Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-08

Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams The new Liberty Loan bond issue may be issued about October l. Another loan of s1o,oooooo was ad- vanced to the Italian Government. America has 8oo,ooo men ready for service on the battlefields of Europe. during the fiscal year just closed to- | tailed s122, 100000.
 Jules Destree, Socialist deputy from Charleroi, was. appointed Belgian Min iSter at Petrograd.
 Gold to the amount of $72o,ooo was withdrawn from the b-Treasury. The destination was withheld. Returns examined prior to August indicate a yield of S11 997. .OOO from in come taxes in Massachusetts. Managers are planning to employ women bakers in Washington and the vicinity owing to labor shortage.
 The Standard Oil Co.,, of New York
  kerosene for export 1-2c a gallon. Children in Chicago schools will be allowed to tear out a page in their readers which eulOgizes the kaiser. Maurice Kaufman, prominen Pittsburgh merchant, died suddenly at a hotel at Lancaster, Pa, of heart fail ure.
 The first detachment Of 15o women sailors is forming a t Petrograd, pre- paratory to going to the Murman coast.
 The Federal Reserve Board reports that the navy would abandon con- struction of submarine chasers in favor of destroyers.
 President Wilson summoned the War Purchase Board" of the National Defence Council, to outline his policy of war buying.
 pr. Bertha s. Park, of Denver, com mited suicide in the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, by swallowing nitroglycerine and chloroform.
 Put the good old silver dollar into circula ton" is what officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland urge banks to do.
 Of 33 informed deserters, mostly Ger mans and Russians who escaped from Bergen, Norway camp, all but four were captured.
 |. w. w. members held a meeting at Crosby Minn.. and the Cuyuna iron range was flooded with handbiIls call ing the men to strike.
 The Japanese Admiralty announced that Japan's help on the Mediterran- can was not needed and Japan would take no further steps.
 Preliminary report from the master of a merchant ship who thinks he saw a periscope off New York was received by the Navy department.
 Five persons were killed in a colli- sion of two passenger trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee I& St. Paul Rail- road in the yards at Milwaukee.
 Three additional bodies have been recovered from the No. mine of the West Kentucky Coal company, in which an explosion took place Satur- day.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad is working tramp traps" in the shape of open freight cars. The doors close mysteriously and the tramp is made a prisoner.
 Theodore schaibin, chief electrician, injured in the explosion on the United States submarine Ar, July 27, at Ca vite, P. l., died. This makes seven | deaths of the crew.
 All employers in Cleveland must em- ploy only men who are citizens and | men who are willing to fight for their | country. A city wide search will be- | gin for draft slackers.
 Shipments of fresh and cured meats ] from ('hiHaRn pounds against A 052 900 pounds in the | previous week, and 42,S13,0O0 in the | same week last year.
 Mrs. Laura Edmonds Gilmore, 97. i widow of the late James Robert Gill | more, a Boston author who wrote un- l der the pen name of Edmonds Kir1e, | died at Glens Falls, N. Y.
 An official statement from Berlin | was received at Copenhagen stating | that Germany's losses in submarines was about three boats a month be-. tween February and August.
 The Rome Municipal Council changed the name of the Street of QuirinaI'' to the Street of the Twen- tyfourth of May" in commemoration of the Italian declaration of war.
 While working in sand pit at laborers dug up the skele- burned many years. It did not dis close any evidence of foul play.
 The heavy demand for small coins has the mint at Philadelphia working at full capacity. The daily produc- ton is $50 900 dimes. quarters and halves, and 15O 900 nickels and cents
 Including the immediate imports of gold from Canada the general stock of the yellow metal is S3104, ,409, 703 This 1 oornDareS with S1 SqO 67S 2O4 a tho cor