Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-14

nOlOr LruchS III a NeWdrh garage.
 The present direct primary system If nominating Massachusetts State of icers was upheld by Governor Me- call.
 Victor Berger, indicted in Chicago or violating the espionage act, said le had arranged to furnish a S15,00O pond.
 The sailors engaged in service with ships plying between the Philippine !! islands are on strike for increased wages.
 A two per cent reduction of the lum- per production in the United States | were cut.
 A mysterious woman held by Fede- | ral agents in a New York hotel is | neutral and not a German secret ser- vice agent.
 There are three cases of small pox in the state. Hartford has 9: Boom field 3; East Windsor, Norwich and Montville 1 each.
 Several hundred dollars in currency were burned in a fire which caused $500 damage at Nos. 147-15S West 18th Street, New York.
 Teaching of German to pupils of the lower grades in public schools at La Crosse. Wis, was stopped by the Board of Eduction.
 Since the occupation of Rumania, Germany has received 630.000 tons of grain and corn, and Austria Hungary 750,000 tons
 Cadet Raymond Wakefield, of Col chester, H., was killed from injuries received in an airplane collision at San Antonio.
 Forty sons of Princeton University have given their lives in the service of the United States and her asso- ciates in the war.
 Contracts with Norway were annui- led by the German Central Purchas- ing Co because of trade agreements with the United States. .e q.
 The Chinese commander at Harbin warned the Bolshevih leader that the invasion of Chinese territory would be considered an act of war,
 A committee of Argentine educators and scientists decided to invite Will liam H. Taft to attend a conference to promote closer relations.
 ians and telephone men was published l,xr &1n T1la -1I Education for drafted men.
 Alderman Lee, Socialist, introduc- ed resolution at the board meeting for a minimum salary of S1, 200 a year for New York city workers.
 Henry Morganthau, former American amba bassador to Turkey, who has a farm at Hopewell Junction, was ap- pointed fireman at that point Representative Oliver announced that the United States would have the greatest fleet of destroyers in the world before the end of the year. The start of the airpIane service be- tween New York, Philadelphia and Washington was delayed because suit able landing places were not found. Former Congressman Burke, ot
 Pennsylvania, at patriotic tally al Atlanta. said that pro Germans should | be made stand before a firing squad The coastsHise steamer Palmer, with l 2,600 tons of coal, may have to remove ] the cargo in order to be floated. The
 ship is ashore on the New England | coast.
 Senator Calder, who returned from | Spartanburg, S. C., urged the Wal Department to give to. the 27th Divis- ion full equipment for an early leave
 for France. l Movements of cotton by water from
 southern ports to New York and New l England proceeded so well under
 Director McAdoo's instructions that
 100000 bales will be shipped. 1 Theodore Burton, president of tht 1 Merchants National Bank of New
 York, expressed the belief at Syracuse | that the next Liberty Loan will beal
 an interest rate of Az per cent.
 Major General Hugh l.. Scott is a l Washington to take the physical ex animation to which all divisional com. manders are subject. General Scot
 is commander of Camp Dix, N. J.
 Favorable report was ordered yes
 terday by the senate banking commit tee on a bill to permit banks to mak' loans on Liberty bonds not exceedini
 50 per cent of their capital and sur plus.
 Sheet and tinpiate workers of tn, | United States will suffer a reduction of two per cent in wages as resul of the bimonthly examination of shee I and tinplate prices at Warren, O. tyesterday.
 Frederiek Schmidt, s2, of waterbur.
 who had been missing since Tuesda,
 afternoon, when he wandered ava,
 from his home, was found dead il la shallow brook in the northern sec Ition of the city.
 Andrew kodor, who was shot b Mrs Marie Dubiel during a quaTe at her home in Harwinton Monda,
 died at a hospital at Torrington las night. Mrs. Dubiel, who has bee locked up since the shooting, has de lclined to talk.
 Il The WisIieeIus brothers-ottc an, Heinrich-artists who had studioes
 New Haven, were released from ia in that city Tuesday by the federal au thorities, and the brothers, who al , German aliens. are at liberty on paro