Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-02

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Frost caused considerable damage
to corn crops at Mineral, Ill.
A strange wild animal is preying on
the innocents of Plainfield. n. j.
The quarantine on Maine potatoes
because of the powdery scab has been
lifted.
The Public Service Corporation of
New Jersey reports an increase OF
gross earnings for July Of 100000.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works at
Philadelphia, has received a large or
der for ammunition
Advices from Switzerland report
the number of cholera cases in Aus
tria-Hungary at s2s.
Three men were injured when
launch was struck by a ferryboat in
the East River. New York.
The Austrian Minister of the Inter-
ior gives the number of cases Of chol-
era in that country as 929.
The export of merchandise from the
port of New York for the week ended
Aug. %. amounted to sS7,72S.223.
The United States seoutship Ches-
ter arrived at Canea, Crete, with 470
refugees expelled from Beirut, Syria.
There were 1850 deaths in New
York City last week compared with
1885 deaths during the same period
last week.
A debate in the Chinese language
was the feature of yesterdays session
Of the Chinese Students Alliance, at
Middletown.
Benjamin Gansberg of New York
was killed when he attempted to jump
from a train to the City Island sta
tion platform.
The Aero Club of America received
a check for $4,000 from Mrs. William
H. Bliss. The money will be used for
aviation training.
Joseph Baransky of New York was
sentenced to serve 19 years and s
months in Sing Sing for conviction of
highway robbery.
O6E fVCHlOCTS OI kT16 IdnlllJ OF WIZ
liam Drewes, of New York. are suffer
ing from ptomaine poisoning caused
by eating toadstools.
The Constitutional Convention at
Albany adopted an Amendment in
creasing the salaries Of Legislators
from $1.5oo to $500.
A proposal to limit the heiqks ot
buildings was favorably reported by
the cities committee of the Constitu-
itional Convention at Albany.
Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo
returned from his vacation and was
the guest of PFesi8smt Wilson at
luncheon In the White House.
A conscience stricken person re-
funded s5 to the New York Board of
Education for the theft of books
while attending public school
Leslie A. Friend, son of a noted
New York lawyer, was drowned. near
Middletown. n. Y, while trying to
save man from a similar fate.
The first bale of Georgia cotton
received at Liverpool was sold at
auction for $3.50. The proceeds were
donated to the English war relief
fund.
The property of the Winona Assem-
bly, and Summer Schools Association
at Warsaw, Ind, declared bankrupt
several months ago, was sold for
800, 500.
Plans are being considered by busi-
ness interests in ST. Louis for a
$4,000, 600 bond issue for the improve
ment of the river Des Peres, to pre-
vent floods.
The third division of the battleshiu
fleet with the third and fourth groups
Of the Atlantic flotilla passed out to
sea. for target practice off the Vir-
ginia Capes.
Under a new ruling, U. s. naval
authorities decline to pay the postage
on postcards advertising the service
which sailors are requested to send to
their friends.
There were -21 deaths from typhoid
fever in New York last week, IL OF
these occurring in Brooklyn. Forty
one new cases have been reported In
that borough.
Tolls amounting to s5,2f6,f4e were
paid by vessels passing through the
Panama Canal in the first full year
of commercial operation closing on
Aug. II, 1915.
In a crash of an automobile, a mo-
Manchester. Conn, James Murray
aged 80, was injured so that he may
lose his left leg.
The Clark Brothers Cutlery Co., OF
waterbury, Conn.,, and Kansas City