Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-19
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 Condensed Telegrams
 The President has signed the rural credits bill.
 There are now 45 cases of typhoid fever in Altoona, Pa.
 Another gas gusher has been struck in the Croby field near Smithport,
 Rear Admiral Chas. Henry EIdridge, U. s. N., retired is dead at Norfolk, Va.
 Charles j. Ffshbeok, of Highland Place, N. J., was drowned at Ocean View.
 Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last week totaled A. O87,O0O pounds.
 The Australian Government has pur- chased Is cargo steamers to help move the wheat crop.
 The Postal Telegraph Gable Go. an nounces that the Paranaribo- Cayenne cable has been repaired.
 The entire fleet of the Boston Tow boat Co.,, was idle as the result of a strike of the crews for more pay.
 The Commercial Gable Go. an- nOunces that communication with Para and Amazon River points is now normal.
 Vice President Marshall will be TO- fjfip6 at Tp6i9IanoljG n of raDOv71i77o tion by the Democratic National Con- ventiOn.
 Governor Locke Craig of North Car that the flood damage may reach $25, 000, 900.
 The Ohio Oil Co. has purchased from the Hail Oil Co, at Cheyenne 1,C0O,0 barrels of oil The total price paid was $500,o00.
 The interstate Commerce Commts- sion denied a petition of Pacific Coast railroads for a rehearing of the As toria, Ore, rate case. President and Mrs. Wilson returned to Washington from a weekend cruise in the lower Chesapeake Bay on the naval yacht NaydoWer.
 
 race between BuenOs Aires and Men doza, a distance of 645 miles, has been started from Buenos Aires.
 William R. Wilcox, chairman of the Republican National Committee, re- signed from the board of directors of the Merchants Association.
 The naval repair ship Prometheus and the fuel ship Sterling were ord ] erations on the wrecked collier Hec- l tor.
 The 10o-inch diameter reflector for ! the Mount Wilson Observatory in Cal ifornia, which will be finished next 1 year will be the largest mirror ever 1 cast.
 Lord Robert Cecil, of the Foreign 1 Office, announced in Commons that the l of establishing an international prize court.
 The Spanish vessel Eizaguarre, re- i ported upon arrival at IlOilO that the l British authorities at Singapore had taken off 50 packages of cargo bound ] for Manila.
 1 Having completed about $8,00O,ooo 1 worth of orders for shells and sErap- 1 mel for the Allies, the J. L. Mott Iron 1 Works at Trenton, N. J., closed it's munitiOn plant. Transfers of money to National ] Guardsmen mustered into the Federal l Service and stationed on the Mexican i border will be transmitted at cne-haIf 1 the usual charge
 Juan |. Jimines, formerly president i of San DOimngO, arrived at New York from San Juan, Porto Rico. He is en route to Washington where he will see President Wilson.
 Dnemark reports that the entire first i class mail of the Danish liners Fredrik | VIII. for New York and Oscar II from New York was seized by the Britis hauthorities.
 Street car service in Portland, Me was resumed after being interrupted 1 since last Wednesday by a strike of employees of the Cumberland County Power &Light Go.
 A two weeks campaign to clear from debt the S4OO,OOO home of the 1 Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind, now being built at 193rd St and Grand Boulevard has begun.
 The omnibus public buildings bill reported to the House from the public l buildings committee, contains author ization for S850, 900 for a new post of fee in the BrOOugh of the Bronx. The American tank steamship Gold Shell which struck a mine off the mouth of the Gironde while on he1 way to Bordeaux with Q cargo of oil was examined and found not to have been seriously damaged. The Senate Judiciary Committee ap- pointed a subcommittee to inquire in- to the nomination of Judge John H 1 Clarke to the United States Supreme l court bench and also decided to re- commend confirmation of Representa- tive James Hay to be a justice of the United States Court of Claims.
 Reorganize Missouri Pacific.
 New York, July 1S.-George Gould representing the Gould Estate, has l agreed to participate in the re-organi- zation of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 1 way in accordance with plans pro- i posed by banking interests some 1 months ago, 1t was announced after a meeting here of the executors of the estate. MT. Gould will deposit the es- tate's holding of Missouri Pacific se- l