Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-26

ounce in New 1ork compared With 594d | in London.
 President Wilson accepted the resiEna- l ton of Eugene Meyer, director of the war | finance corporation.
 LJie three shoe factories of Rice & | Hu,chins, Inc, of Marlboro. Mass, will l be shut down for q week. beginning to- day,
 Owing to a shortage of raw material several large refneries, including Ar buckle Brothers, have decided to close down.
 The Jefferson Manufacturing Com panys three mills in Jefferson, Mass, and in Worcester were closed for a week or more-
 1 Prices of flour declined 25 cents n bar rel in Minneapolis to S14.75 for family brands. Ten days ago the price was | S1S.20.
 Four wooIen and worsted mills in 1 Woonsocket, R. l.. have been closed for an indefinite period as the result of re- cent strikes.
 l Emperor Yosihito of Japan, suffered a physical and mental collapse about April l, according to the Honolulu Pacific Com l mercial Advertiser.
 An increase of. S6,o64.5s2 in the net in- come of the Erie Railroad Company dur | ing 1919, as compared with 1918, is 1 shown in the annual report.
 Three hundred lighter captains, em- ployed by coastwise. shipping interests went on strike in Brooklyn in sympathy with coastwise longshoremen.
 An imperial address to the Japanese Red Cross declared the situation in Si- 1 beria was still too unsettled to permit
 withdrawal of Japanese troops. | The coast guard cutter Acdshnet went
 to the assistance of the tug Barryton ashore on No Mans land, an island three miles south of Martha's Vineyard. | American Sugar Refining Co. announced
 another raise of cent a pound for su- gar. This is the third raise in a week,
 making sugar 22 1-2 cents a pound
 Annual convention of the association
 of reserve city bankers opened at Cleve-
 land with representatives of 300 of the
 largest banks of the country attending. Alderman Adamowski charges that mil- lions of pounds of sugar are being hoard ed in Chicago and that the shorage would
 be ended if proper measures were taken. Senator Smith charged that a federal trade commission investigation of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. is used in an effort Ito defeat him for reelection in the sem ate.
 The Olympic Stadium, completed three ? months ahead of time. in Antwerp, was : officially opened with a gymnastic exhi- bition by 500 men and girls, mostly Bel } gians.
 I
 Thomas B. Love of Dallas was re : elected by exclamation as national demo s cratic committeeman from Texas b! | delegates to the state democratic conven el tions at Dallas. ---- t--i
 Walter Damrosch, director of the New e York Symphony Orchestra. which is wis d iting Rome, was decorated with tho e Order of the Crown of Italy, receiving e the rank of knight.
 John W. Dalton of Sandwich. core
 spondeut for the Associated Press and fol
 several newspapers at Buzzard's Bay ana e Cape Cod for many years, died at { ' hospital in Boston.
 n An excise tax on print paper to cur , tail consumption will be one of the re 1T commentators of the Senate Manufactur l. iers' subcommittee. in vestigating th' " print paper shortage.
 .- Professor Wilbur M. Urban, professo J. of philosophy and psychology at Trinit.
 college has accepted the call to Dart ie mouth college to become head of the de d partment of philosophy.
 a Oliver H. Sanders. Brooklyn manager J. for the Cudahy Packing Co.,. entered It plea of not guilty before Federal Judg to Chatfield to charge of prohteering. H was held in se,5OO bail.
 VI Efforts to break nationwide blockad l. of freight due to the congestion of freigh S. cars were begun at series of confer Id ences in Washington and thirty of tn le larger cities of the country.
 Herbert Parsons, national committed ID man from New York state in the repub r. lican convention. will retire Charles [ K Hifles, national chairman under Presiden IS Taft, will succeed Parsons.
 The village of Lisbellaw, Ulster, Ire e. land. has been given the lead in an or b. ganized effort to deal with Sim Feinisn e, The Ulster volunteers have been reform Tn ed and pickets established.
 Despite numerous guards along tn
 Dutch frontiers large numbers or Rus
 sian .bolsheviks are entering the countr, " where they are plotting not only agains Holland, but against neighboring cour ne tries. .+-v ,.-,-. -,-.. q Ten men, including Sid Hatfield, chic no of police of Matewan, W. Va. were al ~ rested in connection with the battl bo there last Wednesday between privat rs detectives and citizens, during which te
 persons were killed.
 E Policeman ScheIke, of Paterson, \. J .s police force, was forced to jump from o o second story window after rescuing mol ,i than 100 guests in the Manhattan Hc =, tel in Paterson. He is in the hospital SUI ' fering severe injuries. .... ou John Cruz. was arrested when he -lant =, ed at Providence. R. l.. on board Il All Mexican. Petroleum tanker c. A. Cal
 field. from Tampico, by customs II
 spectors charging him with smuggling or
 suitcase full of brandy into the Unite N States.
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