Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-21
Condensed Telegrams

| Condensed Telegrams Fire in the wholesale district of Bal timore caused $500,00O damage.
 The Spanish steamer Noviembro was torpedoed without warning. Women conductors were put to work on surface cars in Brooklyn. Fire destroyed the St. StanisIaus' R. C. church, in Montreal causing dam age of $70O, 900.
 For the first time in several months Southern Ohio coal mines had a 100 per cent. car supply.
 The Roumanian government releas ed 1,S0O who were interned since the beginning of the war. Private Scott B. Merrill of the in fantry died of broncho pneumonia Gen. Pershing reported First receipts from the increase in fTst-claSs postage rates totalled $5,- S45, 900 for November.
 "Two Bits Clubs" are being formed in many cities each member to buy | one 25-cent thrift stamp daily. Camp Sherman, O., authorities an l nounced that ground glass was found | nj the food of soldiers in training. The fuel administration denied ex- emption from the lightless nights re- quested by the vaudeville theatres. The War Department will com mandeer one million gallons of vinegar soon unless present plans are altered. , The town of Humboldt, Iowa, sus- pended business for the day, when l Frank Gotch the wrestler was buried Citizens of Lorraine, France, will 1 erect a monument in honor of the first | three American troops killed in France. Fire which started in the K. of c. l hall. State and Sixth streets. Columbus, 1 O.. drove 200 soldiers into the street, half clad.
 1 Bonuses will be offered the Pacific Coast lumbermen for speeding up the production of spruce airplanes for the 1 United States.
 |. Herbert Hoover, food administrator,
 announced that he approved of the
 l old fashioned Christmas dinner ex- cept the mince pie.
 Edward w. Diekey, the first Chris l tian Science Chaplain to be appointed 1 to tine army, has been assigned to
 Camp Upton, New York.
 1 Wiiiiaro N. Wilcox may resign as
 ] chairman of the republican national
 committee at a meeting of the commit tee at New York in February. Herman F. w. RabbeI, a Salt Lake 1 tailor was arrested and will be in 1 termed for expressing the wish that l Germany might win the war. | 1 the United States Golf Association ap-
 pealed to golf and country clubs to close their doors until April l. 1 As a reward for the bravery of it's l troops. Newfoundland has been of |. fcially designated as the Dominion of i Newfoundland by. Great Britain. l According to news despatches, the central powers have informed the Russian government that they intend | to make peace proposals to the allies. Six representativzS sent to the front ! by the Food Administration returned 1 to Paris and reported that the Amer | ican troops in France are well fed. Major General Hugh L. Scott, U. S. A., who is to be assigned chief in- i struction officer of the new national army, returned yesterday from Europe. Eleven miners were killed in an ex- ploSion at mine No. 3 of the Bar Dour Memo, Tenn, late Wednesday after noon.
 News received at St. Johns, N. F, 1 report that large quantities of dried l fish owned by Newfoundland interests were lost at Oporta, Portugal, in the rioting.
 Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, was l indicted for contempt of court and l conspiracy to violate law which for I bids city employees from participating ! in politics. The Swss newspapers express grat- 1 itude to the President of the United States and the American government
 for the new commercial treaty with l that country.
 I the Medica, Officers Reserve corps, attached to the British forces, has been 1 slightly wounded in action, General Pershing reported last night 1 General Leman, !eno,@r as the hero of Liege, was expectei to arrive in Switzerland yesterdav the German government finally agreeing to his in ternment, but he was re-arrested on l the frOntie
 l A critical fuel 7isostion in New Eng 1 land was pictured to the fuel admin listration a Washington yesterday by J. J.s Storro-v, fuel administrator for ] New England. and Governor McCan of Massa chusetts.
 1 The naval qunners of vessel arriv- 1 ing at an Atlantic port yesterday fired at what appeared to be the periscope 1 of a submarine the day after leaving port and scored a hit which is believed to have sunk the German boat.