Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-17

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 Condensed TeIegrams Marshal Joffre inspected the Ameri- can troops in France. Mexico is expected to raise the em- bargo on coal shortly. Fifty women began training in Brook lyn to replace men as subway guards. American Smelling & Refining Go. reduced the price of lead from to ' cents a pound.
 Delivery of the second issue of Lib erty bonds to purchasers who have paid in full was begun. The navy department airpIane sta tion and aviation school at Cape May, N. J., was formally opened.
 An order said to total $7,oo0ooo was received by the Central Leather Co. from the Russian government. The sixth annual convention of the International Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors opened in Washing ton.
 Nine emergency courses in war re- lief work will be offered during the present college year by Wellesley col lege.
 American Ambassador Page to Lon don, who has been suffering from an attack of ptomaine poisoning. has re- covered.
 Hundreds of young men are still district, with headquarters at New port, R. I.
 Dr.. Henry van Dyke, former minis ter to the Netherlands, addressed the Princeton students on Christianity and world peace.
 The Meriden High school has raised the sum of $650 wit hwhich to pur- chase a Red Cross ambulance for ser wee in France.
 At a meeting in Moscow the Ortho- dox council prohibited the clergy from participating in the provisional Rus sian government
 Alfred HaIymar of New York was drowned when an American steamer was sunk by a submarine. He was a member of the crew.
 Mayor curIey of Boston will present to the city council an ordinance for bidding the employment of girls un- der 21 as bootblacks.
 Twenty Villa followers were hanged to telegraph poles near Torreon. They attacked a military train, miStaking it for a passenger train.
 Mediators of the department of la Dor settled the strike of railway clerks and station agents on the Northern Pacific railway. The Memphis Merchants' Exchange adopted rules forbidding speculation in cottonseed meal but permitting hedege selling for protection.
 German trade union leaders visited German headquarters in the field to protest against the military suppress sion of trade unionist activities.
 Cooperating with the Serbian gov ernment, the American Red Cross ship ped 5000 bags of flour to Serbians held prisoners by the Austrians.
 Students of Phillips Exeter academy, Exeter, N. H., pledged themselves to refrain from many luxuries to raise 4, 900 toward Y. M. c. A. war work.
 Another American cardinal will be chosen at a consistory expected to be
 
 One hundred and fifty young men between the ages of 16 and 19 will be accepted by the Marine Corps as ap- prentices to be trained as bandsmen.
 Dr.. Alexander Hamilton Rice,. the explorer, was commissioned senior lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, and assigned to the naval school at New port.
 A committee of four was appointed oy the Council of National Defense to make an immediate investigation of the housing situation at munition plants.
 Roman S. MaIinowski, said to be a former officer in the German army, was arrested at Ansonia, on the charge of violating alien enemy re- strictionS.
 Naval recruits laid the foundation for a building to serve as winter quar- ,ers at the Wakefield, Mass, rifle -ange. The sailors will do all the con- 5tructiOn work.
 Automobile accidents in Massachu- chusetts have decreased IA per cent so lar this year. although the number of cars registered is 32 per cent. more han last year.
 UT. A. SdTHeIOy Iuci :rator ordered the shipment of coal to Michigan to tide over consumers in | hat state until shipments to the north | vest are going steadily.
 The French government authorized | to the American Libetry | oan by American soldiers in France. | There is a law in France against sub- l ,criptions to foreign loans. l
 Shots were exchanoed at a station ,n the Southern railway in Argentina 1 between marine and strikers who tried | o detain supply train. One man was | zilled and eight wounded.
 Controlling interest in the Argentine l a vi oa tfop with S1O 0OnG 0O0 can |