Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-24

Damage estimated at S1 1000, ,0G0 was caused by fire which burned for two hours on the amusement pier at Venice, Cal.
 Constantine of Greece plans to visit the Greek army in Asia Minor on the Smyrna front some time about New Years.
 Paul Sauer, 17-year-oId bank messen- ger for the Security Trust & Savings bank, of Los Angeles, was robbed of S6,- 500.
 A bill will be introduced in New Jer- sey legislature providing for life sen tences for robbers who use weapons in holdups.
 Failure of the brokerage firm of Eos ter and Lounsbery was announced from the rostrum of the New York Stock E.x- change.
 House appropriations committee re- ported out the annual pension bill totGl- ing s256, ,5oO.OOO, a decrease of S14,OVo, 600 from last year.
 | Reports of large boIshevilI forces con- centrating with heavy artillery along the Georgian frontier. are causing alarm in official circles at Tiflis. Sir Hamar Greenwood announced in | tle house of commons that Great .5rit- ain is considering instituting martial law in all parts of Ireland. Among the papers of agtatOrs at Kladno, Is miles northwest of Prague. a detailed plan of a projected revolution ary movement was found.
 A riot which broke out at Petrograd was crushed by Soviet forces and lpJ laborers executed. Many per sons were
 killed and injured in rioting.
 Thomas BedssoT, convicted of murder
 and head of a bandit gang which last
 summer terrorized the province of Alber-
 ta, was hanged at Lethbridge.
 A shipment of gold amounting to s1.-
 30a,000 was received by the National
 Bank of Commerce from the Syeriges Riksbank, Swedish government bank. All bids received for furnishing a year'i supply of bunker coal for American mer- chant ships at Atlantic and Gulf port, were rejected by the shipping board. The state comptroller has received
 from Bridgeport the enumeration " school children in that city. The tota is 32,S90 an increase of 71S over -elJ
 A force of motorcycle police to patru the state roads in Maryland in an effor j. to stop automobile bandi.ry will be in $ augurated at opEe, Governor Ritchie an . nounced.
 : Lieut. Ross c. Kirkpatrick, army fiier who was forced down while atternptin Q to break the worlds record for continu ous flight, will have. ano.her try at tn e record soon.
 e Anthracite coal shipments during Nc 0 vember amour ed to-5.765, ,347 gross toni S 475,554 tons lower than October. Thi t decrease is due to fewer working days l s November.
 Recipients of charity at the Bower d Mission, the East Side mother" to thou e sands buffeted by diversity, proved tha e one touch of misfortune makes the whol J. world kin.
 e Admiral Kelly, head of the British ns l. val mission at Athens informed Nil l. Constantine that he was unablo to accel 'r the grand cordon of the Royal Order Is the Savior.
 
 al Alberto J. Pani expects to leave Me, B. ico for Washington .he first week
 January to assume the duties of Mex
 can ambassador to the United State
 says The Excelsior.
 Frederic Belasco, lessee of the Ale 10 gar theatre here for many years al O. brother of David Belasco. New Yol h theatrical producer, died at his home ,p San Francisco from pneumonia. o- Test of an aerial mail service betwe n- Mexico City, Pueblo and Vera Cruz Vi n- used with Gernando Proal aviator al or Augustin Henriquez as mechanician. e.; Now York domestic silver was U rs changed at 99 1-2 cents. Foreign a be vanced 3-4 cent to 63 If cents. Lon3
 quoted at 40 1-4d, up 1-2d. Mexican d, as lars was F-s cents higher at 4s 1-2 cen
 General Francisco MurSu,a. form
 oommande- In chief of Mexican fore
 in Chihuahua, and in charge of fore n, guarding the late President i;arrsn ~ curing his flight from Mexico City. h ys been released from prison. l. Now Jersey Department of Agricultr ia announced farmers of that state reduc ,st grain acreage sown for next year ir cause of unsatisfactory prices of "a. farm products, high prices of labor, f ss. tilizer and farm implements
 The petition of the New York. N ne Haven & Hartford Railroad company A permission to acquire 2s9 sh1res of ,n- capital stock of the Fruit Growers I nls press company fop s28.9o0 was forma ,ss approved today by the public utilit ct commission.
 X Declaring that hundreds of babies
 being literally sold in Salt Lake ev,
 year. Judge Hugo B. Anderson, of 1N liocal juvenile court in his biennial
 bort to the governor. recommends q re- legislation be introduced to prevent F. lcontinuance of the traffic let
 i'm. Two prominent Mexicans ..re under ted rest at San Antonio. Tex. and ta-. md lprehension of others was expected ras the result of federal indictments brou ew at San Antonio. charging them W