Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-21
Condensed TeIeQrams


 Adolph Joffe, the Russian Ambassa- dor is back in Berlin.
 The names of 23 Americans appear | ed on the Canadian casualty list.
 Auto thieves are stealing goats and | chickens near Caldwell N. J.
 War risks on Atlantic, West Indies | and South American shipping have | jumped 20 per cent.
 Farmers of New Jersey will receive l loans of $100,000 to raise winter wheat | and rye.
 Gen. Pershna recommended the D. i $. c. cross for three officers and four men.
 An American sniper in the front | line trench accounted for six Germans i with in three days.
 Eighteen states were called upon by Provost-Mar General Crowder to furnish 079 men.
 The Allies invited Brazil to outline her position on the restoration of in dependence to Poland Two postal employees at Newark, N. J., were sentenced to prison terms for embedding from the mail. Part of the estate of the former Hawaiian Queen. bathing beach at | Waikiki, has been opened to the public
 Government plant at Vancouver l Wash.,. is now turning out 1000, 600 feet of spruce lumber a day for use 1 of airplanes.
 Contracts were let by the Shipping Board for B wooden 3,500-t0n cargo lvessels, seven wooden barges and three wooden haTbor tugs
 A fine of $25 was paid in 2,5oO pen nies by a woman in the Coney Island Fcourt. She had bath house at Coney Island without a license
 Two men, one of them a naval of hcer were shot by an unidentified per son in bungalow at Coney Island. The reason is not known.
 Sir James H. M. Campbell, Lord Chancellor of Ireland\ declared at a luncheon at Dublin that he was in favor of Irish self government.
 Postmaster General Burleson, in control of the telegraph and telephone lines approved the 10 per cent. increase in warges for Western Union men, Thousands of delegates were present at the opening of the 52nd annual na . tional encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Portland. Ore.
 The House Ways and Means Com mittee is considering a plan to have taxes upon luxuries and liquors be- come effective the instant the bill is signed
 SyIvanius L. Schoonmaker, chair man of the directors of the American Locomotive Co.,, committed suicide at his country home in Locust Valley, l. I.
 . The French Government approved the . l request of the Marseilles Chamber oi Commerce. to name one of the bas- tions under construction there Presi- dent Wilson.
 Leon MoIas, French aviator, was kill = ed at Venice, a beach resort near Lo! " Angeles, when he attempted to droI 7 7,500 feet from an airplane with a par | achute
 Six persons found guilty Of disord q | erly conduct for singing German song were sentenced to 30 days in tn = tworkhouse by Magistrate Miller il = the Jamaica Court. S Five thousand persons are homeles ? land 250 000 are without proper food a Il Il the result of a flood in the Tung Kian Il River in China The American Re . Cross is aiding.
 Chairman Sims of the House wate
 power committee introduced bill giving President Wilson power t ,. plants in the eastern states for sup | plying war industries. I, The funeral of Former GoVernc II George H. Prouty, who was killed i . and automobile accident near Water ,,, vile, P. e., Monday, will be hel i Thursday at the Congregational churc i' at Newport, Vt
 Theodore Bright, 54. special police
 man of Danbury, ended his life yestel
 day by shooting himself in the rigi
 temple. His wife had just died aftt D a long illness of an incurable di. lb ease.
 a Receivers were appointed at Ne l. York for the New York Steam con l. pany, a $7,5O0, 900 corporation suppl m ing steam to office buildings and maj e. ufacturing plants. IS Rev. L. K. Prick, D. D.. English se l. retary Of the General Council of u r- Lutheran church of America. died -e Milwaukee, Wis. yesterday of hea le trouble. He was best known throug
 out the country as ''the bishop of Wi
 'conGin"
 The British and Canadian recruitil :, Rmission at Boston will enlist men du n ing the next two weeks for the Sib Ut rian eXpeditionary force being rais of in Canada.
 It. The Massachusetts constitution in convention reconsidered it's rejecti he of a resolution permitting the legisl at ture to make voting compulsory al n- voted, 148 to 96, to refer the questi
 to the people at the November ele I'd, tion.
 or The Paris Symphony orchestra. u -h, der the auspices of the French gover or ment, will give a number of concel
 in leading American cities next fall,
 was announced at Boston.
 Because of the large voluntary e ,M listments in the Newfoundland rel /" ment. the government of the colo IT has decided to postpone for six wee mt the enrolment of men for furtf n- drafts.
 tte An institute for the instruction ar clergymen in methods by which |
 church can give the best war serv nd opened yesterday at the Bangor. N Ice Theological seminary. on At the funeral of Senator Jacob he Gallinger, which will be held in { la First Baptist church at Concord,
 H., this afternoon at o'clock.
 eulogy wall be delivered by Sena
 Henry Cabot Lodge. of MasSachuset SEMATnD NhDnAMAN