Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-31

Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams
 New York police and firemen having dependents are exempt from the draIt.
 A great gale swept the British Isles. The fruit and grain crops were dam
 aged.
 The Paris Food Commission is con- siderlng issuing milk cards during the
 winter.
 It is reported. in Germany that
 strong Japanese forces are concentrat- ed in Manchuria.
 New York city's health department
 began an estimate of the food stocks on hand in retail stores
 born in Canada or naturalized there are to be given the ballot.
 Monsisnor Thomas F. Kennedy, rec tor of the American College in Rome, is dead after a long illness. Earl Grey, former Governor general | of Canada, died at Howick House North um berland, after long illness. The foundry of the Swartzkopf Tor ! pedo Works, Berlin, was destroyed by fire. It is thought many lives are lost. H. Norman Brieb, of New York, died | of pneumonia, following injuries re- ceived at the aviation school at Paris. Advices from Vatican circles declare that the Pope will not issue d second proposal to clear up the first of his notes.
  escort the delegates of the Labor Loy- alty Conference at Minneapolis to the special train.
 Ronald MacFeeIey, inventor of many pieces of machinery used in the man ufacture of shoes, died at his home in Beverly, Mass.
 George H. Hartford, president Of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and for 12 years mayor of Orange, N. d.. died at Spring Lake.
 Larry Cheney, a pitcher on the Brooklyn Nationals, was arrested for not paying his wife s 600 alimony out of his s4ooO salary
 Chairman Hermann of the National Baseball Commission declared he would put policemen at every gate in Bos- ton to stop gambling.
 Philippine, China and Japan cable grams are moving steadily in both di- rections but owing to heavy filings there is much and increasing delay.
 Americans returning from Canada may bring in $l00 worth of canned goods free of import duty under d 1ul- ing of the Treasury department
 Twelve hundred Texas and Oxlaho- ma wives of soldiers are organizing a regiment similar to the Russian Bat talion of Death.
 The Norwegian steamer Konesli. from St. Nazaire, France. was sunk by a U-boat off the Spanish coast. l The Kongsn was a Belgian relief ship. l
 After a two months trial, officials of | the Pennsylvania discharged 34 women i section hands. The work was too heavy.
 O. L. Mcclellan, former Louisiana l State senator. was wounded by a re- | volver shot fired by another man stop | ping at the same hotel, in Lyons, i France.
 Copenhagen reports that Germany is | to seal her frontiers to prevent mili- | tary plans and the real internal situa tion from becoming known to the Al lies
 Forty eight thousand cans of con densed milk have just been purchased | by the supply service of the American Red Cross for immediate shipment to SalOnika.
 As the result of the new excise law which permits but one saloon for every 800 inhabitants many of Lang Islands famous hotels will have to close.
 AdoIph Deutsch, a soap box orator was sentenced to three monthhs in the Vvorkhouse for having attacked Presi- lent Wilson and saying that he ought 10 be hung.
 Charged with having referred dis respectfully to the uniform worn by a marine, Mrs. Berthu Anuth a Brook yn socialist, was convicted and sen enced to 30 days in jail.
 The ire of the German papers has )een stirred over the "conferring" of ; he Knight Grand Cross of Bath upon James w. Gerard the eX-American ambassador to Germany. Major General O'Ryan, commandant f the 27th division and who' was for ner commander of the New York Ma ional Guard. was ordered to leave for amp at Spartanburg s. C., today.
 Attorney General Gregory instructed . he United States attorney at Mobile o hold Bernard Geisel as an enemy s lien. Geisel is in jail with 12 other f len, most of them taken from a Nor f 7eSian ship. V An investigation is being made by he MaSSa chuSetts attorney generals n flee into the recent report of the Fed < ral Trade Commission; which charged nat coal dealers of Boston made un- l fl easonabIe profits last spring. n A life size portrait of the Crown a rincess Cecile of Germany and 28 IT ther oil paintings from the steamship n Cecilie, of the North n erman Lloyd line are to be sold at f, uction at the United States apprais- -'S sale at Boston.
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