Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-23

The Standard Oil Co.,, of Indiana reduced the price Of refined oil 1-2
 cent to cents a gallon.
 President WiIeon plans to spend all
 September and October at Shadow Lawn, near Long Branch.
 The steamship Nieuw Amsterdam, 1 of the Holland American Line, arrived at New York from Rotterdam.
 pr. Clarence J. Lookhart was shot and killed at Freedom, Pa. by Stern- en Hesler, one ot his patients.
 w. D. Sharp, American Ambassador to Paris, arrived at New York on the French line steamer Lafayette.
 The InternationI Lodge of Good l Templars will begin a three-day state convention at LocIDo-t, N. Y, today. ] Duke kahanamo<u broke a worlds ] swimming record at Honolulu, T. Ill., | by swimming so yards in 42 1-2 sec onds.
 A lake in park at Kansas City, was drained of 500,0O0 gallons of water ] to recover a Woman's lost wedding ring.
 l The business section of .Drake's l Branch, 70 miles from Richmond, Ea i was destroyed by fire at loss of ] $150,000.
 l The British authorities declined to release John KiIgalen, the American | student imprisoned during the Dublin rebellion.
 Because of infantiIe paralysis, Mayor Hetrick of Asbury Park, an nounced the baby parade indefinitely | postponed.
 The Bethlehem Steel Corporation | has secured an order for stee- bars amounting to S11,000 from the Allied i governments.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- i sion refused to suspend proposed de- i creased rates on coal from Illinois mines to Kansas City.
 Three persons were killed and three | others badly hurt when their autOmO- 1 bile ran off a bridge which spans a creek at Owingsville, Ky.
 Six hundred and twenty five Amer ican families who left Mexico owing to the past international crisis have returned through Vera Cruz. Edward W. Townsend, postmaster of 1Iontclair, N. T., announced he would not be Q, candidate for Congress where he served several terms.
 The State Department Is fnvesugat- ing reports that the Japanese Govern ment is negotiating for the purchase of land adjacent to the Panama Canal.
 pr. Oliver A. Howard, leading physician of Warrington, w. ", was rTg -t,r- g,H -g1r,rz F-1Tr Ia coroner's inquest into the death of his wife.
 The Senate Judiciary Committee reported favorably the nomination of Judge Hough to be judge of the Fed eral Court of Appeals of the New York circuit.
 The first of series of hearings to determine the apportionInent Of dis tricts and the location of banks un- der the Federal firm loan was held at Augusta, Me.
 Steps were taken to evict from houses owned by mining companies on the iron range at Btwabilz. NIinn., of all striking miners who refuse to re- turn to work.
 Miss Claire GalIfgan of New Ro- chelle, N, Y, won the national four Illl0 women 5 SWlIIlLltlIB aIlplQTSIllD at St. Louis. She made the distance in 51 minutes, 26 seconds.
 With f41 new eases of infantiIe par alysis reported to the New Jersey state board of health Tuesday and seven ewmunicipaIities affected, the epidemic continued to spread
 An increase in the Spanish army to 18O0O0 men on peace footing is pro- vided for in a military reorganization bill which will be presented to Parlia- ment by the Minister Of War.
 Otto Knapp, of Brooklyn, dtved into shallow water at College Point Com | paniOns rescued him when he foated unconscious to the surface. His neck | was broken. He died soon after.
 Five An7eri7an survivors of the Brit 1 ish bark Langdale, which was wrecked 1 on Aug. outside of Ponta Delgada | harbOr, in the Azores, arrived at Fc g. 1 ton on the steamer Canopic, from l Naples.
 A new fashion in street naming was set by the city fathers or New Brt- | tain, who voted to name streets after i makers of automobiles. Trey christ | ened them Ford, Overland, Dodge and Rec streets.
 Sam N. FogeI, an actor, of New | York had a narrow escape from in i jury when a trolley car struck the | he was driving through l N. J., and knocked it down l a 15-foot embankment.
 The fifth escape since Warden | Thomas Mott Osborne returned to | Sing Sing prison was perpetrated | when Eugene Totterman, a "lifer," walked away from the prison farm in | Cxraer1 Haven .naar. C,arrn1n .LIrI1fHran,n