Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-14

l
 the wheat crops will exceed the T.
 per cent increase estimated.
 The plant of the Standard Screw Go Detroit, was destroyed by fire. 'The
 loss is estimated at $30O,000.
 Four eenviets escaped from road camps at Homer, Cortland county, and
 Hollywood, in the Adirondacks.
 Francis Bowes Sayres, President Wilson's son-in-law was grazed by an Austrian shell on the Isonzo front
 The Japanese Mission has accepted an invitation from a delegation of New
 York officials to visit the metropolis. 1 Giuseppe Canepa, the Italian food controller, ordered the introduction of
 bread and flour cards after Oct. II. fantile paralysis in Cotton, St. Law renee N. Y. The schools are closed.
 The Germans, not to be dissraeed, are making the British losses at Lens | more than there are troops in the dis | trict
 Seventeen saloon keepers in Brook lyn were sentenced to 60 days each in the workhouse for selling liquor to sol- diers. The telegraph operators on the Trenton division of the P. R. R. re- turned to work and called off the strike.
 The sasolene schooner Anvil was brought back to San Diego harbor with 30 draft evaders and enemy aliens aboard.
 Members of the Anaconda Mill and Shelter Mems Union decided to ac- cept the terms of the Anaconda Cop per Go.
 The Reserve Army officers at the Harvard training, camp will be given a ten days leave after they complete their course there.
 It was denied in Mexico City that the expulsion of priests or religious workers from Mexico were made nor were they threatened.
 Milton Chreimer, a Lancaster coun- ty farm hand, hiked 16 miles over mountains to Philadelphia to enlist in the United States army.
 The 18th biennial convention of the Army and Navy Union assembled at Baltimore for four days session with about 300 delegates present:
 The parade of drafted men is one of the arrangements for the demonstra- tion to mark the visit of the Japanese Mission at Boston next week.
 More than LOCO claims for exemp- tion were appealed to the President on the ground that the claimant is indispensable for war industry.
 Ten men who failed to register in New York under the selective draft l law were sentenced to terms in jail | from one day to three months.
 The Petrosrad Women's Legion of Death are in revolt against their | Mime. Butchkoreva, be- | cause "she is too rough" in enforcing | discipline.
 Francois Ducasse of Staten Island received word from the commander of 1 he 412th regiment. of French infantry hat his son Jean received the French | war Cross.
 Aubrey s. Mcleod of Marlboro, Mass. was wounded so severely in the 'ecent German raid over the American hospitals that both of his legs had to )e amputated.
 Edward M. Walsh, Jr., and Theo- 'dore B. Lyman, student aviators at he North Island military training amp, California, were killed when
 
 The British Government is again uying shells and other munitions in American markets. Inquiries sent out or bids on an order for about $120, %, 900 worth of shells. The Interstate Commerce Commis- ion held that the rates milk but 1 1iddle West and Kentucky to Gin ! innati were unreasonable.
 The presence of bankers in Wash 1gton who were identified with Mex t. :o's finances tends to verify the re- . rant a loan of $150,000,000 to Car . ort that this Government may soon ' anza. Admiral KaItmehoff, who was in I of the Russian navy in the I, lack Sea early in the war, arrived at < [ontreal from a Canadian port with T. is staff and is on his way to Wash VI lgton. s Henry White, former ambassador to rance, was yesterday appointed as ( of the Potomac division of le American Red Cross, completing ,ctions into which the country has sen divided
 The American Association of Park 1perint( ndents closed it's convention G
 St. Louis yesterday after selecting tt artford, Conn.,, as the next meeting u ace. J. F. Foster of Chicago was c ected president. IT
 u Pleasant A. StovaII, American Am D lssador to Switzerland, at the desire c, his country will leave for Berne, h here he will discuss the probable si ipments for Switzerland and other ,utral countries. The United States Court in Balti- ore fined IT members of the Tomb one Trust" or the National Retail u onument Dealers Association. They ere charged with violating the Sher- an antitrust law.
 In an air battle between German air tl en and Americans in the French Es- tf drille Corporal Campbell of Chicago R