Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-04

c. E. Van sant, aged 23, of Philadel- phia, was killed off Beach Haven, N. J., in a battle with nine foot shark.
 Daniel Barugian, Armenias most loved poet, died of wounds received on the battlefields of the Caucasus.
 Two men were killed and a third is dying as a result of an auto wreck at Five Corners near Lynbdook. l.. I.
 The National Guard Camp at Van Courtlandt Park, New York city, was opened to the public for the first time.
 The entire force of mechanics at the Panama Canal, 800 in all will vote on 9 strike because of a practical reduc- tion in wages.
 Jack BarreII. aged g, only son of Finley Barrel, New York stock brok- CT, was drowned on his fathers estate near Havana, III.
 Joseph L. Myers, importer, a pas senger on the Lusitania, is suing the Cunard s. s. Co. for $76, ,555 for person. al injuries and losses.
 The 47th Infantry, N. G. NY, lost all trace Of the epidemic of sore threats which attacked it in the armory, when it reached PeekskilI, N. '.
 Company A. 18th Regiment, N. Y. N. C., the negro regiment authorized by Governor Whitman, was mustered in the service of the stated.
 During June, 1916, thirty-fve per sons were killed by autos in New York, an increase of 45 per cent over the same month a year ago.
 InfantiIe paralysis continues to spread in Greater New York. Fifty two new cases were reported, 43 in week.
 George L. Way, formerly a promi- nent business man of Hartford and an original member of the Putnam Phalanx. died at his home here aged Fl years.
 Ten persons were shot and fifty more arrested in Berlin following tho con viction of Dr. Liebknecht Demon strations took place at the Potsdam- mer PIatz.
 To aid the hoisting engineers who are on strike along the New York waterfront, 5000 lOngshoremen and | 1000 tunnel and subway workers have | promised to walk out.
 Public sale of 100000 barrels of | American flour began in Rotterdam by a committee of dealers acting for the | government. A great number of buy CTS appeared.
 l Missouri mounted police guarded the ] first section of the military train car | rying New York National Guardsmen, following threats that plans had been | laid to wreck it.
 While army headquarters at Fl Paso, l Tex, announced the arrival of troops l to be stationed at Fl Paso, information l regarding the passing of troops to other points is refused.
 The four companies of the Arizona 1 national guard left NogaIes, Ariz., yes terday. It is understood they will be 1 taken by companies and distributed westward along the border.
 It is possible that ex-Presidents Taft | and Roosevelt may meet at the house of Charles B. Hughes during the talk ing of the campaign movie" showing the candidates home life.
 County officers of Texas began in vestigating a. report that Mexicans fired upon a troop train on the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas road Sunday night between Dallas and Lancaster.
 Wisconsin National euardsnen re- fused to entrain for the front until the cars furnished had been replaced by others that were satisfactory. The hrst lot offered contained no headrests.
 Some 60 members of the 65th and 10th N. Y. N. G., engaged in a free for-au at StOrmville, N. Y, a wet town two miles from Camp Whitman and 48 landed in the guardhouse as a result.
 Several thousand pounds of powder exploded in the drying house of the Aetna Explosives Co.,, at Emporium, Pa. and seven employees were killed while five others were seriously wounded.
 A riderIes motorcycle from which Andrew Nelson, of TIP East Sixty for a. half block in Central Park West at Sixty-fourth street and struck and hurt two passersby.
 Hetty Greens holdings of Chicago real estate and mortgages on Chicago realty were estimated at from $1O,OOO, geo to $20,O00,000 by real estate men 1 Monday. Her Chicago holdings were at one time much larger.
 Homes for 5000 soldiers, in event of war with Mexico, have been ar ranged for in Massachusetts, accord ing to an announcement made by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, president of the Boston auxiliary of the National Security League
 The senate, following its annual GUS 1 tom, voted to strike from the agricul- l tural bill the appropriation for seeds 1 to be distributed by members of con gress to their constituents The item l heretofore always has been restored in : conference.