Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

The cathedral at Noyon is afire. The blaze is attributed by the Germans to the French bombardment. |
 The Rome, N. Y., Brass 6 Cooper Co.,, announced a ten per cent. wage increase for its 5000 employees.
 One hundred and fifty motor trucks for the United States Transport Ser vice reached New York from Buffalo.
 The Department of Justice announce ed that less than 25O Germans were arrested for failure to register in Feb i ruary. Seven members of the Youngstown. Ohio, City. Council, indicted on bribery charges, will be given preliminary hearing.
 Three. cities of the Pacific North west, through their Boards of Educa- tion voted to abolish the teaching of German.
 The Board of. Education of Des
 Moines announced that the teaching of German will be discontinued after the present term.
 Cardinal Gibbons gave strono en-
 dorsement to the League to Enforce
 Peace in a letter written to former
 President Taft.
 The American Red Cross yesterday authorized a gift of half a million dol
 lars to the Canadian Red Cross for
 war relief work.
 Sir Ernest shackIeton, the explorer, | a -al sr, par7o Chile, where he has been engaged on Q diplomatic. mission. E The officers. of the Dairymen's Lea 2 que Who were indicted in New York . are. to. be tried in Syracuse to con | yendienaee ra witnesses: z,,ss,s.s.
 Nina LawIess, five years of aee, of T Astoria, L. l., died from illness caused V by eating too many hard boiled eggs T on Easter Sunday.
 Ii Edward Waller, a confectioner, and : Henry Williams, his helper, are under /! arrest charged with putting ground . glass in confections.
 2 The Walters Alder bill to provide
 for the enrolment of women voters
 this year passed the Assembly with 4 Oul tL uISSeIlllHS vote. < The Government took over the Bul . Durham tobacco plant at Durham, N 5 C.. so that the American soldiers vii U have plenty of tobacco. It Fuel Administrator Garfield has au. e' thorized an increase of per cent. il
 the basis of coke manufactured eas
 of the Mississippi river and sold wes 1t of the Rocky Mountains. all By arrangements with Premier Or If lando. representatives of the American ,s Red Cross have left Rome for al IF principal points of Italy. le The War Department announced tha -- short furloughs would be granted t Is men in the service to let them go ol w farms to help in planting.
 A Federal force to troops in Mexic
 under Mapor F. Antillon, defeate
 rebels at Las Vamas. The commando Z of the rebels and ten men were killed Id w. H. de Beaufort, formerly Dutc
 Minister of Foreign Affairs is deat
 He took an important part in the in to ternational peace conference at Tn s Hague.
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 od The Great Northern Railroad apple o+ to the Interstate Commerce Commis ,n sion for increased rates on lumbe m lgoing to Canadian points from north ds western points. 5l }n Angus Q. Mcdonald, of New Yorl
 vice president of the Southern Pacif ne was appointed by Rail Director Mo gs Adoo as treasurer for the Railros in Administration.
 d- Iu Professor James A. Bristed of Il he University. of Chicago, was elects lie presidhnt of the American Orient
 Society at it's 130th annual meetir
 yesterday at Yale. " Etienne De sa4e..y.,. sergeant mai
 of cavalry attached to the Belgi5 ,. corps, was killed at Amiens, Franc March 26 during the bombardment
 the city by German aviators. nma m James p. calfe. formerly vital stati III tican of the Boston health departmel a has been appointed by Health Con a missioner John T. Black director ';nn vital statistics for the Connectic hn health department .ee ,e The Postof6ee Department amour ar M ed that magazines with a one ce ;+I stamp on them hereafter will be SC . .+s to cantonments or or ports of embarl o,, ation not to Europe. he n ML A..: ru: yer maJor SenerA! Meren, HS.Ing VII ,e5 the casualty list issued daily. pendil
 definite interpretation from Secreta
 Baker as to whether it is forbidd = | by his new, order. i.
 An amendment authorizing the pos
 master general to exclude the use ut- the mails to concerns or persons who n's he has reason to believe are guilty at violating the espionage act, was lay troduced yesterday by Senator King ,ok Utah. ice ev. Frank LolIi arrested recently, pal New York, in connection with {