Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Troy (N. Y.) Gas Co. increas- ed its capital from $3,O00,0OO to s5,O0O,-
 Frank N. James, 65, retired busi- mess man, is champion knitter of Chicago.
 Contracts for GAO engines and 5000 cars for French railroads were let in France.
 According to Tokio authorities the number of enemy subjects residing in Japan is 719.
 John D. Rockefeller eharacterizes the Liberty loan as best investment" a man can make.
 American, German language paper published in St. Louis, printed first page news in English.
 The Bureau of Engraving and Print ing is turning out 25,000, 900 of the new three-cent stamps daily.
 Premier kerensky, of Russia has so far recovered from his recent illness that he is able to travel.
 The War Department announced that Sheffield Ala was chosen as site for one of the nitrate plants.
 The French vessel Midie was sunk in the Mediterranean with a loss of 200 lives mostly of Algerian troops.
 Philadelphia bakers received 5000 barrels of flour at prices from 75 cents to 1,25 under present market prices.
 An explosion on board a patrol boat off the eastern coast were reported. One sailor was brought ashore dead.
 
 female Rasputin was sent back to Pertograd from Finland with other exiles.
 A service flag at the New York Po- lice Headquarters showed that 39 New York city policemen are serving their country.
 Ens!and will reduce her wheat con- sumption during the coming year to less than half the normal figures before the war.
 Charles Gordon of PhiIadeiphia. was the lone survivor of a recently torpedoed steamer sunk without warning.
 British newspapers which puslished a statement that Lloyd George had left London when an air fS z. 9ala 13is ing made. were forced to apologize.
 Chancellor BonaT Law declared that Great Britain will Lombard German towns far as the military needs re- lease the necessities of the machines.
 Frank Aniss, of Saratoga, member of the Naval Reserve died at Dayton of injuries received when he fell 1,500 feet in an aeroplane at the aviation field.
 The Standard Oil company of New Vo1.Iy nf points in refined petroleum in barrels for export, making the price 1o.46 csnts per gallon.
 The Central Leather Co. has taken an order of more than $5,OOOOOO for soles for the Russian government. .. raoney will be paid in American dollars. 3...
 Charles J. Vopicka, American Min ister to Rumania, has made several several visits to the Rumanian front urging the 10000 Russians to continue fighting.
 The London taxicab drivers decided upon a strike next Monday owing to the refusal of the Home Secretary to sanction an increase of 50 per cent. in fares.
 Surgeon General Braisted reported to Secretary Daniels that typhoid fever and other contagious diseases have been practically eliminated from the navy.
 Jeremiah A. O'Learys newspaper, called Bull has suspended publication, in view of the fact that Postmaster General Burleson has excluded it from the mails.
 Gerald Walsh, motorman on the Boston elevated train that plunged ia INo1- 1916, killing 45 people was exonerated from blame.
 The Produce Merchants Association to prohibit exports to the United States of milk, cream and milk. tony Coles a New York negro, con- | victed of manslaughter. The life sen tence of Joseph Lamarco of Buffalo | was commuted to end in 1919.
 Flour mills at Minneapolis are run ,ing on a 60 per cent. basis under orders of the milling division of the | Federal Food Administration. Eastern | nillers are faced with a shortage.
 Marshal Hindenburs and General Ludendorff received leaders of the trades unions who complained of the regulations issued by the army l reads, limiting freedom of action.
 The American Meat Packers Associ- ltion in convention at Chicago pleadg- d that soldiers and sailors fighting or the flag shall have the best meat in this country or any other Wages of employees of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. were increas- five per cent. effective at once. In a I-, r 6G rrYf11 ,e distributed to employees as premi- ms. Edward p. Charity of Beloit, Wis.,, member of the Washington Ameri- an Baseball club and Miss Margaret 0onahue of New London were mar fed at St. Joseph's church, New Lon lon, yesterday morning. The couple eceived gifts from Clark Griffith and Walter Johnson.