Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10

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 Gold shipments from Canada now total $2O1, ,446,0
 Germany has prohibited the impor tation of raw tobacco.
 Fourteen porters of the New York Stock Exchange, went on strike.
 Percy A. Rockefeller was elected a director of the National City Bank.
 Fire destroyed three oil tanks of the Gulf Pipe Line Co.,, near Fl Vista, Tex.
 Major Hugh White Adams, of dead.
 Japan's naval plans provide for six battle cruisers and eight super dread naughts by 1923.
 Two thousands soldiers have been sent to fight a great fire in a forest near Savonia, Italy.
 Leila May and Ina Marion Briggs were drowned while bathing in the Westf1eld River, at WestfeId Mass.
 Twenty eight persons were killed in Petrcgrad during the disorders which tok place there on July 30.
 The exports of merchandise in the port of New York for the week ended Aug. 5 were valued at $56, ,769.
 J. p. Morgan & Co.,, have deposited in the Assay Office an additional $2,- O0,O0O gold received from Canada.
 Tom Mccormick, former welter- weight champion of Great Britain, was killed in action at the French front
 James w. Reilly, private secretary | to Democratic National Committeeman Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, is dead.
 President Wilson accepted the res | ignation of Judge Thomas D. Stewart of the First Judicial Circuit of Ha- waii.
 Rev. pr. Daniel Bliss founder and president emeritus of the Syrian Protestant College, at Beirut, Syria, is dead.
 pr. John Price Durbin John, of i Green Castle, Ind, widely known 1 Methodist educator and lecturer, is dead.
 Reports to the State Department of l Health at Trenton, N. J., brought the 1 total of infantiIe paralysis cases in the State to 1,014.
 Gen. David MoMutrie Gregg, of Reading, Pr, one of the last of the l Union general at the battle of Get tysburg, died.
 Peter Lekus is held at Bridgeport, for the Federal authorities charged with entering this country in violation of the immigration laws. | Premier Asquith announced in Com mons that a bill extending the life of 1 the present session of Parliament will be introduced on Monday. l Two hundred members of the Pitts | burgh Military Training Association l left Pittsburgh for the military train ing camp at Plattsburg, N. Y.
 The British steamship BirdowaId | from CatelIamare for Baltimore has been detained at Gibraltar on account of her machinery becoming deranged.
 President Wilson signed bill pro- viding further funds for use of the public health service in fighting the | growing epidemic of infantile paraly- sis.
 A personal letter from President i Wilson to the Kaiser, on conditions in | Poland. was delivered to Foreign Sec retary Won Jagow by Ambassador Ge- rard.
 All the ships of the Atlantic fleet except the tender .Yankton sailed from | Newport, R. l., for the manOevTes to | be held off the southern New England coast.
 Col. Roosevelt cordially approved the proposed woman suffrage amend ment in a letter to Chairman Alice Carpenter, of the New York Hughes | Alliance.
 sixty-five thousands gallons of naptha in cans was scattered by an explosion in the hold of the steamship Hortensius at pier 38, Erie Basin, l Brooklyn.
 Representative Bennett, of New York was appIauded in the House when he declared he favored using the 1 United States navy to break the Brit 1 ish blacklist.
 Two more officers of the U. s. Pub 1 llC G1GalJn SGTNlC6 were SG1I HUH Washington to New York to aid in the l fight to prevent the interstate spread of infantiIe paralysis.
 James Gerrigan, one-time racing 1 partner of John Dehymel. was killed near San Antonio, Texas, while speed l ing his machine up hill to have his picture taken in action.
 Frank Cooper, thirty six years old an engineer, of 156 Clinton St. New 1 Haven, was run over and killed by the Boston express of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Baychester, The Bronx. i Preliminary steps were taken by the War Department for organization ] of the engineering section of the of ] f1cers' and enlisted reserve corps of the army authorized i ntlc National De- fense Act. which became effective July 1.
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