Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-28

Local banks AZ San Antonio, Te<y
have received 100000 to help move
William {. Foster, editor Of the
He was rs years old
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation is
turning out at the rate of more than
10000 finished shells a day.
The Government Of Peru has re-
newed payment OF postal orders after
suspension OF many months.
The tropical storm that visited Tex
as coasts. ten days ago took 275 lives,
zoe on land and 50 on water.
Haitien rebels fired ON American
marine patrols. in Port-au-Prince |
twice but no troops were hurt
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co., sold
the steamer Persia to the Toyo Kisen
Kasha, a japanese company.
The Italian steamer MetIaoui is
ashore on Ajax Reef, Biscayne Bay,
Fla The cutter Biami is standing by.
Barbed wire painted foliage green
is now being manufactured at Pitts
burgh for use of the armies in Europe.
Il
The Senate at Montgomery, Ala,
voted to exempt shipbuilding concerns
from taxation in Alabama Cor 10
years.
The Bank of England bought s73.-
600 pounds in bar gold and earmarked
10000 pounds for miscellaneous pur-
poses.
The 14oth anniversary of the found
| ing of the CHARTERS Presbyterian
church was celebrated at Canons-
burg, Pa
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change brought $4,000 the highest
price paid since the beginnin of the
European war.
About 90 per cent. of the teamsters
at Springfield. Mass. went on strike
for a minimum wage and recognition
OF their union.
William Yuonbo, of PittsfeId, Mass,
was fatally injured when he was
thrown from his motorcycle by the
blowout Of a tire.
| Nine American missionaries sailed
| from New York on the steamer Unit
ed States for Copenhagen They will
proceed to Persia
The Danish steamship Laura Maersk
sailed for Copenhagen with a caro-
/ Of 36.4s2 sacks of cottonseed cake,
valued at s143,550.
4 Another large gas well has been
struck on the MeGrew farm near Nc
keesport. Pittsburg. The flow is esti-
mated at 2o.ooo.ooo feet
Hope for the missing United Fruit
liner Marowjine has practically been
abandoned The steamer carried a
crew Of SIS and 2S passengers
Three sticks of dynamite were found
in the Philadelphia Navy Yard dry
dock in which the auxiliary cruiser
Prairie is no wbeing overhauled-
Frederick Weisse, a motorman, of
New York fell from the fourth floor
II of his home while walking IN his
sleep and was seriously injured
Five persons were arrested at Hal
letsviIle, Tex. in connection with the
lynching of John Slovak, who was ac-
cused OF beating his wife and child
The Government brief in its anti
trust suit against the American Can
Co., will be filed in the United States
District Court at Baltimore next week.
Exports from New York from Aug.
Is to Aug. "a were in excess of 1885,
900, 900, a great portion of which rep
resented war stores and ammunition.
The body Of man with the top
of his head blown of was found in a
meadow near the junction OF Merrick
Road and Franklin Boulevard, LAUREL
ton, L. l.
The Holland american Line which
at the start of the European conflict
had 40 steamships crossing the At
lantic, has earned $4,000, 900 since the
The executive committee of the San
francisco Convention League launch
ed campaign to obtain the 1916 Re
publican National Convention for
! San Francisco.
: A protest will be sent by the Unit
ed States to France against the de-
| tention OF the steamship Solveig. re-
recentlytransferred from Norwegian
to American registry.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles u. 8. a
retired, is to be invited to serve as
grand marshal Of the National G. A.
X encampment parade, to be heId at
Washington Sept. 29.
The will Of John Condor, owner Of
several race tracks, which was filed
Ior probate at Chicago leaves his en-
tire estate, valued at $3.50, 900, to his
widow and two children.
The British steamship Lancastrjan
tnat arrived here from London re-
ported passing a floating mine ON
August ~. when about 80 miles south
OF Wolf Rock between Lizard Head
and SciIly Islands.
Lee q. RosenthaI, a shirt pnanussc+-
urer OF New York. was held without
bail to appear before the coronerSs
court on a charge Of homicide, Ros-
enthal was driving his automobile in
Broadway when he knocked down and
ran over Robert A. .Elson, a travelins