Central Kaii- road, was decapirared at Syracuse, when his engine sldewiped.
 Between March and June 1, this. year more than 380 wooden ships totaling 1,5S0, ,Ooe tons, will be launch E ed from American shipyards.
 All the Grand Trunk freight hand lers at Toronto, about go III number, went on strike yesterday They de- r1and general increases in wages.
 Robert Garter, eartoonist of the Philadelphia. Press, whose work was familiar to newspaper readers all over the country, died Of heart trouble. Gouverneur, N. Y, is the first viii lage Of city in the State, since the W oman Suffrage law became effective to name a complete suffrageste ticket. Mrs. Anna Steiner. of Cedar Gruys, ! N. U, died Of ptemaine poisoning. tne third victim in her family ssg1flilin q fortnight of string beans eaansd al | home.
 John A. Sweeney for sixteen years travelling passenger agent of the An chor Line, and a veteran of the Con l federate army died suddently of heart l failure.
 Five score earnest faced men left | the British recruiting station in New York to join the Jewish Battalion which is to go to Palestine to fight for Zion
 Secretary Lansing left Washington I last night for Augusta, Ga, to spend weeks vacation. He was accompan- jed by Mrs. Lansing and his personal secretary.
 1 George von L. Meyer, Secretary ot the Navy. during the Taft Admin }istration and Postmaster-G General un- der President Roosevelt is dangerous l ly ill in Boston.
 The British tank Britannia gave ar l exhibition of hill climbing on the court house site near the New York Municipal Building. It climbed heaps ! of dirt 20 feet high.
 Senator Weeks at meeting oi l kiwanis Club, at Springfield, Mass. declared it would be a big mistake for the Government to control rail roads after the war. | D. M. Folsom of San Francisco was made federal oil director today foi the Pacific coast. He will serve undel Mark L. Requa, chief of the oil di. vision of the fuel administration. !. l Elizabeth Paine and her sister Mar garet, were given their choice o1 swearing allegiance to the United States or a ducking in canal neal Trenton. They chose the former. | Peter Rivers, f7 years old, of Mapls Lake, Minn., offers his services to tht country as a spy, as he is too, young to enlist. He was told by the Marine Corps to keep on playing Hi Spy at home.
 Four deaths from disease were re ported by General Pershing. Anon; theme were Corporal John Fisher, 50 Chadwick street, Philadelphia, and Jo seph e. Wellwood, Bridgewater. Conn scarlet fever.
 Private Carroll scully of Toledo Ohio, one of the three Aferican sol diers on the passenger list of the tor pedoed troop ship Tuscania not pre- l viously accounted for in any way was officially reported tonight as { 4 survivor.
 'I Gambling in an uptown hotel, Nev York, millionaire oil man from tn, West dropped nearly $500, 600 in single game was the statement of As ', sistant District Attorney Smith, il charge of the anti gambling crusad in New York.
 Midshipman William \. B. Swop
 resigned from the Naval Academy dl demand of Secretary Daniels. Hi mother, now the Baroness Zollner
 later became the wife of Capt ZoIl ner of the Bavarian army. She wa recently tried at Knoxville for anege, treason.
 Newspapers of Buenos Aires de
 vote much space to the American. not to Argentina commen1orating the cen tenary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. They speak in lau
 datory terms of the friendship whicl has existed without interruption fo enc hundred years.
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