Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-12
Condensed TeIegrams

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 Hog prices in Chicago set a new high, $20.5o.
 John D. Ryan, assistant secretary of war. is in Paris.
 Permission was denied to the Ar genuine railways to increase rates 70 per cent.
 July shipments of crude rubber from the Amazon district of Brazil amounted to 4,2973S5 pounds.
 The state department was notifec that Norway has taken over the American consulate at Moscow
 The war department announced the acquisition of 1,S00 acres of land near Mount Clemens aviation field.
 Air mail service from New York to Chicago will begin Oct l.. Satis- factory trial trips were demonstrated.
 Dependents of missing soldiers will receive government allowances until the soldiers are officially reported dead.
 The navy department announced the loss of three sailors from the United States steamer Won Steuben. on Sept.
 communications in Argentina are reported paralyzed as the result of the strike of postal and telegraph em- ployes.
 A credit of $5,00o,ooo was made by the treasury for the Republic of L. beria which has declared war against Germany.
 Secretary Lane has appointed Her bert Kaufman, author and editor. a special assistant to the secretary of the interior
 New freight rates .on castor bean hUlls and stems are to be established i1,fe hot IIfh h. ern producing plants.
 An embargo on shipments ot grain to Minneapolis will be put into effect today owing to railroad congestion and scarcity of labor
 Quartermaster General Wood an- nounced that the requirements of wool for the fiscal year ending July 1. 1919, are 2S3,434, 1S6 pounds. Germany sent new note 70 the Spanish government blaming Great | Britain for the recent sinking of three ] Spanish ships by a submarine.
 Didector McAdoo made survey of Cleveland terminals and docks and | later held an informal conference with l three Brotherhood chiefs.
 Food Administrator Wheeler of Illi- nois announced at Chicago that 1,00O,- 1 900, ,000 bushels of grain will be sent to the allies this season. | Secretary of Agriculture Houston is on tour of the drought stricken parts 1 of the country to ascertain the finan- 1 cial needs of the farmers. | The interstate commission approved 1 the application of the Terre Haute, i Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Co. 1 for increased passenger rates. 1 Newspapers in France say the kaiser is extremely generous to high officers, | princes and other dignitaries in his l destowal of the Iron Cross.
 The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., filed with the public service commis sion passenger tariffs which called for 10-cent fares over long hauls.
 The Canadian Brotherhood of rail- road employees called a strike of mem- bers employed by the Dominion Ex press Co. They demand union recog- | milton.
 Army contracts for 300 houses, util- l ities and town planning a Watertown l N. Y, were let by the war depart 1 ment to Ed K. Penno of Syracuse.
 General Diaz returned to Rome from 1 France, where he was attending g conference with President Poincare Premier CIemenceau and Foreign Min ister Pichon.
 Representative Green eof Iowa de- 1 clared in the house that the govern ment was wasting money. He urged congressional supervision in the future for war expenditures.
 A great fire is reported in Odessa Many large buildings were destroyed
 Food restrictions in Portugal ar, being enforced. The bread ration i!
 400 grams daily person.
 Regulations limiting the export Ii
 censes to corporations organized under
 state and federal laws and to resi-,
 dents of the United States were an
 nounced by the war trade board
 The federal food board announced
 that the U. s. food administration hal
 decided not to establish any maximum
 prices on frozen herring. This rulinl
 will apply throughout the season O
 191S-1919
 The federal trade commission or dered the Dearborn Chemical Co.,, Chi
 cago, aSJ their salesmen, to stop en
 iertaining prospective customers witt
 liquor, cigars etc, holding that to b
 commercial bribery"
 The railroad administration ordere the Lehigh Valley railroad to discon tinue use of Communipaw as a ter
 Eninal for passenger traffic beginning Sept. IS, and to use the Pennsylvani station in New York
 The nomination of Josephus Dan iels, IT,, son of the secretary of tn navy, to be a first lieutenant in tn marine corps, was confirmed yesterda, by the senate. Lieutenant Daniels en tered the marine corps as a privat 7 soon after the war began. : Irving R. Drew, republican, of Ne1 Hampshire, appointed to succeed th : late Senator Gailinger, yesterday too his oath Of office in the senate.
 Second Lieutenant R. L. Jacks, pi
 lot, an American, of Los Angeles
 Calf; and Cadet H. ". BousfielC L passenger of McGregor, Manitob; , were killed in an airplane accident 6