Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-28
Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams
 Potatoes are now three cents pound in New York.
 Men for the busle and druno corps for the Ninth Coast Artillery of New orh are needed.
 Four thousand tons of Swedish sugar were distributed to the American re- liners committee.
 Frank Bernes, aged 33, hanged him ! self at Southington, to the bedpost in l his room, using a belt.
 Mexico extended her exemption on ! import duties on motor cars and trucks | until June 30, 1918.
 w. w. Blackwell, former supreme | chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. | is dead, of paralysis.
 Numerous incendiary fires occurring among the granaries in Argentina harbOrS were reported. lies in the war to the fullest extent was pledged by Emperor Yoshihito.
 Gordon Mott, of the Royal Flying Corps of Canada, was Killed at ben brook Field, Fort Worth, Texas.
 Robert D. Steele, retired Pennsyl- vania Railroad official died Christmas Day of congestion of the lungs. A pouch containing s5o,ooo sent by the federal reserve bank of Richmond to Columbia, $. C., disappeared in transit.
 The French Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution extending until the end of the war all elective officials EIevens Austro German airplanes have been brought down by the Brit ish and Italian forces in a big air bat tie in Italy.
 Through the activities of the Dol 1 lar Christmas Fund for Destitute Children 200 GOO Belgian children were l made happy. pr. James R. Brock, Trenton, Ga, ] deputy warden at the Atlanta federal penitentiary, was killed by Dimitre Popoff, a prisoner.
 Provost Marshal GenaraI Crowder 1 sent out a call to the governors of the states for 1000 bricklayers for General Pershing in France.
 The New York Railways announced i that if teamsters will keep their wagons off the trolley rails many ac- l cidents will be averted. According to Federal officials the i German spy system in the United States is being headed by a woman, designated only as "H.' 1 Funeral services for Senator New lands were held in Washington. President Wilson headed distinguish 1 ed gathering which attended. l investigation of the railroad situa- l tion under the Cumrnins resolution will i begin before the s-sf Senate Interstate fCommerce Committee tomorrow.
 Secretary of Labor Wilson is i'll 1 through the West settling strike dis putes and other labor uprisings. Thomas w. Lamont, of J. F. Morgan | & Co.,, who returned from Francce I Tuesday declared the United States must prepare for three years Of war. l A Spanish steamer arrived with her
 four American gunners which were aboard the Actcon when she was tor pedoed off the Spanish coast on Nov. 24
 Attorney General Hon. Sir Frederick
 Edwin Smith is in the United States to urge all British subjects of military age, be conscripted for the British
 army.
 L. J. Cohen, 50 years old, mill
 inonaire steel rail man, was killed, and
 his partner, William Lewis, was in jured in an automobile accident at St.
 Louis.
 J Thomas G. Patton, postmaster of New York announced that many mag
 azines and newspapers bein gsent to i,soldiers are out of date and fit only for a rag man.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion refused the request of the Penn
 sylvania Railroad authority to run
 more passenger trains from New York l to Washington.
 The Anti Saloon League in New
 York announced it had completed ar 1 engagements for a "conderted discus
 sion' of the liquor question by more
 than 5000 pastors.
 Charles M. Schwab, in order to help
 conserve the transportation facilities of the country, has placed his private car Loretta in storage and will travel
 in regular cars from now on. Passengers arriving in America from
 Russia on board a Norwegian vessel l declare there are so many revolutions
 that it is impossible to keep count of 1 them.
 T A letter demanding that $5o,ooo be
 placed in rock pile" at Oakland, } Cal. or the executive mansion and
 up. was sent to the governor of Cali lfornia.
 The Argentine government an
 nounced that the congress of the neu- tral Latin American nations had been postponed until April This congress,