Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-16

England shows that the total reserve increased e2,265,ooo.
 J. M. kurn was elected president of the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail- way by the directors.
 British exports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof during January amounted to 257.O00 tons.
 Crop moisture conditions through out Alberta, Canada, reported the most favorable in many years.
 Assistant Secretary of State William Phillips is likely to be appointed Am erican minister to Holland.
 Soft coal is reported selling at s25 a ton in Chile. although it ollIy costs s ton or less to produce.
 Paris quoted the lolar at IA francs 50 centimes, compared with If francs 2S centimes at previous close.
 Alberto A. Archamhault of West Warwich, was appointed federal pro- hibiton director for Rhode Island. Senate finance conmittee ordered | idNordple report on tariff bills af- fecting magnesite and chemical gas. Vice President Marshall signed the oil land leasing bill. The measure now goes to President Wilson for enact ment
 Secretary Daniels declared the fnavy's most pressing need to be the establishment of a naval base in Cal ifornia.
 Fire in a four family dwelling at Holyoke, Mass, led to the discovery by the firemen of crude whiskey still in the attic
 Passengers on board the Mauritania drank record stock of liquor before the ship arrived at Southampton from New York
 l Chancellor of the Exchequer Cham berlain of England announced a plan to reduce the fineness of silver coins of the United Kingdom. Wreckers who took off the cargo from the steamer Maine, on a reef in Long Island sound, reported the yes sel in an upright position. i Leaders of the republican majority i Tn the legislature believe the state of | New York should provide bonus for cltlzens who served in the war.
 An appropriation of $2o, 10000 more 1 will be needed at the approaching ses- i sion of Canada's parliament to finish the government shipbuilding program.
 Executive committee of the Spanish 1 socialists decided to call a meeting Feb. 21 to decide whether the party
 will adhere to the third internationaIe.
 Secretary Lane asked congress to
 appropriate SS0,000 to reimburse the
 Alaskan government for money ex- pended during the influenza epidemic.
 According to latest reports, the peace conference decided to suggest 1 that Holland move the former Ger man emperor to a Dutch oversea do- minion.
 Former U. S. Senator Gardner of i Maine, reported the cost of develop 1 ing the St. Lawrence between Mon treal and Lake Ontario will exceed $250, ,0OO, 900.
  | Actual production of German potash i in 1919 totalled 946,000 tons of which
 264,O tons were sold abroad, the re- mainder meeting Al per cent. of home consumption.
 Holdben A. Evans, president of the i Baltimore Drydock and ShipbuiIding l Co.,, confirmed the report of the sale of l the Pusey & Jones Shipyard at Glou- cester N. J.
 Lieutenant Commander Thomas Mott l Osborne, commander of the naval pris- on at Portsmouth, denied that he had again submitted his resignation to the navy department.
 The Rev. J. J. Fitzgerald, pastor of 1 St. John the Evangelist Roman Cath i olic church in New Britain, has been appointed rector of Sacred Heart church, Waterbury.
 Prof, Scott Nearing, socialist, was refused permission to speak at a Troy i theatre by the manager. after three i posts of the American Legion urged people not to attend.
 Favorable report was ordered unan- imously by the senate agriculture committee of the revised Kenyon-ken- drick bill providing for federal regula- i tion of the meat industry l Matthew J. Higgins, president of the Boston Street Carmen's Union, and labor organizer, died in Boston. of in i fluenza. He was serving his fifth l term as president of the union l A murder was revealed when the 1 body of man with hands and feet bound and a handkerchief tied over his mouth was found in a small pond known as the Basin at Milford, Mass.
 Samuel Pierce MandeII, president of the Boston Transcript Company, and until his retirement, actively associat- ed with the dry goods house of c. F. Hovey & Co., died at his residence in Boston.
 Many of Worcester's principal man ufacturing concerns suspended their regular business Saturday and turned their employees into the volunteer army organized to dig the city out of the snow drifts.
 Canada notified England that it ob- iected to any change in the covenant of the league of nations which will permit the dominion from behg a full fledged member of the league and hay ing a vote in the assembly, Senate adopted resolution reques- ed by Secretary Baker authorizing the war deDartn1ent tO hriner ha cL to thiS