Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-28

Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams Quake shocks from Peru were re- coded in New York.
 Katharine Sarah MacQuoid, British novelist, is dead, aged 93.
 Draft exemption boards for New York State will contain 1000 names
 Stockholders of the Pennsylvania Sugar Co. increased the capital from $2'6oO'oOO to $5,O00,oOO.
 Two Scandinavian ships were sunk by the Germans. one was Norwegian and the other Swedish.
 near Utica, N. Y. was burned. The loss is estimated at $75,OOO.
 Athletic contests at West Point, ex- cept tnterclass meets, have been sus- pended for the year, it was announced
 Fourteen applications for member ship have been posted on the New York Produce Exchange since June IS.
 Pittsburgh Iron will be sold at seo, valley before the end of June. Besse- mer has been sold at as high as
 
 The United States Assay Office took stock and $765, ,OO0.O 900 was count ed. Not a penny is missing" was the announcement.
 Deposits in Chicago national banks show a decrease of $6,414,OOO. De positss in State banks show a falling off of $4S,166,599.
 The Washoe Shelter was compelled to close by a strike in the Butte mines, according to statement made by Anaconda officials.
 The damage to traekaee, buildings and crops caused by the bursting of the Price River irrigation dam in Utah, is estimated at $1,500,O00
 There is a demand in Cuba for cot ton waste for machine wiping. The principal users of this material are the railroads and the sugar mills.
 A record in murder trials was es- tabIished in New York when Raymond Callahan, 28, was convicted of second degree murder in 8 hours and 10 min utes
 Machinists, backsn1iths and helpers at all mines in Butte were called out cided to take vote on the strike to- night.
 The next Liberty Loan issue will be made about Sept. 1, according to indi- cations at the Treasury Department. The interest rate will be probably per cent.
 Joseph Louis, butcher, of Bridge port, anticipating a war famine, has asked the city health board for a per init to sell horse meat. Action was withheld.
 Mrs. RosaIie StahI, widow of Carl Stahl demanded S1O,O0O damages from the William Necker Corporation for substitution of ashes for those of her husband.
 The Union Oil Go. of San Francisco completed negotiations for the acqui- sition of the properties of PinaI- Dome Oil Co. About $3,6O0,000 is involved in the deal
 Mrs. Ruth Taught, said to be the wife of German army officer. was arrested on train at Baltimore and taken to Harrisburg. The charges were not given.
 The American Locomotive Go. re- ceived an order for two eightwhee switching engines, weighing 20i,000 pounds each, from the Detroit & To ledO Shore Line.
 Pleading guilty to violations of the selective draft law 101 Illinois slack ers7' were aTraigned before Judge Landis in FreepOrt. Sentence will be imposed next week.
 Representative Mason, of Illinois, introduced a resolution to amend the registration act, so that national guardsmen may not be sent out of the country without their consent.
 Many uou+hS If German hirth are rushing to join the U. s. colors this week. Twenty per cent. of the re- cruits are Italian born. American youths are far behind in the total
 Russell Ayres, son of Mir and Mrs, C. H. Ayres of Bridgeport, received word that he had been selected as a member of the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit. He will serve as a mechanical expert.
 The Chicago Council passed a new charge from so cents to 70 cents a thousand cubic feet. and changing the standar from candle power to a heat unit basis.
 Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer and Assistant United States Attorney Harold A. Content have received a i score of letters threatening their lives i as a result of the Emma Goldman and | Berkman prosecution.
 The war risk insurance bill, making 1 it mandatory for owners of merchant l vessels engaged in transatlantic com- | merce, went into effect. Seamen on | craft will be insured fo- not | less than S1,5O0 more than s5,000.
 Higher wages for 5000 members of l the International Brotherhood of Main | tenance of Ways. employed by the Mis- souri-Iron Mountain Railway system, who were called out strike Satur day night, is demanded as basis of | settlement.
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