Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-19


 Missouri's wheat crop report places the condition of wheat at so, compared with S3 last year.
 The United States navy is still in need of more than 100 mechanics for different branches.
 Upper New York State is having the degrees below zero.
 The American embassy at Tokio have made further denials of Japanese troops landing at Vladivostok.
 Police figures published show that thieves in Chicago have stolen more than s2 O00,ooo of booty this year.
 Representative Johnson of Aberdeen. S. iD, enlisted in the regular army as a private. He did not resign his seat.
 Information received at Washington
 by neutral diplomats indicate that Germany is planning another offer of peace.
 Corporal Oscar Mouvet, one of the few Americans still remaining in the
 foreign legion has been severely wounded.
 The names of A. p. Grimes of Clays-
 vile. Pa, wounded, appeared in a. Canadian overseas casualty list issued yesterday.
 The Canadian casualties list contain ed the names of II Americans, two
 killed one a prisoner, seven wounded and one missing.
 The Y. M. H. A. will mobilize it's en- tire resources so that organization may cooperate with the Jewish War Relief in its work.
 Shipments of cured and fresh meats from Chicago last week totaled 46 924.- 900 pounds against 44,562, 900 pounds the week previous.
 The 6,OOo recruits who caused the congestion on arrival at Fort Slocum will be temporarily transferred to Camp Devens Mass. Senator Kenyon of Iowa introduced a bill reducing the salaries of sena- tors and congressman from S7,500 to $5,000 during the war. Mrs. Frank D. Adams, wife of Lieut.. Adams, assumed the duties Of her hus- band as pastor of the Ui1dversalist church at Urbana Ill. Representative Raer of North Da- kota introduced a bill to appropriate $50 900 900 to aid western farmers in | buying grain and seeds. A machine company at Buffalo work i ing on storage battery plans for the use on United States submarines re- ports the blueprints stolen. The American minister at Lisbon re- | ported that the former president of l Portugal was. escorted to the frontier | and sent on his way to Paris. The British American Tobacco plant devoted to the manufacture of ciga- l rettes only was burned at Norfolk. The ] loss is estimated at $500 900. | Representative Wood of Indiana i'm | troduced a resolution to prohibit the | selling of any bonds issued since I April 6, 1917, for less than par.
 The Swiss Government has ratified | an agreement with this country by | which it will receive 24,000 cars of wheat and 30,O00 cars of other cereals Arthur Wager, governor general o1 Porto Rico, arrived at an Atlantic port en route to Washington to talk over | Porto Rico's share in the war with of- fcials.
 l. Two sailors were saved by the Ger ] mans from the American destroyer | Jacob Jones. according to an official Amsterdam.
 l One thousand teachers of the pub I lie school system of New York city l pledged their loyalty to the United | States and have urged the internment of those who do not.
 Henry Holt Wheeler, formerly vice president of the New York Cotton Elk | change and one of the best known cotton merchants in New York, died al Summit, N. J., yesterday.
 President Felix Calender, in his frs, public speech since his recent election l declared that Switzerland was ready to ! pour out her blood against any at-
 temps to invade their country l Charles w. Parks civil engineer in the navy, was nominated by Presi- l dent Wilson to be chief of the bureau l of yards and docks for a four year term with the rank of rear admiral.
 President Wilson has written to the National Education Association that he | sees no reason why tn eassocfatton's annual meeting at Pfttsburg June 30 | to July next shall be interefered | with. | A report that Former Premier Ke- rens2xy of Russia, supported by some
 thousands of troops. has appearea in in a despatch received at Copenhagen l from Haparanda-
 Edmund Waller, . veteran bicyciis4 who has ridden in many endurance races in various parts of the country during the last twenty years, fs under sentence of nine months in jail In Chicago, for burglary.
 lnvestiaation by ti1s senate interstate | connmerce committee of the Inter- T state Commerce Commissfon's recon | mendations for solving the railroad | transportation difficulties was ordered I yesterday by. the senate.
 l Sol Cudin was arrested at Amarillo Texas suspected of being . German l.spy. A trunk, said to belong to him I was broken open in transit, revealing A Herman soldier uniform, several | papers and notes and a number o1 handwritten toasts to Emperor Will