Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-31
Condensed Telegrams

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 The present condition of corps in -he United Kingdom is promising.
 Private Harry l. Cook, East Hamp- ,on, Conn.,, previously reported miss ing, now reported slightly wounded.
 The new Finnish cabinet formed by | former Senator Paaskivi, indicates in | creased German influence in the Fin sh government.
 The degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon President Wilson yes i terday by the trustees of Lincoln Me- l morial university.
 The failure of eouidin Smith and one of the oldest firms op- erating on the New Orleans cotton ex- change, was announced.
 The ninth ship built by the Chicago Shlpbuilding company for the emerg- ency Fleet Corporation, has been launched in the Calumet river.
 Mrs. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt and Kay L. Baker, director of the mint, will be married at Mrs Vanderbilt's K,
 A maximum base price of 33 cents a pound for aluminium in lots of 50 tons or more of the ingot 9S to 99, has been fixed by President Wilson.
 Pulp wood consumption was esti- mated by the forest service at 5,536,- So2 cords for 1917, an increase of ap- proximately $ per cent. over 1916.
 State Insurance Commissioner, c. |. smith, of Maine. issued a statement, urging that all kinds Of fireworks be eliminated on the Fourth of July
 An article published by Ruenos Aires, La Razon. says American busi- ness men are endeavoring to replace the Germans in Argentine commerce.
 The strange case of an airplane which continued in flight for two hours after it's occupants had been killed. is related by an officer of the Royal air force
 Second Lieutenant T. H. Heintznan. of Toronto, was killed and Cadet $. Rosenthal, of New York Civ was seriously injured in an airplane ac- cident
 Conferees on the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, eliminated the Sen ate amendment prohibiting the dis charge of free acid or acid waste in streams.
 Francis S. Nash, medical director of the navy, and his wife. were in- dlcted by grand jury at Washington yesterday on a charge of hoarding | toodstuffs.
 A meeting has been held in Rome, under the auspices of the American University Union in Europe, for the | purpose. of forming an American University Union.
 Purchase by the United State oov. ernment of $5 900 900 down towr 1 New York site for a big improvement the nature of which was not dfscios- l ed, was announced
 1 After being adrift three days, the l Spanish steamer Mar Rojo was towe6 into an Atlantic port by fruit carry ing steamer in which picked her UT off the New England coast Monday.
 A new riVetine mark for the United Kingdom was made at Queens Island by John Lowry, who drove 7,S41 rivets in nine hours. He also tablished 2 record for an hour with 922 rivets.
 Lieutenant Gardiner c. Means, o- Brooklyn, Mass. had miraculous es. cape from death Wednesday. wher he fell with his airplane 1900 feet neal the Hazelhurst aviation field, Mineola 1 Mrs. Mary Hill and Mrs. Elsie lief fers arrested in Leominster, Mass. last month charged with distributins copies of the Kingdom News in viola tion of the espionage act were dis. charged from custody.
 Joint Chairmen Taft and Walsh O the war labor board will go to Scran
 ton, Pa. next Sunday to investigate { strike of street railway employees ther
 which is said to be interfering witt anthracite production.
 | The Whitehead torpedo plant at St
 Poelten, Austria, has been destrovet
 by fire. according to an Exchange Tel
 egraph despatch from Zurich. V4enni
 newspapers declare the fire was tn,
 result of sabotage by Italian workmel
 in the plant.
 Chairman Joseph E. Warner of tn
 Massachusetts Ways and Means Com
 mittee announced in the house, tha
 the state tax to be assessed upo
 Massachusetts cities and towns thi
 year would amount to $11 900 900, tn l same as last year.
 Four hundred acres of farm land i
 the towns of Bolton, Lancaster an
 Still River. on the outskirts of Cam Devens, have been taken over by arm authorities and plans are being t
 raise sufficient vegetables to suppl the entire cantonment during the sum
 mer months.
 COMMITTEES TO RECRUIT 5000 TRAINED NURSE, , Are Being Organized by the AtIanti ) Division of the Red Cross.
 New York, May S0.-Special com
 mittees to recruit 5000 trained nurse,
 sorely needed by the army, are bein organized in all cities within the jur