Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-16

general reduction in rents ia fin .S feet in Gary, Ind. following reduction of wages in steel mills.
 General Electric Co. engineers at Pftt,- neld, Mass. completed series of high voltage tests. using 100000 volts for the first time in history
 Four sectit'h ha l.. were killed at F,-, Plain. N. T., when an e-stbound train Of the New York Central sped through gang workmeu whils they were nt work.
 The railroad administration settled With the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad company al claims growing out of federal co: trol for $S,000 600
 Gilman Holmes, negro. was Iynched at gCofumbit, La. for an alleged attack on Sidney Mannheim. station agent at that place.
 Mrs. Earl M. Rowray, 41, of Omaha. gave birth to her twenty.second child Mrs Rowray became a bride at 14 and mother at IT.
 Distribution of wines for sa,ram.rt.I purposes by wholesale dealers is to he permitted for 30 days more, Comnais- sioner Blair said tonight.
 The schooner Mayflower was chosen to represent the United States in the Inter national Fishermen's races off Halifax beginning October 25,
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, former as,i.t- ant secretary of the navy, who has been seriously ill at his summer home In Campobello, N. B., left for New York on private car.
 Milton L'Ecluse. of Port Washington. L. l., began action against the Young & Metzner Realty Co.,, Inc, to recover s1S.5oo alleged to be due him for services Tn connection with the sale of Camp TTn- ton to the government.
 Three safes in the administration building of Syracuse University were blown open. The robbers secured notb- ing, and as they were about to open a fourth safe containing S20,00O, were scared away.
 The ban in Berlin on the Fran.h I,-- guage was broken. George BakIanoff the tenor. has received permission from the government to sing the role of Me phlsto in French. The rest of the c.s. will sing in German.
 Decision holding that the Russian so- wet government has right to sue i, American courts to recover nronart,, stolen in New York was handed down by Justice McAvoy of the state supreme court 0ine
 south Afries's rapid reoovery from tne worldwide business depression is eAplalhed oy that country's mineral nro- more than $4,6s4.O0O, 900.
 Grain shipments throurh Mo,.-, have become so heavy that inc ca naoian Pacific and Grand Trunk rail roads announced restrictions for the protection of Canadian shippers.
 cotton consumed during Aur4 amounted to 467,1o3 bales of lint and oo,871 of linters, compared with Isa 5so or lint and 49,412 of nnters in Aurnst last year. uS'
 According to radio despatch fror MOSCOW detachment which raided the atorskayor at Vladivostok can tured all the officers of the anti-boIsba-
  cruiser Lieutenant Davidoff.
 The grand jury of Haund.r returned an indictment of murde- ir th, nrst degree against Frank Lesnowsli of 9pringheld' charged with killing Elliot booooskl' who was stabbed in a olarr,J In a lunch room July S1.
 Los Angeles was named as the Ie1o encampment city for the United Sn.n- lsh War Veterans at the encannroa,,, at Minneapolis, after all other cnr,,,a. ing cities had withdrawn in favor of K California city.
 Important changes involving eonsid.r- aole reductions in the size of all branch es or the army have been ordered bv the general staff with the approval of secretary Weeks in placing the army on basis of 150,000 enlisted men.
 Dr. I. R. CalI1ins, Springfield Mae. at camp Perry, Ohio, won the national rihe association pistol championship. and just missed winning the individual sio,v lire pistol match. losing first place in his last string ties.
 Collection of approximately S1e.oOo 900 in delinquent and additional sales and miscellaneous taxes by the govern ment as a result of a special drive end ing September was Announced bv Commissioner Blair
 Harold Stamps, former probibition agent, Chicago was under arrest at Chicago, was under arrest charged with having accepted a s15.0OO bribe for ob- taining a permit to remove a carload of Whiskey from Cincinnati to Chicago. members of the Hibbing police force Thursday night, shot and killed himself in a shack, one mile east of Hibbing Mlnn, when surrounded by a police posse
 E1lphtheriOs venizelos, former prem fer of Greece and Miss Helena Schiliz lz, daughter of Greek business man in London, were married at the registry of lice in London. M. Venizelos is 57 years of age and his bride is ten years his junior.
 As evidence of the desire of the de- partment whenever possible to fill vacan- cles in postmasterships by promotions in the service, Postmaster General Hays announced that of the SIS appointments sent to the senate for confirmation up tn September To- 426 ar cIoea +o 5n ,