Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1920-06-11
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

Bar gold in London was quoted at
loss Sd an ounce, compared with loss Sd
at last close.
new high record was set in the
sales of United Cigar Stores for May,
totalling $6,S23,44S.
The dock strike situation in Galveston
continued quiet, with freight congestion
showing further improvement.
declaration in favor of ratification
of the Treaty of Versailles will be the !
main plank in the democratic platform. |
American Iron and Steel Institute re-
ported May output of so companies, of
steel ingots, totafed 2.SS3,154 gross tons.
reduction in the wholesale price OF
sugar from s263O to S25 a hundred
weight was announced by the Western
Sugar Refinery.
Cotton Exchange membership of n. P.
| Sloan was sold to Thomas E. Russell
for $4,000 decrease of $4,000 over
last sale OF a seat.
Approximately 1000 journeymen hat
ters went on strike at Orange, y. j., de-
manding $40 day and 81 for each day
there is no work for them.
Federal Judge ChatfeId, in Brooklyn.
announced that hereafter all persons
convicted of violating the prohibition
law would receive Jail sentences.
The recess appointment of Peter c.
Cannon of Providence, to be United
States attorney for the district of Rhode
Island was announced at the White
House.
-Four persons were killed and more
than score injured in windstorm
which swept through northern Minnesota
and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and North
Dakota.
A strike of Spanish farm hands in
Alacala and Gazules was announced be
cause of the number of foreigners who
are being employed by landowners in
this district.
Chicago geologists planned to examine
the huge meteor which fell and burned
/ itself out near Okmulgee, Okla, after
! lighting the skies over several south
western states.
The fiftieth annual reunion of thu
, Masonic Veteran Association of Connec
tlcat Will De opeueu thursday, June -
! at II a. M, with King Hiram Lodge, F
& A. NJ, in Derby
President de la Huerta signed a decree
calling the Mexican congress into session
June 20 to consider a proposal for re-
l forms in the electoral law and creation
c of a department of education.
S Leonardo Bredice, charged with thu
s murder of Vincenzo ziggarelli in Wa
: terbury over a year ago, was SENTENCED
: to not less than five years and not NOR
e than ten years in the state prison.
l l Theodore E. Burton, former United
y = States senator from Ohio. speaking a
: the New York university commencement
: attacked class domination and politica
!. rule by the minority in national affairs.
Governor Edward, Surgeon Genera
Cummings of Washington, and eX-Sherif
Sumner, of Newark will speak befor
% the Child Hygiene Conference, whicl
= open at Asbury Park, N. j., on June l.
President Wilson in telegram t
e. Professor Van Happard secretary genera
e of the League of Red Cross Societie.
II expressed qualification that Switzerland
L by vote of her people, had joined tn
l. League of Nations.
ie Charles Henry Conrad Fisher. 70, wa
lie arrested at New York on charge c
i being the pen" of a gang of forger
which has defrauded New York, Bostol
Philadelphia, Providence and New HaN
en- banks out of $4,000.
OF Gold valued at 100000 pesos wa
ne deposited in government vaults in Buenc
Aires, releasing an equivalent amour
" from the deposits of the Argentine En-
=. bassy in Washington with the feder;
= reserve bank to pay debts in this coul
nd try.
mt 81 a.. ,or,,.-s or
employers of the United States create
~, ne voluntary arbitration board to sett
iie labor grievances was placed before Il
~ annual convention of the America
he Federation of Labor in session at Mo-
lss treal.
re- Judge julius NJ. Mayer, in the Z.
district court, signed an order directir
the discharge of Benjamin p. Odell al
i'd George c. Holt. as receivers for the Ae
us ma Explosive Co, Inc, and directed Il
le- return of the property to the stockhol
rst ers.
led President Wilson announced the a
lat pointment of Henry J. Ford, New Je
try sey; Mark W. Potter New York, al
ich James Duncan, Massachusetts. to
ip- members of the Interstate CONNER
ose Commission. Marston T. Bogert. Ne
York. and Samuel w Mccall. Massach
ent setts, were named members of the Tar