Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-31

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The New York State Fair opens at
Syracuse September Is.
Four thousand more men Joined the
strike in the Welsh coal fields
July imports totaIIed s14s.Oss.szO.
against s15s.e77,2s1 a year ago.
Oahu College, at Honolulu, is soon
to celebrate it's 18th anniversary.
Travellers returning from California
say the big fair" Is paying a per-
centage-
The American liner Philadelphia
sailed for Liverpool with 1900 sacks
of mail.
More than 4,Qpo carloads of peaches
will be received in New York during
September.
Frost did considerable da mage to
flower and vegetable gardens at Clio
versville, n. Y
Hawker an English aviator, has
just broken a record by flying to a
height Of 10000 feet.
The expenses of administering the
Greenhut Co, in the period Of bank
ruptcy will exceed $15o,oOo.
NicoIo BurelIa, four, of Swartswood.
n. j. died at his home from eating
toadstools in mistake for mushrooms.
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office was blown open by robbers and
between $500 and $500 in stamps were
stolen.
Sarah Bernhard i. is still in Paris
and, according to her present plans.
will leave for New York late in Sep
tember.
Twenty-seven warships, comprising
the greatest fighters in the American
navy, are at anchor in Hampton
Roads, Va
About 200 Iongshoremen employed
on the New York piers of the Eastern
Steamship Corporation went on strike
for more pay.
A spectacular fire consumed the so
foot launch Louise, anchored of Cla-
son Point. Bronx. The damage Is es-
timated at $4,000.
Dependent because of 10 health,
Otto Willie, of Stamford, Conn, is
dead after eating food he 5p-inkIed
with paris green.
Standing with no protection from
the rain President Wilson reviewed
the 1000 militiamen of the District of
Columbia at Washington.
George Williams, an aeronaut, was
killed at Fort Wayne, Ind. when he
jumped out of his parachute to es-
cape falling into a forest.
coney Island is beginning to don
her gala attire for the annual Mardi
Gras which will be the big attraction
at the resort in September. --
A large number of delegates have
been appointed to the Pan-American
Road Congress, which will be held in
Oakland, Cal, September 13 to II.
A general strike Of clothing work.
ers In Baltimore and other large ci-
ties may be announced today at a
mass meeting to be held at Baltimore
Joseph Stewart, second assista Mt
postmaster-genera for the last seven
years. has resigned, and will be sue
Washington.
William Howard Taft, former pres
ident, pleaded the cause of the Amer
lean Red Cross at exercises celebrat-
ing the Red Cross Day at the Pana-
ma-Pacifc Exposition.
Col. Robert NJ. Thompson was elect
ed president of the Navy league of the
United States by the board Of direc-
tors to succeed Gen. Horace Porter
who declined reelection.
Eugene Gilbert, the French aviator
who recently escaped from Switzer-
land after being interned, returned
there and gave himself up by order
Of the French government.
An organization of German railway
employees. numbering $4,000 members
has privately collected a fund OF s42O,-
900 for supporting the families OF
members in military service.
The Department of Commerce made
public figures showing that the
steamship Eastland, nine and ten
years ago, carried as many as 1000
passengers across the Great Lakes
Professor Thomas Edward Oliver, OF
the University of Illinois, sailed on the
ANdAA AAA1Ci 10 take
charge as a delegate of the American
Commission for Relief in Belgium.
Observations made by oyster
growers in Long Island Sound leads
them to the opinion, that for unac-
countable reasons there has been no
''set" on the oyster grounds this sea-
son.
Former President w. n. Taft, who
four years ago, turned the first spade
full Of earth marking the beginning OF
the construction of the Panama-Pa-
cific Exposiubn. saw the finished work
for the first time.
Laborers have been digging since
Thursday morning trying to uneartf
George Bararo, who was buried alive