Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-21

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 Condensed TeIegrams
 Senator Simmons reported to Sen ate the Administration shipping bill.
 The Government Ship Purchase bill is expected to pass the Senate in Au- gust.
 Morris Bernstein of New York, was drowned at Brown Pond. Monticello, 1 N. Y.
 Ambassador Gerard will soon leave Berlin on trip to Norway and 1 Sweden.
 Edward Dickinson, president of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Rail- road resigned
 The four men imprisoned in the Babcock mine at Joplin, Mo-, since Monday, were rescued.
 Antonio Guimaraes, formerly Bra gillian vice-counsel at New York, is dead at Newton, Mass.
 Governor Mccall re-appointed Ev- erett B. Stone to the Public Service Commission at Boston.
 John NadIor. five, of Boston, died at the Frost Hospital as the result of drinking pint of whiskey.
 The MidvaIe Steel & Ordnance Go. has taken a contract from the Russian 1 government for barbed wire. The treasurer of Cook county has given the treasurer of Chicago a check for $1,0O0,00 as payment of taxes. More than 5000 mill operatives made idle by floods resumed wor kwhen their plants reopened at Raleigh, N. c.
 The French government has ordered 14,OO0 tons of steel rails from the United States Steel Corporation. The convention of the national Pro- hibition party was called to order at the Auditorium at St. Paul. Minn. ! Representative William D. Stephens of Los Angeles has been appointed lieutenant governor of California.
 Fifteen persons were injured when a street car ran wild on a hill on the Chestnut Street line at Milwaukee. The Columbia Gas & Electric Co. has put in operation it's third gasoline ab-
 sorption station at Kermit, w. Va.
 One hundred and sixty Iaborers al the plant of the MalIeabIe Casting Co. ; at Toledo, struck because of the heat Securities worth $2,oooooo arrived at New York on the SaXOnia consigned tc
 J. P. Morgan & Co. and other bank
 CTS.
 Robert w. WooIIey, resigned as
 Director of the Mint, to assume charge of President Wilson's Publicity cam paign.
 The roughers of all furnaces in tht , 20-inCh mill of the Carbon Steel Co.
 at Sharpsburg, Pa, have gone out OI a strike.
 Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, minister o.
 militia has left for PIattsburg, N. Y. where he will visit the military train , ing camp.
 Samuel W. McRoberts, one of the vice president of the National City , Bank, of New York, left London fol , New York.
 The 50-foot cruiser Serenity, owned by c. s. Goldberg, or the Bay Shore L. l., Yacht Club capsized and strand
 ed off the inlet.
 Marshal Henry L. BIakesIee of Me.
 dina, o. was found guilty of man. slaughter in the killing of night watch.
 man John H. Gates.
 The Oriental Textile Mills, which op. . crates a cotton mill at Houston Heights has increased it's capital stocE from $3,O0O,O0O to $6,O0O,00. A contract has been signed by the municipality of BogOta and a New
 York financial concern, under whicf Bogota will obtain a loan of $5,OOO,O 900 Chancellor of the Exchequer Nc. l Kenna announced the government has
 decided to take in taxation CT pei
 cent of the excess profits of shipping I firms.
 President Wilson has sent to the
 Senate a long list of nominations ele- vating the troops officers in almOs all the IS United States cavalry reg 7 iments.
 } There will be no meetings of the boards of directors of the Reading Go. : and the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.,, a re- cess being usually taken in July ant 5 August.
 The Northern Central Railway, vii authorize the expenditure of $2,O00,00t ! for the rebuilding of Elevator No.
 at Canton, which was recently de l strOyed by fire.
 Baron Shibusawa, the financier, an. } nounced his retirement from bushes!
 life. The baron has been a leader il
 Japan's financial and commercial life for many years. Michael McDermott of the Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago, established new worlds record in the 2GO-yarG breast stroke swim, making the even in 2:45 1-5 seconds. Charged with larceny in having l passed numerous WortnIess checks or
 produce merchants, Michael Lew O , Brooklyn was held in the Tombs Po- lice Court in $2, 300 bail.
 Five enlisted men of the United
 States engineer corps from For
 Shafter who started on cruise las Saturday in a IS foot whaleboat, are