Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-12

A shortage ot coal TOT scnoois anu hospitals was reported in Boston.
 The French cabinet decided to a;bolsh fixed prices for wheat harvest ed in 1920.
 un6Iled orders of the United States Steel corporation on January 3l were 8 2S5,441 tons.
 Nearly s7,5ooooo in gold bullion had been assembled at New York for ship ment to South America early next week.
 A general strike has been declared in the industrial region of Solingen an iron and steel center of Rhenish Prussia.
 Directors of the United Fruit Com pany increased to 12 per cent. the div ilend rate on the capital stock of the company.
 cumulated from cotton, says core spodent of the London Daily Express in Cairo.
 It was authoritatively denied that Germany had informed Belgium of the annulment of the Germano- Belgian financial agreement.
 The Japanese government is negc- l tiating with the Aqexandrovsk author ities for the evacua tion of the Japan ese populatiaE from the city.
 Advices from Plume announce that preparations are being made there for resistance against compromise settlement of the Adriatic dispute. Notices which are being sent to alumni of Wesleyan university give i information that the group plan" of
 future class reunions has been adopt | ed.
 Spontaneous combustion in cotton waste caused damage estimated at
 $50 ,000 to the big textile plant of the
 Pay Cotton Company at Woonsocket, 1 R. I.
 | Siberian holsheviki have captured Alexandrovsk, capital of the Island of 1 Sakhalin and fear is felt that. the l radidss forces may enter 1apan
 proper.
 | 1 drowned at Manchester N. H., when l attempting to cross the partly frozen
 Merrimack river in South Manchester l by boat.
 America has sounded France on the l subject of tobacco monopoly for
 France being famned out to tne United States for a period of twenty
 five years.  l Germany is preparing list contain ing thre names of allied soldiers and high officials who are accused by the U Berlin government Of violations of the laws of war.
 An immediate nation wide religious
 educational caInpaign was among the
 plans of the inter-csnurch world move
 rnent conference which is now in ses-
 sion in New York. Several Massachusetts towns ana | institutions were bequeatned sums
 ranging From $1,e90 to $25,000 by Thomas Prince, who died February
 at Santa Barbara, Cal.
 The wool auction sales were re- sumed in London. Bidding was ae, tive. / Fine grades were unchanged but medium and coarse croSsbred de-
 clined five per cent. Italians will ernigrate to the Unites
 States this year than in the record year of 1913, when 375.G00 left Italy!
 shores for America in the opinion O
 American officials in Italy. l The recent efforts to stimulate th' export trade of Great Britain to as } :sist in righting the exchange position are indicated in the London Board O ! Trade figures for January. l Julius c. stremlau, state prohibition l enforcement officer. announced tna l he had secured headquarters at tn t Allyn house in Hartford, where hi f office vii be maintained. : Preliminary to his installation a chief executive of France, Paul De : schanel. the president elect has pre- ] sented his resignation as president o the Chamber of Deputies. 7 New York newspapers which face r a newsprint crisis last week and wer : forced to cut down their size, are re [ ceiving paper brought there on a spe r citl freight train from Utica. TfA Finnish state council decided t
 create 800 0-meter mo mans land" he ! tween Russia and Finland in order t : suppress smuggfig ad minimize tn i risk of presidential contagion. n Louis LeaWtt, a Brooklyn manu f fajcturer of white lead was indfcte again on a charge of profiteering i F 2,000 pounds of bacon which il had bought from the government. : Present "excessive" and Generous r second class mail rates were blame r as the maj jor couse for suspension c = 250G newspapers since July l, 19lS b f Victor Rosewater, of Omaha, Neb. s Negotiations for the sale to tn }, French government of fifty woode e ships, aggregating $1S0,00e dead y weight tons are being conducted b
 the Anderson Overseas Corpora tion,
 A silver punch Iadle used by Geore S Washington while he was presider
 was purchased for s1,000, at a sale { k Washington Selfcs at the galleries ( a the American Art Association in Ne s York.
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