Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-26


 Hudson River is completely frozen from Albany to Hastings on Hudson. The ice is A inches thick in the channel.
 Eighty five members of the Com munist party of Chicago, were indict- ed by a special grand jury probing activities there.
 Women administering property in their own right will be permitted to vote at the first national election in Jugo- Slavia, next month.
 Richard L. Garner, African explorer, who claimed to have found sounds ap- proximating a monkey language, died at a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn.
 Peaceful revolution" broke out in Kamchatka, Siberian peninsula, where the military in league with the popu- lation arrested officers and civil off, dcials.
 December exports decreased in value 10000, GOO from the s741, ,000.- 900 record for November. Imports dropped to $SS1, ,OOO,O0 a decrease of s44,000, 900.
 Two ocean going steamers are held off Sandy Point, near the mouth of the Patapsco river anad bay shipping in the upper Chesapeake is complete ly tied up.
 Exports of sugar to France and England were blamed during debate in the Cortes, Spain, for the high price of that commodity. throughout the country.
 Coinage of a two-cent piece as a memorial to former President Roose- welt was proposed in bill introduced by Chairman Mclean of the Senate banking committee.
 Six men are under arrest in Brock lyn charged with holding up night watchman at Pier 23 Frakiin street, North River, and stealing six barrels and 5S7 cases of whskey.
 Thomas E. Mccran, Attorney Gen. eral of New Jersey, will sue the United States Supreme Court to test the va ago$1eraliFty now the time for ad lidity of prohibition amendment.
 Members of the crew of German warship Koenigsberg, when drawn up for inspection by board of inter-Al- aied commissioners at Wilhelmshaven sang Deutschland ueber Alles."
 A man thought to be John Reed, Socialist, wanted in Chicago on an indictment for alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government, was ar rested in Chicago for 15 years. Secretary Daniels announced that in future all offical communications of the navy regarding the war which this country entered April 6, 1917, will be designated as the Worlds War. Several firemen were overcome and guests of the Ritz Carlton, New York remained awake, fully dressed, while a blaze in the ballroom on the main | floor, was fought for several hours.
 Fred Allen chairman of the Sim Fein organiza ton of South Dublin was sent to jail for three months after refusing to give bail when charg- ed before a police magistrate with se- dition.
 | Major William B. Davis, who said he was inspected general of the American troops in London during war, was denied permission to bring ashore two quarts of liquor from the Carillo.
 Louis L. LeihIe, a Newark dealer ir old gold and silver, was sentenced in l the court of Quarter Sessions to not 1 less than five nor more than ten years in jail for receiving $sO,OOO worth oi stolen gold.
 Census Bureau reported amount oi 1 cotton ginned from the growth of the crop of 1919 prior to Jan. 16, 1920 al 10,322, ,14S running bales compared wit1 1 11,04S,6i52 bales for same period 8 year previous. l A 2,210 mile journey in a canoe from Pittsburgh to New Orleans was just completed by r. c. Dennnger, od Pittsburgh. The trip down the Alle- gheny, Ohio and Mississippi rivers covered 54 days.
 Search for swindiers who are trying to convince thousands of persons l throughout the country that they have inherited most of the land in gun by the police.
 Appellate Division of the New YcrL Supreme Court decided only the New York State Legislature had power ts increase New York transit fares. Ac- tion otherwise may result in a for feiture of franchise.
 An attempt to smuggIe liquor from Havana was frustrated when customs inspectors seized seventy two bot ties of whiskey and twenty-two bot.
 tes of rum in the hold of the steamer Morro Castle at New York.
 Jesse Poneroy, who has served 4 years in solitary confinement, is to appear in public for the first timt
 since he was a boy at minstrel show to be given by the inmates of tht Massachusetts state prion. Additional testimony designed te show that Mexican officials lent as-
 sistance to the plan of San Diegu' ] was evnented f~aU witnesses ready tc l appear before the Senate sub-corn. 1 mIttee at San Antonio, inveStigatins l Mexican situation.
 Secretary Glass announced yesterda, | the offering for, subscriptions of new ] treasury certificates of indebtedness dated and bearing interest from Feb
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