Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-05

OtlOut iu IUpUI llUII lU lfl' Condensed Telegrams
 canada's 1918 grain acreage will be
 increased by 25 per cent.
 Money circulation per capita in the
 United States last month was S461O.
 American exchange at Copenhagen dropped to IA per cent. below normal.
 William J. Bryan paid a personal
 visit to President Wilson at the White House.
 The International Bank of St. Louis
 increased its annual dividend from to 12 per cent.
 Erection of $2,ooo,ooo packing plant II,, In NeW Orleans Is being planned by Wilson & Co.,, of Chicago.
 Under direction of the newly created | Council of Defense a system of 'fwar farms" will be established in Cuba l A contract for the construction of | 40 destroyers was received by the
 Union Iron Work of San Francisco. 1 Much property damage was done ] and many lives were lost as a result or the typhoon which swept over Japan.
 1 Food Controller Hoover has been granted the cooperation of the Secret Service in curbing the food price ma ntpulators.
 The Treasury Department announc- a further fo Qa1- 1um, making total of $55,4OO 900 to that country.
 A whaleboat, containing IA members or the crew of the French bark Briar- ritz burned at sea, was picked up off the Brazilian coast.
 Official announcement was made in Petrograd that the recent revolt at Tambov, 300 miles southeast of Mos COW, has been suppressed. The name of the National Army cantonHent, at Louisville, Ky, was formally changed from Camp Taylor" to Camp Zachary Taylor
 bill providing for progressive duties on sugar, beginning with an II shilling rate was passed by the Pe-
 Charles J. Vopicka, U. S. Ambassa- dor to Rumania, and the special Red Cross mission to Rumania, arrived at Jassy, the temporary capital. I
 A four-year course in military sci ence will be opened at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. Al
 Japan has offered to the United States use of 100000 tons of shipping in return for a modification of the American export embargo on steel.
 Members of the New York cotton exchange voted to close the exchange on October 13, the Saturday following Columbus Day, which is holiday.
 Organization of additional units of the Quartermaster Corp of the Ma tional Army by enlistment or draft was ordered by President Wilson.
 Sir Wilfrid Laurier soon will retire from leadership of the opposition and the Liberal party in Canada. He has led the Canadian Liberals since 1887.
 Secretary Lansing has asked Gov. | Gardner of Missouri for a copy of the | Missouri absent voting law to be sent | to Russia in formulating Russia's pol !! icy.
 An appropriation of $aoo,ooo has been i made by the Chinese Government for | ilOOo Teuel WOTk at 1l6n 1Sln. A1Q l has been asked of the American Red | Cross.
 The Labor Adjustment Board left for Seattle to take up | strikes which are holding up shipbuild- Ing. Portland and San Francisco will l be visited.
 President frogoyen of Argentina will | resign on Oct. 12 on the ground of i'll ] health. He is reported near a ment- al breakdown as a result of the gen. eral strike.
 A third series of officers training camps, primarily for instruction of en- listed men of the army for commits sfons will be opened Jan. 5. running until April 5.
 The soldiers and sailors civil rights bill was unanimously passed yesterday by the house. It probably will not be ,aken up in the senate until the De- cember session.
 The Rev Dr. Anean S%oLaS |