Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-25

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 Brief Telegrar1ns
 Bar gold in London was quoted at 115s Id an ounce, compared with lies 6d at previous close.
 J. P. Coats. thread manufacturers 'f Pawtucket R. L, announce that their nils will be closed until JSn. 3.
 Burglars in the postoGice at George l own, Conn.,, battered open a safe and | took postal and other funds amounting 1 to $25O. Emperor Yoshihito of Japan. who was Ill long time, presided at a meeting of the privy council for the first time this year.
 Estimates submitted by army and navy departments were returned py rreiii.el Lloyd George with instructions to reduce their figures one-half
 
 Department of Commerce was notified by Commercial Attache s. c. MacLean that Italy is preparing to lift ban on i'm portation of mineral oils.
 Five hundred additional patroImen will be put intp intensive training M3n- day in New York and by Jan. will be ready for regular duty.
 
 City council of Chicago unanimously adopted a resolution inviting Mrs A1uriei McSwiney, widow of the late lord mayor of Cork, to visit the city.
 Brooklyn City Railroad Co.,, announces 1t will put into effect the double-fare system on the Flatbush line, passing it's action on a court decision.
 Carrying out its bonus plan, based on service records the International Silver company at Meriden has paid out this week over $1OO,O0O to employees.
 Pope Benedict celebrated midnight mass on Christmas eve in the Pontine chapel thus resuming a custom abandon ed while Leo XII was pontiff.
 Premier Lloyd George announced in Commons Sim i'ein documents showed complicity in a German plot in 1918 will be made public within a few days.
 Both sides of a hotel situated partly in Vermont and partly in Canada. were raided simultaneously and liquors valued at S3,OO0 were seized.
 Secretary Daniels sent to the naval ships and short stations his last. Christ mas greeting as head of the naval es- tablishment.
 A. IT. Rice and company. silk manu- lecturers of Pittsfield. Mass, distributed over s15.OOO among long time empioyes In recognition of faithful service.
 Carter ". Johnson of Chicago died at Jacksonville. Fla, shortly after he had taken one drink of "liquor" purchased from a negro bell boy.
 A loan of s26,7T5. .0O0 to the New York Central and seven subsidiary lines 10 helr finance improvements was approve: by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
 Brazilian ambassador London denied recent rumors of general moratorium il Brazil He said abnormal internationa condition is reason for decline in ex change.
 Duke of Abruzzi counsI1 Of King Vic tor Emmanuel sailed from Naples fo Italian Somaliland in the interest of company formed to manage cot,on ant | wheat farms.
 The Canadian Pacific railway announc 1 es reduction of ten per cent. in all rail way fares between points in Canada Fares were increased 20 per cent. las | September.
 Two deaths were caused by terriTi earthquake in the Binelian district 0 Kansa Province, China. Twenty-fiv shocks occurred within nine hours afte the first tremor.
 Much drinking of water" gas consii
 sidered by Gov. Bradford. of PlyToutl
 Mass. contributory cause of the ra' ages of disease and shortness of life thf
 afflicted the Pilgrim.
 Five bandits after footing the wir
 cellar of Mano E. Metcalf woolen Foo'
 broker of New York, in his summer hon at Orange x. J.. were forces to abandC
 their plunder and an automobIe. T. W. Edwards. realty operator ct La
 caster. Cal. celebrated his 74th anniver ary of his birth by kicking a hat fro
 the head of a man six feet. two inch
 tall without lcsing his balance. | Rro-iIIan aubaaeador to T.ondon deut, distress in the Amazon region. where b price of rubber has caused appeals for a sistance. proposes to facilitate operati, of largo manufacturing companies. An involuntary petition in banlsrupt' was filed in the L. s. District Court New York against the Raw Silk TradiI Co. The liabilities are given IS s=.0OC
 900 with assets placed at s500,0Oo. Fourteen hundred immigrants arrivil . at New York on the Italian steamsh Duca Degli Abruzzi were ordered detaini at quarantine for two weeks because
 the discovery Of smallpox aboard. Director of French customs ordered ] baggage searchers to wear clean whi f gloves in the future following hundre 8 of complaints by American tourists th = their linen had been soiled by dirty hant ' One man was instantly killed and t t oil barge Balikaw is burning as a rest
 of an explosion on the craft at the Sout l. ern Pacific oil terminals at Galvestc n Several persons were reported burned f death.
 e Announcement was made today by e Springfield manufacturing concern th d the New York police department h e placed an order for fleet of SS m