Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-22

NlOuS CtOS6.
Exports for April decreased $135, ,000,-
eco while imports fell off $50, 1000 ,0eo, as
compared with March.
The Senate passed a bill authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to purchase
I S26, ,000, 900 farm land bank bonds.
Bar silver was unchanged at 90 3-4
cents an ounce in New York compared
| with IS 3-4d in London.
| A fire said to be of incendiary origin.
| destroyed the Hotel Schulz, a well known
| roadhouse at Folsom, y. ].
The cost of the republican national
| convention will be at least so per cent
more than the convention Of 1916.
Bacteria as movie" actors soon will
| be screened before students of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
More than $4,000 textile workers en-
| ployed in New Jersey mills will, beginning
June l, receive an advance in wage.
Rumors of a plot for coup d'etat in
Italy were current in Rome, according
TO a Milan dispatch to the London Times
Demands of railroad switcImen for an
hourly wage of 95 cents TO Il were taken
up by the Railroad Labor Board at Chi
cago.
place Great Britain under obligations
with regard to the bolshevik invasion of
.'ersia.
New York funds in Montreal are
quoted at Il IA premium. 1t IS expect
ed the premium will make further ad-
vance.
The Prince of Wales, after visiting
India will return TO England by way OF
the straits settlements, China, Japan and
Canada,
General Peyton c. March announced
he will begin a tour of inspection ol
American forces on the Rhine beginning
June l.
Fifty-one freight ears loaded with g..
060,000 pounds of sugar are being sought
in railroad yards in Chicago by fedora
agents.
Decision by the French miners unior
in the Department of du Nord and Pa.
de Calais to resume work was ratified a
d meeting miners delegates.
Mexico City papers report that Car
rama is at Zacatian east of Mexico City
in the direction of the Tuxpam oil dis
trict.
The transport Northern Pacific, will
General Pershing and his staff, arrives
at New York from the Canal Zone an
/ Porto Rico.
l. af he ..
man reichstag on June Is, ten days afte
. the elections, will be asked of the pres
dent of the body by the government.
In the primary ballots in the Thir
e District Tenth Ward. Scranton, Pa,
was found a voter had written the nam
9 of John Barleycorn' for president
Aroostook county. Me-. sweItere
e Thursday in the grip of the seasons fir
q est hot wave. Thermometers in this tow
a registered as high as SO degrees at noon.
s While merchandise in all all parts c
s, the country were dropping Cleveland wa
e treated to an advance of bread prices {
: one cent owing to a u per cent il
IS crease in wages.
= Following the discovery of smaIIpo
II in freight terminals and railroad camp
o 1e0 railroad workmen were quarantine
d and 200 others are under observation b
city authorities Of Cleveland.
Male occupants OF u pullman car
z, the yards at Toledo were forced to r,
. main in bed this morning after a thi,
4 J ransaked the coach and fed with an arm
le full of trousers.
~ Cincinnati's population was correcte
ar in the Hamilton county statistics. NAL
If ing the number of inha abitsnts 4O1.2l
n instead of 4011 15S as previously announ
to ed.
~ Textile manufacturers in Lawrene
rs Mass. admit that they are afraid of Il
s. future so far as it affects production
to the mills for the 1920 spring and sun
Or mer business.
The Bank Of Ranger. Tex. with
capital of $3.50 failed. Declining d
V posits and failure to realize on loai
were given as the cause by bank o
70 ficials.
n A "deadline" zone has been establis
nd ed at the Dutch frontiers beyond viii
er no one may pass, except along reco
Al niZed highroads, railroads or wat
III routes, on penalty of being shot.
II Charles f. Hughes of. New York. Wi
~ retained by Senator Trumon II. Nev
berry to prosecute Newberry's appe
= from the decision of the Michigan Di
IL trict Court. sentencing him to prison (
~ alleged election frauds.
ay United States Marshal Mccarthy
ol New York was authorized to sci at pu
lie auction 2.2SO pounds of sugar by G
der Of Federal Judge Knox The sug
was seized under the anti-hoarding ac
Promjnenf busipess man of New Yo