Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-26
Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 New York evening papers will cost two cents after next Saturday.
 The Chicago Stock Exchange is go- ing to close on heatless Monday.
 canada's draft call of class 4 will enroll from 25,0O0 to .5OOO0 men.
 The German city of Sopernheim has been devastated by rise in the Nahe River.
 A contest for grenade throwers in the allied armies will soon be staged in France.
 Secretary Houston announced that the building of roads in 1918 will be on war basis.
 The American steamer Owasco is the third seized German steamer to be sunk by U-boats.
 The number of steamship passengers arriving at the port of New York in IT was only 113,673.
 Gold imports into the country for December. 1917. were $2, 500, 900. and the exports were s4 800, coo.
 The French losses in ships for the week was only three, two above 1900 tons and one below that number
 Sales of war savings certificates and thrift stamps from Dec 1, 1917, to Jan. p 1918 amounted to $2 335, ,446.
 Senator Charles B. Henderson, Dem ocrat, successor to the late Senator Newlands, of Nevada, took his oath of office.
 The board of managers of the New the exchange on the remaining heat less Mondays.
 R. c. SteepIe of Spokane, Wn., was the American Red Cross at Fort appointed yesterday field director of Georges Wright
 Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Ameri can Minister to the Netherlands, re- ported for duty as chaplain at the Boston Navy Vary.
 Marshal James M.. Power, of Brook lyn, ordere the arrest of five Austrians at Camp Upton on charge of trying to breed discontent
 The United Farmers of Alberta, ir annual convention at Calgary, passed Q for taking over the railroads. The organization in the schools O. i New York of classes in mechanical oc. equations for drafted men has beer i approved by the Board of Education 1 Brig. Gen. William V. Judson, wht i has been head of the military mission l in Russian since the Root, mission re 1 turned has left for the United States ! Shipping experts announce that un i less German intrigue in the shipbuild i ing yards is wiped out the shippin programme will never be carried out I t'- Passengers suf "a steamer which ar rived at a Pacific port declared tn Chinese troops took the Manchuria city of Harbin from the Bolshevil i troops.
 Col. Hugh S. Johnson, Nations Army was designated deputy pro .vost marshall general for such dutie as the provost-marshal general ma assign.
 The Federal Trade Commission, in report to Congress, declared packer have hoarded the supply of hide, while the price of shoes has been go ing up.
 A request to reduce wheat flour 2 per cent, substituting corn meal wa wired to Food Administrator Hoove by the New York State Bakers As sociation.
 Australian boxing fans are plannin to erect a monument in honor of Bo Fitzsimmons, former heavyweight champion. A popular subscription being taken
 The Chinese Foreign Office express es regret for the attack on the Amer ican gunboat in the Yangtse-K -Kian River, in which one sailor was kille and two wounded.
 Lieut.. AdoIph Launert, of the I'm perial German Intelligence Servic held as spy, was turned over Federal authorities on a presidentis warrant at Syracuse.
 Mayor James M. CurIey's unsuccess full campaign at Boston for re- electio
 cost s4647S according to statemeI 7 filed with the city clerk by the treas
 urer of the campaign committee. T. p. o'connor, who has been
 Chicago several weeks cabled $50 to John F. Redmond for the Irish Ne tionalist broadly party, he annount ed.
 A 200 pound shark sold for 20 cen
 pound in the wholesale fish mark at Boston yesterday. Dealers said tf
 average price paid for shark recent
 had been only eight cents a pound.
 The Food Administration is consii 3 ering a plan to have forced reductio in the sale of flour from the miller ! the consumer, so that 90,000 bus1 U els of wheat can be sent to the Allie . Designation of about 100000 aer . in New Mexico principally in Qus 5 and Curry counties has been made l Secretary Lane under the stock raisiI T homestead act. They will be made e1 terable March II. c |