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Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
FURIOUS STORM STRUCK
 BOSTON LAST NIGHT
lightning Struck Second Church
 steepIe Doing Much Injury.


 Boston Aug. 7-Lightning, hail and a high wind lashed this city and near by places tonight, leaving a trail of property damage amounting to many thousands of dollars. The fury of the storm only lasted about ten minutes.
 Lightning struck. the steeple of the Second Church CUnitarian) in Beacon street. and two large granite blocks crashed through the roof The dam age is estimated at s2o. 900. A wealth CT vane fashioned in 1721 out of old brass kettles was hurled to the street.
 At the roof garden at the Hotel Westminster in Cooley square where more than 200 guests were dining a large canvas awning was ripped from it's fastenings and fell among the ta- bles, overturning them. In the crash of the china, the guests left in such haste to reach shelter from the wind and hail, that many valuables were forgotten s---.,-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
IMPERIAL PREFERENCE
 NOT BEEN DISCUSSED
British Government Will Act in Con. cert, Especially United States.

London, Aug. 7.-Earl Curzon of Kedleston, government leader in the house of lords. in speech today. said the imperial war cabinet had not yet discussed the subject of imperial preference. The government, he add ed, would act in the matter in con cert with it's allies and especially the United States.
 At the end of the war the British empire and the United States would control the greater part of the raw material Of the world Earl Curzon continued, and if it were necessary to use this power against, the enemy it could only be done to advantage by a general agreement among the allies. When parliament reassem- hled the speaker said 9 full state ment would be made . Ill the mean time he said there would be no final discussion with the dominions and still less with the allies.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
REV. GEORGE NlNIcK's BODY
 RECOVERED IN CONNECTICUT
He Committed Suicide by Jumping
 Into the River Tuesday.

Hartford, Conn, Aug. 7.-The body of Rev. George Vinick of No. S2 Pa yilion street was found in the Con- necticut river off the steamboat dock here today. The man was drowned Tuesday, He was seen to jump into the water above the bridge and dis appeared shortly afterward. He had been lorg in i'll health. MT. Viniek was cantor at the Agudas Achim syna gogue.- Re was 36 years old and born in Russia He leaves wife and five children,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
NATURAL RESOURCES IN MASSACHUSETTS,
The Vote of the People Will Con. sider Complete Developments.

Boston Aug. 7-The constitutional convention voted today 135 to SS to submit to the people at the fall cleo ton resolution to determine whether the state should develop it's natural resources. Supporters Of the resolution urged that with authority to develop water power the coal de- ficiency could be overcome. sCppo- nents of the plan expressed fear that it would tend to overthrow existing rights of property owners.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Cabled Paragr1phs
Germans Tax priso....

Berlin, Aug. 7.>via. London-North of the Somme ,>dhe Germans yesterday captured ne%1Ay 200 additional British prisoners, according to the German of tclal Communication issued today. BrltlsA counter attacks south of the Bra4Se -Corbie road broke down before tAe German lines. There were violent artillery duels, followed by strong en- emy attacks southeast of Soissons. These attacks were repulsed.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
BRITISH AIRMEN DROP Z
 TONS OF. EFFECTIVE BOMBS
On Railways, Airdores and BilIets oi
 Hated Enemy.

London, Aug. 7-The following of ficial communications on aerial oper- ations was issued tonight: Four German machines were shot down during the day of Aug. 6 and one was brought down in flames in the follow ing night. During Ihe 24 hours 24 tons of bombs were dropped by us on railways. airdrones and bfTlets of the enemy and several direct hits were observed. All our machines re- turned safely"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Marine
THE TWO MORE ARMY
 CASUALTY LISTS ISSUED Show a Total of i43 Names, With 36
 Killed in Action.

