Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-21

ate military affairs committee; under went a successful operation for ap-. pendicitis. st-
 The American Newspaper PuhIish- ers' Association, in session at Wash ington recommended the coming of two-cent pieces. ze. $
 The House adopted the conference report on the bill appropriating s50,- o00,000 for the construction of houses for ship workers.
 President Wilson was urged in a letter from French Radical Socialist deputy, Ferdinand Buisson, to start a league of nations
 Four business houses were burned and several stores damaged at Benton Harbor, Michigan. The loss is esti- mated at sS50,000.
 New England cities are paying from one quarter to one-half cent a pound more for potatoes than any other large cities. east of Chicago. - :
 Two hundred and four Americans list their. lives on the Tuscania, ac- cording to the latest figures received at Aremican army headquarters. '
 Soldiers from New Jersey will be court t-martialed if identified foi spreading stories of men freezing to death at Camp Mcclellan, Alabama. The British captures in. the pas year included -t6S- heavy howitzers 6s heavy guns, 4S7 field. guns, 1.05' | trench mortars and 2,S14 machin. guns. e--'- l Sidney ]. Jennings, vice -presiden of the United States Smelling & Re ! fining Co, aWas .eleetedi president 0 1 the American Institute of Mining ,En, ! sineers -s-.-- t- -=-7-'s--s 7 z2 The Detroit police force will be re deuaed and plain clothes men put on i A wave of crime is spreading oye the city and the substitution will hay' l to be made.
 The Interstate Commerce con1nnis
 sion authorized aA increase in passen ger fares of a. quarter of a cent mil south of the Potomac and east of tn
 Mississippi rivers. . ,..,t ,, :.
 Representatives; kitchin. of Nortl
 Carolina denied the report attribute,
 to him thats no legislation fixing tn 1 price of cotton products could be en
 acted at this session of Congress I Judge George w. Wheeler, ,. c
 Bridgeport and Lucius F. Robinson
 of Hartford. have been appointe
 members of the Connecticut Stat
 Council of Defense by Gov. Holconl
 One, hundred men, who declare
 they represented farmers and labo
 unions, called on the governor of Min
 nesota and protested against allege
 infringement of their constitutions
 rights. 4,g ,, Replying to question ia the hous
 of commons today, Andrew Bona Law, the government spokesman, sai it was much too soon to assume ths the Irish convention would have n
 result. Canadian railway officials wired |
 Washington a warning that the cor
 gestion of freight at the information; ,, border was worse because of the ne export and import license require ment. 't-e Frank J. Hays president of tt United Mine Workers Of Americ ordered striking coal miners in Ais bama to return to work pending
 settlement of differences with the
 employers.
 John Erickson, an employe of doc
 builder was shot when he crossed il
 "dead. line" at Columbia Street doc
 Brooklyn The soldier who did u 5 shooting says the man ignored an 0
 der to halt.
 T Two names were added to the rt ] of known Tuscania dead by a despatt Ilast-nigh to the %sr department. Th' :, are Sidney w., Bernitt Marsffiel { Oregon. and Eugene W. Snyder, Rin ' rock, Wash. U The British government has | . structed it's agent at kiev 0 nal 2 the declaration that Great Brita ], will not recognize any peace in | east which involves Poland, witho a previous consultation with ?oian | A sentence of dismissal imposed 2 naval court martial upon Assista
 Paymaster Eugene Damn, for inclu ing prohibited military information
 a personal letter, has been mitigat
 to reprimand by Secretary Danie
 General Pershina reported yeste