Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-05

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largest in Connecticut in
Condensed kilograms
A serious food shortage is reported
from Hayti.
Provision trains began arriving at
Mexico City.
The steamship cymric arrived safe
ly at Liverpool from New York.
The corn crop situation in Minne-
sofa is reported very unfayorable.
Many soldiers of the French army
are being granted four-day furloughs.
five times as large as that of last
year.
Foot and mouth disease has broken
out among cattle in Steuben County,
New York.
President Poineare formally award
ed the French war cross to King AL
bert of Belgium.
The steamer Frederick VIII, arriv-
ed at New York from Copenhagen
with $50 passengers.
From July IL to July 1s there were
366 cases of cholera in Austria, 17S
of the victims dying.
Forty-six cases of typhoid fever
were reported in the Bay Ridge sec
ton Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fire which swept the village of Ho-
gansville. n. Y, near Watertown,
caused damage of $4,000.
Sultan, the largest OK in the world,
weighing 4,1S9 pounds, was taken to
Schwerin, Germany, for slaughter.
Several thousand specially made
monographs have been sent. to the
French front for use by the soldiers.
Elder statesmen of Japan asked
Emperor Yosohito to retain the cab
met headed by Count Okuma as
premier.
Rear-AdmiraI James Mcqueen For
sythe, U. S. N, retired, died of pa
ralysis at shamokin, Pa. He was 73
years old.
The steamer Lakeland, which ar
rived at Sault St. Marie. Mich, re-
ported running through a snowstorm
on Lake Superior.
Frank johnson, assistant cashier of
the Mercantile National Bank of st.
Louis, shot and killed himself He
had been in i'll health.
Great Britain is preparing a large
fleet of speedy power boats. each with
two or more rapid fire guns, to COM
bat German submarines.
The Russian Duma called on the
government to prosecute those re-
sponsible for the shortage of amnuni-
tion in the Russian army.
Two women, Mrs. E. K. Brunes and
Mrs. Lillian Kitchener. will be candi-
dates for the United States Senator
ship from Kansas in 1918.
Mrs. Paul West and Charlie West,
of Rochester, n. Y. were killed and
bile overturned near Batavia
The Department of Commerce state
| ment shows a favorable trade balance
of s23.975,s71 on imports and exports
for the week ending July 81.
One man was killed and another
| injured when the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Buffalo night express ran into a
landslide at Parker's Landing, Pa
All public moneys and securities
will be transported by mail instead of
| express hereafter, under the terms of
an order issued by Secretary McAdoo.
Rev. n. ST. Clair Hathaway of Nor
| ristown, Pa, was elected president of
the Hathaway Family association at
c. E. SniveIy, chief of police at Los
Angeles, Cal, has ordered all police
men to salute the American flag
whenever it passes them OF the
| street.
One person was killed and heavy
damage done in the district about
Punxsutawney, Pa. by heavy rains
that caused rivers and streams to ov-
erfiow.
Attorney General Gregory ordered
suits instituted to recover unpaid gov
ernment advances to get Americans
from the war zone when the war
broke out
United States Postal Inspector w.
A Kenyon left Panama for Mollendo,
Peru, to investigate mail robberies in
which sums aggregating $4,000 have
been lost.
Two British prisoners of war were
shot, one dead and the other serious
ly wounded, when they attacked a
German sentry guarding them at Ha-
ue, Saxony.
Clarence Foster, negro minister and
secretary of the colored Y. NJ. c. A,
at Montclair, n. J.. pleaded guilty to
stealing chickens from the market Of
z. NJ. Harrison.
Teresa Rabino, Is years old, fell
from the fifth floor of her home in
New York and was killed. Her body
struck a woman, the woman sustain
ing a broken arm.
Strikebreakers are reported to be
replace striking workmen of the Alum
on their way to Massena, N. Y, to
inum Co. of America Troops are
still guarding the company's plant.