Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-25


 killed when his motorcycle crashed in | to buggy.
 Count Francois d'ArIot, French Min | ister to the Dominion Republic return | ed to France.
 The coal dealers of New York State 1 held their annual meeting at Sara | toga Springs, N. Y. The private bank of Campbell, Du i bia & Co, the tenth to fall in Chicago within month,, closed it's doors ! A speedway for automobile and mo- l torcycle racing is to be constructed at | Pittsburgh, at a cost of $1,OO0,0O0
 Housewives of Chicago were called l to attend a meeting to organize to | fight increases in prices of foodstuffs. Two British subjects and 36 out of | 38 Carranza soldiers were killed when Villistas raided an oil camp near Tux pam.
 | Secretary Daniels resumed hearings on the armor plate factory and site, for which Congress appropriated $11,- 000,000. l All Belgian bank notes must now be stamped with . special seal by the German authorities in return for small fee.
 The American commissioners deny that any agreement has been reached as regards the patrolling of the Mex l ican border.
 1 The Chamber of Deputies of Frence,
 unanimously voted war credits for the remainder of the year amounting to l $1, 767, 100000.
 The American. Field Service an nounced the formation of section of ambulances to serve with the French army in the Balkans. 1 A British trade bank with 3 capital l of $50,000, ,000, was recommended by l committee appointed to suggest means
 for developing British trade after the
 war.
 William j. Smith, chief of the Fire l Department of Gloucester, Mass, was
 elected president of the State Fire mems Association at it's annual meet
 ing.
 Private Fred J. McGibbons, of the 31st Michigan Infantry, was thrown
 from an army truck and killed near
 Las Cruces, N. M., when the car 1 struck a rut.
 1 Elmer Decker, a Sparta, N. J. farm 1 CT, discharged his shotgun in climbing
 over a stone wall while hunting hawks.
 The charge entered his heart He
 died instantly.
 Two infantry battaiions of the Wy
 oming National Guard, Troop A of Kansas and Troop B. of Wisconsin, War Department.
 l Roy Wise, a special officer of the i Erie Railroad, was killed when an au- tomobile in which he was riding was struck by an Erie Railroad train at Cambridgt Springs, Pa.
 Secretary of the Navy Daniels will leave Washington next Saturday for months campaign work. He will go 1 first to Michigan and will speak also | in Illinois and West Virginia.
 The British Admiralty informed the State Department that 1t was conV1nc-
 ed the British steamer Kelvinia was
 sunk by mine, and that no further i investigations would be made.
 shopmen of 1e Western railroads are expected to receive increases in
 wages ranging from l 1-2 to 1-2 cents an hour with a nine-hour day i schedule to avert a threatened strike. Election of officers at Sea Girt start
 ed the militia primary election at fourth regiments of New Jersey are voting for State and local candidates.
 Plans for cooperation in the celebra-
 tion of the two hundredth annivers- ary of the lighting of Boston Harbor, to
 be held in Boston Sept. 25, are being made by the Department of Commerce.
 Eighty thousands sheets of writing paper, as many envelopes and 6O,0OO Guardsmen on the Mexican border during the week, by the American 1 Red Cross.
 One person was killed and nine others injured in collision between 1 a four seated taxicab carrying ten passengers and a seven-ton coal truck at Avnue A, and Twentieth St., 1 New York.
 l Fl Alba, which arrived at Galveston 1 from New York reported that a fire which started in her bunkers destroy l ed a portion of the cargo before it was extinguished.
 Two worI<men in the Brooklyn Navy Yard narrowly escaped being crushed 1 to death on the deck of the battleshlp l Arizona by a 19,560 pound testing weight when the cable lifting the weight slipped.
 The British steamer Bradbandier and the Norwegian steamer l.. O.. Stensland both bound for Newport 1 News, Va, collided in @ heavy fog off the Virginia Capes. Both ships had their bows smashed. 1 Tests of the N-19 flying boat under supervision of the government naval aero board at Newport News, Va, were stopped by a collision with a
 fishing smack in which a wing of the | flyer was damaged. 1 The Public Service Commission awarded to Kaufman x. Carcey of New York the contract to install track on the main portion of the Culver Rapid | Transit Railroad in Brooklyn. The con- tract price is $103,680. | The adoption of a new constitution 1 and adoption of bylaws and the cleo | tion of officers were the chief items of l o% convention of fba Na