Washington, Aug. 7-The war de- partment late today issued two more army casualty lists with a total of 143 names, classified as follows: Kill ed in action. 36; died of wounds, l.; died of disease. 1 died of accident and other causes. 21; missing in ac- tion 8; wounded severely, G6; wound ed. degree undetermined, 10. Among the killed in action were: Lieutenant Henry P. Reynolds,
 Privates. Joseph Demikat Rockville, Conn. Manuel Perry, Fail River, Mass. sSigmund Renkunas, no emergency address given.
 Among, those who died of accident and other causes;
 Private Harry J. Posner, Worcester Mass.
 The wounded severely included;
 Lieutenants. @ George Scott, Medford, Mass. James Perry Thurber, Milton, Mass Corporal Hermogene loyal. Shirley. Mass.
 Priyatess Arthur J. Arsenault. Thol.~-vnville Manuel s. cordero. Fall River Mass.
 Homer vigent. 197 sunnyside ave. nue, Waterbury, Conn.
 w. H. Allen, Bostcn.
 Willie w. Beaugrand, South Ash burnham. Mass.
 Joseph N Robarge, Lowell Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
STEAM VULCANIZER
 ExPLoDEs IN WATERBURY.
Report Created Fear All Over the
 Brass City-No One Injured.

Waterbury, Conn, Aug. IA steam vulcanizer used to repair automobile tires at the plant of the Gum Rubber company on Abbott avenue exploded shortly after 1 o'clock today, causing a report that made Waterburians think the town had been bombarded. The windows of the establishment were blown out and much general damage was caused inside the store. No one was near the vulcanizer at the time of the explosion
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
5000 NEGRO SOLDIERS
 NOW AT CAMP DEVENs
Percentage of Reiections About the
 Same as the White Draftees.

Aver, Mass, Aug. 7-The arrival of 1.500 negroes at Camp Devens to- day completed the total of 5000 ne gro drafted men ordered to the can tonment. In the physical examina- .tion of 5SO of these men. so were re- jected, a percentage about the same as that reported from the examtna- tion of 15.G00 white men sent here under the last draft order.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
NEUTRAL NATIONS ~s
 MAY BE BARRED
From Witnessing American Military
 Operations in France.

New York. Aug. 7.-President Will son was urged today by the Ameri-. can Defense Society to forbid mili- tary experts of any nation other than; an ally of the United States to wit ress the operation of the American army in France. ss
 The society based it's action urcn the announcement that a Spanish mission is soon to visit the American front. It asserted that only by bar- ring the military representatives Of neutral nations could military infor- nation be kept from the enemy.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Heat Record for sprinafieId.

Springfield, Mass. Aug. 7.--Tem- perature records for recent years here were broken when the mercury reg istered 101 in the United States ar mory post hospital late today. This thermometer is considered official. Several factories,closad at noon
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Pershing's Rrevity.

Washington, Aug. [. General Persnings communique for yesterday, received here. says: Tn the sector held by our troops along the Vesle the day was marked by heavy artil- lery and machine gun fire"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
HELPLESS CRAFT SUNK BY SUBMARINE
Diamond Shoa Ligtship Warning of the Graveyard
 of the Atlantic Coast" Selected as Victim
sNEAkING SEA WOLVES FEAR FAIR OPPONENTS

Crew Escape in Small Boat and Rowed to Shore-Submare Came Within Half Mile of Land-Purpose Was to Hinder Commerce Of Cape Hatteras and Wreck Vessels on the Shoals-No Warships Formidable Antagonist Have Been Attacked Patrol Boats and Seapanes Seek the Submarine.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Funds
 are Being Traced
FEDERAL AGENTS MADE RAIDS
 IN NEW YORK CITY
THE BUSINESS PLACES

Of Three Wealthy German Americans, Offices of Weekly Publication, Manufacturing Plant, and Office of Berkshire Knitting Mill Among Places Visited - Seeking Alleged Records of Collections and Expendi- lures For Propaganda Aetivitiss.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08
Big Guns and Gases
 Didn't Stop Our Boys
GERMANS LOST CONSIDERABLY IN CASUALTIES AND PRISONERS
STILL FIGHTING DUELs

With Artillery Over the Captured
 Positions-Germans to Retreat to the Aisne-French and American Stands Are More .seeure-Germans Open Fire as Americans Approach-severe Battle Was Fought in Strengthening Out Line From Bazeches to Fishes.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

