Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23


 The 71st regiment arrived at New York from Camp Whitman.
 Dr. LeRoy c. Cooley; professor of physics at Vassar college from 1874 to 1907, is dead.
 The body of an unidentified man was found in the East River at Sixty Fourth street, New York.
 Wright Huntington, an actor and stock company manager. dropped dead in Cincinnati. Exports of general merchandise at the port of New York. Wednesday, to- taled $23,014,740 The Buffalo Trust Go. has certified that it has increased it's capital from $250,00O to $5000O0
 The Crowther Motors corporation, was incorporated at Dover, Del, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The Whitaker GIessner Co.,, will build a by-product coke plant at Ports mouth, O.. at a cost of $2, ,000,000. Joseph H. Choate was elected vice president and trustee of the American Museum of Safety at New York.
 The forty second annual convention of the American Bankers association will be held next week at Kansas City.
 The Standard Oil Go. announced an incr%ase of five cents a barrel in the price of crude oil at the wells in Cali fornia.
 Charles William Reginald Duncombe, second Earl of Feversham, major of the Yorkshire Hussars. was killed in action.
 The grain elevator of McKenney, Rogers & Co.,, of Chicago, at Wells boro, near Laporte. Ind. was destroy ed by fire.
 pr. Samuel G. Dixon, commissioner of health of Pennsylvania was elected president of the Pennsylvania State Medical society.
 Twine enough to encircIe the earth twenty seven timeS-6S0, 900 miles of twill be used during the year in ty- ing up mail matter.
 Millions of tons of potash have been discovered near Notembo, on the bor- der line between Matanzas and Santa Clara provinces. Cuba.
 Happy Jack" Dousherty, who killed Harry Lazinslzy, a taxicab owner of New York, was sentenced to serve if teen years in Sing Sing. The receivers report of the Cincin- ! nati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Co.,, for July, shows receipts of $1,65o, S26, and expensts of $1.623,S56. Private William Johnson of Battery B, Second Field Artillery. died in camp l in Texas, from an internal hem orrahage, due to the kick of a horse.
 Secretary Lansing announced that l the British answer to the American protest against mail seizures will be forwarded from London this week. Bert Dudley, charged with the nur- der of Henry Muller. and his wife, was taken from the Johnson County jail at | Olathe. Kan. by a mob and hanged. A further investigation of the recent embezzlement from the Panama treas ury is said to have disclosed irregu- larities in the custom administration
 Roy Zieeer, cashier of the Reliance Life Insurance Co.,. of Detroit, was held by the police at Baltimore, for De- troit authorities, charged with embez- zling.
 United States authorities have ob- | jected to incapacitated Canadian sol diers and British and French reservists landing at New York en route to Canada.
 Contracts for the big gun proiecties for the United States army, approXi- mating $1,600,000, were awarded to the Washington Shell and Ordnance Go. of Washington.
 Major General George w. GoethaIs, governor of the Panama Canal zone, left for Costa Rica. where he will re- main a week, afterward going to the United States At Mayor MtchePs suggestion the question of reduction of fares over the Fort Lee ferry was put over for two weeks when it came before the com- 1 missioners of the sinking fund. Sir Richard Crawford, commercial attache of the British Embas ssy, held conference with Secretary Lansing in relation to the present trade dispute between the United States and Great Britain.
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