Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-12
Condensed TeIegrams

London Stock Exchange will close on December 25, 2S and January 1.
 Peruvian legation at Washington | was raised to the rank of embassy.
 United States Steel Corporation re- l ports thrilled orders on books for i November, 8 8124, ,663 tons.
 Total purchases of War Saving and 1 Thrift Stamps in New York to date amount to $35,105 4S5.
 Senator Poindexter introduced resolution authorizing an nvestiga- ton into the army ordnance and quartermaster's departments,
 Association of Petroleum Producers in Mexico broke off negotiations with CarranZa officials as to property rights of Mexican oil companies.
 Tobacco Products Corporation. at a special meeting in Richmond. voted to increase the common stock from $16,- 100000 to $20 900, O00
 Revenue bill was taken up by the Senate with statements from Senator Simmons and Senators Penrose and LaFollette opposing the whole bill Chairman Sims Of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce in- troduced bill proposing control of the meat packing industry. ajor- General E. w. Coe, chief of the Coast Artillery, in his annual re- port, says army ordnance develop ment has made the 24-inch cannon possible
 Tea imported into the United States i in the year ending June 30, amounted { to 148,6S4,000 pounds a year ago. | Rear Admiral L. c. Palmer in . 1 statement just made public shows the personnel of the navy was increased from 56 900 to 500,000 men during the war.
 Appropriations of $359, ,657,57 for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year beginning July l. 1919, are recommeded by the House committee of post offices and post roads. l Logan w. Page, cousin of Waiter H. l Page former Amba ssador to Great Britain. is dead in Chicago of heart disease. He was a director of the United States Official of Public Roads
 At meeting of Ahs investment Bankers Association of America, al Atlantic City, N. J., resolution was | adopted demanding the return of the
 railroads to their owners.
 A special Trade and Commerce Com.
 mission was sent to London by Can
 ada with a view to securing specia
 busiess for Canada.
 Hawaiian sugar crop for 1919 i: 1 GSllIndt6u at OUU,UVU IOQS, cOIO pdT0(
 with 561 900 tons, in 1918.
 Government housing propositionl
 where 75 per cent of the work is no completed, will be stopped.
 The Birmingham Nitrate Plant vii
 continue operaton. It will manufac
 ture cyanide. to be sold direct to mak
 CTS of fertilizer.
 International Bank of Pekin financ ed the expenses of the Chinese peae' delegation to Europe at cost 0 , $500 COG.
 Fourteen drug companies were or
 ganiZed in November, with total cap ita1 of $3,S70 900.
 ; An investigation into the Nationa Security League of New York an
 other similar organizations wer order ed by the House.
 Twenty nine freight transports hay 2 left France, bringing back steel rail: I engine supplies air service supple
 and gas machinery to be used in thu ej country.
 Eight cases of influenza and five c I pneumonia were reported here yester : day in Waterbury.
 e The Swiss police have arrested l courier of the Stuttgart socialis T council on his way to Zurich, accord ing to the Tageblatt of Berlin.
 An indictment charging the murde : of A. M Prentiss, station master a t the Union Station in Burlington, Vt t was returned by the grand jur t against John Luce. private who wa . stationed at Camp Devens e Governor Mccall of Massa chusett $ nominated Miss Clara Louise Powe
 of Boston as a notary public. S William White, for four years tow e auditor and a member of the demo 1 cratic town committee, died in Co e Cob today. aged 70. . Nicholas Semernikoff of the mechan : ical department of the Russian missio
 of ways and communication commit = ted suicide in a hotel in New York - hanging himself from chandelier f h!S room.