Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-06
Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams
 Rebels from Human province, China, are being engaged actively by govern ment troops near Chungking.
 Charles Trincard of Brooklyn, q member of the Lafayette flying corps, Sunday.
 Charlie White, a Chicago light weight, was ordered to Camp Custer, at Battle Creek, Mich., to become boxing instructor.
 Formal declaration of the Ameri- can governments intention to respect the neutrality of Switzerland has been forwarded to Berne.
 Rear Admiral Charles Curtis Rogers U. $. N, retired, died at a hospital IF Washington. He was 61 years old and a native of Virginia.
 An express car of a Northern Pa cific railroad train was destroyed by fire of unknown origin between Wind Sor and Cleveland, N. D.
 Abolition of wheat1ess and meatless days was recommended to the food administration by state livestock asso- citations in the middle west.
 After successful operation at Kansas City since Nov. 12, the zone system for conversion of the country's manufac- turing facilities to war work.
 Claude PiersoI, convicted kidnapper of Lloyd Rect, was served with a War rant at Marshfleld, Mo, charging him with thedeath of the kidnapped baby,
 Five bandits robbed the Stockmcn's Trust and Savings bank, in the stock yards district, Chicago, of $10,000 or more, and drove away in an automc bile.
 Scores of Austria Hungarian sub jects suspected of being enemy agents in this country will be arrested within a few hours after declaration of war against Austria.
 In the superior criminal court at Hartford Peter Vasile of Ansonia pleaded guilty to assault on a girl and was sent to jail for one to five years.
 The board of regents of the Univcr- Sity of Wisconsin reScinded the action taken in 1909, when the degree of doctor of laws was onferred on Count von Bernstorff.
 A. s. Thweatt, general eastern agent of the Southern Railway and for
 
 that company, died at his home Iii New York after a brief illness.
 Private Frank y. Flanagan, head quarters company, field artillery, died in France Nov. IS of intestinal ob- struction. Mother, Mrs. James F1ana- gan, 306 Division street, Pawtucket R. I.
 Congestion of traffic on the rail- roads in the district known as the Pittsburgh Gateway has been relieved as a result of orders issued by the ben era1 operating committee of the east ern railroads.
 Corporal Sharp of Cleveland, at tached to Battery A, 134th field artil- lery, Ohio National guard, was killed at Montgomery, A1a., by being draSSeG from his mount by a runaway team ot artillery horses.
 To discourage imitation and promote sound business conditions, the federal increase in discount rates of about one-half per cent. for most of tho 2 federal reServe4 banks. George E. Hubbard, Jr., of Provi- dence, private in Company G, 3Ocd regiment, at Camp DevenS, was found guilty of courtmartia1 of wilfully dis obeying and officer and was sentenced 10 SIX months at nara ldDOr. George N. Peck, vice president o1 Deere & company, Moline, Ill.,, was appointed industrial representative ot the war industries board to direct the livestock shipments will be instituted at Chicago beginning Dec. 10. Noah MandeIkorn, socialist council man-elect at Cleveland, O., refused . certificate of election by the board o1 elections, pending further invest1ga- tions into his disloyalty to the Amer ican gvernament and it's laws. Draft registrateS whose classification and order numbers are so low that they do not fall within the current quotas of their local boards mad al their own request be immediately in ducted into the military service. Lieutenant Mcfarland of the Roya flying corps, stationed at Fort Worth Texas. was seriously injured and student aviator, who has not beer identified, was probably fatally hur- when their airplane fell 200 feet. TO HAVE DIRECTION OF WAR INDUSTRIES