Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

lest in Connecticut in Pro
 Condensed Telegrams
 The great drought in Sweden was ended by thunderstOrmS.
 Miguel Hurtado has been appointed | minister of finance of Ecuador.
 Des Moines, Iowa, was selected as a cantonment for the National Army
 The Russian Mission will go to New York for a three-day visit on July 5.
 Four members of the suite of form CT King Constantine, arrived at Nun mich.
 The House passed the $27 100000 River and Harbors Bill by a vote of 205 to 132.
 One hundred and ten recruits of the U. S. s. Recruit left Union Square for the training school.
 Fifteen bundreakserman papers sus- pended publication owing to the in- creased cost of paper.
 Ira Nelson Morris, the American Minister and his wife, were the guests of the King of Sweden at his palace.
 Gov. Whitman has signed papers for the extradition of Alfredo Cocchi, the confessed murderer of Ruth Cruger.
 ha of hAa nf the year in New York was tha; of truck driver, Frederick Wenk, 65 years old.
 The American sailing ship GaIena, 991 tons was sunk off the Ushant Is- lands by a bomb, there were no casu- alties.
 General Petain, commander of the the French army, has written a series of articles entitled Why We are Fighting"
 Patriotic Sunday is to be observed next Sunday in a response to an ap- peal of President Wilson with gifts to the Red Cross.
 Mayor Mitche introduced in the Board of Estimate resolution to give him authority to appoint a commits sioner of markets.
 Former Judge Harrison H. Voorrees. of Cape May County. N. J., is dead from fall which fractured his skull He was 49 years old. Seventy three owners of dogs m New York were haled into court IS tine result of having their dogs unmuzzIed. Each was fined one dollar
 The Mayor of Havre read a proc lamation calling upon the people of the city to celebrate the Fourth of July in honor of the United States.
 The Frankfurter Zeitung says there are indica tions the next returns of the Imperial Bank of Germany will show considerable decrease in gold.
 Five men were killed when a U- boat sunk the Danish ship Gunhild and the survivors said that the ship was torpedoed without warning. A private of the Twenty third Regi- ment. New York, has discovered a new formula for the manufactur of deadly gas to be used again the Ger mans.
 Four members of the Italian Royal Flying Corps arrived at an Atlantic Port and are on their way to Wash ington where they will inspect the American squads.
 Mrs. BrickIey, mother of the famous football kicker of Harvard University, says she is one of the happiest we men in America because her four son have enlisted in the army. The Norwegian ship Haakon was sunk by a submarine and only siv of the crew were saved and the steam ship Maggie was also sunk by sub marine, all the crew were saved. In two minutes the Senate passed | -s,,cr I.s1 NL1@ ii goes into effect April, 1918, and pro vides that all clocks for a period of five months thereafter shall be put forward one hour.
 The Senate of Argentina has request ed the minister of foreign affairs to explain the conduct of the government in the case of a large number of Spaniards who have formed the Anti Germanophile League. Henry p. Davison, chanrman of the Red Cross War Council, asked Secre- tary Lansing to have the Allies per init persons of German, Austrian, Bul garian or Turkish birth to go abroad with the American Red Cross. A dispatch from Rotterdam to the London Times says German shipping is steadily increasing. Twenty-Five German ships from Hamburg or the Baltic arrived last week and only two ships were mined or torpedoed. For using disrespectfuI and contemp- tuous words against the President of the United States Private Matteo Car cich of the First Company, Coast Ar tillery. at Newport, R. l., was sen fenced to serve six months hard labor at Fort Adams.
 w. H. Brown of Meriden was elected president of the Connecticut Associa- ton of Engineers at Portland. Me, last night The meeting was held in con nection with the annual convention of the New England Association of Sta tionary Engineers.
 Ella Gaigat, 1o, was probably fatally hurt when the motorcycle in which she was riding in the sidecar hit the rear To foa 10