Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-10
Condensed TeIesrams

VVttuVstOVu tCtCyI 0tAS The grippe epidemic in Switzerland is decreasing.
 The price of bread has been raised 11e per cent. in large cities in Austria. An American aviator found the grave of Quentin Roosevelt at Chame- r4.
 E The federal food board requested that nos sugar be used in the making of home made candies | The municipal council of Arezza has conferred honorary citizenship upon President Wilson. l Thea Brooklyn Rapid transit an- nounced that 2, ,So0, 900 passengers were given a hearty welcome.
 Railroads were instructed to effect prompt transportation of leather and hides because of the heavy govern ment demands.
 A large contingent of Siamese troops have arrived at Marseilles, and were given a hearty welcome.
 The, hot wave is checking the out put of steel. Duluth is working at full operation because of the law temper ature.
 Hogs at the yards in Chicago sold , for new record price of $2005. The formed record price was s2O paid last August.
 l - The War Department announced orders for the immediate mobiIizac tion of the Slavic Legion at Camp Wadsworth, S. c. Three hishwaymen held up the South Side Bank. of Indianapolis, and after attacking the president and cashier escaped with $1O,000. Maior-eeneraI Graves, who will | Command the American expedition tc Siberia, received the confidentia
 orders from Secretary Baker.
 The food administration announced
 that exports of beef for June were
 s2,17s,eo0 pounds, of which 95 per cent
 went to Britain. France and Belgium | Mrs. Della Richardson, wife o
 Granville A Richardson, vice presiden
 of the Erie railroad, died at a Nev | York hospital following a short ill
 ness.
 M Provisions of the $sOoo, 900, GOO reve
 nue bill were reviewed by the hous
 ways and means committee. N
 changes were made in the rates agree
 upon.
 General standards for fire prevention
 particularly for war industries, wer
 recommended jointly by the war in
 dustries board and bureau of stand ards.
 HI A new aviation field at Fort Myer Fla, will be named Hisetand field, i honor of Flying Instructor Hiestan who was killed last June is an acc dent.
 HI The railroad administration repor ed that in western territory during tf | last 50 days a.ooo cars had been rt | ported for the purpose of eliminatir | long haulage. II Five miners were killed and f7 = others seriously injured when a g;
 explosion wrecked a shaft and SCI
 tions of the workings at Harmarvill re near Pittsburgh. D. The first bale of the new cotton crt S. arribed at Liverpool and was sold ne $13,500, the proceeds going to the R, a. Cross. The bale was shipped to Maj se chester to be sold again. t ut nv Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner of Ch K. cago resigned his position in t ed United States army to become supe m intendent of the aerial mail servi te for the postofice department. re Six hundred employees of the port
 ble plant of the New York Air Bra nd company at Watertown. N Y. nc
 working on government contracts f ne cartridge cases. went on strike. os.
 Fire from the explosion of a tren mortar shell destroyed five buildin
 of the Western Cartridge company
 East Alton, IL, blew up two powd
 magazines and did damage estimat 13 at s2oo, ,o00.
 30 The department of agriculture ]
 ports that despite the adverse weatf - conditions a bumper wheat and co 52 crop is estimated for this year. T
 total wheat yield will be S7S,00O,(
 bushels and the corn yield will
 2,989, ,000,o bushels. TO, ----