Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-07
Condensed Telegrams

Ning AifonSo ot Spaln rcappoInted | 1AntonIo Maura as Premier. Carada spent 34,386,081 in 1918. Militia expenses were $201, ,2SS.62S. Leaders in building trades expect big turn i'll conditions next month l Bids were opened by the Shipping Board on about 35 wooden steamers
 Grain receipts at Chicago for past week amounted to 4,77L000 bushels.
 Cleveland chief of police will buy battle tanks for use in dispersing mobs.
 Annual meeting of American Wool en Co. was again adjourned until 1 May 27.
 l According to reports from Tsarkoe 1 Selo. state of siege was proclaimed l in Petrograd.
 Serious riotins occurred in Ere mantle, Australia, in connection with | a lumber strike.
 United States Steel Corporation n purchased 54 acres of land on the l Passaic River. Kearney, N. J. 1 Canada's total imports for year ended March 31, $916, 443. 432 Exports amounted to $1,207 ,613,8 ,806. l Because of i'll health Frank L. Polk, acting secretary Of state, will resign when Secretary Lansing comes home.
 BolsFevik f!otiila again attacked l off by guntire from the Allied posi- tions.
 Bureau of Internal Revenue an- nounced persons seeking to evade i taxes on soft drinks are liable to fine of $10,000 or one year in prison or both.
 Chief Justice White of the Supreme | Court, announced after hearings that the court would take a recess until May 19.
 Justice Herbert T. ketcham took 1 the bench for the first time since his appointment to the Supreme Court of ! Brooklyn.
 Soft coal output for week of April 26 amounted to 1862, ,OOO tons An l thracite production amounted to l. 401, 600 tons.
 French ocean freight rates to Havre are now being quoted as low as $50 a tons, 5 under the lowest quotations since the beginning of the war.
 Textile Councils of Fall River and New Bedford voted to request of cot | ton manufacturers a 15 per cent. in- crease in wages, effective June ,.
 '5rieadier General Il. M. Long, Di- rector of Finance of the A E. F. withdrew SS000. 900 for shipment to France to pay American soldiers
 
 would allow an increase of cents in the maximum price of crude cotton seed oil, announced Sept. 12, 1918. i Owing to a shortage of coal, Ger man mine swecpers were forced tQ halt work on repairing the fairways leading to the North Sea port used by tho American food ships. More than one million unemployed :. in England arc receiving Government support. The number will be in- creased when Lancashire mills stoE spinning American cotton. Engineers of the A. E. F.. with . five-ton truck printing and litho- graphic establishment turned out 10000 field maps in an hour, com pared with 300 by French and British | Demand for forty seven hour week and so cents an hour wage with 3( , days vacation on full pay was pre- scented by 35.O0O Canadian railway i Shopmen to the Railway War Board Paris Matin understands the coun I eil Of three decided the first e5,060,- GO0,000 sterling of the German in i negotiable securities or treasury bonds.
 Supreme Court denied appeal o4 | Skinner Eddy Corporation to proven an increase in freight rates authorized by Interstate Commerce Commission fro 65 to TO cents a ton on steel iron Z! Pittsburgh to Pacific Coast.
 State Department was notified tn, l Peruvia government has undertaken the construction of a railway line tt , make possible transportation between 7 the Pacific and Atlantic coasts across r the widest part Of South America