Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20

gineers.
 A Havana dispatch reports the de nial of Earl D. Babst that he will re- sign from the International Sugar Committee
 Senator Knox demanded punishment for British recruiting officers in Pitts burgh for recruiting thTee American boys under age.
 Ross H. MeHaster. assistant general manager of Canada, has been appoint ed a member of the Canadian war mis- sion at Washington.
 Michael Schramm of Bridgeport has confessed to the murder of Rev. Fr. Edmond Kayser of Gary, Ind, on the night of Aug. 24 1s1g.
 Hayner Field, private in the 1Osth Field Artillery at Spartanburg, s. C.. was fatilly wounded by civilian at the outskirts of the city. Fire of unknown origin, at the ware houses of T. & B. Cumpson, whole sale grocers of Buffalo, destroyed food stuffs valued at s1oo,O0e. Forty enlis4sd men of the s4th Colored Infaatfy went on trial at San Antonio ( before court martial, on charges of murder and mutiny. Major General Kuhn, commander of Camp Meade, who has just returned from France, defended the use of wine by American troops in France.
  missioner of New York, has been ap- can propaganda in foreign countries. Senator George E. Chamberlain, oi 1 Oregon, chairman of the Senate Milf tary Affairs Committee, may have to undergo an operation for appendicitis The State Department was officially advised that John Reed is not to be 1 appointed Russian consul general al | New York by the Bolsheviki Govern. ment.
 l Federal agents at Los Angeles be- | lieve they have one of Germany's mos potent agents in the person of Pau Frederick Wilhelm von Bismarck, nov being held.
 I "UncIe Sam," General Pershins's pc golden eagle, presented to him by citi 1 zens of San Antonio. attracted muci attention at the Bronx Zoo, where it i on exhibition.
 Robert B. Van cortIandt, a membe | of the Van Cortlandt family-one o the original colonial families of Nev Amsterdam-killedh himself at his hom at Mount Kisco, N Y. l Average increases of $500 yearly, nine hour working day and time an a half for overtime and work on Sun
 days were granted by the Gran Trunk Railway of Canada l The congestion of freight on the Ne, ;: York, New Haven and Hartford rail road Poughkeepsie bridge route and i
 the yards at Maybrook, N. Y, has bee
 cleared to great extent. Il Robert Beez, German alien, wh was arrested ill Torrington and put i
 the Hartford jail Dec. ', was taken t
 New York, to be sent to Fort Ogle . thorpe, Ga, for internment. A bill providing for a return to th party convention system of nominat
 ing all candidates for state offices ez cept governor and lieutenant governo was defeated in the mass senate yes
 terday.
 A, telegram from Cologne says tt
 German crown prince has telegraphe
 his congratulations to the different ail dromes in Germany on the occasio nf af roi TxnT
 don.
 Victor L. Dannis of Detroit, MicI
 cadet aviator who was burned at Lo, s Field near Dallas, Tex, early yestel f day, when his machine fell 100 fee = died yesterday afternoon in the fife k hospital. y The Iowa state board of health h; t received certificate of the death t Mrs Amanda Ginyard of Keokuk, t colored woman, whose age was repor
 led as 112 years. She was born in Tel lnessee in 1906.
 Enemy aliens ordered interned 1 ,. the federal authorities will in futu
 be sent direct to Fort Oglethorpe, C. . instead of to Ellis Island, which h
 been taken over by the army and na'
 for war purposes.
 [, Cadet Charles E. Jones, of Pittsfie d Mass, attached to the aviation secti. Is of the signal corps, has been kill r in an airplane accident in France t t. war department was advised yeste : day by General Pershing. if -------------- l. A Budapest telegram says that | 2 paper shortage there, is so acute tn 0 the newspapers have supplies sufit
 ent only for one day.