Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-18
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 Lisbon has gone into mourning for Sidonio Jaes. murdered President of Portugal.
 Camp Upton will have several Christmas celebrations for the men who are kept in camp.
 Fuel Administration asked the oil industry to suspend plant to stabi- lize crude oil prices. Rand gold mines production in No- vember amounted to 658,7 ounces, valued at e2,797,9SS.
 Brooklyn shipbuiIdine firms will give returned soldiers and sailors prefer ence in employing help hereafter
 War Trade Board announced the re- moval of a number of commodities from the export conservation list
 For the first time in two and a half years anthracite miners are applying for work in the Lehigh field.
 The eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica will be celebrated Feb T.
 After stormy voyage lasting 16 days, 500 aViators arrived at Norfolk, Va, on the transport Susquehanna. Cudahy Packing Co. reports sales for the year ended Nov. 2 of $2S6, ,660,- 971, compared with $184.S11,423 last ! year.
 | The transport America, sunk in dock 1 at Hoboken six weeks ago, was raised and sent to Brooklyn Navy Yard for overhauling.
 Rastime, as cure for sick and 1 wounded Negro soldiers, is being used successfully in the American Army in France.
 The drive for $5,ooo,ooo for the Jewish War Fund has been extended 1 for one week, as the fund is $1,000.- | 900 short.
 Secretary Daniels awarded commits sions to 430 marines, who completed a 16 weeks training course in Quanti- co, Va.
 Detectives found the bag in which the money stolen in the East Brooklyn Savings Bank robbery last week was carried by the robbers.
 A silver platter, the gift of the City of Halifax, was presented to Capt
 Hayes of the White Star Liner Olym- pie. The Olympic has carried 10000 Canadian troops overseas. | A wedding gift, estimated at be-
 tween $15,000 and $2O,O00, will be given by the men of the New York
 Police Department to Commissioner
 Enright.
 Mrs. Violet Westcott Morawetz i, widely known asJ a suffrage leader
 died in New York after long ill ness. She was daughter of the late Edward Moves Westcott, author O
 David Harum." One of the most elaborate costum,
 balls ever planned by New York. so ciety leaders will be given on .Decem
 Der 28 to celebrate the return 0 paece.
 HiIlsborough, N. H., reports tha l every one of the 2,10O inhabitant joined the Red Cross for 1919. Twenty persons were injured wheI the American Aniline Products Go. wa wrecked by an explosion in NeV
 York.
 Army ordnance expert Moe B. Gott leib, of Washington, was arrested i that city for theft of important spec , if1cations for big guns. s1 Secretary of the Navy Daniels wi n permit 200 prisoners at the navs e prison at Portsmouth, N. H., specis . leave for the Christmas holidays. e Princeton lost 103 men killed in tn a war.
 n Transport Martha Washington re : schooner Wilfred Marcus, on fire an : ported to the Navy the sinking of tn e abandoned.
 French High Commission denie t that American troops were bein
 charged trench rent and for damag $ being done to property in the actus s firing zone.
 It War Department announced the sail e ing from France of eight more trans $ ports with American troops. IS Pennsylvania will proceed with il Il building plans halted by the war.
 Department of Agriculture estimate y winter wheat acreage at 49,027, 900. IS Grain receipts at Chicago for tE l. week amounted to 7621,0O0 bushels. l. Canada's trade for eight montl is Nov. 30 shows a decrease of $351 g $351,215,777.
 If Garments collected by the Red cro' 1T for shipment to Belgium total 25,0O0 '- coo pieces.
 The funeral of Police Commission Stephen O'Meara of Boston was a n tended by a throng that complete 'I filled sSt Cecilia's church. 'r The death of Frederick William ri 1T ton banker and educator, which O.
 cured at Young's hotel, Boston, whe
 he was attending dinner, was al
 nounced.
 S Fire threatened several facto IT. buildings in a congested district a Montello street, BrOckt0n, Mass. i S Two hundred thousand men must ~ ~ recruited for the navy next year ,t- I- take the places of men enlisted for u ,S war who will be demobilized.
 Weakness in the corn market ye :, terday was ascribed largely to u H. bearish outlook regarding provision
 Hog growers were said to be fguril
 that they had only six weeks to di
 pose of hogs at the present gover
 ment average values.
 Two thousand Navajo Indians r
 siding on that part of the reservati
 in Apache county, Ariz., under t r jurisdiction of Fort Defiance, have di '-' from influenza.