Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-15
Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams Vienna reports contradicted reports of the demobihzation of the Russian army.
 No Japanese troops are in Vladi- vostok the American consul there reported.
 Lieut.. Erwin Boelinne, famous Ger { man aviator. has been killed on the western front.
 Water power legislation is now be- ing considered by the house public lands committee. Newport is stricken with a coal shortage. Dealers can only deliver a l few bushels at a time. Java rice was discovered in Ger man army bread. It is thought it | came through Holland. Count Ezernin, Austrp- -Hungary''s l foreign minister, is suffering from ul- l ceration of the stomach. 1 According to a report that reached Rome, Jerusalem is intact. as not a
 shot was fired at the city. | Plans were made in the house I looking to recess of congress from
 December IS to January B. Mrs. J. w. Gale was elected alder man at Calgary. She is the first wo-
 man alderman Of any city in Canada Copper producers assured the war industries board that they were able i to meet the governments war needs. ] University of Rochester students ] have donned khaki and a regime of military discipline has been put into i effect.
 F. w. Draper, an American engi- neer, arrived at a Pacific port with | $2,000,000 worth of platinum from Russia.
 St. Louis brewers will save s1,700,- | coo by President Wilson's proclama of beer.
 General Leonard Wood, former chief 1 of staff. will get a chance to go to France to observe the war on the western front
 The Michigan Central railroad has 1 placed an embargo on all shipments from connecting lines except those of 1 coke and coal.
 pr. Herman D. Raoin, member of the district draft board of New York l city, was removed by order of Gov 1 ernor Whitman. Urgent need for increased transpor- tation facilities for cotton consigned to 1 New England mills was placed before I the shipping board. The Dutch government has asked credit of $2,000, 900 for the erection of l a wireless station for communication
 with the Dutch Indies. James Borucea, who murdered his wife and three neighbors, died; in the Nfillvflie.; N. J., hospital of wounds re- ceived in battle with posse. 1 About fourteen members of the Con- | nccticut Hotel Mems association met ! at Hartford to confer with, Federal 1 Food Administrator Robert Scorille The United States Guards, the body
 of armed Americans that will take
 over the guarding of the munitions and
 other essentials in warfare, was ere | ated.
 | Two hundred pounds of money, to- tadng $47,O00, was carried off by the | five men who robbed the La Grange | State bank at La Grange, a suburb of 1 Chicago.
 l nc 0TiIISn GnCdSSy announced Cnat l reports. from General Haig were true and that there is truth in insinua-
 tions that some adverse conditions are l being concealed.
 It has been definitely established that no lives were lost when a Teu- | tonic submarine sank the American 1 steamship Schuylkill in the Mediter- | rstnean last month. l Samuel w. Beakes. democrat, was
 formally seated in the house, succeed ing Mark R. Bacon, representative
 from Ann Arbor, unseated by the priv l 1leges and elections committee. 1 A long conference between repre-
 sentatives of the 800 striking cigar makers at New Haven and a commit
 tee of the. employers failed to result l in progress toward ending the walkout Miss Ruth Hapgood, daughter of
 Mrs. Norman Hapgood of New York
 was married yesterday to Lieutenant l Happen Tyng. The ceremony was
 performed in St. Georges church, i Paris.
 James L. Weaver, a Red Cross work
 CT in France, declared that the Ger | man troops would rather kill one doc 1 tor than 500 men, and that was the l reason the Germans are bombing hos ! pitals.
 William s. Rogers, 45, of Benton, N. J., treasurer of the Scott Paper com l pany of Philadelphia and of the Ches- ! ter Paper Company, Chester, Pa, died on train between TrenfDn and Phil