Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-09

About 5000 workers at the Bayonne N. J., plant of the Standard Oil Co.,, threaten to strike.
 Dr.. Emil Deckert, professor of geo. grophy in the new University of Frankfort is dead
 The body of Rev. Stephen MaGiII, was found in a swimming pool at North Easton, Mass.
 The Russian American Railway Se- curity Corporation has been chartered with a capital of $260,000.
 The Associated confectioners of the United States set Oct. IA, as candy day. throughout the nation.
 "Mother" Jones, who came to New York from Arizona to help the street car strikers to win, has abandoned the job.
 Fire destroyed the three-story fac at Gossville, N. H., at loss of $100,- 900.
 Fort Wayne, Ind, was chosen for the 1917 meeting of the Women'S Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.
 K, 2d Maine Infantry, was shot and killed at Laredo, Tex, as he walked from store.
 Fire destroyed the bowling alleys of the Albany, Council, Knights of Co., Iumbus, on North Pearl street at a loss of $3,000.
 The exports of copper for the week ended Oct. 5, amounted to3,221 tons, against 4,267 tons in the corresponding week last year.
 The Norwegian steamship Forde, which left Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 30 for Philadelphia returned with her engines damaged.
 Two white men were shot and kill ed and a third severely wounded by seven negroes in a race ria near Hihill, Beagher County. Mont.
 Owing to the risks of North Sea traffic the Dutch Batavier Line has suspended it's regular sailing between London and Rotterdam.
 James o'Brien of Providence, R. |. who has been held since last summer on a charge of having murdered Bea- trice Walter, was set free.
 Private William A. Stewart, Com pany D, 5th Maryland Infantry, was Grande near Eagle Pass, Tex.
 The Eastern Steamship Corporation reports for August net income amount ing to $39S,809, compared with $233.07O in the same month a year ago.
 Limit of weight of parcel post packages between the United States and Panama will be increased from eleven to twenty pounds on Oct. 15.
 Ellis E. Shookman, cashier of the Burrows Bank at Burrows, Ind, con fessed the theft of $10,000, after sur- rendering at the state Auditors Office
 The new government eight-hour da, ! commission will first turn to Chicago and the middle west in their investi- -gating of railway pay and hours o1 labor.
 August J. Simpson, postmaster o, | Phoenicia, in the CatskillS, for two years was drowned while supervising l work on a reservoir at the village waterworks. Orders for the return of the frs | field hospital and the first battalion of the 22d Engineers have received orders from the War Department. l Deuartment.
 Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of tht army staff, who has been treated in : i hospital at Washington for stomac1 trouble, has returned to his home en. | tirely recovered.
  Pittsburgh for steel to complete new span in the Quebec Bridge to replace the one which recently fell tnto thu l St. Lawrence river. Five prisoners escaped from tn using the motor boat Baxter, of thu Prisons department, in their figh l toward Connecticut.
 The coastguard cutter Osspee re ported that she had found the aband Anderson off Cape Sable and was tow ing them to Rocklapd, Me.
 The Boston-cape Cod & New YorI Canal Go. reports to the Public Ser vice Commission for the year ende' against a def1ict of S2S2,977 in 1915
 Emperor William of Germany ha turned over all the royal gold plat and part of the crown jewels to tn Imperial Treasury to be converted int, funds to aid in the prosecution of tn war.
 The corporation of Dublin is arrang ing for special meeting to conside an offer by the National City Bank o New oYrk to make a, loan of S5,000 00 to the city for rebuilding and housin: operations.
 The American Locomotive Co.,, ha l taken an order from the Chesapeake S Ohio Railway Co.,, for 25 Mallet typ locomotives and one from the Wheel ing & Lake Erie for 10 locomotives o | the same type.
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