Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-24

;UNN., MONDAY, MAY 24, |
 BRIEF TELEGRAMS | New Orlean Cotton Exchange will be losed May 29 and 31.
 Average wage paid to railway em- 'loyes was increased s4 per cent. since 914.
 lied a 25 per cent. increase by Mayor iainer.
 Persia appealed to the league of na- ions to protect her against bolsheviki i aggression.
 Bar silver was unchanged at 99 3-4 | cents an ounce in New York compared 1 with 5S 1-2 in London.
 Henry P. Davison, director general of the Red Cross, blames the wastage of war for the high cost of living.
 Governor Smith of New York vetoed the Ames bill defining and regulating the practice of chiropractics.
 Denmarke reports q wholesale immi- grafton to the United States of the bet ter class of striking seamen.
 American dollar was quoted at 13 francs, 92c on Paris exchange. compared with 13 francs, 40c, at last close.
 In an effort to remedy the shortage of sugar in this country Russian and Rou- manian sugar may be imported.
 Thieves entered the office of Prohibition and carried off liquor valued at $500.
 Secretary of Agriculture for Kansas, J. c. Mohler, declared the wheat crop of that state would reach 110,ooO,OoO bushels.
 Mrs. Eleanor Hodgman Porter. whose 'Pollyanna" stories have long been pop ular. died at her home in Cambridge, Mass.
 Brightwood Manufacturing Go. of Law renee, Mass, announced it would place it's plant on a five-day week schedule at once.
 Operation of the Midland Railway Co. of Staten Island, which suspended Jan. 19, were resumed. Five cent fare is be- ing charged.
 William F. (Pussyfoot) Johnson will make part of his western tour speaking under auspices of the Anti-Saloon league, by airpiane.
 According to figures made by the De- partment of Labor average family ex- penditure on staple articles increased from 10 to g per cent. Charles F. Green, Jr.. four year old son of MT. and Mrs. Charles r. Green of Hartford, was drowned in Highland Lake near Winsted. early last night. Strike of Hamburg shipyard workers has been settled. Before the settlement there were disturbances between the workers and security police. 1 The American legion inauguration a campaign for the readoption for 5000 fatherless French children care for by the A. E. F. during the war. 1 Capt. will P. Burton, o. E. E.. and his wife arrived at New York on the Adri- atic. Captain Burton will sail the Sham rock " for Sir Thomas Lipton.
 Four hundred vessels of the former 1 German mercantile marine are expected l to arrive at Firth of Forth Scotland They will be auctioned off in one lot. | Three bills embodying the Americani zation program of the Lusk joint legis tive committee which investigated radica activities were signed by Governor Smith Twenty-Five retail grocers in Massa
 chusetts have been shown by returns the.
 have made to the state commission ol : necessaries of life to be making unfai
 profits.
 Investigations of pre-convention cam paign expenditures and pledges of bot republican and democratic presidentia candidates ordered by the senate will be gi ntoday
 Council of Ambassadors fixed the dat
 for the plebiscite in the Allenstein an } Marinwerder districts for the bounda l ries of Poland with regard to East an t West Prussia.
 Forest fires which threatened destrus
 ton of several villages and large tirube . tracts in Bellechasse County, Quebe,
 was under control. according to report : received at Ottawa.
 | Federal summonses were issued again.
 Tupman. Thurlow, Inc. of New ork, an s Chamberlain 6 Company of Boston, di: I tributors of meats charging profiteerin
 in the sale of lamb.
 Three hundred independent lighteral
 workers of New York harbor went 0
 strike, causing complications which eve
 the drastic steps taken by the insterstat
 commerce commission cannot relieve. l
 Chicago federal prohibition agents al
 searching for a warehouse believed y hold a million dollar whisl1ey suppl Seven men were arrested in a raid whic e the officers said, disclosed hundreds of a II legged whiskey sales. y There has been a decrease of 25 D. e cent between April 9, 1919 and il T. corresponding date this year in the nur : Der of farm laborers on 1000 represent l. tive Massachusetts farms and a gener n decrease in the live stock on the san
 farms.
 By a vote of 1o5 to 19. the Maryal state convention of democrats approv '' a resoution committee the party to moo Ia f1cation of the Volstead act to perm d making and use of homemade wines al le cider and manufacture and sale of be n for home consumption