Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-31
Condensed IeIeqrams
Rrjuadier General Henry CIav Wood

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 Brigadier General Henry Clay Wood, U. $. A.. retired. died at his apart ments at Portland. Me, where he has been an invalid the past two years.
 Sam Miller, 22, ot Bridgeport. and Louis w. Fisher of New York city, charged with stealing several hunareu dollars worth of furs at Meriden and at Waterblry. were held in $2,O0O each for the superior court at Meriden.
 William J. McGee, 19 years old, d railroad brakeman, died at St. Francis hospital, hartford. 1ohoWiHg the JOSS of a leg under train.
 Daniel J. MacGilicuddy of Cam bridge, Mass. is among the marines reported severely wounded in ac- tion.
 Frank Konig, e8 years old, of Mad lson, Conn. a trackWalker Tor the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, was struck and killed by a west bound epress train on the Shore Line division there.
 War bills for the month of August amounted to $1,621 900 .O0O.
 Legislation to prevent speculation in food in Brazil is being enacted.
 London military experts place German dead losses at 2,000,00 men.
 Passenger fares in Baltimore have been increased from five cents to six
 Production of anthracite for the week ended Aug. A. toalled 1,706,- 616 tons
 The outlook for the late fruit crop and vegetable crop of Canada is re- ported good.
 It is reported in Paris that a Ger man submarine sunk the Spanish steamer Crusa.
 During the week ended Aug. 23, 42s wounded and sick soldiers returned from France.
 Thirteen captains of the navy were recommended for the temporary grade | of rear admiral
 A campaign for the pensioning o1 all Federal employees was started 1T | Brooklyn by the navy yard workers. 1 Albert Rathbone of New York was nominated by President Wilson to bs Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The municipal authorities of Rome have taken over control of the egs | market, fixing the price at ten cents each.
 Regulations are being drafted by th' South African Government to proven the use of German language in public | places.
 Upward of 100000 letters and oth
  | gently in Chicago. They contained i seditious matter.
 The oil tanker Frederick Kellogg which was attacked by German sub marine was lowed to Staten Island ant i beached
 Increased pay for hard workin, i Washington draft board clerks wa ! authorized by Provost Marshall Gen :! eral Crowder.
 i Bids for the manufacture of 4 900, fG00 pairs of army shoes will be opena,
 in the office of the Quarterma3te General yesterday. | During the skirmish between Amer ican and Mexican troops at Noea F. Ariz., U. $. Consulate Clerk E. Toole Was shot and wounded
 Vladimir Bourtzeff, the Russian Rev olutionist, in Paris, reports that Gen eral Korniloff, who has often bee reported dead. is living. 1 A billion pounds of beef was ship ped abroad by the United States tn. year compared with less than 40, GOO I GOD pounds prior to the war The Shipping Board announced tt taking over of the Lake steamer Mis souri. It will be used as a tr2inin ship for apprentice seamen.
 The newspaper A. B. c. Of Ma drid was suppressed because it pull hshed German wireless about Ger many's reply to the Spanish sUbma rine note
 Striking structural iron workers Rochester, returned to work pendir investigation of their demand for a increase of 20 cents an hour in pay. '1 E. A. Ronssin, the new French mir iSter to Cuba in succession to Cou'
 De Clero who resigned recently owir to ill health. has arrived at Havana. The Newfoundland three -maste
 schooner Blanca which was capture and reported sunk by a German sul } marine was lowed into a Canadia port.
 } The French War Department h; abandoned French made hospital ar surgical dressings in favor of thoi manufactured by the American Rt
 Cross.
 ) The chief cities and towns of u Rhine district, according to the c, logne Gazette. formed a committee deal with the increasing menace Allied air raiders. A new flag will be flown from stean CTS operated by the Railroad admin , tration. It will have the words U. l R. A. in blue on a white field and
 red border.
 Wage increases ranging from 15
 25 per cent. for railroad track labo CTS and for certain classes of clerl were recommended to Director M 5 Adoo by the Board of Railroad Wage : Sergeant Conrad Elworth Lester, S {, verely wounded in France. has be; : in the Army IT years. He was one l the first men that pursued Villa n; : his bandits. He is a New Yorker. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of u Navy calls attention to the urge
 need for sextants for use in the nav |, Any cooperation and help in obtainil l these articles will be greatly apprec : ated