Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-13

Condensed Telegrams

Formation of union government for Canada Is assured.
 Efforts to form a coalition cabinet in Sweden have failed.
 Remington arms plant, Bridgeport are on strike.
 General Tasker H. Bliss, army chief Of staff. has received his commission as general.
 Plans arc being made for increased production of wool in the North Gen. tral states.
 ] Attorney Homer H. Johnson of Cleveland has accepteted the post of coal administrator.
 There is a marked increase in the number of small subscriptions to the Liberty loan, ranging from $50 to $500. 1 The Grand lodge of Illinois Masons, voted not to admit any new members 1 who are connected with the liquor buJ- mess.
 l Men and officers of the United 1 States army are being drilled rigidly against waste of food in their training l courses. At a rally held in the state armory, Bridgeport, by the Black Watch, 49 recruits for he British army were se- cured.
 The Right Rev. Paul Jones, bishop l of Salt Lake diocese of the Episcopal church has been asked to resign his position.
 The cornerstone of St. Maron's Roman Catholic church at Torrington was laid yesterday by Bishop John J. Milan of Hartford.
 Herr Simon, a deputy in the German Reichstag, has left the majority So- cilaist party to join the independent Socialists.
 American ships of more than 150O ltonS capacity available for ocean ser vice number 458, aggregating 2,871 359 tons dead weight.
 The American Brass company of Waterbury has made $500 900 sub scription to the second Liberty loan, officials announced.
 The signal corps is facing a great problem in supplyig lenses for cameras for he great fleet of observation air planes now being built.
 Secretary Baker has approved the Gunpowder Neck-Bush river, Hartford County, Md. site for the new army ordnance proving ground. Two policemen were shot early Fri day while patrolling the tunnel district at Niagara Falls. on the lookout for xiolators of the liquor law. w.I.r-
 Courses for the great military schools at divisional training camps have been marked out as carefully as are those ] of high schools or colleges.
  pan German propaganda which loomed | so big in anticipation but was so small in results has passed. selective draft law. young men be- tween the ages of 19 and 21 is idorsed in principle by Cardinal Gibbons. The Philadelphia navy yard has been designated by Secretary Daniels as the clearing station for comfort gifts for enlisted men of the navy. balloons of many American cities with bombs containing liberty loan literature will take place October 20.
 The executive committee of the Aero Club of America voted $10,O00 ito pro mote the efficiency and personal vel fare of American aviators in France"
 Ten passengers of the crew of the steam schooner Quinalt which ran on a reef during fog sixty miles south of a Pacific port, were taken off safe ly.
 Tho first snowfall of the season struck Cleveland yesterday in the formsI of small blizzard. Heavy snow falls are reported from adjoining 
 Captain William Watson, whose ap- was had on clipper ships and who later became president of the Watson Navigation company died at San Francisco.
 Ezra C. Fitch, Jr., of WaItham, Mass, member of the Black Watch, I Highlanders. is critically i'll { 3f pneumonia in a hospital in Hart l 1 lord and is expected to die.
 Subscriptions should be made to the { second Liberty loan even though per $ ,onal sacrifices are involved, Cardinal l { Gibbons declared in letter to the ! Maryland liberty loan committee. f Viscount Chinda, Japanese ambas- / 'ador to Great Britain, and Henry t -Bouillion, French minister of g missions abroad, were speakers at the a American Luncheon club, London. f Methods by which mineral resources t if the United States could be made to r