Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-02
Twenty- Sikh ready to Cons Home
Veterans ef Ths Regiment Expecting Orders Move at Any Hour Fifty Years AgoPreparation to Meet A- other Draft Here-Maor Henry Peale Here Fureugh Death of Lieut. Kenyon from Port Hudson Wound

corps arrived in this city on Tuesday provost guard duty.
 Prizes in Central School District. The prizes consisting of eight die- tionaries and four biographies offered by Henry Bill, Esq, te the pupils in
 the Central School district who attain
 ed the highest excellence in spelling
 were awarded as fellows: Brea dway senior department, first prize, Emma Crocker, second prize, Julia Dowd; Broadway secondary department, Julia Ferris, Broad street secondary depart ment, Mary T. Clune; School street
 secondary department, John King; Cliff street, second department, Jennie
 Bentley; Broadway, second primary l department, Hattie McNickle; Broad
 street, primary department, Albert Cof- l fe; School street, primary department, Bridget Plunkett; Cliff street, primary department, John Mark.
 Another Draft Provided For. July 90.-At a town meeting in re- gard to the Bounty question, at which Amos II. Prentice presided, James A. Hovey presented a resolution that, as 435 persons had been recently drafted from this town. and had been nearly all found exempt or had furnished substitutes, or had paid the sum of money required to procure substi- tutes, and a further draft might cause individuals and families to become be empowered, in case of 0 further draft to convene a meeting of the 1 town and take such measures as should be proper for the relief of those who might be drafted.
 The New London Star states that Vine Point attempted to run away i Wednesday morning while being marched to breakfast. Nine made good their escape. one was killed and one
 wounded.
 shetucket River Full, The Shetucket was on great swell 1 Thursday, indicating heavy rains up l the road. If they are any more moist up in Windham County than we are
 here they ought to be pitied or dried. i A substitute named William J. Berg managed to make his escape on Thurs
 day noon by entering Barbac6's saloon l on Little Water street, and sliding out the back door. Then he ran for the
 Laurel Hill bridge since which he has not been seen.
 A number of members of the Eight eenth regiment principally belonging 1 to Company D. arrived home yester- | day from the parole camp at Annapolis | on short visits to their friends. | George Frazier and William Connolly were found guilty of breaking into the 1 store of Chapman and Smith and also
 the smithy of William I. ThrOop, on l the Central Wharf Bridge and were 1 held to appear before the Superior l Court in bonds of 5000 each.
 1 Aug. Ninety six deserters accomp- anied by a strong guard passed 1 through the city on the steamboat train Friday evening, on their way 1 from Boston to the seat of war. Letter From Annapolis Camp. Jpff ot 1 Annapolis reports on the strength of men just returned from Richmond that 1 Capts. Bowen and Bates, Lieut. Mer-
 win and Quartermasters Sergt. Ca-
 ruthers are getting along finely
 Promoted For Gallant Conduct. 1 Acting Master Warrenton D. Roath i of Preston, of the U. S. Gunboat New l ing Volunteer Lieutenant in the New. for gallant and meritorious conduct. ReveIIers Come To Grief. A party of four-two of either sex
 riding down Union street in the very 1 deadest hours of Friday night, man l aged to drive the horse in so eccent- l ric a manner as to entangle him in the 1 lamp post in front of the Central Bap- l tist church. The post somehow got be- 1 tween one of the shafts and the horse,
 and the front of the carriage was
 somehow smashed in and the two wo- l men and one of the men somehow got l to the lock-up. where they reposed. we presume. the rest of the night.
 Expecting Orders For Home. 1 Corporal Edwin ". Bailey of Comp pany B. Twenty Sixth Regiment, died
 in the marine Hospital. writes a mem l Der of that regiment the letter dated | New Orleans, July 23. We are daily expecting home orders but do not know whether we shall come by way of 1 Cairo or the Gulf of Mexico