Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-21

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 sixty-fve theusand pounds of Ger man hops valued at $i, a pound were destroyed in fire at Rochester. Five story brick building of the Ma tional Paper Stock Co. at Indianapolis was burned, causing loss of $95,o00.
 Grover WhaIen inaueurated five mu- nicipal bus lines on Staten Island as a result of the trolley lines abandoning service.
 James E. connery, denocrat, was elected mayor of Middletown. defeat ing George A. Tierney by majority of 233 votes.
 Whiskey, wines and cordiaIs valued at from $5,000,000 to $10,000.00O have been seized in New York by govern ment prohibition agents.
 War Finance Corporation announe- ed a grant of $1O,000O, 900 credit ex- tended to England, France, Italy and Belgium for machinery exports.
 A report from Moseow says troops of General Simon PetlEra. Ukraniau | leader, burned Volhynsky, in Volhynia, GA miles northwest of Zhitonir.  An alleged $4,5oo bogus bill swindIe worked by convicts Of Sing Sing is 1 under investigation by the Westcnes- ter County Grand Jury in session at l White Plains.
 i News reached London of heavy l engagement on the northwestern frontier of India,' in which British losses are reported at 3S5, including eight British officers. held up Secretary Glass request for authorization to loan Austria, Poland and other European countries $780, 0O0,o0 for food relief. Bran dnew 1000 franc notes of the bank of France of the value of %, ,003- 900 francs vert down recently in the Bay of Biscay when the French teamer Afrique sank.
 The Rev. Edwrad A.. FIannery, pas tor of the Church of the Blessed Sac rament, yesterday. celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
 Low temperatures were noted in Eastern Connecticut yesterday morn ing. It was A at Oneco postoffice, and about 20 in the towns up and down the Rhode Island line.
 Salvatore Fratino, aged s6, wa burn- ed to death in Saugatuck when the house in which he lived. with hin son was burned to the ground.
 Three men were lost and four seri i-' ousiy injured in a fire which destroyed the barracks housing 100 employees, at Edgewood arsenal, near Aberdeen, Md. All the victims were civilians.
 Securities and other property vaIu- ed at more than $l0o,o0o, taken by lone bandit from mail car of Southern Pacific train, was recovered at Berkeley. Calp by railroad detec- tives.
 Forty-nine members of the crew of 50 of the American steamer Macoona, which struck a rock and foundered near Nfdingen Lign. off the coast of Sweden, were lost. Only the second mate was saved.
 Official despatehes from Persia report that the belsheviki still are outside Krasnovodsk, where they are under the fire of the Caspian Sea volunteer fleet, which is under the command of General Denikine.
 A railway signal man found q bomb on the Salermo Railway near Naples, just before passenger train arrived. The bomb exploded as he reached the nearest depot, nearly kill ing him and injuring four railway en- ployes.
 Responsibility for prison conditions in the American army, Paris sector, was placed on Brigadier General Will liam Harts, fcrmer commandant of the district. by Major General Har- board commander of the Service of Supplies.
 Socialist members of the Hungarian government resigned following threats from Carl Garami, former Minister of Commerce and other socialists of Vii enna that they would be expelled from the international organization if they remained in office.
 Expulsion of foreign born agitaters,
 IS. adoption of the English language throughout the nation d..d more religion among the people of the country were advo- cated by Vice President Marshall in an address at Daytona, Fla.