Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19

f1tue!lcd WIln the BrltlSA- nigh com missioner, Eari Reading. .7e~-r .-5 i The interstate conmeres commission ordered a reduction Of rates. on. coal EbstWeep " ybniings and Montana coal mines zao 4ssissts >ys sEhancsIFor Of tks Exehequer Bonar Law announced that the British treas urY would take over the Russian treas ury bills .s,l which mature on Jan. 2S. i Canadian steel manufacturers have agreed to produce 20 per cent. more
 m 1917 if sufficient material is sup piled. =, i Captain Robert K. Crank died after a. stroke of apoplexy, aboard the U. l s. s. Prairie, which lie commended. I Captain ls. n. Crank was born at, Houston,
 The Red Cross has issued plea TOT volunteers to give three hours each week to make hospital shirts and pa
 Ianas for, wounded Americans in
 The contents of fifteen oil tank ears
 were burned at Amo, Ind, when a l loose switch caused them to leave the
 track and roll down an embankment.
 No one was injured.
 Friends of the bill to let the navy develop California oil reserve lands won victory in the senate yesterday
 by. getting the bill referred to the na- val committee -3tc .- :. Senator BoyIan, of New York. intro- duced a resolution in the legislature 7 urging New York members ofathe sen- l ate to promote a speedy passage ot the, suffrage amendment
 : Without debate the senate yester. day passed the bill authorizing the , president to establish military zone. 3 around shipbuilding plants engaged l on government work.
 ' Authority to call into the Unitee
 States service Philippine military or
 gan4zations- is given the president il
 a house bill passed yesterday by tn, | senate and sent to the White House
 John P. White, former president O.
 the Miners Union now associated , l With the fuel administration announc. U ed ttat the trouble was chiefly due tt 6 the railroads for having shortag, . of coal.
 Closing of the New York cotton ex / change next Monday fin co-operatiol l with the spirit of the fuel administra tion's fuel conservation order" wa decided upon today. by the board o 2 managers of the exchange.
 The German chancellor, in his frs
 appearance as member of the Prus sian upper house announced that tn = decrease in the birth of babies an, > lack of housing facilities had becom D real menace to the German empire = From James O. Heyworth, manaue y of the wooden ships division of th shipping board, the senate commerc T committee learned yesterday that n
 more contracts are being let for tn
 present for either wooden or com
 posite vessels.
 D. Speeding up of unnecessary appro
 priation measures by avoiding hear g ings and possible delays, with vie,
 of concluding business of the house b
 May 15 and be able to adjourn Jun nIl was agreed upon by Speaker Clar n and committee chairman.
 VI Practically all the factories in th
 Charleston, W. Va, district using ma 5. tural gas for fuel were in full opera X. ton yesterday in the absence ( s. what executives said was a definii
 ruling from the federal administrs s. tion covering the use of gas.
 It An agreement has bean reached | in all the saloons and hotels in Waiiins IS ford, to open bars at in the morr Hing and close them at 10 at night, b. $. lginning Tuesday next. This appiit
 Ito all weeks, days except Saturda D. when sGouor will be sold an hour la