Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-18
Condensed Telegrams

German coal is selling for $36.18 a ton in Holland.
 United Verde Extensions September output was 4,720,000 pounds of copper. 1
 Business of the Firestone Tire Co. is estimated at S75,000.000 for this year. loan of from $500 O00, ,G0D to s500,G00,-
 German prisoners at Fort Wads- worth N. J., have been buying Liberty bonds
 Sales of thrift and war savings stamps in New York to date amount to. $31,700,1 1892. E Dr. William N. Burton was elected president of the Standard Oil Go. of Indiana.
 Eight million pounds fo TINT were saved from destruction during the re- cent explosions at Morgan, \. J..
 Manufacturers of iinoleum are re- quired by the industries board to re- duce consumption of materials 50 per fcent.
 Some house leaders who helped to have the daylight saving law passed are opposed to extending the time from Oct. 27.
 Traffic on the Ohio Electric Railway Go. at Columbus was suspended be- cause of strike of 400 motormen and conductors.
 Oil valued at $1,5oo,oco was burned on the Great Northern Railway Co.'S 1 dock at Seattle. Wash. Property dam age was estimated at $1,S00,000. i Fuel Administrator Garfield declared before the senate finance committee i that coal producers should not be un duly taxed in the new war revenue 1 bill.
 Coal shipments by all railroads for the week ended Sept. 2S amounted to
 270,909 cars, compared with 236,154 cars for the same period last year. A message of thanks was sent by General Pershins to the employees of the Eddystone, Pa, rifle plant for pro- ducing a million rifles during the past year
 1 Railroad Director General McAdoo announced that during the week of Oct. a total of 64 locomotives was shipped from the plants of the prin- cipaI manufacturers
 II All wooIen mills in Australia are rer
 ported to be under government con
 trol
 All ships delivered to the shipping
 board during the second week of Oc-
 tober are of contract type.
 American Smelling & Refining Go
 started extensive work developing the Sl1N SI dIld 40du LIIi6S dG-
 quired in Mexico in the last few
 years. The cost is estimated at s4,- e00O00
 Orders were given to the American
 Printers Roller Go. of Chicago to stoI
 the practice of commercial bribery, il Il giving gratuities to customers em ployes, by the federal trade commis sion.
 Chairman Baruch of the war indus tries board announced the formation Of an inter allied pool for the pur chase of every commodity needed fo the civilian purposes as well as tn armies of the allies. a Colonel Willard Hunsiker, one of tn ! seven men summoned to London il { October 1914, to form a commissio for the relief of Belgium. died in Lon 3 don.
 When allied troops entered S Quentin they found the ground ha I.been excavated under the eathedrs preparatory tos blowing it up. Constitutional guarantees were re established by the Spanish cabinet. \ Several capitalists in Moscow form ed company of 300 .000, ,000 ruble K capital for merger of Ukrainian i'm plement factories.
 The Chinese government signed contract with the Marconi Co. for til construction of three wireless station at Kashkar and Urumchniear near tr Turkestan border and one at La \ Chow Flu, capital of Kansau provinc \ Central China.
 H The Maharajah of Dodhpud, siml
 British India, died. \ Restrictions as to lighting wei
 rescinded as applied to Liberty loa
 advertising in an order issued yestel
 day by Fuel Administrator Garfield. Fl The gift of $2,0o0 by the Knieh
 of Columbus to Madame. Foch, wife
 the marshal, for the fund for widoy s an dorphans of French soldiers, W; announced yesterday by James l Flaherty, supreme knight of the o
 ganiZation.