Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-21
Condensed kilograms

Two leading copper producers quot
ed copper at II cents pound.
The government bought 50o,ouo bar
rels of Hour this week.
An increase of rs cents a ton in the
price OF hard coal Will be allowed by
the government.
Eastern bar iron makers offer com
mon merchant bars at $3.50, compared
with $3.50 for previous sales.
Reports reached Washington that
Costa RIca and Nicaragua are on the
verge of war.
British gold production during the
past nlne years amounted to Sl,4o4,-
| 595,965.
France launched a concrete cargo
vessel named Comafran L, OF stand
| ard type, 1000 tons displacement.
| Saturday will be holiday through
out Canaua on account OIL the funeral
| of Sir Wllfrid LaurIer, former Ca
madam Premier
Thirty tive coal mines in the Rhine
land district and d number of steel
mills, including Krupps, are all die
as a result of the general strike.
Edward Short, chief secretary to
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, viii
soon introduce a bill in the British
Parliamentto deport 1856 enemy
aliens.
A band of several hundred Yaqui
Indians were defeated in a battle With
Mexican Federal soldiers near idsbor-
regoa, Sonoro.
Uur,ng rne past four and a hall
months 81 transatlantic liners have
carried from Portland, Ne, 48l,6 ,627
tons of cargo
Mrs. Theodore. Roosevelt. accomp.
anied by her son Lieut.. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr, visited the grave OF hel
!, son, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt.
Gold coin to the amount of $I00,00i
was withdrawn from the New \ OH
Sub Treasury Tor shipment to SOutI
: America.
; Secretary of the Treasury and Col
onel Lindsay of the War Risk Bu
| reau are conducting an investigation
on costs of marine insurance.
e Army officials at Boston announces
e plans for greeting President W4lsoI
+ by wireless telephone as he appreache
e the port of Boston.
- George N. Beck, of Moline, Ill
former member of the War Industrie
t Board, was selected by Secretar
e Redfield as chairman OF the new pric
:. conference board.
= Ways and Means Committee of tn
I New York Assembly voted to repol
the bill appropriating$ 1000, G00 tOwar
K the construction of a Vehicular tunn,
= / between New York and New Jersey.
4 Louis L. Klotz, French Minister {
e Finance, announced a plan to tax
= itaI for an extended period so that II
d whole burden of the war bill wouI
S not fall on the present generation.
= Tobacco Products Expert Corpora
h ton was organized under the laws
: New York for the purpose of takir
d over all the freign business OF the II
d bacco Products Corporation.
Approximately 800 mayors and go'
d ernors throughout the country wire
d their acceptances to an invitation f
l. the labor cnference to be held
n Washington March 4
n A resolution was introduced in t
Senate by Senator McCumber call
IS on the United States and Allies
le send sufficient armed forces into Ru
lie sia to crush the Bolsheviki.
y, Fire is raging in the worlds gres
m est grain elevator at Port Arthur, Or
L owned by the Canadian Northe
Railroad. More than 5,500,O0O bush,
ga ofgrain are threatened with destrU
e. ton.
n Cottonseed and cottonseed produc
production from Aug. /, 1918, to j
en 81, 1919. amounted to 696,670 bales.
lie New York Assembly passed
as highway repair bill carrying an a
tn preparation Of $5,500,000.