Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-15
Condensed TeIegrams

Argentina recognized the independ- ence of Finland.
 Milk at seven cents quart.in Swift zerland is considered extortionate.
 Austria is considering the introduc- tion of one breadless day a week.
 The House refused again to abolish eight United States treasuries. 
 Count Andrew Barkocsy, president | of the Hungarian Upper House, resign ed.
 Swiss troops on the AIsatan front fer are suffering from waves of German gas. The London Stock Exchange will close May Is and 20, Whitsuntide holi- days.
 French butchers must not sell more than 200 grammes of meat on Tues l days.
 i Hearings on the administration wat CT power legislation will end this week.
 l IiS " dI que 6OdiO iSSASu llSSUSGS l for one months shipment of cotton to l Spain.
 i British textile workers received in creases in wages. i'll the form of war bonuses.
 President Wilson was urged to make arrangements so soldiers overseas could vote.
 
 Profits of the wine growing industry in southern Austria last year totalled $110,000,0OO.
 The French "BIue Devils" were re-
 ceived by President Wilson at the White House.
 Lieut.. GiegeI, star Bavarian airman, was killed on the western front He had fifteen victories to his credit.
 Newfoundland is conscriptinq all sim
 gle men and childless widowers be- tween 19 and 26 for military service.
 The House and Senate leaders will
 decide whether Congress will remain
 in session during the summer months. Secretary McAdoo's illness prevent
 ed him from swearing in the new di- rector of the War Finance Corpora r tion.
 3 Governor Whitman signed the Robin , son anti-loafing bill, providing that r every male between IS and 50 must g work.
 s Alexander Watson, 51, of Newark threw his sister into mysteries by ap- e bearing at her home. He was mourn 0 ed as death.
 Two men at Camp Custer, Michigan
 were sentenced to ten years each fol desertion and alleged disloyalty by ; court martial.
 German prisoners captured on tn 1west front assert that Hindenburg i
 dead and that von Mackensen will vii e for Germany. T The House adopted the conferenc report on the bill giving President Will X son wide authority to make new pass d port regulations. :" Brig. Gen. J. D. Barrettes laid be fore the House appropriation commit \. tee estimates for heavy ordnance to '9 talling $6,O0O,OO0,0OO. .,1 Soldiers passing through Long Is .@ land City, New York, are being serve :. with hot coffee by the local chapter ,i American Red Cross. ir Rail Director McAdoo ordered tn y cutting down of transcontinental pas <, senger service schedules from Chicag n west, effective June ?. la At the annual meeting of the Ne to York Stock Exchange, II. G. $. Mob T was reelected president, and Charle of NJ. Newcomb treasurer. an India's cotton crop estimate for tn
 year is put at 4000,O0G bales of 4C e!:, pounds each, or 10 per cent below th II revised figures of last year. ,o "The Passaic Turn Verein is 100 D, nv cent American" declared A. W. Sf ,.l, recke, its president. Future meeting - will be conducted in English. ,ir as Sixty army SGnotor trucks will IS used to transport the office equipmel s. of the Elmer gency Fleet Corporate
 to Philadelphia from Washington.
 Chairman Ferris, of the House pul
 lie lands committee, will confer wi oS President Wilson to learn the admin
 istration's views as to the oil lan' a. leasing bill.
 Word was received in WashingtC ,rt that the Mexican wheat crop in u at province of Guadalajara, Mex, w he being harvested. The crop is douh vs that of last wear O.
 D. Hugo Heisinger, one of the act n- secret agents of Count von Bernstor ng was sentenced to 15 years in Sing Sil eel in New York after he admitted he committed 30 burglaries. n Enforcement of Alabama "blue law q started when Sheriff Batson, at Bi oo, mingham, summoned to court t on un proprietors of soda fountains and oth Ae stores open on Sunday.
 An application by the Americ
 Smelling & Refining Go. to the Feeder E Reserve Board for permission to i
 crease gold shipments into Mexico iii. 100 per cent was denied.
 President Wilson was asked not. ,+ sign the new draft bill until it c .o be changed so as to give credit ,n+ states which furnished large nuInbe are of volunteers to the army. m-
 ail. William Ryan, 18, a member of t jet former Fighting 69th' has been