German soldiers term American troops as "Satans" in army garb. ....
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Among the new industries establish ed in Chili is brickmaking. Shortage of ships to supply South American de- mands is the cause.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Hundreds of convicts who were com fined to the prison at Santa France, have been made to work upon the entrenched camp of Paris.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Government agents are Investigating the movement of Germans across the Lower California border where wire less plant is located
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

It is reported in London from Mos COW by way of Berlin that the Bol- sheviki government is considering a declaration of war on Japan.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Broader provisions for exemption to be made in the new man power bill so that the nations war industries may not be upset by drafting men over %
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Admiral von ChappelIe, German min. ister' of marine, will resign shortly.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

The Franklin mine has suspended operations and closed it's mill because the operation of the Federal rate rul- ing has increased the cost 20 cents a tnD r
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Max Schwartz, prominent for many years as swimming instructor at Yale university. died in New Haven, We'd nesday, after a lingering illness. He formerly was assistant instructor in the Yale gymnasium.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

William L. Church, farmer ot East Plymouth, shot and killed himself with a shotgun Wednesday. Medical Ex- aminer Goodwin gave a verdict of ac- cidental shooting. Church was pre- pairing to. shoot an ailing horse when the piece was discharged. He was 62 years old t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Military authorities at Camp Meade, Md, are investigating what they be- lieve evidence leading to the arrest of German sympathizers who fired hay sheds
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

The federal food board ordered the wholesale grocery establishment of Scalafani Brothers in Wallabout Mar ket Brooklyn, closed for one week, for selling wheat flour with insufficient substitutes. .t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Air mail service between New York and Washington was interrupted only twice in July by weather conditions Out of 10S possible flights 9S were per- feet
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

The Halifax Herald and Evening Mail offers s5 900 to any person giving information for the location of a sub marine base or supply station in Nova Scotia.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Lady Rhondda, wife of the late Wis., count Rhondda proposes to claim her rights of peeress to sit in the house of lords.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

The Canadian food board requested families in Canada to use only 1 1-2 pounds of sugar a month per person.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Liberty loan officials who have ask ed President Wilson to make a ser ies of speeches to help send the loan "oYer the top" are confident he will make them
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Lord Northeliffe and Sir Joseph Mac lay the British shipping minister, sent congratulations to Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board. upon the pro gress in shipbuilding in the United States -e-.s
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-08

Carlo Mandira of Windsor Locks, 12 years old was drowned while bathing Monday. He was employed with 40 other boys in picking tobacco on a Suffie,d plantation.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
American "Waacs" Will
Release Many Youths for
Fighting Service
300 Already Employed
Corps Is Differed and Con.
Quoted Along Thoroughly
Military Lines

'Corrcspondcncc Of The Associated Prcss)
BEHIND THE LINES, FRANCE, Aug.
IL Within one month 900 members
of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Will be enrolled in the United States
Army Service Corps. Three hundred
arc already at work here in the offices,
laundries and service of the American
cxpeditionary force.
They will supplant an equal number
OF able bodied youths, who will leave
to take their places in fighting units.
The valiant service that these "Waacs"
have given in the British army recon-
mended their adoption by the United
States staff, and as many as can be
spared are being transferred to the
United States service to relieve some
men Tor duty nearer the actual combat
The British "Waacs" arc thoroughly
military. being organized on military
lines. The corps is oficercd, with reg
ular ranks. corresponding to the army,
and the same insignia as army officers
is worn.
The barracks of the "Waacs" is said
to present model in military pre-
cision.
In addition, 1000 French girls are
being engaged in the salvage depots to
Supplant the fighting men,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Y. w. c. A. Is Helping
Women War Workers
Mrs K. S. Enrich Tells of Eff.
forts by Americans to Keep
Up French Morale

