Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-29
Condensed Telegrams

i Condensed Telegrams pr. Maurice F. Esan, the American minister to Denmark has arrived i'll l the United States. ni the week ended Dec. 22. only two French vessels were torpedoed by German submarines.
 habitants of South Orange, N. J., own | War Savings Stamps. The Brooklyn Union Gas Go. has
 agreed to pay the city back taxes with 1 interest for six years. $6S7,000 l The Panama Railroad Co.'s steamer Ancon rammed the tug Juanata and
 cut her in half in the Erie Basin.
 directed it's employees to apply for exemption if drafted for military ser vice.
 John J. Dempsey, who m 1900 was | employed as a despatcher for B. R. T. was made vice president of the com | pany.
 Destruction of the American con- sulate at San Jose, Costa Rica, by lire IS III SIetIO
 respatches. The fire swept an entire | block.
 The weather man announces that 1 the coldest day of the year is in store for New York city on the last day of 1 the year.
 i Harry J. Callahan, private at Camp l Devens. Mass, was dishonOrably dis charged from the army for stealing an i automobile.
 II Mayor-eIect Hylan of New York city left for Washington to pledge
 the aid of the new administration to
 the President.
 The British steamer City of Maqpur
 was wrecked in Delagoa Bay, Port
 uguese East Africa. All the passeng- CTS were saved.
 American enlisted men are not al-
 lowed to ride in first class compart-
 ment cars with British officers on British railways. The Navy Department at Newport,
 l., gave three tons of coal to the Bay State. Ry., Illuminating Co., be-
 cause of the shortage. The American Sugar Refining Co. announced that hereafter it would sell directly to the wholesalers and eliminate the brokers. The British recruiting mission at Chicago issued an appeal to the ball. players of the country to enlist in the grenade throwing corps. President Wilson attended the fun era1 of the late Senator Newlands of Nevada. All the Congress investigat- ing committees adjourned. President Wilson was requested by thes8ewperts War Camp and Com munity Service Committee to stop the
 sale of liquor at Newport. A bomb was thrown at the United
 States Consulate in Odessa, Russia,
 on Dec. IS and did considerable dam age. No one was injured. The American Girls Aid shipped since it's organization S,46o cases Of clothing and other relief supplies to
 the war sufferers in France. Cadet Davidson, son of Director Davidson of the Title Guaranty Trust
 Co.,, was killed in a fall from an air plane at Hicks Field. Tex. Japan is formulating a definite pol icy in event of separate peace be-
 tween Russia and Germany, according to Tokio advices to London.
 Thirty one boys, between 1e and 19,
 elected by the Ontario constituencies held the first session of the Ontario Boys Parliament Wednesday night. James c. Brady, fnancier and horseman, announced that he would give to the Red Cross the entire pro-
 ceeds of the sale of his show horses. The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie Railroad will discontinue
 the use of observation, buffet, smok- ing and library cars shortly after Jan
 uary 1.
 According to speakers of the Amer1- can Economic Association at Philadel-
 phia there are. more rejections in the American army than in any other country.
 Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law denied the runor in the House of Commons that the British Govern ment had asked Billy Sunday to visit
 the country.
 Secretary WoIcott of the Smithson- ian Institute received a cable that his son Stuart had fallen behind the Ger man lines in a fight with three Ger
 l man airmen. : Dr.. James R. Brock, Trenton, Ga, 1 deputy warden at the Federal Peni- tentiary, at Atlanta, was killed by the blow of an iron bar by Dimitre Popof, 2 an alien enemy.
 , Peter J. Peel. president of the Unit } ed States Football Association, an nounced that series of games will be 5 | arranged for army cantonment men. aHcetlyinmunu
 Rev. Frederick p. Wilhelm of BronxviIle has been appointed super intendent of home missions in the At ' lantic district of the Missouri synod } of Lutheran churches. |