Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-14
Condensed Telegrams

Home Run'' Baker will quit the New York Yankees at the end of the season
 The production of bituminous coal for the week ended Aug 8, was 12- 422, 900 tons, a decrease.
 Secretary Redfield appointed Agatha c Stewart, of Port Richmond, as his private secretary.
 One thousand workmen in the Krupp factories at Essen were af- fected by the Spanish influenza.
 Secretary McAdoo announced that details for the next Liberty loan will be issued this week.
 More than 1,5o0 employees of the Magnola Petroleum Co. went on strike at Beaumont, Texas.
 Ordnance officers below the rank of colonel will be required to practice with .45 calibre revolver.
 It is reported in Madrid that Spain will need loan of 600,000,o00 pe- setas beforee the end of 1918. commission of military men and Journalists left Madrid to visit the American front in France. The Holland minister of food and fuel announced the prospects for win ter supplies are not bright. l Charles Piez has been appointed manager of the Emergency Fleet cor poration, the United States Shipping board announced.
 1 Vienna authorities have ordered the public to hand over every piece of propaganda literature dropped by | Italian aviators.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant sec retary of the navy, announced in Rome that more American troops will be sent to Italy,
 Jeremiah A. o'Leary, who was confined to the Tombs pending his second trial obtained permission tC
 visit his wife who is i'll.
 The House ways and means com.
 mittee decided to tax soda fountains
 ten per cent. for each sale of ter cents or fraction thereof.
 Plants turning out 50 per cent. O
 their work for the government will b,
 allowed to fly special flag whicl
 bears the ordnance department device
 conference representing all met
 allie workers interested in relief of tn
 gold stringency will be held in Spo
 kane during the week of September
 to '.
 J. F. Bresnahan, vice president 0 the America Chicle company, an nounced that orders for 36,O00, ,0o
 sticks of chewing gum had been give
 by the Red Cross.
 Secretary Baker announced to tA r Senate in response to a resolutiU
 that of 16,971 former national guard of s ficers 972 were discharged for variou S reasons.
 a The federal trade commission, act = ing under the direction of the presi e dent, was engaged for some time in e quiring into the method of fnancin S grain. n The Trenton Chamber of comnere r is interesting itself in market -hau
 ing plan for the benefit of the farme = It will save large quantity of pel = ishable farm products d The railroad administration has ar l. nounced that shopmen working in u IS Pullman company division will r, a ceive the same wage advance as u a government railroad shopmen. tt Thomas F. Smith, democratic rel ,- resentative of the 18th New York di trict, introduced a bill in the house le enable soldiers and sailors in Eurol a to vote at the coming election. d | Considering that the airplane ma n service between New York, Philade
 phia and Washington is no longer d experiment the government has talk > over control of the routes. lg As a result of the work of the d ar partment of agriculture the cat st herds in the country have been i er creased 50 per cent. Many cattle h
 to be killed because of drought ,e These Connecticut women we ii among the thirty eight Suffragett al arrested in Washington: Mrs w is Ascough, Miss Edna Purtell NJ To George L. Koring of Hartford, a
 Miss Elsie Hill of Newark.