Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-06

OoO. 900 rivers and harbors bill.
 A @ state Of siege" was declared by departments of Attica and Bostia.
 A dispatch from Cordova, Alaska, | says the miners who struck several
 week ago have returned to work.
 Withdrawals of gold from the Sub Treasury for export included $500, 900
 to Spain and $1So,0o0 to Panama. Antonio Zafforone, convicted of the
 murder of Barnet Baff, received a sen
 tence of from from to fifteen years. Federal authorities arrested Victor J. tStreet of Rochester, N. Y.. on a
 charge of violating the espionage act Gold imports from the British Gov ernment were resumed with the impor-
 tation of s6,00o,000 for J. P. Morgan !& Co.
 | An 1s-year-oId boy flier in the Brit | ish army was awarded the palm for l his first flight over the enemy trench ! es alone.
 The Swiss Government has issued
 an order taking over all the cereal | for personal use.
 1 The prices on railway sleeping car 1 tickts on the trains operated by the 1 Mexican Government have been in
 creased per cent.
 The 1916 hay crop for Italy was
 2o,27o,0oo metric tons of 2,2O4.G2 | pounds each. compared with 26 611 300
 tons for the preceding year.
 Joseph Tunuity, secretary to the President, has been prostrated by the i heat of four days Ii is fhOnUbf he will soon be at his desk again. The Public Service Commission has fixed August as the date for the 1 first hearing of the Electric Railways of New York on the increase of rates. Monoton, N. B., reports 72 cents per pound recently received for unwa shed wool. A shipment of 20 455 pounds was dispatched to an American buyer. A retrospect of the hot wave issued by the Board of Health of New York indicated that 721 deaths in New York had been caused or hastened by it.
 Albert Murphy, an American. was cleared of the charge of murdering ex-President Madero of Mexico and Vice President Suarez, on Feb. T.? 1913.
 An order for 10000 Browning ma chine guns was placed by the United States Government with the Colt Fat ent Arms Manufacturing Go. of Hart ford.
 Norman DeatIey, navy deserter, sur rendered himself to the United States after being sought for for three years. He thought Uncle Sam needed his ser vices.
 A bill was passed by the Chinese Government to declare war on Ger many Only a Presidents confirma- tion is needed to make the action ef- fectiVe.
 The National Commercial Congress which convened in Mexico City recom- l the exportation of articles of prime ne- | cessity be prohibited.
 Exemption district Mo- in Chicago !! claims the healthiest drafted men in | the city, having only five unfit and | seven claiming exemption or the 1 grounds of dependents.
 An increase of 30 per cent. in the number of candidates to be admitted to the second officers reserve training camps, opening Aug. -27. was ordered by the War Department.
 The Vienna Neue Erie presse, in estimating the worlds harvest for the year. says that after Rumania supplies herself with grains she can ship IO0,-
 The Kaiser wired his congratulations to Crown Prince Rupprecht on the success of the German Fourth Army on July 31. when the French attack to the coast of Flanders failed.
 Denis Murphy, a taxpayer of Yonk- CTS. applied to Governor Whitman to
 
 accounts of the city of Yonkers. Mur- phy claims that nearly s1O,oO has dis 
 Edmund FIorant, cashier of the man featuring firm if Pierce Butler .S Pierce. was robbed of s1,566 payroll money as he approached the com oany's plant, No. 437 East 167th St, The Bronx.
 Gustaf Longfars, a member of the [. W. W. is in the Salt Lake County aiI. charged with cursing the Gov ,iamen and was stabbed in the back with a bayonet.
 Captain Joseph Sproul and six members of the crew of the American schooner William NJ. Critchee. which went ashore on Birdrock In the West Indies on July IT, arrived at New York. ,
 Seized with cramps of heart failure while swimming at CoZey Beach Gast Iaven yesterday. William Doherty 20 ears old sank in shallow water and ( lied. Although quickly taken ashore by [ and all efforts to revive | jim were futile. A message reached Brooklyn telling V f the deah of Allan Oakley Smith. a V Brooklyn boy aviation student at the O 'layment flying field. near Wilmington. Del. He was killed on July 21 and had cen buried before his family who rere travelling in the West, learned of he fatal accident. 2 It is announced in Athens that T2 o o1onels and eight superior officers F ave been relieved of their duties. q