Mrs. r. S. Enrich, of Berkeley. CAL.
who has been inspecting Y. W. C. A,
huts III France. has returned to thu,
country to make lecture tour in sup
port of the coming Sl5,00O,OOO drive
Of that organization.
Mrs. Enrich said the y. W. G.. A,
had established fifteen entertainment
quarters IN French munition factories
where women are employed; sxtee,.
nuts for the use of American nurses
and eighteen huts for the benefit of
women in the American Signal Corps.
Mrs. Enrich said the 7. w. c. A.
had established the union factory foy~
ers at the invitation of the French GOV
ernment, whose officials recognized the
necessity of keeping up the morale of
the women workers by furnishing
wholesome amusement and recreation.
She SAID the American women in chargc,
who were not worn out by four wears
OF warfare, gave courage to the fac
tory girls. and had steadying effecr
or their lives. Many of the factory
girls, she said. had been laboring al
highly dangerous occupations for so
long that their nerves were beginning
to show the effect of their occunat;or
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Asks Postponement
Of Nassau AK Sales
Nathan Hirsch Says Soldiers
and Families Will Be Injured
if Liens Are Disposed Of

Nathan Hirsch, chairman Of the
Mayors Committee on Taxation, yes
:erday wrote a letter to William f.
Luyster, Treasurer of Nassau County,
urging him to postpone the proposed
sale Of tax liens in that county this
:all until the law can be amended so
Is to prevent such sales, as they are
now prevented IN New York City. The
investigation of the tax lien laws,
which Mr.. Hirsch's committee has been
conducting, has shown that many SOL
selers and sailors now in the service
nave lost their investments by these
1ales
Nassau County Will not lose one
penny through this postponement,'
wrote Chairman Hirsch. "Many of the
parcels to be put up at auction. VIC
are informed, are now owned by sol
olers and sailors now at the front or
oy the families of these men who are
depending on them for the money to
pay their taxes. | appeal to you to
postpone this sale, as the authorities
Of greater New York have postponed
tax lien sales.
i am asking this in view of the
TACT that the sufferers through these
TAX hen sales are in a majority of
vases residents Of New York who have
invested their money in Nassau Coun-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Travis Leads i'm
Dry Prinariesf for
State Controller
Present Incumbent Has AL
ready Won Republican
Nomination for Office
Whitman Vote Grows
Governors Lead Over Attor.
ney General Lewis Now
Estimated at 10000

State Controller Eugene NJ. Travis
carried New York City in the prohibi-
ton primaries on Tuesday for the
nomination for Controller on the dry
ticket, with a plurality of PA against
the party candidate, Claude V. Stowcll.
He carried eighteen out of nineteen
counties heard from. with an aggregate
majority of about 1900, but lost Rich
mond
While the Prohibition vote was light,
the Controllers winning percentage
was noteworthy, and he said last night
that he was confident he was the Pro-
hlbltion candidate for Controller. He
peat Samuel Fraser and John kissel
on Tuesday for the Republican nomina-
ton. AS the Prohbitionsts have an
enrolment of about $4,000 and as they
usually all come out on Election Day
to vote, Mr.. Travis is feeling more
conhdent than ever of beating Bird S.
Coler his Democratic opponent, in No
vember.
Governor Whitman carried St Law
renee County in the prohibition pri-
mares by vote of 145 to 100 for
the prohibitionsts had to write in his
name. At the Whitman headquarters
yeste rday Harry NJ. Ingram, one of his
lieutenants, said that he was inclined
to think the Governor would be the
winner over Mr.. Bishop in the state
as a whole. Mr.. Ingram was elected
chairman of the st. Lawrence Republi-
can County Committee, and oddly
enough he was elected as a member of
the Prohibition County Committee
! One prohibitionist wrote his name on
zionist voted for a county committee
man, Mr.. Ingram walked away with the
honor
The news came over the wire last
night to the Whitman headquarters
that it was still neck and neck race
between DR.. Frank Crowther, Republi-
can, of Schenectady, and Congressman
George r. Lunn, Democrat, of the same
city, for the Republican nomination for
Congress from the Schenectady NJ ont
gomery- Fulton Hamilton district, with
DR.. Crowther leading by thirty-seven
votes, and with fifteen election dis
tricts missing.
More complete returns from upstate
on the contest for the Governorshir
nomination between Governor Whit
man and Attorney General Lewis kept
on piling up the Governors majority
Estimating the missing districts, if
would seem that the Governors lead
over Lewis will be close to 10000, and
it may go above that figure
Following the surprising victory OF
John MacCrate, Republican, in the
Democratic primaries in the three-cor-
nered fight, practically insuring him
| the election, the Democratic leaders
around the district were inclined to be
philosophical over their upset. and the
indications are that no Independent
Democrat will make trouble. Mr.. Mac.
Crates only opponent thus far is Jo-
seph A. Whitehorn, Socialist While
the Democrats are sore over the loss OF
Congressman, they are not inclined
to support Socialist, and it looks as
if MacCrate will have walkover.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Kellogg Resolution Author
izing President to Estab-
lish Them Is Adopted
Mines Are Included
Immediate Action Necessary.
Says Author, to Pro-
tect Workers

