Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-26

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 Decision to withdraw British troops from Batum, which was recently an- nounced, has been cancelled.
 An attempt has been made to assas- sinate Prince Regent Alexander Of Serbia and Premier Protitch.
 Health Commissioner Copeland of New York inaugurated an education al campaign to combat diphtheria.
 James Scarlet, one of the most wide ly known lawyers in Pennsylvania, died suddenly at his home in Danyille.
 Barry Hogarty, an American citizen, was kidnapped by Mexicans at Matimi, Durango, and is being held for ransom.
 Snow records for 27 years were broken at Portland, Me, when the to- tai for the present month reached 41.7 inches
 Thefts of liquor from bonded and distiIlery warehouses have increased at an alarming rate since the country went dry.
 Lack of moisture is beginning to tell on the Kansas wheat crop and danger of serious loss of planted acreage is threatened.
 A law taxing mining profits has passed Bolivian congress. The, meas ure has been sent to the president for proclamation.
 # grape juice in the navy stores con tains more than .one-half of one per cent. of alcohol, supply officers will be held responsible.
 imports into France in January amounted to POOP, 200, O0t francs, an in- crease of S79,938000 francs over Jan uary of last year.
 Resolutions have been introduced in both branches of the Maryland legis- lature to rescind ratification of feder al prohibition amendment.
 George H. Burt was elected pres- dent of the State Bank Trust Co. of Hartford to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George F. Hills.
 Approximately 2,5oo men have been laid off by the five packing plants in Kansas City, Kansas, according to off qls of the plants.
 About one-fourth of Chicago's total vote was boiled in the city's first non partisan election. Only 259,543 votes were cast, 191,935 by men and 67,60S by women.
 Penitantary and jail sentences rang ing from three to 15 months were i'm posed at Cincinnati upon 13 socialists convicted of conspiracy to defeat the military draft.
 Mario Mincii,. 2s, of Windsor Locks, is reported missing since Monday and police and town officers in that sec tion of the state have been asked to look for him.
 John c. oImstesd, landscape archi= tect who designed many exposition grounds and park systems throughout the country, died at his home in Brookline, Mass.
 Within few years therc will be no more lynching of negroes in the south, Dr. Robert R. Moton, the negro head of Tuskegee Institute predicted in an address at Boston last night.
 Hereafter no limit is to be enforced against the amount which any individ- uaI interest my buy or sell future de- liveries in the corn market in Chicago or at other leading markets.
 The seizure of eight moonshine stills and the capture of thirteen persons charged with violation of the West Virginia liquor laws were announced by the prohibition department yester- day.
 A dozen persons were arrested after midnight for appearing in the streets of Dublin without permits. They in cluded Dublin newspaper man seek ing for copy to show how the law could be .evaded
 Miss Catherine C. Walsh, 54, one Of the sisters of United States Senator David 1. Walsh, whose inspiration and sacrifices he has said made possible his success in life, died at the family home at Clinton, Mass. % Suit to test the validity of the adop- tion of the national prohibition amend ment was filed in Federal Judge Wal ter Evens' district court, Louisville, Ky, by the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company.
 A fight for greater recognition of women in national educational affairs developed at a meeting of the women delegates of the superintendence de- partment of the National Education Association at Cleveland.
 The American steamship Moccasin, operated in the New York South Am erican service, arrived at New York yesterday, completing the first round trip of a government owned passen- ger vessel in the all-American trade.
 U. M. Sum Kim, chief of the Kayue Indians of Umatilla county, Oregon, who was en route to Washington on business for his tribe, was found as- phyXiated in a hotel in Chicago. The police were of the opinion that he had blown out the gas.
 At the close of hearing in the cap itol before the public utilities commits sion yesterday, Chairman Higgins an- nounced that the commission approved the purchase of the common stock of the Connecticut Power Co by the Hartford Electric Light Go.
 An offer of $5,Goo,ooo has been made by an American to the German government for sections of the fla nous altar piece painted by Jan and Ink Ton Xy0l- nF-1xv 4I--