Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-05

Hunger stricken people in the fam inc district of Russia are setting fire to their villages before deserting them for other parts of Russia.
 The Cunard liner SaxonIs arrived at Cherbourg four days late. The delay be- ing due to trouble with the engines. She sailed from New York July 2S. of Hayti and San Domingo will begin on Friday before a special senatorial com mittee.
 Gen. Pedro Hernandez of Pierrs . Blanca, with large number of men, has declared himself in revolt against the Obregon government.
 The modern caravan which Is heading for BuhI, Idaho, to settle farm lands, left Syracuse yesterday. The outfit left Brooklyn last Thursday.
 The house passed a bill authorizing the war department to distribute cannon and | other war trophies among the states ac- | cording to population.
 A reduction of B 1-3 per cont in | candy prices was announced by one of | the largest chain store candy firms in ] New York. |
 A Rome despatch says that Enrico | Caruso's will executed in 1919 has been declared null and void. Thus apparently the will executed at Sorrento stands.
 MonsiEnOr J. Henry Tihen. bishop of Denver Col. was received in audience by Pope Benedict United States Senator Joseph I. France. who arrived from Riga, will leave for London within two days and expects to sail for the United States on the Rotter- dam from Plymouth August IT. Policemen began . wholesale slaughter of blackbirds that infest the trees along Mineral Spring road, near Reading, Pa, and have been making life unbearable for 1 the residents.
 Election of Benjamin c. Marsh as managing director of the Farmers Ma 1 tional Council was announced by Her | bert F. Baker, president of the organiza- | ton.
 Twenty-ene Japanese. many of them prominent. were indicted on charges of | violence incident to the strike of sugar plantation workers last year. | The Ururguayan governmen tfs ex- pectsd to accept loan of $7,5oo,ooo of- fered by North American financiers | through the National City Bank of New York:
 The government won It's suit in the United States district court in New York to collect s29s,e72 from John D. Rocke- feller, alleged to be due in income tax on oil company shares.
 The first bale of new Georgia cotton was sold at auction on the cotton ex- change for 50 cents a puond. It weigh of Ss4 pounds and was classed as strict low middling.
 American intervention in Haiti and Santo Domingo was described as the
 "blackest chapter in American history
 in the Carribeans." by Oswald G. Vil-
 lard of New York.
 Investigation of the affairs of the in
 ternal revenue bureau has been found
 to be necessary, Commissioner Blair an-
 nounced, due to alleged leaks of tax in-
 formation.
 Thieves with truck took ss cases of l cigarettes (10,o00 to a easel and 21 eases
 of cigars an dtobacco from the store of
 the Antonio Pope company in New Ha-
 ven.
 workmen officials have just turned tho laugh on the allied military. control con-
 mission in Vienna in retaliation for two searches made of their cooperative bakery for arms.
 uird Iov.r. have v,or q xietorv bx ths final passage of the plumage bill. which prohibits the importation into the United
 Kingdom of the feathers of any bird ex-
 cept those of the African ostrich and the
 cider duck.
 Coffee drinking has increased e1 per
 cent. or 100 cups year for each person
 in the United States. since the advent of prohibition, according to figures made i. public by the National Coffee Roasters
 association.
 Books sold by the set on c subscrip-
 tion basis which have been published
 hitherto by Harper and Brothers, will be
 put on the market in the future by c.
 P. Collier and Son under a royalty agreement.
 Nearly 10000 employees of the Inter
 DorOugn nneS Tn EdTleH1s orkNllle ana Bronx will find a 10 per cent. cut in their pay envelopes today. The wage scale went into effect on July 24. but not in time to affect last Fridays wages. On the centre of the great American desert at Mesa, Ariz.. the Mormons are . to build another temple, second only to their tabernacle at Salt Lake City. Pres , ident Heber J. Grant of the Mormon
 church announced.
 The state department received . reply
 from Albert Douglas. head of the spe-
 cial American Mission to the Peru Gen.
 tenary celebration, that statements at- tributed to him In a speech showing
 partiality to Peru In that nations con troversy with Chile were unfounded . Hundreds ef cinzens Of South Malt. !, land, N S.. are fighting a fire which has
 already destroyed the mill of the Atlantic Lumber Co.,, a blacksmith shop, an oi 1 house and quantity of lumber Tn, 1 blaze spread rapidly and is beyond con trol.
 t At Canon city, Cell thousands of dol lars damage was done to truck garden, and other property when a wall of watei fourteen feet high swept down the mar
 TOW Arkansas river canyon througl
 Canon City.
 g Continued high waters in the Big Ar
 kansas river are cutting a new chan - l naI throlyeh the hiO sIoa10h ~asf of Vr-;