Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-03

liner Leviathan of rats in being consider ed by shipping board officials
 Monsignor Thomas F. Taafe, rector of St Patricks church, Brooklyn, died "wednesday at the church rectory
 
 Fire destroyed twenty business houses ana ten residences in Jasper, Ala. The loss was estimated at more than $500, 900.
 senator King, democrat, of Utah. Ia prtparing an amendment to the Sher- man antitrust law designed to strength en 1t.
 Three bsttalions of carabineers arc surrounding Plume. Shots were exchang- ed between the regulars and D'Annunzio's troops.
 The steamship La France, proceeding down New York bay, collided with a three-masted coal barge which sank ofr Staten Island.
 The government of Peru promulgated n law authorizing the purchase of build ing to be presented to the American em- bassy at Lima.
 Immigrants to the number of ss6o.s57 arrived in this country during the first four months of this fiscal year which be- gun last July l.
 Eiins Panas. former Greek foreign min ister. left Athens for Geneva ss repre- sentative of the new government to the league of nations.
 The four divisions of the American EnC rf 4,. TT1N- schedule of one day and two weeks De- ginning next Monday. | Francis Layret., former deputy and | trades union leader, of Barcelona, was i attacked and killed. seven bullets being fired into his body.
 The shipping situation in Havana shows l some improvement. but there has been no
 progress in relieving the congestion in
 unloading at the part.
 The directors of the New England MIX
 Producers. Association at a meeting in Boston considered the possibility of re-
 ducing the price of milk. Il Workers in Thomas A.. Edison's indus \ tries. Orange. N. J.. are being laid of II Nine hundred men were released and more are expected to follow this week.
 General semenor. leader of the anti bolsheyik forces along the frontier be ] tween Siberia and Mongolia arrived al ]. vladivostok under Japanese escort. !, Pittsburgh Steel Co.,. Pittsburgh, an nounced reduction in price of 50 cent,
 hundred pounds. on unified orders fol , steel wire and nails, effective immediate ] iy. , The national republican congressiona 3 committee came through the campaigr with a balance of $3S.65s. 1t reported tt
 the clerk of the house of the representa- . tives. .-..-..-
 A petition for the appointment ef A re t ceiver for the Lowell Textile. Company 2 cotton manufacturers of North Chelms
 ford. Mass, was filed in the fedora court.
 Reports received by business houses o t Shanghai, China, announced that th. {; troops in I-Chang. a treaty port of Hu g Peh Province. set fire to the city md ar, l footing it.
 s Seventy thousand persons awaiting A, opportunity to emigrate to the Unite,
 States are causing much congestion a r Palermo. Sicily. Only 1,50o can sal
 each month. Q Governor Bickett of North Carol,n, r and his son called at the White Hons D to leave for President Wilson a numbe
 of partridges which they killed on re
 cent hunting trip
 National Highways Protective societ
 reports 1S3 persons were killed by auto - mobiles in the State of New York las > month. This is an increase or 61 deatl, l. over November 1919. Total deHths of 1,I42 HnitIans sinc d the beginning of the intensive camnaiq g against bandits of the island two wear . ago was announced by the Naval Court c z Inquiry at PoFt-au-Prince.
 Department of Prohibition Eufore, ment in New York city. completing a e analysis of 100 samples of "whiskey'' !. 100 different places, announced that nI 'l one of them was Straight" IT Ten thousand railway empIoyes wer F. ordered on strike. stopping the entir 't Norwegian railway service. The goverr It nent is taking steps for the distributio le of food and mail by motor trucks. ,ri The French Communist leaders xt It participated in the recent Communi, m congress at Moscow. perished in IT
 wreck of the sailing boat which the
 leased at Mourmansk for the return tr
 to France.
 Making plea for American relief ,v assist 35O,000.000 starving and ill-nou q, ished children in central EuroDe durir ,a the coming winter. Herbert Hoover a, .d dressed the chamber of commerce ~ Bridgeport.
 n George Gipp. Notre Dame football ar :. basban star, is reported critically ,S from pneumonia John Evers. manag Ie of the Chicago Cubs. has been negotiatir ee to obtain Gipp's services for the comir
 baseball season.
 1t Corporation Counsel o'Brien of V. !. York, announced he will apply for an i IS junction to prevent three electric con
 panies operating in Greater New Yol |, from increasing rates 14 per cent. as a ', .u lowed them by the Public Service Con i' mission.
 q Mrs. Eliza DagEett aspire. to be { iu first woman to occupy a mayors cha
 in Massachusetts, and has announc
 herself as one of five candidates at [
 looming city election at Attleboro, Mas $ on Dec. 14.
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