Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-12

FOURTEEN PA
 Condensed TeIegrams A number of Brazilian aviators have eft Brazil for England. Cornell has bIackbaIIed tennis and l of and inaugurated wrestling. During the year 1917, s40S, ,O2O, ,4Oe | vas deposited in the New York Assay | Office. The Canadian grain situation will have the nation put on war bread.
 Saloonkeepers at HorneI, N. T., agreed to close one night weekly to conserve fuel.
 The powder and dynamite plant at Paterson, Okla., was blown up with heavy loss of life.
 Mrs. G. M. Howard, of Halifax, won the Silver Foils Medal Handicap play at Pinehurst, N. c.
 The untitled tonnage in the United States Steel Corporation increased 4S4,- SIP tons during December.
 Three bills for the taking over of the railways of Massachusetts were introduced in the legislature.
 The pork packing plant of. John J, Buckley, at Chester, Pa. was burned with loss estimated at $250,00O.
 Capt. Andre Tardieu, head of the French High Commission in the Unit ed States, visited President Wilson.
 Austro- German forces were forced to evacuate some trench sectors near Cavazuochurina, on the Italian front.
 Forty million francs will be spent by the American Red Cross iii aiding French civilians during the next five months.
 British airpIanes on the Italian front attacked squadron of seven hostile machines yesterday and brought down four of them.
 Representative Gard, of Ohio, has a resolution calling for an investigation of the location and sanitation of army cantonments.
 West Virginia prohibition officers arc having a hard time in keeping out the men who carry liquor across the frog en Ohio river
 An American cavalry detachment al Douglas, Ariz.. clashed with Yaqui In dians, at Bear Valley, killing one ant capturing nine. Post Wheeler, who for some year! las been American charge d'affairs a Tokio, is seriously i'll at Jefferson hos pital, Philadelphia.
 i The Amsterdam TeIesraf declare! 1, that anesthetics are very scarce il :: Flanders and operations are perform i eil without using them. Cabaret singers in Boston, will no be allowed to circulate among the din l CTS in cafes. under an edict of tn COolOa fIiSCiiSiAS OOcai u. i Bolo Pasha, who is charged wit having conducted German propaganda in France, will be tried by court mar tial, beginning February 4.
 The winter wheat crop of Kansa was saved by snowfall from tfre | inches to one foot. The wheat ha been threatened with a drought.
 King Alfonso of Spain signed ne7 decree dissolving the Cortes Elec tions will be held February A and tn
 new Parliament will meet on March |
 Reports from Rostov, Russia, sa that the republic of the Don has bee
 declared existent with General Kale
 dimes as president and prime ministe
 Damage estimated at S750,000 WE
 caused by a fire which destroyed u F,nderton block in the heart of tI
 shopping district of Winnipeg, Car ada. John Purroy Mitchell, who retire on January 1 as mayor of New Tor , has. been appointed a major in u aviation corps of the United Stat army.
 The resignation of Dr. Romulo 5 Naon, as ambassador to the Unite
 States from Argentina, will be a cepted as soon as his successor can appointed. , Factories making automobile al carriage covers and corsets have bet asked by the council of national d. | fense to begin the manufacture powder bags.
 An omnibus private pension bill, pr, viding for three hundred cases report' by the pensions committee as esp : clally deserving was passed yesterds by the house.
 Mark L. Requa, head of the flu administrators new division ,whit will handle government control of t t oil industry. had a long conferen t with President Wilson. e Elizabeth Guistorg was arrested Hanford, Calif., and held on suspici e of being a German spy. Letter refe s ring to military Notifications and pla 6 were found in her possession.
 The Central Powers have withdraw
 their peace terms made public at t
 Rrest Litovsk conference on Decer , Der 25. it was announced by Dr. V . Kuehlmann, the German foreign SC | retary.