Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-30

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 The sale of absinthe is stopped in New York by decree of the board of health.
 Three women and three men were arrested in Norway, all German speak ing, for espionage.
 The full bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts decided that the state income tax is constitutional.
 H. H. Webb, a New York button manufacturer, was drowned in Lake Yankee, Sullivan county, N. Y.
 Holland has become a great refuge for deserters from the German army. Hundreds are pouring in every day. 
 The central powers are beginning to fear that Russia will be an active par ticipant in the allied offensive opera tions.
 Ruin faces the grape growers of California if the prohibition amend ment to the food bill is adopted by congress.
 There must be no peace except Ra I ciared in an address to the American troops in Trance.
 Thirty one German diplomats, con sular officials and their families reach ed an American port en route to Ger many from Brazil.
 Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway company elected Howard FL liott a director and member of the executive committee.
 plan is being worked out whereby the state of Kansas will be asked to subscribe for 5,O00,00O bushels of farmers seed wheat.
 AdoIph Swiner of Newark, N. J., was sentenced to one year and one day in Atlanta penitentiary for threa tening to
 The Liverpool Cotton association e.- nounced regulations governing trading in futures. Straddles and speculative dealings will not be permitted.
 Postal authorities of Savannah held up deliveries of Thomas E. Watsons weekly newspaper. The paper had been attacking the army draft.
 British airpIanes dropped bombs on one of the few remaining Turkish river steamboats, one direct hit was obtained with 65-pound bomb.
 Mails from the Philippines, China, and Japan. arrived at a Pacific port on the steamship Asia, were despatched east and are due in New York today
 A despatch from Rome says that only one Italian steamship was sunk in the week ended June 24 Arrivals at Italian ports were 5S3 and depart ures 536.
 Secretary of War Baker has taken from the committee on public fnstruc- tion, of which George Creel is the Chairman. the handling of military in formation.
 Governor Whitman commuted the sentence of William McNamara and Elias Jazra, who were to die in the ment term.
 According to the Amsterdam Tele- graaf, several priests of the entourage or cardinal Mercier of Belgium were reported arrested and sent to a Ger man prison.
 The Mercharrt5 association was asked by the federal export council to establish a bureau in New York city which will have authority to issue ex- port permits.
 Capt. John c. p. BarthoIf and Lieu tenant Stevens in their flight to the Hampton Roads station from MineoIa. l.. l., 300 miles, made record time of four hours.
 The Boston Equal Suffrage associa- tlon will conduct a two weeks cam paign to enroll housewives in the work of food conservation to be directed by Herbert C. Hoover.
 At a new sittinq of the German reichstag which begins on July fresh credit of F ,OOO, ,0OO. 900 ma r.IIe will be discussed. The session is expected to occupy eight days.
 Garfield Otis, a fisherman of Boston. was brought to New York on a steam ship from St. Johns, N. B.. having been found floating in dory 50 miles southeast of Cape Cod.
 Two hundred soldiers are making desperate efforts to save large tracts of valuable timber from being burned by forest fires in Arizona The fire has been raging for a week.
 United States gold coin to the amount of S2,S40, 900 has been with drawn from the sub treasury for ex- port. Of this amount g, 500. 900 is for San Francisco for export to Japan
 A postponement until July -15 of the demand of the New England Milk Pro- ducers' association for an increa sed price for milk was announced by the board of directors of the association
 TWenty-three coasting steamers of the Canadian Pacific fleet are held up at their ports in British Columbia and Washington by general strike of their crews, who ask for a 20 per cent raise in wages