Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16

and Illinois. with midshipmen from he naval academy aboard, arrived at London.
 The customs receipts for the fiscal year at the port of Boston dropped ss.s5s,465 below last years total of s24.421,74o.
 The Duke of connausht, governor general of Canada, arrived at St. Johns. Newfoundland. on beard the cruiser Essex.
 Mrs. Lucille E. Haines. of Camden, N. J.. totally blind for ten years. re- gained her full sight during an cleo trical storm.
 Martin Cook, 30 years old, of Buff tally stabbed. Two rings were cut from his fingers.
 The Rev. Walter Peterson, pastor of the Presbyterian church at White Ha- ven, Pa. was drowned while fishing in the Lehigh river
 Bills to reinstate Captain Templin NJ. Potts. recently "plucked" with other naval officers. are now before both houses of congress.
 The English tennis team defeated France in the second round of the pre- liminary matches for the Davis inter- national tennis trophy
 A Picking dispatch says China has informed the five power group that the proposed loan will be s40.00o, ,o0O instead of s1oo.o0O.oOO.
 The condition of the Duke of Aosta, cousin of the King of Italy. who has been suffering from typhoid fever. has taken turn for the worse.
 The torpedo boat Rogers was se- riously damaged in collision with the steamer Governor Dingley off Port land, Me. No one was injured.
 Senator Smith of Michigan, intro duced a resolution to investigate the part played by American financraf in- terests in the Mexican revolution.
 As "Ionsevity" rewards a Washing. ton street car company will distribut, bonuses of s2s.00O to employees whC have worked from ? to 10 years.
 A large rattlesnake caused much ex. citement in the Broad Street station of the Pennsylvania railroad in Phil delphia. The snake, was captured.
 Rural mail carriers from all part, of the state gathered at St. Albans Vt, for the opening of the Vermont Rural Letter Carriers Association.
 Dennis Boyle, of Bayonne, W. J., wal sentenced by Judge Mahon to get mar, ried within 30 days. After taking tn, pledge for one year he was discharged
 Tonawanda creek was recommendeC by State Engineer John A. Bensel a! the western terminal of the new barg, canal and accepted by the Canal ooart at Albany.
 Jacob GuIdi, a hotel proprietor O Huntington, L. l.. convicted of sellinl liquor to Charles Harner after beint prohibited in writing by the 1atteri wife, was fined s1oO.
 Henry p. Keith, independent demo cratic leader of Nassau county. wa appointed collector of internal rev enue for the first New York distric at a salary of s4,5o0.
 A new daily newspaper, owned. man aged and circulated bv women. vii make its appearance in San Fran | cisco in few days. Mary Fairbrothe will be managing editor. Eugene Lamb Richards, New Tor | state superintendent of banks, has ap | pointed Edward s. Brogan as privat | secretary at salary of $S,500 a veal MT. Brogan Is a lawyer. The armored cruiser Brooklyn, whic | took a prominent part in the Spanish | American war, left the Philadelphi Navy Yard for Boston. where she wi l become a receiving ship.
 A near panic was caused anon several hundred women and girl aboard the ferryboat Philadelphi 1 when it collided with a railroa freighter in the North riiver. Favorable action on a bill to regula' and control the diversion of water fC power purposes from Niagara Fal was recommended to the House todd by the foreign affairs committee.
 Thousands of pieces of scrap ire
 was the memorial that John Rush le
 when he died at his home near Juno
 ton City, Kan. He had pile 40 fe
 high and covering an acre on his farr
 Edward Smith, of Cincinnati, fd I mer fire department lieutenant, retire
 because of a broken neck received | a fire, saved two persons from drowl ing when their sklf overturned in u
 Ohio river.
 Two women were burned to dea
 and three other persons were serious
 injured in a fire which destroyed
 frame boarding house at Dallas, Texa
 The dead are Mary E. McCauley al
 Mrs. Dora Roberts.
 Attorney General carmody appoin ed Johnson D. McMahan of Ron
 deputy attorney general at a sala of $4,000 to succeed August Merr
 who resigned upon appointment
 corporation counsel of Utica In one borough of Greater New Yo aIone-Manhattan- 540 absolute ( vorces were granted during the ( months ending June 30. against
 during the same period last ye;
 These figures were made public tod
 by the county clerk.
 , Recognition of the bolo, usually a
 sociated with fierce Philippine caI ipaigns a ga weapon for more peacal : pursuits. is reflected in war depal !, ment circular providing for the tss ' ance of these broadswords te Bili machine gun companies.