Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-17

8 PACES-0A jest in Connecticut in Pr(
 Condensed Telegrams
 Since April I a total of 145,ese men have enlisted in the regular army.
 South, Jersey farmers report that crops have been seriously damaged by storms.
 Postal employees throughout the country have contributed 55,994 for Red Cross work.
 The former Czar of Russia has sub scrilbed half a million rubles to the Russian Liberty Loan.
 Vincent Astor has purchased the largest restaurant in Paris for the Y. M. c. A. at the American base.
 Manitoba crop report shows an estimated total acreage of 6,417.696. an increase of 151, ,4ss over last year.
 Seven Cubans were condemned to
 
 Ing in the rebellion last February.
 Eighteen men from Fort Myer train ing camp were detailed to attend the Canadian Royal Flying Corps School at Toronto.
 Rear Admiral Conway H. Arnold. U, 5: N.: retired. died at his home in New York, Monday, following an ill., ness of seven months.
 Oscar Bittran, a German, was taken into custory by the authorities on a Ford motor plant at Detroit
 Speaker Clark had the time of his life riding around Washington with baby on his lap. The youngster was his sfx-months' old grandson
 While at work at the top of Suas tank at Youngstown. O.. steel plant two men were overcome and died. Five others had narrow escape.
 Clayton Heather, who killed a neigh DOTS parrot at Harrisburg. Pa, settled the matter by paying s7 and costs and S1oo to the owner of the bird.
 William Lyons, a prominent young club man of Savannah. was shot and killed at the Hussers' Club by Charles O. S. Ballard, the superintendent.
 A radio station hidden in an isolated spot on Watching mountains. in New Jersey, was destroyed by the Govern met. according to reports in Plainfield. N. J.
 David Lloyd George, British premier, sent a telegram to Prince Lvoff con- oy,+ and the people on the success of their offensive.
 After sIashins both wrists, Solomon Guggenheim, stopping at the Grenoble Hotel. New York, plunged from a fourth story window to his death in the courtyard.
 The Red Cross volunteers from the Stanford University passed through Rome and were greeted by representa- tives of the American colony and of the American embassy.
 About 20 per cent. of the men at the Madison Barracks training camp have been dropped for physical disa bilities and military incapacity. Of the re- maining 2,000 only 1000 will receive commissions.
 The Echo Beige is quoted in a dis patch from Amsterdam as saying 58 persons were condemned to death in Antwerp and 15 were shot on July ,, three of them sisters who were ac- cused of smuggling letters.
 Franklin Remington, president of, the Foundation Co.,, confirmed a report that a contract for number of ships, about 15o, was let by a foreign coun- try. He would not say whether it was an allied or neutral country.
 
 Latest reports show the total con- tributions to the Red Cross war fund during the recent campaign week were SIS, ,370. Totals by states include: Connecticut, $2,633,622; Rhode Island sS96,923.
 Frederick Norton of Goshen. N. Y.. was killed while watching German air French front. A bomb was dropped near the ambulance which he drove in the American Corps, section 1.
 Forty avitors of the training camp at Mineola, L. l., have been commis- stoned first lieutenants in the aviation section of the signal corps. Quentin Roosevelt was one of the men to be He is the youngest son of Colonel Roosevelt.
 The naval academy authorities on Monday announced the names of 375 candidates who had passed their men tai tests for admission. Over 1,400 took the examination. The number already admitted to the new class is 392. Among those admitted is Lester w. Martin of Connecticut.
 The American School Peace League, of which William H. Taft is honor ary president, yesterday announced the winners of the annual Seabury prize essay contest. The first prize for high schools on the subject: The Influence of the United States in the Adoption of a Plan for Permanent Peace" was won by Carroll M. Hollis ter, Norwalk, Conn. WILLIAM THANKS
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