Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-08
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 Condensed TeIegrams An extremely cold wave struck the Middle West.
 British capital fIotations during 1915 amounted to s5.2S5.ooo.oo
 india,s wheat area is officially esti- mated at s27.soo,ooe acres.
 Strikers at the Summit Silk Mill at Summit, N. J., returned to work.
 Wholesale prices of quicksilver were further advanced s5 per flask to s2eo.
 The Bulgarian Parliament is report ed to have approved a war credit of
 Six steel hydre-aeroplanes were ordered from the Sturtevant Aeroplane Co, of Boston by the Navy. win be closed today. the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans.
 Between 12 and 1e persons lost their lives when the river steamboat Kan awha sank below Parkersburg.
 The electrical supply house of the Illinois Steel Co., at Chicago, was burned with loss of $1oo.0o0.
 President Wilson expects to go to Springfield, Ill.,, on Feb. 12 to attend a celebration of Lincoln's birthday. Alexander Mclean, civil war veteran and New Jersey newspaperman, died in Jersey City. He was n years old. About 500 men were given employ ment by the reopening of the Never sweat shaft Of the Anaconda at Butte, Mont.
 Delegates to the PanAmerican Sci tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
 Application to organize the San Joaquin Valley National Bank of Stockton. Cal, capital $5oo,O00. was William B. Tucker, Russian Consul l for Philadelphia, received a second second call to the colors for Russian reservists.
 The copper output of the Inspira- ton Copper CO, for January and 1 February is reported to have been ! sod ahead.
 The twelfth annual conention of the 1 National Boot and Shoe Manufactur- CTS Association will meet in New York, Jan. 12. l. After weeks illness from pneu. monia, Hans Schumann -Heink, son oi the grand opera contralto, died al commander chas. o. Briekerhoff, ol l the Second Battlion. Naval Militia Brooklyn, died at the Brooklyn Hos. tpftais fie-was 52 years old. I Senator Smith of South caroIina in. I troduced the hteracy test immigration | bill, which has been passed by two Congresses, and twice vetoed. The British steamship Australian ] Passport, New York for yladivostok went ashore at Samasana Island, of the southeast coast of Formosa. l The United States Steel Co, an. nounced an all-round increase of wga. es to it's employees averaging 10 be, cent. About 100000 men are af. fected.
 | Because of grain congestion at Lax, ports, the Canadian railroads hay, lestabltshed emergency rates to per init grain shipments to Montreal ant Quebec.
 Beaumont H. Johnson of Winstec assistant superintendent of the stat capitol, is in a Hartford hospital, seri ously ill of pneumonia, it was learne, last night.
  | The four children of John Moroa, of New Martinsville. W. Va, rangin, from fuor to Is years of age wer burned to death when fire destroye, their home.
 | Solicitor General Davis submitte, a motion in the United States Su preme Court to advance for earl, hearing the governments suit agains the Reading.
 Orders for rapid fire and other gun to cost between S9,000,o00 and SIO 000.0O0 were received from the Britisl Government by the Driggs-S -Seabur, Ordnance Co.
 A tannery which will cost $7,oOo, ,oo and which vii levidently employ be tween 4,000 and 5000 men will be es tablished at St. Louis by the Interna tional Shoe Co.
 
 Three Chippewa Indians, represent ing their trfbesmen in the Bali CIut Minn., district, left for Washington t ask Congress to hasten action O, Chippewa claims.
 George Hodges, the Greek, who wa found to be suffering from lepros, when he applied to Richmond Va hospital for treatment, was committe, : to the municipal pest house.
 Gateway, mining camp in Mes County, Col, has been snow bound fo a week. It is feared that food sup jlies are running low and an effort i being made to break trail
 Secretary Gsrrison was directed b the Senate to furnish full informatiol as to the original cost, maintenanc cost and general usefulness of ever army post in the United States. A strike of 800 plumbers of Bostor which began week ago, was ende , by a compromise agreement The me ldenmanded s6 a day instead of S5.2 and will receive s5.50 under the term of settlement.
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