Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-11

According to military experts, White Ruthenia is now effectively cut off from Moscow.
 Gold was quoted at 114s Cd a fine 6d at last close.
 Pittsburgh police Seized 36 cases of standard bonded whiskey, said to be valued at $6,OOO
 Sale of seven 3,ooo-to freighters to foreign corporations was announced by the Shipping Board.
 fighting a blaze in Baltimore. A loss 1, Of $S00,O00 is reported.
 Paris quoted the American dollar at t9 francs S5 cents, compared with If francs at previous close.
 Several hundred persons are dead {, and thousands homeless as a result of 1 an earthquake in Tifiish.
 Louis Titus requested President Will son to withdraw his nomination as a member of the Shipping Board.
 Sale of seven freishters of about 5000 tons each to foreign corporations was announced by the Shipping Board.
 Cartaret Oil Refining Go. plant of Roosevelt, N. J. was total loss after a fire which caused $250,000 damage. Minister of Transport Farreri, Italy, announced that merchants desiring to- go to Russia would receive his sup 1 port.
 | Glenn Shockey, cashier of the South Side Bank, Kansas City, was killed by four bandits who tried to hold up the bank.
 Unmarried men who pay no munich pal taxes in Youngston, Ohio, will be
 taxed at about the rate of 20 cents a month.
 Albert F. Potter, associate forester, resigned, following the resignation of . Henry $. Graves, chief of the forestry service.
 Word was received from Mexico that the Government stipulated that owners of mines in Mexico must pay taxes by
 March II.
 Press reports to the Paris Matin
 report the docks at Gran, Algeria, were
 swept by fire, mourning a loss of 3O,-
 000,000 francs.
 | A deficit of 10000 tons of coal daily
 will be the result of the miners strike
 in northern France, according to the
 Petit Parisian.
 7 Newton D. Baker declared title in ! the Government owned terminals in the port of New York ought to be re-
 taincd by the United States.
 Il Edward A. curtiss of Torrington has . been adjudged insane by special
 commission appointed by Governor
 Holcomb. It was announced.
 United States District Court for the
 District of New Jersey upheld the con- stitut.onality of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead enforcement act. } Spanish Gendarmes fired on a dis : orderly crowd in the village of Alo- nlarte near Granada, causing severa
 casualties among the demonstrators. si J. 3. Malloy, grand vice. president 7 of maintenance of-way employees un-
 ion declared there will be no strike o1 } the S75,000 workers in that organiza 1 1 ton.
 British Board of Trade report show. imports into the United Kingdom in f creased Z 3,440,601, while exports in. ] creased z 36,049.079, as compared witt : last year.
 Senator Poindexter, Republican, o
 Washington, candidate for President , will leave Friday for a speaking tou : lin New York State, South Dakota an, Michigan.
 l Hundreds of lumbar shipments fo e the United States involving millions o 9 feet are held up in the Ottawa Valle,
 as result of an unprecedented ca n shortage.
 e Eight patients are dead and anothe r is believed to be fatally burned in
 fire which partially destroyed the nal
 ward of the State Epileptic Hospita
 at Gallopolis, Ohio. The will of the late Admiral Rober n E. Peary. discoverer of the North Pole = was filed for probate in Washington G44 cal ISCCAFGQ dOO0I 90OyVUt f with some real estate. # The Boston and Maine RaiIroat ,t which has been the worst suffere d from ice and snow resulting from tn "a blizzord of last Saturday is rapidly ap 70 reaching normal conditions. U U Japanese foreign office decIar.s a ', early resumption of commercial rela 70 tions with the Soviet government wi T be made, preliminary to formal re d cognition of the Soviet as de fact
 government.
 III John D. Rockefeller, Jr, will a called as a witness in the Assembly o investigation of the Anti Saloon Lea "a "a que. It is reported he pays William I ~ Anderson, superintendent of the Ant
 Saloon League, $15,00O a year.
 Opposition to United States Senate G. M. Hitchcock as a candidate fC
 the democratic presidential nominatio l. was expressed by William J. Bryal r. in a statement made public here [ oI his brother, Charles w. Bryan. ce The "bis five" packers were praise
 before the House Agricultural Commi D. tee while stock raisers were denount or ed as a dissatisfied bunch who al T. l trying to make money by keeDing OI