WASHINGTON. Sept 5.-The SEN
ate adopted without rollcall to-day
resolution by Senator kellogg, of
Minnesota. authorizing the President
to establish dry" zones about mines.
shlpyards, munitions plants and other
war plants. The resolution now goes
to the House.
The kellogg resolution is clause in
the pending national prohibition bill
before the Senate, but its author said
that the main bills enactment might
be delayed and that the separate reso-
iution was necessary to deal immedi-
ately with conditions resulting from
liquor sales to war workers.
In asking immediate adoption of his
resolution Senator Kellogg cited con-
ditions at Duluth, Mimi, and Superior,
Wis, war factories He said within
few miles of steel plants at those cities
a village had been especially incorpo-
rated by fifteen or twenty men and in
a dry territory an immense liquor
business had been established with
workmen at the steel plants
Senator Poindexter. of Washington,
SAID that Chairman Hurley and other
Shlpplng Board members, supported bv
the American Federation of Labor. had
urged that shipworkers be allowed to
continue having liquor. Local unions
have expressed an opposite view
There was little discussion of the
Kellogg resolution, since it ALREADY is
incorporated in the compromise rider"
TOR national prohibition. effective next
july, III the pending emergency agri-
cultural appropriation bill.
Senator Brandegee, OF Connecticut,
objected to the wide discretion pro
posed for the President He said un-
der the resolution the President might
make an entire state dry" Senator
Jones, of Washington, explained that
the wording of the resolution CON
1ormed TO the law authorizing the
President to establish similar zones
around military camps.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
THE CAST

Nine. Ferrabini's Carmen ranks high
among present day mpcrsonations Of
Merimce's gypsy. The music of the
role is we'll within her present vocal
capabilities and her voice, skilfuly
controlled, is particularly effective in
the coloring Of middle and lower tones.
Last evening the singer was excell
emily disposed. She sang and acted
with authority and unfaling dramatic
intelligence. An experienced artist,
we'll vcrscd in opcratc traditions, her
conception of the part has both the
assurance of knowledge and the charm
Of individuality. From the moment of
her. entrance, when insolent and mas
terful, she tempts Don Jose, and
haughtily accepts the noisy tributes Of
the crowd, until her final scene of de-
tance before the arena, this Carmen
held the interest of her audience In
the third act when the gypsy reads
her fate in the cards and her bold
sonsuality is sobered by the shadow of
impending tragedy, Nine. Ferrabini
reached heights of dramatic intensity
that made her performance worthy to
stand beside that of more celebrated
There were other enjoyable features
Of the performance. Mr.. Salazar sang
the part of Don Jose sympathetically
and played the unfortunate soldier
with convincing simplicity.
Mr.. Rogers Toreador was manly
and vocaly sonorous. Miss Mario s
Mlcaela was appropriately ingenious
and she sang effectively, without ex-
aggerated simpering.
Nine. Ferrabini sang throughout in
French, Mr.. Salazar in Italian. The
chorus sang chiefly in Italian, but sc
fine was the quality of tone and SC
spontaneous was the performance that
occasional lapses into French did not
disturb the continuity and general ex-
cellence of the performance.
This evening the opera will be
Gounod's Faust" with Mines. Craft
Homer and Mels, and Agostini, Di
Biasi and Antola,