Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-06
Condensed Telegrams

C0ndenSen telegramS
 The Liberty Lean drive in the Phi ippines has passed 6.0o0,000 pesos, the luota.
 The Brooklyn Rapid Transit is los ng million dollars a year through stolen fares.
 Local sheet metal workers in Syra- euse struck today for a wage advance to 65 cents per hour.
 Every one of the 5000 officers on duty in the Ordance Department have asked for duty abroad.
 Secretary of War Baker announced that the United States army has l. | 820, ,000 men under arms.
 Emma Goldman, who was convicted 1 Of attempting to defeat the draft law is making overalls in prison.
 John D. Ryan, recently selected to take charge of the aircraft board, was formally nominated by the President.
 Fire in the business section of Three
 
 was asked of Montreal and Quebec.
 Five men were arrested in New York by naval intelligence officers on charge of shipping rubber to Germany.
 Railroad men, dock workers and miners are idle in Escanaba, Mich, as the. result of, a disagreement over wages.
 River pirates, stealing from freight car on float at the Lehigh Valley pier, Jersey City, were fired at by soldiers.
 The Shipping Labor Conference ad- opted the suggestions of registration of merchant seamen, including all i- censed officers.
 The first electrically propelled ship built in England and the largest one in the world will sail soon from a British shipyard
 Persia notified Holland that the Rus so- British treaty of 1907, regarding the spheres of influence in that country, is null and void.
 The Treasury Department announced that the Government had melted into bullion 30,0O0 900 silver dollars, under the new silver act. The War Department will take over | Clarkeson College, at Potsdam, N. T., June 1, for use as a technical train i ing camp for soldiers. The death of Maddin Summers 1 the United States consul at Moscow was announced yesterday in a cable gram to the state department. Charles Nsael, secretary of com merce and labor in President Tafts l administration, left St. Louis for 1 Washington for Federal post
 Fifty-eight iron and brass found ries were closed by a strike of 2,00( moulders in Chicago. The companies
 want to reduce wages 75 cents day H Major General Willard A. Hoil
 brook, commander at Camp Sherman
 was named by the War Departmen l ion.
 I A call for s,2o7 skilled men for tn,
 National Army was sent out by Pro
 vost Marshal General Crowder. Al
 states are included except New Jer
 sey.
 The English, Irish and Scotch com
 mittees appointed to investigate tn
 purchase and control of liquor by tn
 Government reported favorably on tn plan.
 
 accused in the Senate of making un true statements to influence the Sen ators regarding pneumatic mail tub
 system.
 : A G. HooIey, widely known as . judge of dogs, dropped dead wllil acting as judge at a kennel show i San Francisco. His home was Plain field, N. J.
 A. Mitchell Palmer, alien custodian r demanded that enemy alien owne ] stock in the Submarine Wireless C. :, of New York, be turned over to tn ] Government.
 A cargo of sugar and cotton on tn
 lighter Cuba of the Morgan steamshi
 line was partly destroyed by fire ) New York harbor. The loss is esti
 mated at sS,5OO.
 Henry Liehencr Francis Allison, ;
 years old of Brooklyn. was remande s to jail for trying to force his way int | West Point by giving false statement = as to his education. : The Senate confirmed the reappoint 4 nent of Charles H. Davidson as SUI = veyor- general of Alaska and the az pointment of Col Arthur Johnson {
 be brigadier- general. s Passengers arriving on board a = American steamer at an Atlantic DOT = declare that 30 Venezuelan soldier ,t were killed in an explosion of a nun Il tion storehouse at Caracas. Il A prize of $5,000 is offered by u '- British Automobile Association for Il
 invention of coal gas running au Il and motorcycle. It must not co | more than $100 or weigh more tha
 40 pounds.
 l. The New York War Camp Commun 'e ty Service announced that sppci IS bathing suits for soldiers and sailo = are to have "U. S." in large letters (
 the breast so that cafes and hote le will offer them no liquor. .5 Sergeant Frank L. Baylies, of Ne ~ Bedford. Mass, brought down h ar sixth German aeroplane a few da t ago. In commenting on Baylies' e s- trance to the ranks of the aces, t 7. Paris Matin saws that he promises