Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-20

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Condensed Telegrams
 An expIosion of munition depot 81 miles from Vienna was reported
 Gold amounting to s22ooo 900 was received by J. P. Morgan & Co from Canada.
 A Russian base on an island in the Bay of Riga was destroyed by a Ger 1 man air raid
 An attempt was made to blow up bridge in Argentina. No casualties are reported.
 Almost complete returns from the registration under the selective draft law total 9,611 ,811.
 Dent Hayes Robert, publisher of the l San Francisco Examiner, is dead at l his home in Coronado.
 The British Admiralty denied the sinking of a British torpedo boat of i the l. class by the Germans on June II.
 Greater progress was made in the marksmanship of the Atlantic fleet, ac- cordng to report from Admiral | Mayo.
 Bert Smith, of Brooklyn, died at Madison Barracks, New York, of ap- pendicitis. It is the first death at the camp.
 The city of Dorgobuie, Russia, turn ed bowling drunk when the people found 100000 gallons of liquor in a distillery.
 The output of Butte copper mines, a quarter of the total of nations pro- duction, was menaced by the strike of electricians
 Miss Honora O'Brien received $225,- 00Q for her breach of promise suit against aged John B. Manning, a New York banker
 In carrying out a general expansion of the army the War Department pro- noted 73 second lieutenants and seven first leutenants.
 The Catholic Club of the city of New York decided to suspend the pay ment of dues of all members who join the army or navy.
 Fire destroyed several tons of food stuffs in the warehouses of two large grocery concerns in Detroit. The loss is estimated at s350,000.
 The Norwegian ship Perfect was torpedoed by submarine and sunk. The crew arrived in Ymuiden, Hol- land. Two are Americans.
 The Irish rebel prisoners released under the amnesty of the British Gov ernment last week arrived in Dublin and were received with enthusiasm.
 The Argentina minister at Berlin in formed his country that Germany adopted a rule providing that neutral ships may leave England on July l. 
 A meeting of the One Million Acre Club was held at Utica to stimulate the farmers of New York State in rais- | ing a million bushels of wheat for the 1 1916 harvest.
 Arnold HenckeI, the German who sawed his way out of a prison at Nor | folk, was captured in Danville, Va, in a tobacco warehouse. H was charged | with being spy.
 Contracts for 10 more steel merchant ships and 24 wooden hulls were an ] nounced by Major General GoethaIs, | general manager of the Emergency | Fleet Corporation.
 Joseph Scott, collector of internal trict was ordered to be removed for | being charged with shortage of ac- counts by President Wilson.
 hepOTIS pupliS0Gu m FdTlS paper | say miners of Luxemberg have gone | on a strike for more pay from the | Germans. LuxembeTg papers are not | allowed to publish the facts.
 Harold Mover Brooklyn youth, was sentenced to life Imprisonment by Judge Dyke in the Brooklyn Court for killing William McMahon with whom he had quarrelled over q girl.
 At the request of New York State, the State Department requested the Italian Government to hold Alfredo nection with the Ruth Cruger murder.
 Sir Richard Crawford, commercial adviser attached to the British em- sistant Secretary of the Treasury Crosby. No announcement was issued. Archibald Johnson, of Pittsburgh, was made a sergeant in the Lafayette Escadrille. composed of Americans. He brought down one of two German air planes attacking him after his ma chine was riddled with bullets.
 Benny Woodworth, of San Francisco, was killed in an airplane flight with 3 friend of the Lafayette Escadrille, a pilot, when the machine refused to re- spond to the latters efforts to stop it from dashing against the ground. Alex Wright. 2, was fatally injured at Beacon Falls, yesterday afternoon when he was struck by the automo- bile of Martin Millspaugh of Hart ford, a paint salesman. AIiIspaugh took the lad to the Waterbury hospi- tai and reported the accident to the police there. PLANS FOR RECRUITING
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