Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-24
Condensed Telegrams
Ex Vice President Fairbanks condi-

VVttOVtiVVu VtVSs osssS Ex Vice. President Farbanks' condi- ion is critical.
 Beef exports for April were 359 S5S,00O pounds.
 Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Bohemia.
 An inter allied petroleum organiza- ton has been formed in Paris.
 The airpIane mail service was sent bx rail because of heavy fog.
 The czar of Russia paid s25 pair for army shoes to New York export CTS.
 The Senate by 37 to 21 refused to abolish the bonus system in the navy yards,
 Bakers in Chicago have voted to i stop making doughnuts until the war is over.
 Dry parties won six of seven towns i on southern New JelEey local option l elections.
 
 Emperor Charles and the Sultan of Turkey appointed each other Field Marshals.
 General Pershins recommended that the soldiers be allowed tobacco with food rations.
 Members of the Russian Soviet who supported the Japanese intervention in I Siberia were arrested.
 Colonel Roosevelt will leave New York today for a five day speaking tour of the Middle. West
 President Irieoyen, of Argentina, is back at Buenos Aires after a trip on the dreadnought Rivadavia.
 New Bedford cotton manufacturers rejected the petition of operatives for 25 per cent increase in wages.
 John Ganster, quartermaster, second Class (aviation). was killed in a sea- plane accident in France, May 20.
 During the month of May there has been delivered the equivalent of a 10,- coo ton ship. for every working day.
 Nine more bodies were recovered by rescuers in the Mill Creek Canal coal mines at Villa, near Charleston, W. Va
 President Wilson signed the bill per hitting national banks to contribute to the Red Cross fund from their sur plus.
 ha te&r of put the country on a gold basis. Sil- yer is not legal tender for more than 90 pesetas.
 Boris Rekhmeteff, Russian ambassa- dor at Washington, refused to give a statement as to the arrival of keren- sky in this country. ! The Dutch legation at Washington presented a protest to Secretary Lam sing over the seizure of Dutch ships by Britain and America.
 The Internal Revenue Bureau an 1 nounced that persons who sell seats on roofs where ball games can be fseen must pay a war tax. | Hart Duxbury, farmer of Spencer s. D., was tarred and feathered when he refused to buy Liberty Bonds and contribute to the Red Cross. Ii All public swimming pools and some of the public baths will be closed this summer in London. The buildings will be used as communal kitchens.
 The lower house of the Louisiana | legislature yesterday adopted resolu- l ifxrir ha fi amendment. The vote was 70 to A.
 Vice. Admiral Sims reported to bt Navy Department that an <lgineel officer and two men were lost wher l, the William Rockefeller was torpedoed
 The House census committee report. ed favorably the bill authorizing tht !, fourteenth census to be taken in 192t and appropriated S1S000, 900 to defray costs.
 Timothy E. caIIaqhan 23 years old one of a group of nine draft men wht left Portland, Conn. has been killed ; at Pelham Manor, \. Y. Details ar, lacking.
 Three sailors an a motor truck wit score of other naval men were hur when the truck collided with an ele vator pillar while going to the Brook . lyn navy yard.
 z More than 100 persons now at fiber [ ty under suspended sentence" will b granted pardons by President Wilson under recommendation of Attorne General Gregory. ! Representatives of the copper indus try conferred with the price fxin
 committee of the War Industries Boar z to determine the price of copper fo the next three months.
 Lieuts Latham Polk of New Yor v and Spencer Charles Williams of Buff f falo were killed when their airplane e collided at an altitude of 5000 feet a Gerstner ield, Louisiana. -
 An arrangement was reached be y ! tween the Government and the Aetn 0 Explosive Co., whereby the Governmen y will advance necessary money to re : build the destroyed plant. f Improvement in the condition ( e Former Vice President Charles ,. Fairbanks who is i'll at his home i : Indianapolis, continued throughou
 yesterday and last night
 l -
 Representative Caldwell of Ne
 York. member of the military com
 mittee stated in the House that 90 0G
 Americans had been sent abroad i
 the first ten days of May.
 The plea of Count James Minott
 for freedom on writ of nabeas co1