Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-07

OistiIIers have advanced prices fol
 grain and sugar cane alcohol 20 cents
 gallon to 3.84 a gallon for 1S8 proof Mark Ferguson, ii year old boy, won a green apple eating contest from other
 children at Bedford. Ind. He died later.
 David F. Houston, Jr, son of the secretary of agriculture, has won a commission as ensign in the naval re-
 serve.
 The leather shortage in Germany is so great that officials are demanding that the people go barefooted through the summer.
 Walter sibbafd Wilson. a veteran of the Civil war and author of many ar ticles. on the history of New York city, is dead.
 The body of Mrs. Reba Bosworth, with bullet wound in the head, was found in a lodging house at Lynn Mass, Friday.
 Federal Judge Landis sentenced 7S sIackers to serve one year and one day in the house of corrections. Chicago at Rockford H.
 A man whose identity was not dis closed was arrested at the Boston navy yard after he had entered the grounds on a forged pass.
 i Until July 1 the total recruits for | the Canadian army was 423,S5S men. The last two weeks in June the re- cruits were 23S5.
 One man was killed and 20 injured | when the brakes failed to work on the 1oungstown and Southern traction car l at Youngstown, o.
 A strike of motormen and conductors l tied up the traffic for the day on the Empire Railways operating between | Syracuse and Oswego.
 An additional loan to the allies of Slo0 100000 was made by the treasury department Britain received $100, ,000,- OOO and Italy s60,O00,00O. Several tons of bombs were dropped | on German SeapIanes at Ostend by | British afrmen. All the machines re- ! turned safely 10 their base. Four hundred partially completed canoes, owned by the Old Town Canoe company, were destroyed in a store | house fire at Old Town, Me. it is reported that $40o, o,ooo each has been offered for the four steamers of the Metropolitan line, now running be- tween Boston and New York Mrs. HeineI, a German woman, step- ped out on the porch of her home in Chicago to put up an American flag | and fell, fracturing her skull Janet Beecher, actress, was run down when she stopped in front of an automobile on Fifth avenue, New York She sustained a severe scalp wound. The quantity of domestic fuller's earth marketed in the United States in 1916 was 67,S22 short tons, valued at $706,O51, or at $1O.42 a ton at the mine.
 pr. Manuel Arroyo, minister to Ger many from Guatemala. recalled when his country severed relations with Germany, arrived in New York from Vigo, Spain.
 According to passengers of a British ship which arrived at an American port the ship hit a submarine and it is probable that the submersi- ble was sunk.
 Amsterdam is under martial law and on some streets machine guns are placed. A squadron of cavalry was held ready for instant service, follow ing the food riots.
 The shortage in tinpIate has been so far overcome that the tinplate con servation committee lifted it's embar-
 
 ing of non -perishable goods.
 The executive committee of the board of grain supervisors of Canada | has gone to Washington for a confer | ence with the American officials in | control of the food and others
 William NeaIe Goddard, formerly | with the sales force of the American | Steel & Wire CO, was instantly killed | by a shell explosion when rescuing | wounded somewhere in France"
 One girl was killed and several per sons were injured when German | submarine bombarded the Azores An | American transport helped the land l forces to drive away the submarine.
 A favorable report on the govern ment acquisition of the Cape Cod ca nal will be made 5y the senate com merce committee wazn the rivers and harbors bill is reported to the senate next week.
 Italy's loss is small in Soats during the past week. Only one merchant man, eight small sailing vessels and four fishing boats were sunk Dur ing that period $40 merchantmen sail ed from Italy
 Nomination papers were obtained from the secretary of state yesterday in behalf of William P. Fitzgerald. a Boston banker. as a candidate for gov ernor of Massachusetts, on the demo- cratic ticket.
 Former Governor G. w. p. Hunt of AriZina was appointed by the depart ment of labor a federal conciliator, to- assist other concilators attempting to settle the strike of the metal workers in Arizona.
 CARRANZA ASKS POWER
 rn MEHOrIhTE AAM 1 Did Not Say Where He Expected to
 Raise 100000, ,ooo Pesos.
 Mexico City July 6.-Extraordinary