Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-01
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damage to growing corn.
Chicago is to have the lowest taxi
rate in the United States.
The United States plans to establish
a dead line" along the Mexican bor-
Policemen of BerkeIy Cal, are re-
quested to attend the University of
California.
Severe forest fires are reported in
the Cascade Mountains, near Mount
Hood, Oregon.
Frost and ice caused damage to
crops at Waterloo. Iowa. The mer-
curry dropped to "a.
Fitchburg, Mass, is receiving bids
for the purchase of 100000 registered
sewerage loan bonds.
Seventeen men from British train
ing ship were drowned when a row.
boat was upset in squall.
Mrs. Annie Sherwood Hawks, a
writer of hymns, is seriously ill at
her home at Bennington, VT.
A. Maynard Lyon, a New York mil
lionaire real estate man, celebrated
his 97th birthday anniversary.
The American Line steamship New
York arrived at Liverpool safely with
a record consignment of mail.
The Department of Agriculture pre-
dicted that the cotton crop would be
approximately 11,S00.000 bales.
American ships registered for the
foreign trade on June 80, 1915, num-
bered 2,76S as against 2,405 in 1914.
in the Carleroi district, in the Bel
gian province of Hainaut, is spread
ing.
Senator Underwood was named to
represent Alabama as her first citi-
zen at the Panama Pacific Exposi-
ton.
Robert =. Bayles, a livery proprie-
tor, was instantly killed at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y, by the White Mountain
Express.
The Britih steamship Sir William
Stephenson, of Newcastle, 1914 tons
gross, was sunk by a German sub
marine.
The Board of Education of Bayonne,
~ O.r Will dllSS d system OIL IIllll-
tary drill and discipline in the high
schools.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is
spreading in Westchester County, n.
Y. To date 1S deaths have been re-
ported.
The American Steel Foundries Co.
at Sharon, Pa. has bought 10000 tons
Of basic pig iron, giving employment
to 600 men.
The disabled Japanese cruiser As
anna, which went ashore near Turtle
Bay, Lower California, arrived at
San Francisco.
Three daring thieves smashed the
window of Lutze's jewelry store at
Trenton, N J., and stole II stones
worth $4,000.
Ethel Sehutt, z, of PHILADELPHIA,
swan the Delaware river from Race
Street wharf to Mathis shipyard,
Camden, in 81 minutes.
A record feat was accomplished by
the United States battleship wyom-
ing. Oil was piped into it while go
ing at a 14-knot speed
The catskiII water supply will be
available in New York by the end of
| 1916. 1t will yield approximately
250,00O,000 gallons a day.
The Postoffiee Department an
nounces the establishment of a three
| weeks instead of a monthly service
| between San Francisco and Samoa.
Governor Whitman refused to COM
! mute the death sentence imposed or
Louis NJ. Roach. convicted of murder
ing John Barrett, of Palatine Bridge
N. Y.
The president of police at BerIir
| favors the prohibition of the selling
of whiskey after in the evening anc
all day Saturday, Sunday and holi.
days.
John r. Seaman one of the com,
misSioners who drew up the recen
commercial treaty between the Uni
ted States and China, is dead at Bal
Harbor.
Southwestern railroads have begun
| work to repair the damage TO tn,
| causeway leading to Galveston il
order to reopen traffic in time for tn
grain rush.
Edwin Emerson, an American citi
zen, is held in Geneva, Switzerland
on a charge of writing articles re
fiecting on the President of the Swis
Confederation.
Calvin NJ. Kendall, state commits
sioner of education of Trenton, n. J.
has addressed a letter to the clerg.
and people Of the State to obserV
tional Sunday"
| The August report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of Kansas put
the yield of wheat of the state a
9S,600,000 bushels, against 11O, 900, 90
bushels in July.
A number of American surgeon
and physicians who have been work
ing in the hospitals in France re
turned on the steamer Espagne of tn
French line for brief vacations
Directors of the American Forestr
association, on their way to the Whit
mountains for a conference, spent yes
terday in Boston as the guests of tn
Massachusetts, Forestry association.
A. J. GilIen, an official of the Cor
Exchange Bank in New York, VIII
lives at Ogdensburg, n. J., was bite
on the right hand while exhihitin