Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-09


 General Cipriano Castro. former presI- dent of Senzuela. and wife have arrived at Santiago, Cuba, en route to New York
 The number of unemployed In Rhode Island. was 23,695 greater on Nov ubcr 2O than on the corresponding date a year ago.
 Three fishermen in the power boat An tonina were lowed to Boston after drift ing 24 hours in gale with their boat ds- abled.
 Geerge S. Rice. for seven years chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Board of New York, died at his home in Montclair N. J.
 A further reduction of sIo a ton for lead ore was announced at Joplin. bring ing the base price of lead to new low level of s45.
 Under the system of compulsory ath- ktics for first year men at Harvard Uni versity. 590 freshmen have been enrolled for winter sports.
 Four men held up two proprIetors and clerk in a Chicago jewelry store and escaped with s25,OOU worth of jewlcry and $500 in cash.
 Russia warned Rumania not to permit violation of her neutrality by rebels against the sovIet. according to dispatch reaching Helsngfors.
 Officers of the American lake steamer Lake Shore upon arrival at Mobile re- ported finding 10000 rounds of contra band ammunition aboard.
 Jorn Scanlon. formerly a police iieuten- ant in New York is under arrest in Ire land charged by the British authorities with being a Sim Fein suspect.
 The directors of the Farr Alpaca Com pany. Holyoke. Mass. recommended to the stockholders that the s7.200.o00 cap- ital stock of the company be doubled.
 Thirteen prominent societies of Japan have organized. meeting. of protest against the anti-Japanese measures adopted in California at the last election. A new course in the sheffield Scientific School at Yale University to give men a broader traning in certain fundamental sciences and scentihc methods was an- nounced.
 The American army in one way or another. has cleaned up all outstandin- war contracts with Great Britain by pay ment of lump sum of approximately SIC. 900.
 Secretary Payne. department of in- terior urged consideration of Governor Riggs (Alaska) appeal for medicinal whiskey for treatment of pneumonia and influenza.
 The first legislative action of the house at this session was taken with the pas sage of bill authorizing the president to issue medals of merit for distinguished service performed during the world war
 An appropriation of one million dol lars to be used in cooperation with the states in forestry work durng the next fiscal year was asked of congress by the department of agriculture. Tie Britannia day was given special recognition in New Bedford with varied program which included welcome to of ficers and men of H. NJ. S. Calcutta, flag. ship of the Bermuda squadron. The i've cotton mills In Greenwood county. s. C.. are now operating on full time after having curtailed production several weeks. with one exception thu plants have day and night shifts.
 A decision handed down by Fedora Judge Alschuler arbitrator in paclllne house wage dispute. granted per cent increase for the period between July 5 1920 and Dec. 5. 1920, in Chicago.
 When Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief sec retary for Ireland, demanded the Sim Feiners surrender their arms or submi to arrest, there was great uproar of dis approval in the house of commons
 Frederick II. GilIett. speaker of tn house of representatives and Senate Selden P. Suencer of Missouri will h. speakers at the 18th annual dinner O the New England Society of the city o New York. The Swiss federal authorities have in l stituted an inquiry into the activities 0 1 former Emperor Charles of Austria il l Switzerland, following the exposure o alleged Hapsburg intrigues by the so ciailst newspaper Tagwacht l Congressional investigations of the in creasing unemployment to deternin what action if any can be tagen by in federal government was proposed in joint resolution introduced by Reoresent ative Mason.
  mers reported a sack of important infer Tokio. with England, Ireland and Scot land as its destination was rifed in a Ne York hotel room.
 Jersey City has forbidden all nerroe to appear on the street after D. m. un less they can give satisfactory explana tion of their business and identity. A unusual number of crimes committed f that city lately have been charged t negroes.
 Representative Hamilton Fish. of Ne, York introduced joint resolution in tn house asking that a body of an unidenti fled American soldier who fell on the bal :. tlefield during the world war be brour,, to this country and buried in Arelingto National Cemetery. 4 fifty rer cent. cut in cotton produ, tion ia 1921 through curtailment of tf acreage planted to one-third of the tor; land in cultivation was agreed upon a a conference at Memphis, Tenn. .' Southern bankers, merchants and farm CTS.