Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09

-eport that he sank an American de- stroyer is denied by the Navy depart nent.
 Rear Admiral Wadhams, retired, of Boston, was assigned by the navy to work between the department and the Red Cross.
 [ Harry Hazleton and Abraham Cow dy were sentenced to four months at Trenton for selling liquor to soldiers and sailors.
 The names of five Americans killed four wounded and missing and four appeared on the Canadian casualties list.
 Shortage of coal forced Syracuse University fraterrities and societies to close their chapter houses for an indefinite period. r
 Gen. Pershing issued orders from his headquarters to American troops abroad to have all unnecessary work stopped on Sunday.
 Chairman Small of the Rivers and Harbors Committee announced that | the committee would appropriate proDably $20 O0O,O00.
 The interstate Commerce Commis- sion approved the increAsed fares by l the New England Steamship Co. to | New England. cities.
 Police Commissioner Bugher of New | York told traffic officers that coal | trucks must have the right of way | over all other traffic. |
 Mayor Hylan announced to a com mittee of fifty that there were 500 900 i tons of coal in Pennsylvania ready for | the city of New York to buy. 1
 Scores of workmen narrowly es- caped death when an acid tank ex- ploded at the Splitrock plant of the 1 Semet Solvay Co. in Syracuse.
 Camp Wadsworth, S. c.; has the ] first army church built by soldiers | Funds were provided for, it by Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt's engineers.
 The Rockefeller Foundation an- nounced the receipt of gift of $5,- 300 009 by John D. Rockefeller to help the United States in it's war work
 %T Brooklyn was shot and instantly kill ed by her uncle Toreys Tazen IS, as he was toying. with a new revolver. -fs sDrs.-'+----- Gen. Pershing reported to the War Department the deaths of Lieutenant William s. Ely and Sergeant George E. Houdek in an airplane accident. Gov. Whitman directed Attorney General Lewis of New York to investi- gate the notaries guilty of charging for explanation of draft questionnaires Drafted men, married since the law took effect will have to prove that they were married with good inten- tions and not to escape military ser l vice.
 l The Food Administration announced | that butter was being sold in Berlin | for s2.S5 a pound and sugar at 56 | cents pound and five bars of soap l at $1.12.
 Senator Mckellar,sa a member of the investigating committee on the mili- | tary investigation, will ask that the
 testimony be laid before the Depart
 ment of Justice.
 i. Representative S. C. Johnson of | South Dakota has left Washington for Camp Meade, Md. as a private Rep resentative Johnson is the first con- gressman to enlist,
 r The Supreme Court granted the 1 Government until next term to hear
 the case of the Steel Corporal tion but
 similar action. on the United Shoe Ma
 chinery was denied.
 For the sixth time investigation of
 Senator LaFollette's alleged disloyal speech of last September at St. Paul
 was postponed yesterday by the sen ate elections committee.
 Francis J. Heney, special counsel for the Federal Trade Commission, denied. the reports from Philadelphia that the United States was going to ! take over the packing business.
 The House will consider the Day. light Saving Bill soon after the emergency railroad and other import ant war legislation recommended by l the President are out of the way. Ernest Schneider, private at Camp I Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky, was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor and forfeiture of pay for viliifying the
 President and objecting to the draft
 law.
 II Senator Hardwick of Georgia prob
 ably will become chairman of the sen Il ate immigration committee, succeeding \ Senator Smith of South Carolina, who . has been chosen to head the inter state commerce commission. To empower the president to re- quisition timber and timber products for war purposes Senator Cahmber- . lain introduced bill to permit taking standing or fallen timber for the use of the army, navy or shipping board.
 ]. Elliott WooIey, Yale senior and , chairman of the editorial board of the Yale Daily News, has enlisted in the Twelfth Field artillery, U. s. army With his enlistment every member o1
 the Skull and Bones society at Yale is
 in war service. - ..,
 The battIeship which the navy de- } partment dispatched Sunday for Balti- more from Newport News to break the ice in the Baltimore harbor and . release government shipping became IOSDOunU aL lnS HoulA OI tue 1Ofh l River, 150 miles from Baltimore. H Meriden's new $2,500 mayor, Henry l T. King, has received the resignation 5 of Park Commissioner Fred H. Dobson The latter relinquished his office be. : lcause of the mayors alleged autocratit faction in removing Park Superinten.
 dent Henry Langreher.