Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-12

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 There are 2 cases of infantile pa ralysis in Illinois.
 The national convention of ElI<s opened at Baltimore. A seat on the New York Cotton | Exchange was sold for $14,OOO.
 National bank circulation for the week ended July decreased $706,28O. June production of the Miami Cop per Co. amounted to 4,516,3 395 pounds.
 France is considering a reduction from 75 to 45 per cent. of the tariff on automobiles.
 Farmers of WestmoreIand County, 1 Pa, are suffering from a plague of | potato bugs.
 President Wilson was authorized by the Senate to set aside an '.Assyrian Relief Day.
 Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last week totaled 36,556,- 900 pounds.
 Directors of the Home Insurance Go. 1 declared a semi annual dividend of 12 per cent.
 The first central communal kitchen for the distributio nof food has been 1 opened in Berlin.
 More than 1000 recruits are encamp-. ed at the civilian military training 1 camp at Monterey. Cal.
 Henry Ford denied the report he will i be a candidate for the Presidency on 1 the Prohibition ticket. Mayor Mitchell appointed Henry D. | Patton, a lawyer of New York, a mag l istrate for thirty days.
 Judge Frank Baker of the Appellate Court of the First District of illinois, died in Chicago, aged 75. Meat prices in France have increas- | the beginning of the war.
 Sixteen American refugees from l Mexico arrived at New York aboard the Ward liner Morro Castle.
 Articles of incorporation were filed Sugar Co., capital $1,OOO,o00.
 Eight British trawIers were sunk in the North Sea between July 4-6, ac- COTdinP TO q TGnOTt from Berlin Because of the increased cost of paper, Dutch newspapers are increas- ing advertising rates 10 per cent. A report from Mexico City says that New York bankers have offered to lend the Mexica ngovernment $100,000,000. | rails was received by the Lackawanna Steel Co.,, from the Russian govern ment.
 Biting off the top of one ear is the ViIlista brand for Mexican who refuse to join against the Carranza govern ment.
 Premier Asquith formally proposed in Commons the plan for an Irish Par liament, framed by David Lloyd George.
 The State Department has instructed Paul s. Remsch, Minister at Peking to report on the political activities of Japan in China
 Bitten on the arm two weeks ago by a poisonous green insect, James Hitching, 12, of Passaic, N. J., died of blood poisoning.
 The Greek steamer Sophia couppa, from New York, arrived at Naples with hold No. 1 on fire. The fire had been raging nine days.
 Enough dynamite to blow Columbus N. M., off the map was found cached there by Captain Louis V. Schaick of the United States Army.
 Austrian losses on the Italian front in May and June amounted to 30,000 killed, 70,OOO wounded and 50, 900 miss ing, according to a Rome dispatch.
 Official announcement was made in London that no casualties resulted from the German aeroplane raid over southeastern England on Sunday night
 A. w. Stern, proprieor of a paper box factory at San Francisco, and three friends were killed there when their auto was struck by a Suothern Paci- fic train.
 While bathing at Long Beach, N. Y, Edward F. CrOker, former fire chief of New York, found the body of Will l jam Powell of New York, drowned a i week ago.
 Sailing on the steamer Lafayette | from Bordeaux will be delayed for i three or four days, while damages re- | ceived in a collision Saturday night l are repaired.
 Peru and VenzueIa are reported to l have made a secret treaty to take 1 vast tracts of land rightfuI possession 1 of which they dispute with Colombia 1 and Ecuador.
 Jose L. Murature, Argentine Foreign | Minister, and Spanish Ambassador | Pablo Solery Guardiola, signed at | Buenos Ayres an arbitration treaty be- tween the two countries.
 Ludwig w. Lehman, convicted at l Munich of painting and selling more | than 200 pictures, representing them as | the works of German masters, was | sentenced to four years imprisonment |