Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-20

Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 Walter Mccoy of West Chester, Pa,
 raised turnip weighing seven pounds
 Sir William, p. syIes, member of Parliament since 1909. died in Lon | don. st
 PhiiadeIphia's reform candidate for
 city treasurer pledged himself not to l accept fees.
 Max Rosenburn of New York, was l the fifth person to die of anthrax in 1 Bellevue Hospital .f I Revenue agents report collections from munition makers under 12 1-2
 special tax of $17,500,000. l Wilkes Barre street care line of icials complain that titneys are ruin | ing the company's business. | Baldwin Locomotive Works. receiv- l ed an order for 600 locomotives for ] use near the trenches in France. | The embargo on export oats ship
 ments to Newport News was lifted by
 the Chesapeake and Ohia Railroad. 1 Victor L. r1un, arrested Tn PlttS- l burgh as bogus army lieutenant, is | believed to have duped 100 women. l The New York and Missouri monu-
 ments in the National Military Park at Vicvksburg, Miss. were dedicated. l An order for more than 150 destroy | CTS was received from the Govern l ment by the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Sixty two employees of the krupp | works in Essen,1 Germany, are being
 prosecuted for the theft of high speed | steel
 | American nurses who have married will be asked by the American Red Cross to return to hospitals for war ] service.
 Lieut.. RaouI Lufberry of the F'ranco-American Flying Corps, 1 brought down his 18th German ais- plane.
 Directors of the Commercial Trust Co. of Philadelphia voted to apply for membership to the Federal Reserve System.
 The Norwegian Foreign Office re- ports that the steamships Barbro and Hovde were sunk by German sub marines. Rumors of the loss of German warship in the Sound. narrow strait between Denmark and Sweden, are be- ing circulated.
 Louis Fuseo, aged eight, was shot and killed at his home at Wintertor N. Y.. by his. brother. who was shoot ing at target.
 After having been on strike a month 8 900 tobacco workers in Porto Rico returned to work, having won their fight for more pay.
 E The keisIy shoe. factory at viness land. N. J.. has contracted to get out 22o,00o pairs of army shoes by May next. which means 2,500 pairs a day.
 Captain Howard E. Sullivan, com manding Battery D.. New. York Field Artillery, was arrested at Sparta anburg, s. C.. for cruel treatment of a private in his command.
 New Castle, Del, steel plants wifi lose a number of skilled worSmen have been offered better paying po- sitiOns at Atlanta.
 Ninety nine American soldiers who had been lost for five weeks, sent to British camp without funds or officers by mistake rejoined the U. s. | forces in England.
 Complaint has Eeen made to the Peruvian government that a number l of Peruvians are being held as slaves in Brazil and are being forced to work ! in the rubber ftrests.
 Articles of incorporation were filed | St Albany. N. Y, by Lehmaire, l Schwartz & Co.,. capital s2.0O0.0o0. l The new company will manufacture tin and other metals.
 Matches may not be carried by any employe in any plant where nitro and | amido are manufactured or handled, according to state industrial board | ruling in Pennsylvania.
 Samuel Williams of WaInutport Pa, 6 feet 12 inches tall and weighing 225 pounds. was sent home from Camp Meade because he could not stand the strain of hikes.
 Charles H. Potter, of EIain, iii., chairman of the Milk Producers As sociation, and four other officials, officials were indicted on charges of to fix the price of milk.
 Sir BerkIey Moynihan. senior con- sulting surgeon of the Britoish Royal ] Army Medical Corps, arrived in the 1 I Tinted State to aid the U. s. Army l Medical Corps in it's war preparations.
 Because of his alleged activities in the pacifist movement, the pupit oc- cupfed by the Rev George Y. Green field in Santa Barbara Cal. has been declared vacant by the Congregation- al church Society
 The American Red Gross has given s1, 100000 ito the British Red Cross as the first contribution to "our day" col lection. which is being taken up for !; the benefit of the British organization Britain.