Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-05
Condensed TeIeqrams

"Rone dry" bill adopted by the FIori- da House.
 Kansas City Railway will file an appeal in eight-cent fare case.
 Anaconda copper production in No vember amounted to 22,600.O0O pounds.
 Secretary Houston announced that higher grazing fees will be rescinded.
 An additional credit of $12,o0o,oO0 was advanced to Belgium by the United States.
 War order cancellations since the armistice was signed were estimated at $2, GOO, ,O00, 900.
 Reports of merger between the Anaconda and Inspiration copper com 1 panies were denied.
 Two large Chicago srocers lost their l Food Administration licenses for vio- lating sugar regulations.
 Total purchases of War Savings and Thrift stamps in New York to date amount to $34 4.834.249
 A meeting will be held in Chicago by the hog committee to fix a price for the month of January. : Exports of domestic merchandise from the port of New York in Octo- Der amounted to $17S, 321, 1885.
 New Works famous Irish regiment, the old 69th, have been christened the Green Devils in France.
 Secretary MeAdoo will address the International Livestock Association at Chicago tonight.
 State officials of New Jersey were notified that they will have to pay fares on railroad after Jan. l. All wounded Americans in England will be home by Christmas except about 800 cases which cannot be moved
 Senator Mcclellan introduced a res olution to sell mileage books 20 per | cent. less than the established rates Bainbridge Colby, of the Shipping | Board, says negotiations are stillt on with the international Mercantile Ma rine
 Holland stopped exports of goods to i Germany for the action of Germany
 refusing to send any more coal to l Holland
 Directors of the United Metal Sell 1 ing Go. elected John D. Ryan presi-
 dent to succeed P. A Rockefeller, who
 retired
 The funeral of Major Willard D.
 Straight, of New York, was held in I the American Holy Trinity Church in I Paris.
 An exhibition of $soo,ooo of jeweIry
 seized by A. Mitchell Palmer was be- gun at the office of the Alien Property
 Custodian.
 British women munition workers
 who have been dismissed marched in
 protest in London, demanding audi
 enee with Lloyd George.
 The uruguayan Chamber of Depu. ties has approved the new loan to the Allies of 15,000,0 600 pesos gold. This
 had already been approved by th'
 Senate.
 Basil M. ManIey, former statisticiar , of the Department of Labor, was ap pointed joint chairman of the Wa
 Labor Board to succeed Frank F Walsh
 November coinage at hints was an
 nounced at 3,S60,000 half dollars, 5, f 10000 quarters, $50, 900 dimes, S,S47,
 900 nickels and 25,654,000 cent pieces
 Sixty per cent. of the food suppl f is controlled by the United States, ac : cording to F. S. Snyder, chief of tn f meat division of the Food Administra ton. t Henry B. Sargent 6f New Haver V Conn.,, was elected vice president c l the American Society of Mechanica
 Engineers at the annual meeting i n New York.
 An invitation to Cardinal Mercie I of Belgium to come to Massachusett e during his visit to this country wa : extended today by Governor McCa q through the Belgian Relief Bureau. e The government naval radio scho, e in Cambridge in which nearly 5,0O t sailors are under instruction is to | e removed to the Great Lakes nav; d training station by April |. = The comet discovered by Professc e Schorr of Hamburg observatory 0 - Nov. 2S was observed on Novembe
 30 from the Naval observatory $ Washington, and the Yerkes observs If tory in Wisconsin. .e The Wiley House at kinq's Beac Ie Mass. noted as a hostelry for half d century, was badly damaged by fiji y and the 35 guests were drive a out into a snow storm. n Lawrence, Massy newsboys ar ,e dealers declared strike again y Boston newspapers selling for tv IS cents, claiming the wholesale price l. $1.50 per hundred charged to be e, le orbitant.
 Two hydropIanes secured to assi
 in the war savings stamp drive
 Maine, arrived at Portland fro D Chatham, Mass. o- Edward J.. Cornish of New Yo city was elected president of the N "a tional Paint, Oil and Varnish Ass ~ citation at the closing business sessi, f of the 31st annual convention in Bo v ton,
 le An explosion of a gasoline tank on a+ power boat drawn up on the bank ,S the Mystic river at Medfcr.1, Mas ~ early Wednesday caused damage e n timated at $10,00O. oi Passengers on Boston bound el ,;o vated train passing through t aC aH Char1estown district were given b sn scare when one of the cars caught f ie from short circuit .; Three workmen were injured when section of the secon1 floor of the n, = $1,000,000 storage plant of the Ame op can Woolen Co. Tt .Somerville, Mas " gave way and well upon them. .,s: Walter L. Townsend, for 25 yes lis manager of the Parker House in Be ne ton, died at his home in Watertov nc Mass.
 h. h. A threatened general walkout of l os tail clerks at Lawrence, Mass. N JUL averted by a, compromise agreeme
 between merchants and their employ
 Nas to working hours during the holid
 season.
 IN Charles A. Morse, governor of | de federal reserve bank of Boston, tie quested all banks not to give out g as pieces to be used as Christmas prt a ents.
 ,e- William L. Allen, 22 years old. he Milford, was killed by a train WI al walking on the. New York, New + nd ven and Hartford bridge over
 Housatonic river at Milford. " on. DECREASE IN PRODUCTION "a OF ANTHRACITE co ,II11 I1 Washington, Dec. 4.-Production L1e anthracite coal decreased nearly III per cent last week from the preced