Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-24
And Its Circulation Connecticut Proportion

Condensed Telegrams
 Official estimates of the killed in riots in Spain total 400.
 The price of retail coal dropped s1. to $1-S0 ton in Chicago.
 General Pershins's men were given their first whiff of deadly gas. | The bread card system will be in troduced in Switzerland Oct. 1.
 Riots occurred in San Francisco. Many street cars were wrecked.
 Relatives of idIers in Maryland gave the shirkers' names to the officials.
 The Maxim Munrtion Go. bought the plant of M. Zward & Sons at New Haven.
 Walter Lowell, of the Lafayette fly ing squadron, shot down a German airplane.
 strike of 1000 shipbuiIders in the Gray's Harbor district, Wash, was de- clared off.
 SC1O 10 the amount or 4OoOyUOU was withdrawn from the sub-Treasury for export to Spain.
 The United States will supply Rus sia with 2.500 locomotives and 40,000 cars within the next 12 months.
 Harry Litty, labor leader, became the mayor of Memphis in succession to T. C. Ashcroft, who resigned.
 Instructions were given to intern Karl Armagaard Graves, self styled international spy at Kansas City.
 Russian worknen are receiving the highest wages in history, yet are un- able to buy sufficient food and cloth ing.
 Ex-Czar Nicholas and his family had a narrow escape from death in a railroad collision on their way to Si- beria.
 Floyd R. Harrison has been ap- pointed assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture during the present emer- gency.
 French Minister of War PainIeve and Albert Thomas Minister of Mu- nitions, watched the new battle at Verdun.
 Complete mail service between the United States and Mexico was re- sumed after an interruption several days ago. A despatch received here from Rio fJaneiro says that the Royal Mall Steam Pa Net steamer Desna has been torpedoed.
 More than 25 men who were in mates at the city's farm for drug ad- diets at Warwick, have escaped in the last month. Harry J. cantweII, one of the first men to make a fortune in the Mis- souri lead mine district, died in Hot Springs, Ark.
 Bohemian papers announce that pipes of organs will be taken by the Austrian Government and the metal used otherwise. The Spanish Minister of the Interior announces that the Rio Tinto and Nerva miners, who were on strike, re- turned to work.
 Marine Corps recruiting will be re- sumed again after having been closed since Aug. II, when the corps reached normal strength.
 All grade crossings in New York city will be closed from midnight to a. m., to be opened only request during that period. The nomination of John w. Gar rett of Baltimore, to be minister to The Netherlands and Luxemburg, was confirmed by the senate. Although the output of tin plate in America this year is 25 per cent. greater than last year there is still danger of a shortage. Herbert Parsons, Republican Ma tional committeeman for New York, soon will sail for France as a major in the aviation corps. l James w. Gerard, former American Ambassador to Germany, was seized with an attack of rheumatism as his train drew near Chicago. According to a German paper, the Kaiser's police are going to prohibit smoking in the street due to the de- clining stocks of tobaccq Major-GeneraI Pershing returned to his Paris headquarters after witness i ing the French offensive on the Verdun front with General Pertain. In spite of warnings issued by the 1 New York railways there were 731 |! cases of personal injury in and around the street cars of New York during July.
 1 Professor KeiIoeg, who was on the Stanford University faculty, Is one o1 i the leading volunteers assisting Her bert Hoover in the food administra- tion.
 Death of O. H. Chadwick and Julian RiddIe,, American aviators in France, was announced. Corporal Willis, an aviator, was captured by the Ger mans.
 Another attempt to end the dead ! lock between manufacturers and en- ployes at Lynn, Mass, was made. The shoe factories have been closed