Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-15
Condensed kilograms

Marquis IshIi has been appointed
Japanese ambassador to Russia.
The Bank of England released 49,
900 pounds in sovereigns to Egypt.
membership of the New York
Cotton Exchange was sold for S14,-
25O.
Plans to bring about the adjourn
ment of congress by Aug. Is are being
made.
The rate of discount of the Bank of
England was raised from five to six
per cent.
women was established by Kansas
City, Mo.
Traffic at Havana docks has been
tied up by strike of the truck driv-
ers' union.
James SAINT, late principal painter
in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, died at
London, aged SO.
German newspapers assert that so
submarines of the Deutschland class
are now building.
Japan's naval program provides
$125, 100000 and construction of four
super -dreadnaughts.
Property of the Standard Oil Co. at
Whiting, Ind, wash damaged to the
extent Of $25O,OOo by fire.
The American Linseed Oil Co. ad-
vanced the price of linseed oil one
cent a gallon to 70 cents.
Seventeen hundred strong, the Third
Regiment of Infantry left Camp Whit
man, N. Y, fror Pharr, Texas.
Gold to the amount of 100000 was
Treasury for shipment to Cuba.
Roston's hospitals were crowded
with heat prostration victims. The
thermometer registered go degrees.
Rosa LuXemberg, principal editor of
the Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts,
was arrested at her home in Berlin.
A seat on the New York Stock E<.
change was sold for $63, 900, a decrease
of $4,000 from the last previous sale.
The War Department has spent $14,-
100000 for clothing and equipment
purchased during the present mobili-
zatiOn.
President Wilson authorized secre-
tary of War Baker to establish imme-
diately the aerOplane reserve corps of
the army.
An additional $3,Ooo,ooo in gold from
Canada was received at the New York
Sub Treasury consigned to J. P. Nor
gan & Co.
Mrs. Annie Besant, one of the lead
ers of the movement for Home Rule in
India, has been prohibited from en-
tering Bombay.
A London report says that the city
of Madrid, Spain, has been declared
in a state of siege, as a result of the
railway strike.
Nothing has been heard from the
steamer Ramos, Philadelphia for Car
tagena, which sent cut distress sig
mails Wednesday.
Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, sail
ed from Vancouver for China and ia
pan on a vacation,
Bringing a cargo of 1900 tons of
Spanish onions, the French steamer
Vile du Havre arrived at New York
from Spanish ports.
Ohio's artillery division Of the Ma
tional Guard has been presented with
a 100000 observation balloon by an
Ohio Rubber company.
Edward Higgens, American consul
at Stuttgart. whose unneutraI acts had
been protested by Germany, was trans
ferred to Bahia, Brazil.
The destroyer tender Panther and
the destroyer Flusser Wake, Sterrett,
and Lawson were Withdrawn from
duty in Mexican waters.
Miss Mary E. Melton, a, missionary
of the American Methodist Episcopal
church in Japan since 1879, died at
Nagasaki of typhoid fever.
Heine's sausage and meat curing
factory at Halberstadt, Germany, one
of the largest concerns of the kind in
Germany, was destroyed by fire.
A meeting of the Chicago Title &
Trust Co. will be held on August %,
to decide on increasing the capital
stock from $5,60O,OOO to $7OO0,o0O.
The Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Co, which supplies light and power to
the city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was
completely crippled by the heavy
storm.
Gov. Whitman will not, for the pres
ent, call a special session of the leg
islature for the purpose of providing
funds for the National Guard ex-
penses.
William n. Wallace, Jr., from the
New York Stock Exchange has been
suspended for one year, and John J.
Kelly, his partner for six days, for
illegal trading.
GuiIIerno Reyes, suspected of be-
ing member of a conspiracy to over
throw Carranza, was arrested at Vera
Cruz, when he landed from the Span
Ish steamer Alfonso.
Senator O'Gornan of New York
asked President Wilson to have Am
bassador Page at London intervene
informally in an effort to secure COM
mutation of Sir Roger Easements
death sentence.
Forty Georgia waterreIons were
cut in the rooms of the house COM
mfttee on interstate and foreign com
merce. Chairman Adamson contrib
uted to an early adjournment of the