Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-08

geon-general of the United States army, received condolences from King George.
 Agnes Selbach, 23, her sister Elizabeth. 20 and Edward Grace 22, and Harold Long, 29, all of Wlitesboro, were drown drowned while bathing in Oneida lake.
 Governor Cox expressed his approval of Franklin D. Roosevelt as his running mate in the coming election. He sent a tele- gram of congratulation to MT. Roosevelt
 Big Four Railroad Co. sustained 6 loss of s1o0,00o to s200,000 when fourteen cars on a northbound freight train piled up on a curve just south of Warsaw, Ind.
 Representative Dick T. Morgan, of Oklahoma, who had served in the House since 1909 is dead at Danville, H., from pneumonia, it is announced in Washing ton.
 John Devlin, 63, a patient at the Hud- son River State hospifl, died at the in stitution as the result of being hit on the lead with shovel by Richard Delaney, anctl1er patient.
 Justice Donnelly of the Supreme court granted a certificate of reasonable doubt
 Tn the case of former Police Inspector Henry now in Tombs Prison, on convic- tion of perjury.
 Frderick A. Farley, of Short Hills, N.
 J., a distant relative of Governor Calvin
 Coolidge of Massachusetts, republican
 nominee for vice-president dropped dead
 during q parade.
 The committee of sixteen, representing the eight leading grain exchagnes of the country, met to finish formulating plans
 for resumption of trading after three years suspension.
 The referendum at Eupen and in Mall
 medy, formerly German but now Belgian, thus far shows 200 registered protests
 against Belgian occupation out of q total
 population of 68o00.
 The army transport Great Northern, carrying three United States senators
 and 31 congressman and their families to Far Eastern points, ran on a mud bank
 near the Golden Gate.
 The wine exporters in Spain have de- cide6 to close their warehouses because of the attitude of the syndtcalists. As . consequence, more than 6,0o0 persons Will be thrown out of work. British forces between the Beresina
 and Pripet rivers have been defeated
 along the entire front by the Russian bo- sheviki according to an official state
 ment issued at Moscow. A four-day conference of American and
 British professors of English opened at the i University of London. Professors of fourteen American and fourteen British ! universities and colleges were present 
 I President MeIender of the Republic of 1 Salvador decided to instruct Dr. Arthuro Ramon Alvin, Salvadorean charge in | London, to deposit Salvador's ratifca tion of membership in the League of Nations
 Mrs. Alex Duf1on and Mrs. Edward | Maloney of Brooklyn were drowned in Lake George when the paddle wheel of the steamer tSagamore struck a rowboat | in which they were cruising around Katts-
 kill Bay.
 l Board of Aldermen of New York voted an appropriat M of s400,e00 for the pairs of public schools The Board of
 Education requested $S24,000, of which only S150.0 was granted by the Boadr l of Estimate.
 William M. Abbott of San Francisco l was elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks at the first executive session of the
 Grandq Lodge and Los Angeles was se- | lected as the meting plac of the con- vention next year.
 Secretary Daniels of the navy. Secre- tary Payne of the interior department, and Governor Riggs of Alaska will leave lSeattle next Saturday or Sunday on a de- stroyer to investigate navy coal and pos sibly oil lands in Alaska. The new democratic national commit l tee met and after a discussion of plans | for organization, adjourned subject to the 1 cal lof Chairman Cummings, who expects to bring the committee together for per manent organization in about two weeks. Armed with tin imitation automatic pistci a cheap f1asfhgn1 and a home made mask, Raymond Weir, of Patersan. x J arrested by the pol.aa, is alleged to EAvc stt. n4pted to burp- 7ri1r "A An Grew ( 1T. ceie mansion IT tif1 aeeou"- Secretary Daniels telegraphed Acting Secretary Coontz u at he would tdIa no action in regard to Rear-Adnliraf Benton c. Decker's recent attack on himself an Assistant Secretary Roosevelt until lie returned to Washington from San Fran cisco.
 President Leguia said that Perm had
 suffered a heavy loss through the death of Major General William c. Gorgas, Q former surgeon general of the Uni\7d
 States army. who recently signed a five year contract to direct sanitary measures in Peru
 Thieves cracked two safes at Atlantic City and escaped with $e.90o. They first entered the National Drug Coz and took
 s5, 900 in cash an dpostage stamps. Next door to the drug store they blew open safe in a Japanese ping pong parlor and took s1,ooo.
 The transport Tours. Hog Islands 18th ship, was launched Mrs W. D. Connor wife of Lieutenant Colonel Con nor O Washington. D. C., who had charge of the service and supplies divi- sion of the A. E. F. at Tours France
 was the sponsor.
 An American banking syndicate which has teer negotiating s25.0o0.909 ioan to Switzerland announced it's eomplation and the details of it's terms by which a new issue of Swiss government 20-year
 bonds are being offered in this country at par and interest
 Four army airpIanes will undertake a flight from New York July IS to Nome
 Alaska and return. a distance of S.690
 miles, it was announced at the war de-
 partment.s The purpose will be to dem orst-a.e the practicability of eoninler-
 cial air lines to Alaska and thus expe-