Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
Condensed Telegrams

was assigned to early convoy home.
 French Senate. passed the eight hour labor bill, which becomes a law. l Majority of Lond n evening papers support President Wilson's stond re- garding Fiume.i Gold amounting to s105,o0o was with drawn from the Sub-Treasury this week for shipment to South America. Reports from fifty eight cities show labor conditions are improving in the United States. Directors of Bethlehem Steel Cor poration declared an extra dividend of three fourths per cent on class 4 and B common stock.
 1 Secretary Daniels and his party ar rived at London. He will be greeted 1 by the First Lords of the Admiralty 1 Eleventh New York Engineers will parade on Fifth avenue next Wednes-
 day.
 New Orleans and New York Cotton
 Exchanges will close Monday, April t2S, to honor soldiers returned from the war
 i Total reserve of the Bank of Eng 1 land dropped e69.900 in week. Bullion
 dropped e11S,O0
 Department of Agriculture reports ! commercial stocks of wheat on April i l, 9f5,954.626 bushels.
 
 week ended April 19, amounted to 3S1, ,565 barrels.
 Sale of Stock Exchange seat
 brought s75,000, 5000 more than the previous price,
 Announcement was made of the. re- | sumption of SailingS of the Mallory Line between New York and Mobile.
 John Golden, international president
 of the Textile Workers of America
 failed to settle the eight-hour dispute
 of Troy, N. YA
 reaus of War Risks Insurance total
 $7S5.00O, 900, which greatly exceeds premiums received by Treasury De- partment.
 Allies in return for feeding Russia, will insist that the Bolsheviki cease all military operations and remain
 within prescribed area. | Announcement that great Missis- sippi Valley bank would be formed was made by H. M. Merrick, who was elected president of the Mississippi Valley Association.
 A public hearing will be held by the officials in charge of the enforcement of the Federal Food and Drug Act of May 19, in the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. Members of the Railroad Admins tration and Industrial Board of the Department of Commerce began con- ferences at Washington to fix a price for steel. Thirteen thousand shoe workers in Brockton, Mass, and several thousand in surrounding cities, accepted the proposal of the manufacturers for a 4S-hour week with no reduction in wages.
 EIhu Root, counsel for the United I States Brewers Association. asked Federal Judge Hand to declare uncon- stitutional the wartime prohibition law enacted under false pretenses.' United States Internal Revenue Col lctor Gilligan at Cleveland, Ohio, re- s ceived instructions from Internal Rev k enue Collector Roper directing hin to issue stamps to brewers making beer containing 2S4 per cent. alcohol American steamship Wautusa re ported by wireless that she was il 3 distress with engine trouble thirty miles off Nantucket lightship. Death of the Countess of Paris E mother of the Duke of Orleans, whC was seventy years old, was an
 nounced in Madrid
 kirg Vicor Emmanuel of ltal, U te}cgraphed Premier Orlando, com
 mending his action and declaring . there must De no feceSSlOH- $ First unit of the 77th Division ar s rived at New York on the Aquitania $ New life insurance policies int d5 which terms insurance carried |, U soldiers and sailors can be convert ~ ed will be ready June 1. Q A resolution at the second day ,i session of the American Newspape u Publishers Association convention : authorized the sending Of a messag by wireless to President Wilsol IS pledging the support of the news = papers to the Victory Loan.
 Price Of Iron Crosses near
 doubled since the government place
 a ban on selling them. limitation
 Iron Crosses are being made thougf 5 BoIsheviki were driven out of kie> d capital of the Ukraine by revolu $ tionary Ukratnian troops, Il Robbers entered the Harpster, 0 = Bank and escaped with s199,000 i l. Liberty Bonds and oither valuable $ taken from the safety deposit boxes Il Herbert C. Hoover, in Pari IS head of the Allied Relief Organiza = ton, was surprised and annoyed b s the publication of a report announc e ing his presence in Berlin. Il Rain is believed to have extinguishe r. the many extensive wood fires in Vol
 untown and Sterling.