Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-02

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 Condensed Telegrams
 Britain lost 71,sss men in a month in killed wounded and missing.
 Michael Oliver, 60, died at Torring-
 ton yesterday after being prostrated | by the heat.
 The last race in Canada was run. The Dominion passed a law prohib- iting horseracing July S1. l The United States accepted from Cuba the offer of five German ships interned in Cuban waters.
 Capt John Urquhart, 6e years old, for many years postmaster at River point, R. l.. was killed with the heat.
 Fifty Americans, among them mem- bers of the Board of Foreign Missions, arrived at Berne from Constantinople. others slightly injured in an explosion on a submarine chaser at an Atlantic port.
 1
 
 tall summer travellers to stop visiting the country as the food rations are scanty.
 Women rushed to buy furs with the 1 thermometer around 96 degrees at Cleveland, and record sales were an l nounced.
 | Confirmation of the sinking of the | American bark Carmela, of New York, | by a German submarine reached the l State Department.
 Mrs. BeuIah Shaw, 24, and Miss Eliza Alderman IT, both of Philadel- | phia were drowned while bathing near Barnegat pier. fiscal year 1917 was nearly s9,000. 0Oo.- l 900 a new high record, the Department i of Commerce stated. The second strike of the machinists | in an attempt to save the fast dying miners union of the I. W. W. proved a fzzle at Butte. Mont.
 At the annual meeting of the Ger man bank clerks held at Madgeburg Prussia it was announced that 14 GOO were at the front. public bathing pavilion at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Peter Nicho-as, 20 years old. was drown.
 The sub-Treasury transferred $725.- 900 in gold to San Francisco. The to- tai transfers so far this week to that center and Japan are $ 725 900.
 Senator Pomerene of Ohio has in troduced a bill to have a special flag for every house that furnishes a man for the United States army or navy.
 
 overcome with the heat at Hillside Home, Bridgeport, and died an hour afterwards, during yesterday morn ing.
 An electrical storm after one of the hottest days in five years at Montreal started a number of fires destroyed trees and damaged telegraph and tele- phone.
 Representatives of American trades i unions are going to Stockholm for the l International Peace Conference, ac- cording to the Social Demokraten of Denmark
 The new Derby Stakes were run at Newmarket England and won by l Gay Crusader. Dandelion was second l and Dark Legend was third. Twelve i horses ran.
 Albert Broden, representing the Gen. | tral Railroad of New Jersey bought | the property of the Carbon Iron & | Steel Co.,. at ParTysville at a sheriffs | sale for $200000.
 PerIey H. Hamilton, a member of the Princeton unit of the American | Corps in France, was kill i ed as he entered his home at the ouc- i skirts of Havana.
 George V. S. MichaeIis of Glen Cove, l.. l.. whose father and grandfather were officers in the United States a rmy. changed his name to George Woodbridge.
 The du Pont Go. announced that the salaries of all it's employees would he increased. The lowest salaried men were increased about 9 per cent. and the higher 10 per cent. the block of small shops between Illinois and Kentucky avenues. Half a dozen places were destroyed with loss of about s10,0O0.
 The National Emergency Food Gard en Commission will give $5,00O in prizes for the best canned vegetables shown at town exhibits and state fairs in September and October.
 fleet of steel barges with a cargo of coal of 900 tons left St. Louis for St. Paul. It is expected the trip will be made in about eight days. Iron ore will be shipped back to St. Louis.
 Federal Judge Frank A. Youmaus in a decision at Fort Smith Ark. held that the present standard form of cotton contract used on the New York and New Orleans Exchanges is Illegal.
 Homers Folks, president of the American Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, who re- gently arrived at Paris. has taken charge of the department of civil af- airs of the American Red Cross in |; France. In order to facilitateor, coal and grain shipmens at ports on the Great lakes the shipping board asked the | ( House Committee to authorize Pres | dent Wilson to permit Canadian yes