Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18

Secretary Baker sent to Congress a | supplementary estimate of $1,087 900 | for the expenses of five arsenals.
 Food Administrator Hoover told conference at Philadelphia that he i was opposed to the rationing system. ]
 Immediate construction of 14 con- crete tank steamers and four cargo vessels was asked by the Shipping Board.
 Congress has been appealed to by the Federal Trade Commission to en- act laws putting an end to 'commer- cial bribery"
 The maximum price for ice delivered this summer to households in Mas sachusetts has been fixed at 50 cents a hundred pounds.
 The National War Labor Board granted a temporary 10 per cent in crease in wages to striking street car employees of St Louis.
 Harry stoffman, shipping clerk, l was given $50 900 by a jury in the Supreme Court for the loss of a foot 1 in an elevator accident.
 Death rate at the National Army and National Guard camps last week was the lowest since November The total deaths were 162.
 Chancellor Bonar Law, in Commons, answering a query announced that no changes of the command of British troops were contemplated.
 ! Tho OF +l,o n,,4ol,
 East Indies informed the American
 consul that permission to resume Am erican trade has been granted.
 Gustave Anklam, an expert electric
 ian, was arrested at Syracuse with
 papers giving descriptions. plans and
 maps of the Chicago stockyards
 The Red Cross hospital at Newport R. l.. has arranged for q new building
 to be erected on the land of Miss Hunter, adjoining the naval hospital Bright's disease is not adequate ex- cuse for young man who breaks a marriage enga cement, it was decided by a Supreme Court jury in Brook lyn.
 Resolutions endorsing Speaker T. c
 Sweet for the Republican guberna- J torial nomination were passed by the Oswego, N. Y. Republican county com
 mittee.
 = President Wilson referred to tn, . War Department charges of Samue 2 Gompers against Governor Wager O s Porto Rico, for mistreating the work l ing class.
 The Constance Zeitung announce . that two of the German long rang Il 1 guns which were bombarding Pari = have been removed to the Krupp plan Q for repairs. r King George received the Americal e Labor Mission at Buckingham Palace u The audience lasted an hour Tn s King said he hoped the visit woul
 prove helpful.
 h Orders by the Government for 25O, T 900 cigars for the America ntroop 5, were received by Springfield Mass o and other small cigar manufacturer e in the State.
 Jerome z. HawIey, 65, hanged him
 self in barn on the Fairfield estat
 of H. $. Shelton last night. He wa " employed as caretaker. having recent come from Danbury.
 l. Frederick T. Chandler, 54, senio
 member of the banking house
 Chandler Brothers & Co.,. and widel IS known in financial circles, wiat { d Philadelphia yesterday.
 in One hundred and forty eight sic l. and wounded American soldiers frol le the American expeditionary forces al g. rived in the United States during tT -h week ending May 3.
 ed Secretary Lansing and French An S bassador Jusserand exchanged ratific; to tions of the treaty or arbitration b' ne tween French and America for al
 other term of five years. de
 oy Arthur Henderson, leader of the L; tn bor Party, at meeting of the Maj to chester Stafford Trade Council, decia at ed that President Wilson will secu oh a lasting democratic peace u- Former Mayor Fitzgerald, of Bosto ;i- urged upon President Wilson at u
 White House the drafting of aliel W into the American army. There a ry some 100000 aliens of allied and neu CT ral countries in Massachusetts. e. Charles Kenyon, 43, cook on the u
 James w. Hogan of New Haven, w
 killed under a freight train in t
 Belle dockyards of the New York, Ne :, Haven and Hartford railroad la -- night, his head being caught betwe L. the wheels and underpinning of c TIC truck.
 Appointment of a Reconstruct UT Commission" to study the probleI in that will arise after the war is pr ms vided for in resolution introduced lfL Representative Edwards of PennsN on vania Half a million dollars woU Us be appropriated for expenses. ok The worlds largest building is 'm be erected for the Federal Cover 'es ment on the Brooklyn waterfront as nm storehouse. The building wil! e Ter $40 00O, 900. It will contain 6.o99,l n- square feet of flooring and will led equipped with three 13G0-foot Goul
 deck piers and 13 miles of railro tracks.
 in
 Ensign Calvin crawley, United St; )- es Naval Reserves, of St. Louis, W ir- killed at the Hampton Roads nay as operating base air school at Norfo les Va. yesterday, when a seaplane
 was piloting struck pile in landil