Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24

Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania, was by President Harding to oe ambassador to Spain.
 Charles D. Nasty, known throughout Maine as a dealer in horses, died at ms home in Auburn. He was 5S.
 Gifts to Harvard university during the year totailing more than s3,00O,O00 were | announced by President Lowell.
 Harvard degrees were awarded to wo- 1 men yesterday for the first time since | the college was founded 2s5 years ago.
 President Harding nominated Jennie | P. Muster to be collector of customs for District No. 4S, with headquarters at | Salt Lake City, Utah.
 State department issued formal statement denying that it has any know ledge of the progress of the Anglo-Jap- anese alliance.
 Prediction that gasoline will go to so cents a gallon was made by Prof. E. H. Leslie, of the chemistry department of the University of Michigan.
 Naval ocean-goinE tug Connestoga, missing since she left Mare Island for Samoa. March 25, 1921, was officially giy- en up for lost.
 Motormen and conductors of the Pub lie Service Railway Co.,, operating in Northern New Jersey, voted to accept reduction of five cents an hour in wages.
 Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ann bassador will speak at the commence ment exercises at Ann Arbor University, Michigan on June 2s.
 Two negro brothers held at Rome, Ga. are puzzling Sheriff Wilson because each says he is Jim Campbell, the murdered of two other negro brothers. pr. Seth Gordon one of the best known surgeons in New England, died at his residence in Portland. Maine at the age of 91, agter an illness of several years.
 That very dry weather prevailing over the eight northeastern states served by the Federal Farm Lani bank of Spring. field is vitally affecting the hay crop. i President Harding definitely declined an invitation to speak before the Worlds Christian Endeavor convention in New York. July 6-11 He told a committee that public aqairs would not permit it. 1 Portsmouth had its normal issue of afternoon newspapers Wednesday for the | first time in a week. The strike of com positors which was responsible for the situation was settled.
 Examination of the books of the bank rupt brokerage firm of Hollister, White & Co.,, Inc, of Boston. may disclose that 1t owes about $500, 600 to customers who purchased stock that was never delivered.
 The fate of "Nicky" Arnstein and his
 four co-defendants in the alleged conspir- acy will be decided today by Justice Sid
 dons of the supreme court of the District
 of Columbia.
 John A. Leach. first deputy commits
 sioner. threatens a wholesale cleanup of
 the New York police department and
 general removal of captains if the prohi-
 bition law is not properly enforced. S. Davies Warfeld predicted before the senate interstate committee that govern ment ownership of railroads is :nevitabl: unless effective railroad organization i: consummated to induce economies.
 Two men were missing yesterday aftel fire which virtually destroyed thu . Mems Mission building on Norta Second street, New Bedford and damaged ; number of other buildings.
 American deeIEates who attended tn , international conference of R7tarial
 clubs in Glasgow last week were receivet . by the Lord Mayor of London and cor . poration officials at Guildhan Wednes i day.
 Mrs. Stella H. R. KeatinE and Mrs n Rose Totevin, two daughter of the lat
 Oscar Hammerstein bought the Manhat
 tain Opera House when it was offeret
 for auction for s145,0O0. They wer !, the plaintiffs in the foreclosure action.
 Proposals to create an assistant t : the President of the United States ar T under consideration by the the joint com \ mttee on reorganization. This office
 would probably be called an executiv :. secretary.
 d Frank A. Munsey was the guest o J President Harding at luncheon at tn VI White House. Later the President an '. Mrs. Harding received the delegates t 0 the convention of the American Institut l.. of Homeopathy.
 National Alliance of Employers an F Employed of Great Britain asked tn t S government to summon a joint industris o conference to settle wage disputes nor = pending and avert threatened genera .s strike.
 The dispute between the employees C
 the Connecticut company and the com
 pany over the terms of a new workin
 schedule to be effective as of June s is now in the preliminary stages of al
 bitration.
 Id Four Mexican heirs to about ten thor ir sand dollars reposing in the Bristol Tru: Id company and the Savings Bank in Bri: ,f tol. after waiting ten years or more fC ,r this estate to be settled, are to have
 distributed to them within a few week h. Four masked bandits held up .. F. Woodbury, farmer and grandson of th IT. late ex-Governor Urban A. Woodbury. h Vermont, and for two hours ransaske 1 his house at Appletree Point, few mile i. north of Burlington. Vt.
 Forty of the 55 prohibition enforce
 ment agents in the New England di trict who were laid of on May 20 becau. a of lack of funds, were reinstated yeste
 day by Elmer C. Potter, supervisir n- agent for the district.
 T Officials ef the department ef con IT merce are considering asking the nav CT or army for planes to patrol the lit III frequented stretches of coast near Cal IT. Hatteras for some trace of the mercha1