Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-19
Condensed 1eIegrams

President Wilson nominated Ro- I land N. Baker to be postmaster at I Boston.
 By a decree signed by King Alfonso, Sunday newspapers are forbidden in Spain.
 Federal amendment for woman suf- ' frage was ratified by the Indiana leg islature.
 On Jan. I, American ships listed ! amounted to 2S,751 vessels of l5,441,- 7S6 tons.
 American Writing Paper Co.,, an [ nounced an increase of 20 per cent in the price of paper. 1
 Bank of France reported gold on hand in week ended Jan. II, totaIed i 5.57s,4O4,oOo francs,
 Supreme council approved text of letter asking Holland to give up form 1 CT German emperor.
 Holland is threatened with a flood unless the Rhine, MaaS and other rlV- i CTS speedily subside.
 Owing to ice conditions in the East and North rivers, traffic conditions were greatly hampered.
 Agrarian strikers are reported using sun glasses in Cordoba, Argentina to set wheat stacks afire.
 Owing to the shortage of newsPrint three daily papers of Winnipeg sus- pended publication today. An explosion in fireworks factory at Aix- Rains, France, killed seven persons and injured many. Interstate Commerce Commission rules railroads will receive mail com pensation on space required.
 Walter R. Anderson, known in art publishing circles 6ged at a hospital in Chicago of urenic poisoning.
 Cuban Minister cepedes, at Wash ington denied reports of revolution in the western provinces of Cuba.
 Senator Owen requested President i Wilson to call an international ex- change conference in Washington 1 Pennsylvania Railroad, it is re- | DOEleut VIII push thICitEACAlfo III ASONA O-S when assured sound basis of credit. . Emphasis is laid upon the value of general education in the annual re- i port of President A. Lawrence of Har- yard.
 Area of winter wheat planted amounted to 49,905,000 acres, coInpar- ed with 3190,0OO in 1918 and 27,257,000 acres in 1917.
 Fresh western eggs sold on the New York Mercantile Exchange for 70 cents a dozen, a drop of 10 cents from last weeks prices.
 Long Island Railroad notified the public service commission that 1t wished to increase fares on it's ines
 inside the city limits.
 Stockholders of the Vanadium Steel i Co.,, at a special meeting approved an i increase in capital from 300,000 to i 500,0OO of no par value. Negotiations were opened between Germany and the allies for the conclu-
 sion of an agreement regarding food ] supplies for March and April. Ballots cast in the Ford Newberry i election in Michigan senatorial cleo !. ton will be counted by five members
 of the senate elections committee i Commercial Cable Go. announced
 there is a delay to England, Scandi-
 navia, Continental Europe and else where, owing to breakdown by storms.
 Fifty buses will take the place of the Staten Island Midland trolley cars
 which will suspend operations Mon ' day because of failure to obtain sev- en-cent fare.
 I A resolution commenting the New
 York assembly fQr it's suspension of five socialist members was offered at the annual meeting of the New York state bar association.
 Reports from santo Domingo re- ceived in New York announce 13 cen
 trals have begun grinding. on the new sugar crop. The remaining two ex-
 pect to start next week. United States and Haytian gend- armerie repelled an attack on Port au Prince, Haytian capital, by 300 band ) it's, more than half of whom were kill } ed, wounded or captured.
 | A salary scale, providing for min s inum of S1,000 and a maximum of $1,- l 750 a year, was agreed upon by the s Birmingham Federation of Teachers affiliated with the A. F. of L. ! Six masked men bound the yard < < master and watchman of the Pennsyl- vania Ranroid at Chicago, drove six
 trainnen into a shanty and took be- 5 tween s75,0Q0 and $100,000 worth ot 2 whishey.
 After a conference with Frank A Hedley, president of the I. R. T.. J P. Connolly and his committeeman 7 representing the I. R. T. Brotherhood U declared there would be no strike or 2 the lines.
 Representatives of France. England : Italy, Greece, Belgium, Spain. JanaT and Brazil members of the council o1 the league of nations met at the French foreign office, Paris, for the first meeting of the league. A waterfront fire was averted when ? a New England Sfeafnship line tug pulled a burning barge from a jam of other barges and lighters at Pier IS,
 North river, New York. The barge , was loaded with 4,600 bags of brown sugar.
 4 Jury of the supreme court re- : turned a verdict of $100,000 in faver
 of A. P. McCauley. a mining broker of F4 r