Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-12

The exports of merchandise from the | port of New York for the week ended | Oct. 2, were valued at S76,is9,O94.
 The plant of the Interboro Bus Ser vice at West Englewood, N. J., was de- stroyed by fire at a loss of $1S,000.
 Twenty-Five new eases Of infantiIe paralysis were reported to the State of Health at New Jersey.
 Batteries D, E and of the Sd Field Artillery, N. G., N. r., arrived at McAllen, Texas, from Camp Whitman.
 John Hohorst, farmer of Hicks vile, L. l., shot and killed Hans Lang, who it is alleged was stealing pota- toes.
 Seven persons were injured as the result of a rear-end collision of trolley cars at Lexington avenue and 10Srd Street, New York.
 An unidentified man about e5, was killed by a Boston and We8tchesler train at Ayre avenue station, The Bronx.
 The Chile Exploration Co.,, pur- chased the copper mining property of the Compania Minera de Caiama, To- cated in Chile.
 Automobile bandits held up eight restaurants in Northern Hammond, Ind, and made their escape with S3,000 in cash.
 The total gross earnings of all New York Central lines for August were $32,29o,439, an increase of $6,167,5O9 over Aug, 1915.
 Charged with having shot and killed Martin Ward, a Brooklyn painter, Will jam Jacobs was held without bail on a charge of homicide.
 Hearings on the location of the new government arnlor plate plant were resumed before Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy
 ,s.E i've of tbe six delegates from the Danish West Indies to the Copenhagen conference favor the transfer of the islands to the United States.
 Frank VesseIIa was identified by A. J. Rider, of Hamondton, N. ,J as the man who shot and killed his brother near Atsion, N. J., last Thursday.
 Twelve United States destroyers started out to search for any possible survivors of merchantmen that fell prey to the German submarine U-53.
 All grades of eastern crude oil have bee nadvacned 10 cents a barrel, ex- cept Ragland, which is Up cents. Pennsylvania grade is now $2.50 a bar rel.
 w. G. Lee, President of the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen, issued call for meeting at Cleveland to- morrow night ito organize a Wilson Club"
 One hundred and twenty five guards and collectors employed on trains op- erating in the Hudson tubes voted at meeting in Jersey City to go on strike.
 Daniel Hogan, of Brooklyn, one of the five prisoners who escaped from the branch workhouse on Hart's Is land in motorboat last Thursday, has been captured.
 The Department of Commerce re- ports the exports of cotton for the against 156, 365 bales in the correspond ing week last year. The total British casualties on all fronts for the week just ended an- nounced by the War Department to have been 22,S52 of all ranks, killed, wounded and missing. Francisco Veteri and Joseph CastiIIi, deaf mutes of New York, were put on trial in the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn. charged with the murder of Anna VasteIli.
 Three alleged ticket specuiators were arrested in front of Ebbet's Field during the Worlds Series game and taken to the Grand avenue station charged with disorderly conduct.
 Former President William H. Taft accepted the honorary presidency of the Yale Republican club, an under graduate organization. His son. Charles P. Taft. 2nd. is vice president
 Edward c. Kindred of Ntw York, who, as assistant cashier for Booth & Finn, subway contra ctors, fed with a payroll of s22,000, was sentenced to serve from two to four years in Sing Fling.
 The second section of the First Connecticut Infantry, enroute home after four months service at Noga1es, Ariz., detrained at Columbus, Ohio, and marched to the StateH ouse and back for exercise.
 ~WiIIys- Overland stockholders will
 get a cash quarterly dividend of S1,- 100000 on November 1. The directors voted for the distribution. Outstand- ing common stock amounts to s40,0oo,- 00o
 Rev. pr. Alexander Mann of Boston
 was reelected president of the house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal church. He received 303 votes to 1o3 for Rev. James E. Freeman of Minne- apolis.
 The Danish Postmaster Central an- nounced that the British authorities at KirkwaH took from the Norwegian American steamer Bergensfjord bound from New York for Bergen, SS mail
 bags addressed to Denmark. The ordinary year ends on the ! same day of the week as that on l which it begins.