Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-13

Condensed Telegrams


 Condensed Telegrams
 Coal cards were introduced in Der lin in order to regulate the winter sup ply.
 The employees of the Toronto Street Railway Co. struck. Not a car is be- ing operated.
 Die Zukuft, Macmillan Harden's publication, has been suppressed for the remainder of the war.
 The British Government took active steps to punish those responsible for the blunder in Mesopotamia.
 Brazil newspapers announce that destroyer has discovered enemy submarine base near Santos.
 The American Mission to Russia will return directly home instead of stop ping at Japan as it was rumored. The Italian crops this year are prom ising and wheat is up to the average everywhere. Potatoes are comin up fine.
 The Argentine Government has de- creed the exemption of the duty on the importation of sugar up to 50,0OO tons.
 The Skinner 6 Eddy ShipbuiIding Co. has sold two incomplete S.S00-ton stea mers to Japanese interests on the Pacific coast.
 Postmaster General BurIeson was asked by Representative Dyer to change the name of the post office al East St. Louis
 Practically all of the main part of the plant of the Wilmington Steel Co. was burned More than 25O men were employed in it.
 Robbers stole s2o,coo from farm house of Toney Hassenfrats. at Chence, Ill., but failed to find S20.OOO more hidden away.
 The conference to be held at Paris in regard to the Balkan question will also consider everything regarding the conduct of the war.
 ltaIy's total war expenditure till the end of May was s4.0O0.O00 according to a statement issued by the Italian Treasury Depa rtment-
 The Swedish Government has in structed it's minister to Berlin to pro- test the torpedoing of Swedish sailing vessels and fishing ships
 State officials announced that Mich igan's quota flor the new national army would be greatly increased as the re- suit of revised population.
 Hoboken saloons have defied the law and order of Mayor Griffin to close the saloons at ten o'clock and he said they will fix the hour at twelve.
 The Maine Central Railroad Co. has filed a petition for increased passeng- CT fares, including an advance from 2 1-4 to 1-2 on mileage books.
 According to dispatch received at Melbourne from Suva. Fiji Islands. considerable damage was caused by an earthquake in the Samoan Islands.
 After a session which lasted nearly all night the House of Representative of Cubao approved of the plan to unite the departments of war and marine.
 Sergeant Major Antoine PaiIIard, one of the French aviatOrs who alta cked Essen, home of the Krupp plant, has returned safely and is now in Holland
 Mrs Vincent Astor, who arrived in Paris with Miss Ethel NJ. E. Harri man. to engage in war relief work, left at once to visit her husband at French port.
 Arthur WaItonen, alias John Lind. was executed at Sing Sing prison last night for the murder in New York in Nichols.
 Wednesday night was the coldest summer night in 45 years, according to the records of the Boston weather bu- reau. With the temperature at 57 de- grees at p. m.
 The Japanese War Mission to the
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 At meeting of the Hartford civil service commission in the capitol John C. Brinsmade of Washington was chosen president. succeeding Charles G. Morris, resigned.
 Major General o'Ryan after a con- ference with Governor Whitman an nounced that the Governor had approv- 1 ed of the plan to parade all the mi | litia before going to the southern | training camps
 Arthur Luzzi, of No. 239 West 1O9th | Street. New York. was arrested for ! wearing the uniform of a United States | army captain. He was permitted to | pass through the lines without ques- | ton and sold rings to men going to the front.
 Rudolph Hecht, banker who was i said to have charge of the sale of | German Government war bonds in ! New York a year ago. was arrested by | United States Marshal Thomas D. | Mccarthy at the request of the Wash 1 ington authorities.
 Ernest E. Sevey, graduate of HeideI- berg Yale and Harvard Universities, and head of modern languages de- partments of several universities and i colleges drank poison and ended his | life at Columbus. O. He left a note ! explaining that III health was the |