Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-14

hearings on the 2:75 per cent beer bill and boxing bill on May 20,
 American dollar in Paris was quoted at fl francs s4 cents, compared with 15 francs 2S cents at last close.
 Vlscount KIkuJlro Ishii, former Jap- anese Ambassador to the United States, l was appointed ambassador to France.
 Postmaster General BurIeson annnunc- | ed airplane ( all service will be ex- |, tended to St. Louis and San Francisco.
 New Jersey legislature passed the ap- propriational bill larrying 14,o00. 900. for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next
 ItalIan steamer Assiria. which plies between Leghorn and Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, has struck a mine and sunk.
 An eight cent fare on subway lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company was asked of the public service com mission.
 Negotiations with the Russian so- viet government for resumption of trade relations have been suspended by the Danish committee.
 Two hundred and eight law students of the Albany Law school went on strike to force expulsion of Jacob Goldenkoff, a radical.
 Turkish nationalist troops were yic- tors in battle against loyal forces near Ismil; are advancing toward the Darda- nelles.
 Existing second cIas mail rates would be continued until July l, 1921 under bill ordered reported favorably by the house postoffice committee. l Prsident Wilson began receiving for eign diplomats who have been waiting | improvements of his health in order to formally present their credentials. | The old warship Richmond, once a part of Farraguts fleet at Mobile and New Orleans was set on fire at Passport, Me, for the copper in her hull.
 Fire in the basement of St. Anne's Roman Catholic church. at Fall River, Mass, drove gathering of 1500 wor- shippers from the auditorium. 1 News has been receivd in Paris that q settlement of the Adriatic question has been reached at Pallanza between the Jugo-slav and the Italian delegates.
 bill authorizing coinage of a special l50 cent piece to commemorate the 3OQ iannievrsary of the landing of the Pil- grinls was signed by President Wilson. Alderman Arthur V. German, 25th
 district, Brooklyn. arrested on a charge of
 disorderly conduct. was discharged. He
 declares he was beaten by policeman
 More than dozen wealthy Mexican
 families, fleeing from their turbulent
 country, arrived at New York on the
 steamship Morro Castle from Vera Cruz
 By special order of the French gov. ) ernment thousands of French troops vii
 parade at the various American ceme. teries in France on Memorial Day. May
 30.
 The Camden-PhiladeIphia bridge ana the Hudson vehicular tunnel bills whicl l were vetoed by Governor Edwards, were ? passed by the Senate cover the governor veto.
 General von oven, former governor o f Metz vii be tried for atrocities alleged t, f have been committed by trops under hi
 command in the villages of eastern l France.
 ! Martha E. Stocking, 63, the first tele - phone operator to be employed in Tor rington, was found dead in bed Thurs
 day at her home. She was victim o
 heart trouble.
 Q Paul DuIand. n passer of counterfei
 s2O bills, who shot Patrolman John F I Halpin in Bridgeport last Friday whil - | ( prison for three to five years.
 \ joint report by the L. z. Depart : ment of Agriculture and the State Boar = | of Ariculture predicted that the whea \ crop of Missouri will be 50 per cent. les
 than in 1919.
 An excise tax print paper as ,, means of conserving the supply was rec T. commended to the senate paper investi
 gating committee by Assistant Attorne z General Ames.
 > Loot amounting to more than 1000, ,0O K francs in cash and jewels was take = from passengers of the steamer Souira l. by pirates near Baum on May whe . they overcame officers and crew.
 Fossil skeleton of a giant dinosau s three million years old, recently dug ou n of the mountains in Alberta by Prof. 1 $ w. Park, has been presented to tn n Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto. Tn l. skeleton is 27 feet in length IS Joseph NJ Wye chief special agent c ,t the state department and for many year
 an active figure in the secret service c 'e the federal overnment has resigned be il cause of desire to accept better finar 1T cial opportunities in private life.
 DenOuncing the action of the Frenc
 government to dissolve the General Fed eration of Labor, the Socialist party C America, in a convention at New Yorl ,- sent a message to the head of the FedC ,o ration expressing it's support of th n French workmen.
 E. The police of Springfield, Mss, al le searching for burly negro who entere Is the bedroom of Miss Doris NcIntyr
 with the apparent motive of robbery. an Is an being discovered by the young woman le grappled with and choked her in an e 'r fort to subdue her resistance. T. Illicit stil loperators cannot be pros.
 be punished under the new national prt
 hibtion laws, according to the L. Y District Court at Pittsburgh. Punisf
 ment under the new law is a misdemear y or punishable only by fine. 'e U. S. Secret Service men and Ne