The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-01
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Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of morphine was captured last night at the Penn station in New York by Customs Inspector Matthew Cooligan, FA$ot, a chauffeur who had driven suspicious looking car to the station. Premier Giolitti of Italy will insti- ute drastic measure to collect all fire arms in the hands of private citizens. He says that the possession of fire arms since the war by private owners is becoming a serious menace to the peace of the government.
 Two women deportees 1eaped from the decks of the liner Fabre yester- day at New York in an attempt to prevent their being taken back to Italy. Both were good swimmers and , made a. vigorous fight against being rescued and returned to the ship.
 Two men were killed when a New York Central train struck their auto mobile at Johnson's Crossing north of Canandaigua, N. r.. yesterday even- ing. The wife of Fred E. Smith, one of the killed, is in a serious condition
 The Philadelphia Press" one of the oldest newspapers in the Quaker City and the cradle which fostered the beginning of Richard Harding Davis, career as a journalist, has
  chased by the Philadelphia Public Ledger Company.
 According to pr. s: R. Boynton of Nottingham, Wash, "K. P.'S'' in. the service of the recent A. E. F. over ! looked bet while they were in the army in not eating the potato peel ings. These peelings and apple par declares. the doctor in paper read yesterday at Chicago before the So- ciety of Physical Therapeutics.
 The thirty-seventh victim of the New York Wall street bomb explosion died last night in New York hospital. He was a broker, 28 years old.
 British coal miners who threatened a week ago to go on strike at once are still emporizing with the government
 The Russian crown pearls and oth- CT jewe1ry of the late Russian royalty are being offered for sale in Berlin in large quantities having been brought there by smugglers.
 Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish republic has rejected Viscount Grey's plan for government of Ireland and demands absolute Independence. ratified by a treaty and England's total withdrawal from the island.
 Senator Harding denies the report that Senators Johnson and Borah will withdraw from his campaign. He further says that he expects Ex-Pres. Taft and Herbert Hoover to partici- pate a little later in the campaign.
 The New York police department received another severe shaking up last night by Con- Enright who re- duced an inspector to a captaincy and raised a captain to his place. Many copnnands were shifted.
 Population of the cities now ex- ceeds that of the rural districts &C., cording to the statement of the Gen. sus bureau just issued. The city growth has been 1-2 times faster than that of the rural districts these figures being based on an 85 per cent return of the canvass. It is es- tirnated that there are 100000 more people in the urban than in the in terurban districts
 The navy dirigible balloon C6 rar into mountain peak yesterday near Hollywood, Ca1if., wrecking the bal loon and seriously injuring the crew of four men. There was heavy fog which obscured the peak until it was too late to ascend over it.
 An aviation unit has been added to the forces of the American army al Coblenz-