Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-05

J Juan. G10 IS III lll6 OnlIGu EOIcIISS O44 official business.
 There are four states, New York, PennsyIvania, Ohio and Illinois where the men of military age numbers more than 100000.
 The British steamship Moeris, 3,4O9 tons gross, has been sunk. No infOr- nation has been received regarding the fate of the crew.
 Russian torpedo boats destroyed 54 enemy sailing vessels in the Black Sea near the AnatOlian coast, on June 29, says an official statement.
 scaIpers, dealing in communication tickets, have cost the New York Cen tral Railroad an average of $100,000 a year on four of its divisions.
 William Medendorf, 67 years old, died at a New Haven hospital today as a result of a fall from trolley car during the afternoon.
 Records kept at the Tuskegee In five lynchings in the United States during the first six months of this year.
 The Twenty Infantry of the New York national guard with head quarters in Brooklyn, left Jersey City last night over the Erie Railroad for the Mexican border.
 Civil and military authorities at Fl PasO began making arrangements for a memorial service and a military flu neral for the American soldiers who fell at Carrizal.
 A squad of Colorado Guard which crossed the border into Mexico and had gone more than a block into the Sonora town, was escorted to the line by a, Mexican patrol.
 Two thousand Connecticut infantry settled themselves in camp at No
 gales yesterday and celebrated the Fourth along with the other newly ar rived state troops.
 Battery F of Stamford, Tenth Milf tia Field Artillery, left the state range at East Haven, where it has been en- camped for some time for Tobyhanna, Pa, shortly after midnight.
 An average of from -Four to six of ficers of each regiment of the Ea- tional guard in the Department of the East have been rejected for border service by the government.
 The interstate commerce commission extended until Junary, 1917, a former postponement of proposed increases in freight rates on wool and rice from California to Eastern points. The customs bureau of the treasury department began an examination to learn the total amount of arms and ammunition that has been exported to Mexico within the last year.
 Mrs. J. C. Pridgen, whose husband, a New Orleans newspaper correspondent, is reported missing in Matamoras, is in Houston to get in touch with American military authorities at Brownsville.
 Lieut. Col. Edward L. Munson and Majors R. B. Miller and William N. Bishpham of the Army Medical Corps left Washington or San Antonio to take charge of sanitary organization along the border.
 Plans for the forthcoming trip to the Pacific Coast engaged the attention of Charles E. Hughes yesterday. The re- publican presidential candidate eX- poets to prepare in advance most of the ten or twelve speeches.
 Five hundred public school boys from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania mobiIized at Fort Ham ilton for military manOueVres. began training under the direction of the Ma tional school Camp Association.
 David Daggett, secretary of the New Haven water company and an alum nus of Yale, Class of '79, died of heart trouble at his desk. MT. Daggett was one of the Yale men entrusted with the task of building the Yale bowl.
 Lieut.. Col. Charles p. Hunt, om- manding the 1,164 men of the First Infantry regiment Pennsylvania Ma v1 J4vha if he'd Kansas City, appealed to Mayor George H. Edwards to supply his men with food. Custom house statistics for the fis- 1 cal year ended June 30, show that eX- port from the port of Philadelphia reached an aggregate value of Sl93,- 25S,6S0, or more than triple the amount reported for the previous year.
 During the civil war, when the pop ulatiOn of the country of the seeding states was less than one-fourth as great as the total present population, | the number of men in service in the | Northern Army at one time or another, was 2,500,000.
 The importation of large quantities
 of arms and the toIeration of drilling | bv large bodies of men, first in Ulster and then in other districts, the report | says, created conditions which render l ed pOSSlDIe Ie TeC6uI IIODuISo III DuO- l lin and e1sewere.
 The Southern Pacific company's l steamer Comus, in port at New York from New Orleans, sighted two whales 1 Thursday 20 miles south of Cape Hat | teras According to the captain a
 water spout passed close to the vessel
 and only by a quick change in course
 was danger averted.
 Chairman shafroth of the Senate 1 committee submitted a favorable re-
 Porto Rico government and grant
 American citizenship to residents of | the island.
 1 Fire in the Cleveland block, Win sted. a three story business and tene- ment structure in the business section | of the borough, caused damage esti- 1 mated at about 5000 last night. The 1 fire started from an unknown cause.