Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-04
Condensed TeIeqrams

list.
 Three hundred Italian soldiers are in New York to aid the Liberty Loan drive.
 Large deposits of coal and iron are reported to have been found at Law son, Sound, Denmark
 Spain Will be permitted to export 56 400 tons of pyrites to the United States up to next January
 The cotton crop for 1918 was esti- mated at H. 818,0O0 1500-pound bales by the Department of Agriculture.
 Cotton ginned in the United States in 1918 to Sept. 25 was placed at 3,71S,915 bales by the Census Bu- reau.
 German papers make little comment of President Wilson's Liberty Loan speech and fail to publish it in full.
 Twenty soldier patients were killed when German shell struck an Amer ican hospital behind the lines in France.
 Commercial failures in the United States in the nine months just ended numbered S,G69, with liabilities of $122, ,O75, ,024.
 Soldiers and sailors from Dorches- ter, district of Boston, were adopted | by the people of the city of Dor chester, England
 The threatened shortage of natural gas for industrial consumption this winter was discussed at a conference in Washington.
 State, municipal and industrial ac- | tivities in St. Paul were halted when the body of Archbishop Ireland was i taken to the cemetery A large appropriation bill will be asked of Congress by the Senate com- mittee on commerce for perfecting a standardization of canned fish. 1 The President approved the prices fixed for sulphuric and nitric acids. The prices were announced Sept 26, and will continue until Dec 31. The British flag was hoisted in Ebetaff Harbor, Spitzbergen Island in the Arctic, and German houses and a wireless station were destroyed
 Flying 143 miles an hour, Caleb Bragg, a civilian pilot, arrived at l Washington from Dayton a distance of 43O miles, in two hours and 50 seconds.
 Fuel Administrator Garfield discus sed with President Wilson the demand for increases in wages for mine work CTS in the anthracite fields in Penn- | sylvania.
 Thomas A. Whittle, confectioner, oi l Rochester, was ordered to pay $1 ,O0C | to the Rochester war chest and sur render certificates for 40O0 pounds ot sugar.
 H. p. Davidson was awarded the l Commander Cross of the Legion o1 Honor of France. his is the highest rank ever conferred upon an American
 civilian.
 The Western Power Corporation vii
 construct a $6,000,00O power station or GN..I
 tric energy for the war needs of Sar
 Francisco.
 The Second Provisional Wing of tn,
 Aviation Service at Houston, Tex
 was named Ream Field in honor O First Flying Surgeon ". R. Ream who was killed there Aug. "A. Commissioner PrirgIe invited Cana dian publishers to. attend a meeting il Ottawa Oct. 16. to consider recon mendations to reduce consumption o Inewsprint paper during the war. The Department of Justice submit
 ted to the House a deficiency esti : mate of S2,000,000 for the detection and prosecution of crimes against tn,
 United States for the current fisca
 year.
 The submarine which torpedoed ant
 sank the French cruiser Dupewil
 Thouars in European waters, Aug [
 was in turn destroyed by an American
 freighter that was under the convo, of the French cruiser.
 Investigation of the charges aqans
 Arthur Brisbane. publisher of tn Washington Times by Alien Propert, Custodian Palmer, were indefinitel, postponed by the sub committee o the Senate Judiciary Committee.
 At a conference of congressman o , wheat-gr growing states and officials o
 the National Wheat Growers Associa
 tion at Washington it was decided t send special committee to urge tn President to fix the price of 191 wheat at $2.50.
 All theaters and moving pictur , shows in the District of Columbi } have been closed until Spanish in l f1uenza in war crowded Washington } is stamped out.
 John Adrian Martin, captain of tn Georgetown College basketball tear
 in 1911, died yesterday at Pelham Bay l N. Y, naval reserve station. He wa 5 2S years old. He was home in NeV : Britain on a visit last Sunday an . was in excellent health. l pr. David A. Flynn of New Have : pleaded guilty in the superior coul 2 yesterday to criminal negligence in tt - operation of an automobile and va ! fined $500 by Judge William Maltbie. l The grand jury in session at LitcE field brought in a, true bill of first de
 gree murder against Thomas J. Wi Il Hams, who is alleged to have shots an killed George Johnson in Morris C ;, July 15.
 Establishment of Lafayette Nation park on Mount Desert Island Me-
 provided in bill introduced by Sena
 tor Hale of Maine and adopted by u l senate. It now goes to the house. If During the week ending Sept. 2 j. f54 sick and wounded soldiers fro e the American expeditionary fore = were landed in the United States u One hundred and thirty-three firm
 were added to the enemy trading Ii . by the war trade board and ninetet Il were removed.
 Barranquitas, with $111,ooo, was r if ported as the first town of Porto Ri, d to subscribe its quota to the four e Liberty loan.
 ,f Edward L. Ripley of Boston WI g elected yesterday as treasurer of u l. First Church of Christ, Scientist, u 1t mother church of the Christian Scien S. body. He succeeds William R. Rat n, von, who resigned to become a memb h. of the board of directors