Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-15
Condensed Telegrams

Condition of the British wheat crop is reported good.
 A Brazilian steamer ran ashore on the New England coast.
 The British Y. M. c. A. has 10000 workers with the British armies.
 The Isle of Awaji, the favored spot of Japanese poets, is slowly sinking into the ocea.
 The seventh Ferris type vessels built at Tacoma was launched and christened Wakanna. The names of twenty three more American prisoners in Germany were announced by the war depart ment.
 For the first seven months of 1918 American shipping losses from enemy 1 causes totaled IT ST6 tons. l Applications for licenses to export cottoaseed oil will now be considered by the war trade board
 A school For student clerks for rail- way ticket offices was opened at Washington by the railroad admins tration.
 "UncIe Joe" Cannon, of the 18th Illinois district if elected this year will be serving his 22d term in the
 House
 President Menocal has signed the
 compulsory draft bill for Cuba. Ali
 male Cuhans between 21 and 28 are
 liable for service.
 Prices of Alaska salmon will not be
 increased if the recommendations oi
 an investigating committee of the
 food board are adopted.
 Two obiectors were sentenced to
 dishonoTable discharge from the army
 and one was sentenced to fifteen and
 the other to twety years imprison- ment.
 Construction of four large ways al
 the New shipyard or the New Yorl Shipbuilding corporation was reported to be progressing rapidly. o. $. Carlton, of Houston, wa:
 elected Democratic National Commit
 teeman from Texas by the stat,
 democratic committee in session a Fort Worth.
 Department of justice agents con . tinue investigation of charges of dis l loyalty against members of the Chi i cago Symphony orchestra compan, Q of Chicago.
 : Atlanta pentitentiary is too crowd | ed to receive any more prisoners. Tn 1 Maryland State penitentiary d Balti
 more will have to accept the prison t CTS hereafter. Il John T. Murtha, former New Yor :, boxing instructor, was commissions
 lieutenant in the sanitary corps at ,. tached to the naval aviation diVisio y as physical director. An attempt of one hundred enem e aliens 10 escape from the detentio
 camp at Gloucester, N. J., was frus s trated by the quick action of a com d pany of soldiers. e To bring WaI Street behind tn J War Savings movement, forty-two ( Il the principal Stock Exchange brok
 craze houses are forming war savin = societies among their employees. :9 Committee representing information , al labor unions called at the Whi1 cc House and left a memorial for Pres '5 dent Wilson asking him to appei ,o again on the behalf of Thoms ~ Mooney.
 It According to Pous Retrenski, m Petrograd wh2 is stopping at a Ne ~ York hotel Bolo Pach said Ne iE York newspapermen were "easy D foor in getting them to support Ge 1 many.
 aar Justice SiGdoEs in the Ueited Stat - District of Columbia Supreme court : ~. Washington ordered the dissolution 6t the First National Fire Insuran
 company in response to a petition fil' d a year ago. ,@ Investigation into working cond ,1i tions and the charges of IS motorm, ge Of the Brooklyn Rapid Trasit cor 7h pany that they were recently di . charged because of joining the uni, Inf was begun in New York by the W oa labor board.