Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-17


 President Wilson nominated Wayne Johnson of New York to be solicitor of internal revenue.
 The British government has com pleted the purchase of the whole Pata- gonian meat output for 1920.
 New York harbor workers are de- manding another increase in wages | and threaten another tie-up of harbor traffic.
 William H.. Sheldon, professor of philosophy at Dartmouth college, has been elected professor of philosophy at Yale.
 Norwegian cabinet decided to ask the consent of parliament for Nerwe- gians participation in the league of nations.
 Brooklyn Rapid Transit system is threatened with strike tie-up unless Federal. Receiver Garrison agrees to demands of union.
 Reports from AviIa, 50 miles north west of Madrid, tell of rioting among the strikers. Shots fired by gendarn1es wounded many rioters.
 Sir Edward Coop,r, lord mayor of London, suggested the formation of trade union of mayors with view to reducing working hours.
 Eiqhty vessels with a total net ton- mage of 99,340 were built in Canada during the last year and sent overseas without being registered.
 Owing to the amount of illness among the pupils. the state normal school at Westfield, Mass, was closed by Principal c. A. Brodeur
 A. memorial to the 100000 soldiers killed in the defense of Verdun will be erected by three nations, France Eng land and the United States.
 Reaa, capital of Letvia, is neeotiat .ing for a loan of several million dollars from an American banking concern, with city property as security.
 Samuel H. Fisher of New York has been elected a member of the Yale Corporation to succeed Harry G. Day, who resigned because of i'll health.
 Jackson, Barnett, reputeds to be the richest Indian, has given s1,500, GOO to to charity and the donations have been approved by federal Indian officials. Sir Oliver Lodge, who visited Wash ington last week, said he had met Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodge and discov- cred they belonged to the same family Sixteen tourists were killed and 21 others injuj jred when motor bus fell into river while proceeding from Taggia to Triora, near San Reno, Italy. Associated boards of trade of British Columbia requested the dominion gov ernment to take immediate action to prevent Japanese ownership of land in Canada.
 A virtual agreement between the government and labor leaders of all except one railroad union, was reach , 1 ed for settlement of wages and other lrisputes.
 E Revised Kenyon Kendrick bill pro yiding for regulation, of meat industry was unanimously ordered favorably reported by the senate agricultural committee.
 j, United States shipping board steam ship William H. Webb. which was afire at sea on her maiden voyage was lowed into Red Hook flats from the New Jersey coast.
 The business profits tax probably will inot be renewed in Canada because of frora xya l-irn OIIaFtpYG that it tends to handicap business and industrial enterprises.
 r. Funeral services were held in the l Church of Notre Dame de Grace, Paris for Gaby Deslys. Thousands attended 1t is reported her fortune was left to I the city of Marseilles.
 l An agreement with the American In- ternational Shipbuilding Cos wah reached by the shir@ing board, by which the latter takes title to the land of the Hog Island shipyard.
 Two men were killed by an explosion lin the plant of the Diamond Powder Co, at Detroit, Mich. One workman lost an arm and many were in dazed condition long after the blast. 1 Attorney General Palmer is to be the guest and Charles E. Hughes will pre- | side at a meeNng of the New York County Lawyers Association, at the Hotel Astor, New York, Feb. 27. The Yaie Corporation has confirmed the appointment of Frank E. Spauld- ing, superintendent of schools ir Cleveland, to be professor of school
 administration at Yale University A real. bottle of champagne will be
 broken over the bow of the steamship l Chapplaqua to be launched at Shoot CTS Island by the Standard Shipbunld- ing Corporation, Ister part of this month.
 Fifty-one witnesses were summoned
 to testify at the trial of Joseph Cal
 laiux, former French Premier, charg- I ed with intriguing to bring about pre- mature, dishonorable heace with Ger
 many.
 l Rear Admiral Secehi, minister oi I marine. of Italy, said Italy, since the arnistice, had sold 40 war ships and I expected to sell 93 other craft as soon I las mine sweeping. operations were completed. F Steamship Oscar II, of the scandi- 4 navian- American line, with. 256 pas sengers aboard, bound from Copen- 1 hagen, went. aground in Ambrose t. Channel. She was refloated and re- poprted in no danger.
 Italian steamship Patria, of the Fa- lg