Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
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 Two soldiers while doing guard duty at Newport News froze to death.
 The osweao, N. ", high schools were closed because of the lack Of fuel.
 Because of the lack of coal the Ed ison plant at West Orange, N. J.. closed
 Miners at Peabody, Tenn, voted to | work on Sunday to relieve the coal i shortage.
 Exports of dycstuffs for the United l 00O GOO 900.
 The famous international Hotel, at Niagara Falls. was destroyed by fire. The loss is $400,0O0.
 Fritz won Pills, German propa gandist, was interned on Ellis Island on orders from Washington. Emperor Carl of Austria Hungary, approved of the creation of an au- tonomous Hungarian army.
 The copper production of the Ana conda cooper mines for December amounted to 22,600,Go0 pounds. The Pacific Coast railroads wired | to Railroad Director McAdoo that all would aid in the railroad situation.
 General Pershins eabIed the thanks J.4.- fnT ident Wilson's New Years greetings. 1 The American Red Cross in Italy | appropriated $10,000 to the suffering ] families and victims of the air raids. l Without debate the House passed | the Philippine militia bill calling ln- 1 to seryce of the nation the members of this body.
 | Felix Malitz, president of the Pied
 mont Picture Corporation, admitted | he shipped rubber to Germany bv an ] indirect route.
 II A new revenue bill to completely revise the income and excess war K profit taxes will be introduced by il Senator Shoot.
 The cold has caused loss of $250,- 0e0 to ereenhou.. stock and vegetables in Hudson river points in the vicinity of Poughkeepsie.
 The Norwegian steamer Vigred was
 sunk by. a German torpedo while on her way to Rouen from Bari. Five | men were killed.
 Philippine scouts for use on the Mexican border, releasing Amer1caL
 ,ldiers for France, is plan1.ed by the
 War Department. constitutionaIity of the Arizons
 'blue sky law was upheld in ar
 opinion handed down in the United I States circuit court
 1 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson directed tha the White House baggage moto truck be used for the delivery of coa | to the. poor in Washington. II From 45 to 50. cars of coal con
 signed to New England points hav'
 been handled by the Boston and Al ~ banyy railroad within "A hours.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad issued ; II statement declaring it will take thre
 days to get back to the regular sched ule, with or without cold weather. a Due to congested transportation ia h ciIities vast amounts of fertilizer fo = next years farm crops are accumu # lating in Atlantic seaboard plants. e Admiral Benson, Chief of Maya e Operations, told the House Maya : Committee that the morale of tn g German U-boat crews was no r broken.
 a Manufacturers of paint are meetin j. at Washington with A. W: ohaV k chairman of the Commercial Econom IF Committee, to devise means to elim mate waste.
 John Gunnison, of St. John, N. " a sea captain who was rescued froI ,t his fcebound ship in Long lslan 1T Sound Thursday. died in hosplt If at New York.
 ,s River traffic in many parts of Vii l. gina was at a. StandStill as the re .d i sultof the extreme cold weather. I'll t- James river is frozen over for the hr' q time since 1899.
 1' In filling out his questionnair i Adolph Launert of Syracuse, said |
 was willing to return to Germany
 fight for the Kaiser. He is in jail c ' sedition charge. o- Consul Sommers, at Moscow, cable $, the State Department that all fat 7- tories in Russia are going to be take If over by the Bolsheviki. Martial la e, has been declared. .. n, ------
 Walter.H. Page, American ambasss
 dor at London, declared that peep
 of all nationalities going to Soul \, Africa must have passports issued N. a competent British authority. nt Peter Farmer Wanser, 69, retire
 major general in the New Jersey n; tional guard, former mayor and, pos t. master of Jersey City, died Of pnel i- moria at his home in that city. r. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad i l. sued an order prohibiting the accep or ance of any freight except coke, ". and coal from all stations on the n- own lines and connecting lines. to f. The senate committee investigati'
 sugar devoted all the time yesterd; he to hearing J. V. Knight, testifying as