Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-19

Mechanics employed at the Mead Morrison Co.,. Boston, struck for an increase in wages. Unless there is an unusually small rainfall in Holland, the crop outlook is reported favorable.
 The department of labor was in- formed that every bushel of the great Kansas wheat crop has been harvest ed.
 A card catalogue of the 15,OO0 war savings societies in New York, is near completion at war savings headquar ters.
 The. railroad administration an- Eounced that less than carloads will be carried northwest only three times a week.
 A company has been organized in New South Wales to determine whether there is any petroleum in the section
 Director of Railroads McAdoo re- quested employees to have their Lib erty Loan bonds registered to prevent loss or theft.
 Mrs. Maddi kinnunen was shot by her husband in an outburst of anger at Keene, N. H., because his supper was not ready.
 The Eddystone. Pa., rifle plant of the Midvale Steel Co., made new record when it manufactured 130,000 rifles during June
 More than 37ooo individual sub scribers of German extraction took s5,0O0OO0 worth of Liberty bonds in the recent campaign.
 Two enormous sunspots are re- sponsible, according to astronomers, for the recent heavy rain and thun- der storms in France
 Thirty-fve members of the crew Of the American steamer George Eaton arrived in London Their ship foun- dered at sea in storm.
 Countess Alexandra Viarda von Scheele of New York, was arrested by agents of the department of jus tice as a dangerous enemy alien.
 Food valued at approximately $1.- 400,000,000 was sent to the allied countries from the United States dur ing the fiscal year which ended June 30.
 The largest bakery in the world is 1 owned by the United States expedi- l tionary forces in France. It will soon be baking 100000 pounds of bread daily.
 The American Sheet & Tin Plate | Co.,. subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. completed plans foi additional plants at Gary, Ind, to cos $1O,O00,00O.
 The rains which have been fallins during the last forty hours in Selwa! and Clearwater forest region. Mis- soufa, Mont, had no effect on tn, 1 fires raging.
 Joseph CaiIlaux, former French pre- nier, asked Paul Deschanel, presiden Of the chamber of deputies, to hastel his trial on charges of communicative | wit hthe enemy
 The war industries board, with tn approval of the president, has takeI over the chlorine industry to assur sufficient chlorine for the manufac ture of gas shells.
 The naval selection board began it session to recommend officers for pro motion. It is expected 26 rear ad mirals, 114 captains and 240 comman ders will be named
 Destruction of new airdome an 9 airplanes, near NivelleS. is attrib uted to the work of German revolu tionists. Ten Belgians and two Ger mans were arrested.
 Ninety four Germans were kille when German aviators bombed a pri son camp on the night of July 15-1
 in the region of Troyes, 30 miles be hind the battlefront. C. E. L. G. HohenthaI of sout Manchester, Conn, was reelected pa
 triarch of the National Division, Sor . of Temperance of America, in conver tion at St. Catherines, Ont.
 It is announced from a Spanis
 source that a Spanish steamer wit Minister Lopez de Cega, who was re turning to Spain from Greece, wa torpedoed. The minister was saved.
 The American steamer Pequot, fol
 merly the German steamer Ockenfe of 5.021 tons, went ashore in a denE ,, fog at Prospect, 20 miles west of Ha . flax. She was floated and docked.
 The United Spanish War Veteran : of New York state adopted a resoll
 ton recommending President Wise t to urge congress enact laws to depr :. all interned aliens at the close of u f | war