Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-16
Condensed TeIegrams

Marine insurance rates were easier
 Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was cited in an official French army order.
 Finnish Landtag elected General Mannerheim premier.
 The former German empress suffer ed another serious heart attack.
 Governments stocks of clothing and other equipment are valued at $611,- 024 O00
 Senate passed the House bill giving free transportation to their homes to Government war workers
 A charter was granted at Dover, Del, to the du Pont Chemical Co., with capital of $3 500 O0O
 Greene Cananea output of copper for November was 5,100,000 pounds, greatly in excess of October pro- duction
 Central Railroad of New Jersey asked the Railroad Admfhistra tion to cancel free return rule
 Great Northwestern Shipping Cor poration increased its capital from $75G.000 to S1,000,000.
 Canadian leather trade reported that shipments of leather and hides to Europe will begin shortly
 Total purchases of War Saving and
 
 amount to $35,20S 923.
 Schools of Springfield, Mass, were closed until New Years, owing to the epidemic of influenza
 An invitation was sent to President Wilson by Liege, Belgium, to visit the city.
 Andrew Bonar Law announced in Glasgow that it as unlikely he would take the next budget before Parlia- ment.
 Odessa, Russian port, on the Black Sea, is being evacuated by the Ger mans.
 New York State bank superintend- ent approved the increase of capital of the bank of the United States, N. Y, from S200 900 to $1,000 000.
 Lynch Construction Co. will take 5000 men to France and Belgium as vanguard of army builders to con- struct model villages. Argentine weekly shipments were: Wheat 1,S5G,0 900 bushels, corn S,S00,- 900 bushels, oats 4440 000 bushels and flax 600 900 bushels. Meat and lard shipments for the week in Chicago amounted to 5000 tons, 10000 tons more than any prev ious week.
 Department of Agriculture announc- ed it would make known new official standards of the United States for length of staple of cotton. Japan decided to withhold financial assistance from China because the as- sistapce might complicate the internal | status.
 Samuel Gompers will be called by ! the Senate Committee on Education and Labor when it begins its investi- ! Of | M. Victore, a French banker, was arrested at Paris while preparing to i flee to Argentina. His liabilities are over 10. 900 900 francs l State Department was advised that Mexican bandits blew up a passenger train running from Mexico City to ! Vera Cruz.
 An appropriation of $25,ooo was voted for the use of the House com mittee Investigating the National Se- curity League of New York.
 Members of the United States 1 Chamber of Gemweree in session al | Washington behind closed doors failed to reach A decision upon the question of Government ownership of the rail. roads.
 Democratic leaders in the Senat, l predict the revenue bill, without ma LSIIdl SIldLSSJ VIII Do III lLtt ll1IQS 0 the President for his signature befor, Feb. 10.
 Secretary of Labor Wilson has sen Stanley Arnold to San Francisco tt State in the Densmore probe He sue act with the Attorney General of tn eeeds William Denman, who refused to serve.
 Two persons were killed, four ser ously injured and F slightly injured when a street car ran down the 12tl street viaduct. Kansas City, ant crashed into the Union Pacific depot
 Surgeon General Ireland told tn Senate Military Committee that nor than 2,000 American troops sufferin from shell shock were cured by tn news of the signing of the armstice.
 Representative Dillon of Mort , Dakota introduced a resolution callin on the Government to buy or talk , over blocks of land awned by corpor ations to convert into small farms fo soldiers and sailors.
 American mining interests in Mex ico joined the association of producer s of oil in Mexico in their fight agains l confiscation of American propert . rights by the Mexican governmen 5 both. of mineral and mining.
 Nine fur coats valued at $2,0o t were stolen from the store of Jackso s & Company. furriers, on Tremor street. Boston.
 The present outbreak of influenza
 Massachusetts is only one seventh a
 severe as when it was epidemic !, Boston.
 The resignation of Miss HeIe ;; Knowlton as head of the departmer l of economics and dean of women { New Hampshire College, was ar
 nounced.
 Eleven lives have been lost in cor
 nection with the hunting season .. Maine which ended Saturday Walter A. Reed, general treasure
 of Rhode Island since 1898 died sut
 denly of heart failure on the stre' 6 in Chepachet, R. I. :, Charles N. Haynes, general mar T ager for the Selwyn & Compar Q theatrical interests, died in New Tor . aged 51 years. = FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR