Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-28
Condensed TeIegrams

Yellow fever in Guatemala halted mail service.
 An additional loan of $e,ooo, 900 was made to Belgium by the Treasury.
 Regular steamship trips to the United States and England by Hol- land is reported.
 Bituminous coal miners were denied increases in wages by Fuel Administrator Garfield.
 Total sales of War Savings and Thrift stamps in New York to date amounts to $32,323 646.
 Gross earnings of the Grand Trunk for the third week in October amounted to $1,296,165. This years production of tobacco in the United States will amount to 1,265 900 900 pounds
 A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian now holds $700,O0O GOO worth of enemy property.
 An earthquake of moderate in- tensity lasting about one hour, oc cured 1,500 miles from Washington.
 A plan was adopted by Railroad Director McAdoo to inform the pub lie about railroad operations
 Director Felton, of military rail- for the American army in France.
 Cotton einned to Oct. 18 was placed at 6,790 900 bales, counting round as half by the Census Bureau.
 A report on cottonseed products from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 will be is sued this morning by the Census Bu- reau.>
 Two hundred army doctors were rushed to the Pennsylvania coal fields.
 1 Freight handlers employed at the
 Boston & Albany piers, in East Bos-
 ton went on strike for higher wages
 Another week may pass before all
 loan subscriptions in the New York
 Federal Reserve District are counted
 The Chicago Board of Trade was
 closed out of respect to the memory of A. Stamford White, former presi-
 dent
 Railroad Director McAdoo approved the contract drawn up by the Rail-
 road Administration and short line o1
 the country
 British Columbia silver spruce is ir great demand for airplane construct ion. The trees grow to a height o1 150 feet sometimes. Naval guns, 16-inch bore, are being used by the American army in France They are the most powerful on tht whole gattle front. Four leading railroad brotherhood. , have renewed request for time and { half for overtime, according to Washington despatch.
 Practically all of the producers o : copper agreed to the price of 2 cents a pound from Nov. 1 to Jan. 1 fixed by the War Industries Board.
 Manufacture of refrigerators wa started by the General EfotJrs Corp at it's plant in Detroit. The outpu will be at the rate of 100000 a year. Weekly shipments of Areentin amounted to: wheat, 62S,0OO bushels
 corn O56,O0 bushels; oats, $50 % ! bushels and flax. 1000 bushels U U Seven men were injured, two seri ously, when a steam boiler burs : on board the steamer Louisville a she lay at her pier in New York har . bor.
 e Interstate Commerce comrnissio r granted increased rates on coal fror | producing places on non-Federal con 7 trolled railroads to Canadian desti T. nations.
 u Chairman Baruch of the War In d dustries Board announced in Wash u tington that the United State " through new processes is independer " of the world for mineral and chemics . products.
 IF President Wilson, in a message n Democratic and Republican senator ie of Oklahoma. said woman suffrag 70 was necessary as a part of the pro ', gram of justice and reconstruction. ,s Charles Piez, vice president of tF = Emergency Fleet Corporation, sai
 that the whole shipping program wi
 be revised owing to the enormous e3
 pense placed on the nation and bt cause the original program is not aC 'A juSted to the needs of the war . d Colonel Theodore Roosevelt eel, z: brated his Goth birthday quietly ye lS terday at his home on Sagamore Hi T. spending most of the time playi1 g. with his grandchildren and openi1 J. congratulatory telegrams and cabl s that poured in from all parts of u world.