Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-27
Condensed TeIeqrams


on Feb. 20
Allied troops of all nations will re.
ceive medal ribbon.
Body of Rosa Luxembourg was found
in the Landwehr canal multiIated,
Mrs. Helen Sill Woodrow, aunt of
President Wilson, Alied at Denver.
Shipping Board VaIIocated 25O, ,0cO tons
of shipping for South American trade.
An irish CeatrIst party under Capt.
Stephen Glynn was formed in Ire
land
War Trade Board announced France
will not be able to ship potash until
April.
Generals Cullen, WesterveIt and
Hennis arrived at Rome to inspect
war plants.
Freight rates on steamers plying be-
tween Canada and British points were
reduced.
According to reports received at
Madrid monarchy was set up in
Portugal.
Butter dropped 13 cents pound in
the week and potatoes 80 cents a hun-i
dred pounds.
President and Mrs. Wilson enter
tained American enlisted men at tea
| in Murat Palace.
Idle cars on railroads of the United
states is estimated at more than 100
| UU0 at present
| Australian Government arranqed
sale of so coo tons of wheat to india,
and 1900 to England.
| Gold amounting to about 740,o90,Go |
! francs stolen from Belgium by Ger !
many was returned
A new January record price was
scored III Chicago on prime cattle atl
! $50 hundredweisht.
Subway, omnibus and t-amway work.
ers in Paris went on strike for higher
wages and an eight-hour day
Mines Co, Of America completed
plans for raising working capital with
which TO resume operations in Mex
| leo.
Southern pine interests completed
plans for the organization of an eX-
port combination under the Webb law
The open winter in this country wi
mean the saving Of 100000 tons OF fod-
der stuffs for European countries.
Medical Corps asked Congress for
an appropriation of $7,000,000 to pur-
chase artificial limbs, serums and vac
cines.
Department of Labor expresses hope
that governors Of states would take
action to stimulate public con-
| StTuCtion
Chicago City Council committee or
dered plans drawn up calling for a
city manager and recall vote on office
Of mayor.
Governor Smith left Albany for New
! York to attend the organization OF
his recently appointed reconstruction
committee
Echo de Paris reports President Will
/, son will likely be offered the presi-
dency of the commission of the League
, Of Nations.
Argentine reports say that owing
to the strike of marine workers the
! packing houses have withdrawn from
= the cattle market.
f Canadian food board ordered re-
moved restrictions in public eating
places on the sale of beef or veal and
: the amount of butter used.
: Ammunition of the United States
: unused and stored in French Ware
= houses viii be shipped to the United
! States for future use.
r Argentine weekly shipments were
| as follows: Wheat 1,124, 600 bushels
corn 1,I56,000 bushels. oats $4,000
] bushels, flax $4,000 bushels.
] A measure was introduced in Madric
. providing for the construction of {
@ double track electric railway line from
the French frontier to Gibraltar.
0 Frederick A. Duneka, vice presiden
of Harper & Bros, died at his HON,
in Summit n J. He was a forneI
t city editor Of the New York Evening
8 World
G Pembroke Jones, financier, who wa
= actively identified with railway an,
S shipping interests in the South. die,
II after an operation IN New Yorl
e hospital
Stockyard interests report q biq de
= crease in consumption of meat in tn
d East. At Atlantic points large sun
r plies of meat are being placed il
! freeze~s.
y In the 1919 issue Of "Who's Who" !,
d Britain, the commander IN chief Of tn
American Expeditionary Forces i
IS listed as Gen. Sir John J. Pershins
n G. c. B."
l. Railroad appropriations for the pur
d chase of new equipment and genera
d work on systems under Governmen
II control up to Dec 81 amounted t
Is $1,27S,814,99S.
y. War Department announced that i
$ continuing to sell at pubTc auctio
i such wool as manufacturers rcquir
there is no intention to compete wit
T. domestic producers
s. Henry M. Shartenberg, of Ne,
Sc Haven, has been elected president {
/ the Dry Goods Alliance
l. Thomas Healey and Adrian Housto
1 each seven years of age, broke throug
IS the ice on pond near the FeIlswa
al Boulevard at Somerville. Mass, an
+ were drowned
&c Orders to release from active a
o. yeOwomen and all the enlisted persor
mel of the naval reserve force by tn
nj end of the fiscal year. July l, wei
re received at the Portsmouth, y. II
5 navy yard.
e The schooner John of Newfounc
~ land, which sailed from Cadiz, Spai
:, on Dec. 13, was reported a derelict
~; the path of navigation.
- President John M. Thomas of Mix
dlebury College who sailed from Ne
'ly York on the Leviathan for Brest. w
n serve as chaplain to returning troop
oE A total Of fifty nine submarin
IN were lost by the British navy durir
EN- the war. Of these SO were destroyt
lis by enemy action. The Germans 10
ne 203 submarines,
ur BY a vote of 90 to 8, the lndar
Ire house passed the Johnson bill TO gra
u women in Indiana presidential Su
"H frage. The bill now goes to the Sc
ate.
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