Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-20

TEN PAGES
 Condensed Telegrams
 A spectacular fire caused $ao,ooo damage in Atlantic City. N. J.
 The Bethlehem Steel Go. has now under construction 200 destroyers.
 cavaIrymen at Camp Wadsworth will go abroad machine gun men.
 The House Rules Committee agreed on a vote for woman suffrage Jan. 10.
 The first snow storm in France crip- pied telegraph and wireless communi- cations.
 The torpedoing by a submarine of the Spanish steamship Noviembre is reported.
 A petition to close the New York Stock Exchange on Monday is being circulated.
 Followers of Louis Gutirrez took the town of Musquiz, 70 miles south of the Texas border.
 An American company is shipping three-inch guns at the rate of 1000 a month to France.
 The House of Representatives voted 308 to to subject their salaries to the excess profits tax
 The Government war trucks which left Detroit for an Atlantic port are now past Cleveland.
 All men between the ages of 1s and 50 years have been called for service in the Italian army. Fire which swept through portion of the business section of Erie Pa., did $150,000 damage.
 ShipIoads of presents have arrived inu France to make Christmas a joyous occasion for the soldiers. The use of coal for heating New York theatres may be curtailed, Fuel Administrator Wiggin says.
 Maria ouevas and SiIvaria Silva, un- der sentence to die by hanging, com mitted suicide in jail at Wallu, N. M.
 Senator Borah's efforts to have Congress stay in session during the holidays was defeated by a vote of 4S to 32.
 Secret Service men guarded Presi- it had been slowed away at the White House.
 Miguel Perez, a rich Cuban, is named defendant in a suit for $500 900 in New York for breach of promise of marriage.
 The Council of National Defense announced there would be no fixing of the price of lead for war purposes at 1 this time.
 A lieutenant in the Medical Reserve | Corps with the American army in l France was dismsised for drinking with I enlisted men.
 New Jersey is to be the first State in the Union to organize it's manufact- l uring industries on a war basis to as- | sist the Government. | The British steamer City of Naples l on December while under convoy o1 l destroyers was torpedoed and sunk by l a German submarine. i Francesca Romei, assistant musical l conductor of the Metropolitan Opera l died at the Roosevelt Hospital, New 1 York, of heart disease. 1 Directors of the Baltimore 6 Ohie 1 Railroad met yesterday but deferred | action for one month on the common l and preferred dividends. . l Several barracks in Camp Merritt near EnglewoOd, N. J., have beer quarantined owing to appearance o1 | scarlet fever and measles. | An official German announcement 1 says that two sailors were saved by l the Germans when they sank the l American destroyer Jacob Jones.
 The death of Ensign Phillips Ware l Page in England, December IF, as the result of a seaplane accident, was reported to the navy department.
 The National War Savings Commit tee will center it's efforts to have peo- 1 pie give War Savings Stamps instead of money for Christmas presents. I years superintendent of the Plymouth division of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. died at his home at Quincy, Mass. Private John H. Smith was dis. honorably discharged from the 1926 Infantry at Camp Wheeler, Ga, for re- fusing to have his adenoids removed. i One trainnan was killed and one I fatally hurt when the New York Chi 1 cago express of the Grand Trunl carshed into a, freight train near Stony 1 Creek, Ont.
 The Pennsylvania Highway De- l partment announces that the entire | route of the Lincoln highway be- 1 tween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh is open for traffic. 1 Gov. H. F. Graham of Vermont an 1 nounced his intention of going tc Washington today to participate in g I conference of New England governors on the coal situation. Diverted from Halifax because o1