Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-07

| Edward Rood, OF Brooklyn was
drowned while bathing in Broad
Channel, Jamaica Bay.
| London postal authorities send 10.-
100000 letters, and 100000 parcels to
the armies every week.
Seventeen workers were injured by
an explosion in a small ammunition
plant in South London
Bids were opened by the navy for
| 80 hydroaeroplanes for the aviation
school at Pensacola, Fla.
ton of Alexander S. Gaffey to be
postmaster of Pittsburgh.
The crucibIe Steel Co. has taken an
order for $4,000 9-inch howitzer shells
from the British Government.
Gold coin to the amount of 100000
has been withdrawn from the sub
treasury for shipment to Spain.
Archbishop Thomas F. Kennedy of
| Philadelphia, rector of the American
College of Rome, is seriously i'll.
Henry Varman Freeman, for IT
years Judge of the Superior and Ap-
peIiate Courts of Chicago, is dead.
Approximately $26,0o0,0Oo in gold
has been deposited in the Assay Office
for the account of J. P. Morgan &
| Co.
| The exports of merchandise from
the Port of New York for the week
ended Sept. 2, were valued at s51, 1,532,-
| 651.
The encampment of the uniform
| of tho World 10
sixth district opened at harrisburg, w.
Va.
The Congregational Church in Oak
ming and destroyed at a loss of $780,
600.
The total amount of shipping des-
| troyed since the beginning of the
war to Sept. 1, is estimated at 2,e39,
945 tons.
Four Transatlantic steamers
| brought nearly 1000 passengers to
| New York, the heaviest incoming list
| of the year.
The opening of the schools in Bos-
ton was postponed from Sept. 12 to
! 25 on account of the infantile paraIy-
sis situation.
nearing OF Cn6 S-CeHG passenger
rate case was resumed before the
Kansas Public Utilities Commission
at Topeka, Kan.
w. E. Lockett was killed at Knox
vile, Tenn, when the automobile he
was driving in a so mile race dropped
a tire and turned over.
The Trades Union Congress adopted
by large majority a resolution call
ing for the appointment of a Labor
Minister in the British Cabinet.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 is being
spent by the Princeton Board of
Health to exterminate mosquitoes in
marsh lands near Lake Carnegie.
Three persons were killed when a
train of freight cars backed into an
automobile in which they were riding
at a street crossing at Indianapolis.
Four persons were killed and three
seriously injured when the automobile
in which they were riding turned tur-
tie at a sharp turn near Sandusky o.
Arthur A. Birney, personal friend
of President Wilson, dropped dead
while playing a match game of golf on
the links of the Washington Country
Club.
Men who have joined the militia
since it was mustered into Federal
service will obtain no benefit from the
So, ,000,0 900 relief fund voted by Con-
gress.
Twelve bandits who attempted to
hold up a Mexican National passenger
train near San Potosi, were captured
by Carranza soldiers and hanged to
telegraph poles.
Elizabeth Won Schmidt PAUL., of
Hamburg, Germany, resident direc-
tress of the East Prussian Relief As
sociation, arrived at New York to
work for Polish relief.
Lower rates on iron ore from lower
Lake Erie ports to Ohio, Kentucky,
West Virginia and western Penrsy1-
varia were ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
DR.. Earl C. Peck, first assistant res
ident physician at the Municipal Hos
pital at Philadelphia. who had attend
ed hundreds of children stricken with
infantile paralysis, died from the dis
ease.
II was stated on board the German
cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm and Eitet
Frederick, now interned at the Nor
folk, Va, Navy Yard, that they would
be moved to Philadelphia within a
month.
Edward Lyndon, of Marine City,
Mich, one of the builders of the Baby
Marold, which burned after making a
new worlds record in the hydroplane
speed boat race on Labor day, was
drowned after a gas explosion in the
wreck of the boat.
The American Industrial Commits
sion, which is making a scientific
study of Industrial conditions in
France in behalf of American export
ers, attended a banquet given by the
Chamber Of Commence to Castor Dou-
mergue, Minister OF, colonies