Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-11


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 A separate peace agreement has 'een signed by Russia and Bulgaria. according to a Swiss newspaper.
 Separate peace proposals made by Turkey, it is reported, have been re- used by the Bolshevik government. | Generals Kaiedines and Dutoff, the yossack leaders, have been defeated, ,ays the Russian official news agency. Mark L. Requa of Oakland, Cal, was appointed head of the newly appointed l )il division of the fuel administration. i The BoIshevik government intends to | publish a decree within a few days cancelling the Russian national debt 1 pr. RomuIo S. Naon refuses to re- his resignation from the poat l 1f Argentine ambassador to the United States. Four children lost their lives in a fire at Ottawa, Canada. which destroy ed the west wing of the Catholic Gen eral hospital The volcano of Tunsuragua, in cen- tral Ecuador, has been in eruption for several days, emitting showers of stones and ashes.
 Heavy increase in quicksilver production largely used in war mu- nitions manufacture was announced by the geological survey
 The volcano Irazau, which became active on the night of January '. con- tinues erupting. The ashes are falling over an area of many miles.
 John Lind, former governor of Min nesota, will be one of the advisory commission to assist Secretary Wilson in mobilizing labor for war service.
 Capt. Harry E. Mitchell, a retired officer of the United States army. has been named by the war department as military instructor at Yale university.
 The war has caused fallina off in registration at Harvard university of 1872 pupils for this academic year as compared with the figures of last year.
 Benjamin Shepard, eighth in descent from. Miles Standish and from William Bradford, and ninth in line from John Alden, died at East Orange, N. J., aged S0
 w. Cameron Forbes, former govern or-general of the Philippines, was elected president of the Navy League to succeed Colonel Robert M. Thomp- son.
 
 James Garry, superintende of the giazIns department of the Patterson Powder company at Patterson, Okla, was killed when an explosion wrecked the plant.
 .s Ihrsea nersens Were ditsd and eleven in1uTRd h a-rear-end collision between two sections of the Katy Flyer on the MissouFis kanssst and Texas railway at Granger Tex < Word was received at Danbury that Joseph c. Merritt, formerly of that city, who disappeared from Ridgefield several weeks ago, had been put undef arrest in Chicago
 | Rev. Charles H. Waldron of Wind sor, Vt, denied charges f sed:t.or against him when he took the stand in his own defense in the federal court at Brattleboro Vt.
 1 A detachment of American cavalry sent into Bear Valley, Ariz.. to observ, trails. clashed with band of Yaqu Indians, capturing ten one of whom died at Nogales of wounds.
 Through intercepted communication found on arrested aliens, the govern ment has discovered a concerted effor to organize German sabotage and anti war propaganda in this country.
 Captain w. J. MacDonald, U. S Marshal for the northern district O Texas at one time body guard fo President Wilson. is seriously i'll O pneumonia at Wichita Falls, Texas. Adoiph BolIman, detained by fedora authorities at San Francisco as a sts pected German spy, has escaped, ac cording to announcement by Do] Rathbun of the U. S. department O justice.
 Draft men placed in class of tn selective army will not be given com missions in the non- combatant arms O the service, under resolution adopte by the war council and approved b. Secretary Baker
 Commissioner Joseph E. Davies am Francis J. ,Heney. special counsel lief Washington for St. Paul, Minn.. wher hearing will begin Monday in the Fed eral Trade Commissions investigatio into the meat packing industry.
 
 A seat on the New York stock ex change was posted yesterday to trans : fer to Max Siegel employed for 1 , years as a page on the floor of tn exchange and more recently a ser
 geant of floor pages. The considera
 tion was s55,000. @
 The German government has offere to pay to the family of Enrique Gran
 ados, the Spanish composer, set, ,00 pesetas as indemnity for the loss (
 their father He and his wife wer
 lost in the sinking of the cross -channt steamer Sussex in 1916. . At the first sitting of the resume negotiations at Brest Litovsk on Tues
 day the discussian between the Rus , sian delegates and those of the cen traT powers centered on the selectio of a city in some neutral country l which to continue the deliberations . VIRGINIA SENATE RATiFiES + PROHIBITION AMENDMENT , Vote Stood 30 to s-It is Expected tf
 House Will Pass It Today. :,
 Richmond. Va, Jan. 10.-Tbe natioY , al prohibition amendment was ratife , tonight by the Virginia senate by
 vote of thirty to eight. A resolutic