Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-08

Go. increased 20 per cent.
 Petroleum production in Russia in 1915 amounted to 69,O0O,000 barrels.
 Two large porpoises were sighted off the Eureka baths, Coney Island.
 Fire in the downtown business dis. trict of Pittsburgh caused damage of $2O00 000
 The bodies of eight victims of the Carrizal fight were found buried in one grave.
 Lumber production on the Pacific Coast is reported at about 25 per cent below normal.
 The War Department gave approv- al of Kanawha City, W. Va, as a mob- i ilization point.
 Squadron A and the first Squadron of the First cavalry left New York for the border.
 A despatch from Washington says | that Hughes will shortly declare for woman suffrage.
 About 5000 rockies form the July regiments in the training camps al PIattsburgh, N, Y.
 Bodies of three Boy Scouts drowned i in Silver Lake, near Rochester, N. Y, were recovered.
 Russia has placed an order for | SO,OOO tons of rails with the American Steel Export Co.
 A secret conference of delegates of trade unions in allied countries was held in Leeds, England.
 The United States has ordered total of 28 additional aeropIanes for use on the Mexican border.
 Hearing on Sir Roger Easements appeal was set for July 15. Five judges will hear the argument. Thirty-five cents a pound is report ed to have been paid in Montana for clip of 3O,000 pounds of wool.
 Ten Harvard students will begin a course in aviation at the Curtiss School at Buffalo. next Monday.
 After 20 years of service, Charles 1 A. Farweu resigned as president of the American Can Growers Association.
 Contributions of $235 from Brooklyn and $15 from Manhattan were received 1 by the New York City conscience fund.-"
 At the request of Minister of Mu- nitions LIyod George Scottish miners | have agreed to postpone all their = uIy ] holidays.
 1 A lobster with spotted peacock l blue shell was taken to the State 1 Hatchery at Noank by Long Island ] fisherman.
 l About 800 railroad section hands of the Southern Pacific Railroad have re- | ceived a voluntary wage increase of | 25 cents a day.
 All New York state employees serving with the militia will receive their pay regularly even though substitutes be put in their places.
 The Silver Jubilee Convention of the 1 Baptist Young Peoples Union of America opened at Chicago. with 10,- | 900 delegates present.
 Commissioner of Correction Lewis will endeavor to raise a regiment of New York prison inmates should a call for volunteers be issued.
 Gold coin to the amount of $4OO,- 900 was withdrawn from the Sub | Treasury for shipment to Cuba, and 1 $10O, 900 for shipment to Spain.
 Miss Mary Ahrens, aged 18, was | killed when the automobile in which Ishe was riding was struck by a fast l Wabash train at Martinsburg, Mo.
 Peter Casages, IA years old, was | drowned while swimming in the Con- necticut River at Thompsonville late 1 yesterday. The body was recovered. 
 Mrs. Peter J. Nordstrom of Hart l ford, Conn, died at the Hartford hos | pitaI yesterday of poison, self ad- ministered. She had been i'll previ- | ously.
 | After a quarrel over money mat l ters, Sam and Frank Sorci, brothers, 1 engaged in a pistol duel at San Jose, California The former was fatally wounded.
 Bringing 534 passengers, the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam arrived at New l York. She reported having had 3O9 ! bags of mail taken off by the British at KirkwaII
 Erastus TerwiIIiger, ;66 years old, 1 of Bridgeport, Conn.,, committed su- 1 icide yesterday morning by inhaIing gas. He was formerly a, resident of l Plainville, Conn.
 The Corn Exchange bank, one of l the largest banks of New York city,