Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-20

pOSuTeS or SraIt.
 Capt. Frederick c. spanq, who sold four sacks of flour to civilian dealers at Camp Travis, Tex, was dismissed from the service
 The navy dirisibe, missing from Cape May, N. J., since Saturday, was i picked up at sea with her crew and
 brought into port
 ! Counsel for the Anti Saloon League l declared liquor interests had support 1 ed ro-Gerfnan organizations as one
 means of defeating prohibition.
 Directors of the Chicago board of
 trade yesterday adopted a resolution i prohibiting the circulation by mem i bers of all but official crop reports. Fifteen manufacturers were raided by Federal agents in Philadelphia and
 their records examined in a search for 1 contingent fee brokers and war gro 1 fiteers.
 The Senate passed the bill of Sena-
 tor Thomas providing an allowance of SIP a month for widows of soldiers of the Boxer rebellion and Spanish
 erican War.
 The house in West Torrington ;r which John Brown, the abolitionist
 was born, was destroyed by fire yes iterday. It was owned by the Johr
 Brown association.
 Clarence F. Lea, congressman iron ) California, argued to the Senate agri l cultural committee that flat prohibi tion would be reuinous to the Califor , mia grape industry.
 l The President pardoned a sentry wh slept on post in France. saying, "Thi young man will take the restored op
 portunity of his forfeited life as a chaI
 lenge to devoted service" Johnny Evers will represent in Eur ope the Knights of Columbus and tn
 War Department Commission ol Training Camps, and will be athleti
 director for the Y. M. c. A. 5 The international Red Cross is mak r ing inquiries with the German Gov ? Woodward, of New York, a membe of the Lafayette Escadrille. : Captain Joseph F. Doiran, his SO s and two members of the crew wer v drowned when his fishing boat cap < sized in the Gulf of St. Lawrence o1 : Caraquet, N. B.. yesterday. - ordination of all highway wor g will be effected hereafter through ', Federal body called the United State l Highways Council, it was announce l by the Department of Agriculture. ', Representatives of the British Sea e mems Union who went to Sweden { e confer with the Swedish seamen wer Il ordered upon their arrival at Gothen | burg to leave the country at once. g Lieutenant Edward Michael Mcka, = of the American Red Cross, who's 5. home was in New York has been kill : ed by the explosion of shell on th s Piave battle line while in comman
 of a rolling canteen..
 u The war department announced ye: t terday that Conceal Pershing has dt : nied reports cabled from France tn; : gas masks used by American trooI " have not proved effective in meetir
 mustard gas attacks.
 l. Fire, starting in livery stable - Pembroke, Ont, destroyed many built e ings on Pembroke street in the con = mercial district and caused loss x about s1 100000. Two women are sa
 to have lost their lives.
 George Clayton, negro, was hang,
 to tree near Mangham, La, aero S the Mississippi River from this cit
 by a posse of citizens, after he hs 1t killed his employer, Ben Brooks, al 1. in battle with the posse had woundt
 six men, one probably fatally. y- Mrs. F. Goodwin Smith, of We g Hartford, died at hospital at liar it ford of injuries suffered today wh, il a pair of runaway horses attached It a city sprinkling cart collided with ; ", electric coupe in which she was ri T. ing with her Is year old son. l. GOVERNMENT RESTS IN r. CASE OF JOHN o'LEAF