Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-21

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 Twelve thousand leather workers in 1 New York threaten to strike.
 One of the Allied governments has placed an order for 2, 400 motor trucks. l
 George Anthony Hill, formerly as yard, is dead.
 Daniel c. carrigan was drowned while bathing in the Morris Canal at Newark, N. J.
 An explosion wrecked a miners 1 boarding house of the Biwabik mine at | Biwakik, Minn.
 Grave disorders have occurred in Essen, Germany, in consequence of the l high cost of food.
 The Standard oil Company lowered the price of gasoline in Ohio from 23 to 22 cents a gallon.
 John H. FesTer, a prominent Cobra do banker and once American consul at Annoy, China, is dead.
 The American schooner J. H. Mead, lat Carrgaholt, Ireland, leaking.
 Two hundred thousand dollars in gold was withdrawn from the sub treasury for shipment to Cuba. Twelve persons were injured in a rear collision between two sub urban street cars at Washington. Secretary of Labor Wilson left Washington for the first step of his campaign trip into New England. The governments Alaskan railroad now is carrying coal from the Matan- uska fields to the anchorage haTbor. German producers in ChiIi of suI- ! phate of magnesia will close their 1 works at the end of the present month. Six factories and several frame i buildings at Amsterdam, x. Y, were 1 Five persons were injured when the automobile in which they were rid ing struck a telegraph pole at Toledo. President Wilson has sent to the 1 Senate the nomination of Captain ] James H. GIennon to be Rear Admiral. sfxty-two new cases of infantile 1 paralysis were reported to the State Department of Health at Trenton, \. tJ'
 Samuel Smith of Rochester, was in stantIy killed in an automobile acci- dent at ScottsviIIe road, Rochester, N. ".
 The problem Of how to abolish ma laria without eXterminating mOsQ ui- tos is being studied by the Rockefeller Institute.
 The striking box makers of New York claimed additions of 1000 work ! CTS to their ranks, making 8 total of 10000 idle.
 ] Several thousands of Johns from every state in the Union met at Eaton, Ind. at the annual reunion of their association.
 l King George of England, has ap- 1 proved the appointment of the Board of Education.
 The Treasury Department has au- thOriZed the purchase. from E. E TOrrey, for $I4,35O of a postoIIice site at Oneida, N. '.
 The Austro- Hungarian government is preparing to take over all coal } mines in Austria in order to conserve
 the coal supply.
 Charles Ii. Whitney of Charlton
 Mass, was instantly killed when ar . automobile in which he was ridiug crashed int ca stone wall. Indications are that Governor Whit. man of New York will be unopposed al . the Republican primaries except by
  The Norwegian Minister of Justice : ordered the police in Norwegian port l to inspect incoming merchantmen anC l learn whether they are armed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Cc pending the railroad strike settlement has cancelled all leaves of absence o
 it's clerks and shopmen at Altoona. 7 No person over IS years of age wi
 be permitted to land in Australia. af1e 9 September l without a passport issue
 of approved by British authorities. : The City Commission of Longpor- e N. J. have authorized plans for tn t construction of a concrete sea wa more than a mile long to cost $275,0Ol President Wilson formally aocepte n for the United States the birthplace c , Abraham Lincoln at HadgensTiue, Ky Il authorized by a recent act of COngres! q The Portuguese Minister of Wa IL Major MattOs, announced that POrtu U gal will soon take an active part i t the war on the side of the Entent
 Allies.
 WoodIawn Park, one of the mos
 famous estates of northern New Yorl
 was sold at auction to Congressma IS George W. Loft of New York city fc e SIP, 900.
 e A. J. Rabing, of New York, wa $ elected cOmmander-in in chief of tt k Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Uni l. ted States at their annual encampmer
 at Chicago.