Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-01

Enrique Estrada has been appointed minister of war in Mexico succeeding the late General Benjamin Hill.
 Professor George sehiIIinEs, noted as an African traveller and zOologist. died in Berlin.
 Owing to depression at ChateauEay Ore and Iron Co. closed its big iron mines at Lyon Mountain, in the Adirondacks.
 American are leaving the State of Du- rango. Mexico .as result of the reign of terror begun by the twelve Arieta ban dit brothers.
 seventy-six per cent of the total ear miles operated by the Eastern Massa- chusetts Street Railway during Decem- Der was operated with one-man cars.
 gie transatlantic diriEIbIe R-34 was broken in two when it was blown. far out to sea after bad landing on the York shire coast
 La Aeeisn of Madrid, aSks rsvern- mental intervention to aid the economic and f)lancial crisis in Spanish industry | and commerce.
 William Gum. noted cricket profes- l s:onal. died at Nottingham Sunday. In | his prime he was one of the best bats l in England. the latest United States government note regarding oil properties in Mexico and will probably answer it this week. Arrival of six barges of coal at Bridge port averted what had bee nexpected to ! be shortage of coal there. The arrivals brought 1000 tons.
 William K. McCombs. former chair man. of the democratic national commt | ttee, has ben seriously ill for nearly a month in New York.
 A protest will be made by Bridgeport interests against the proposed increase in carrying rates by the trunk railroad lines of both hard and soft coal
 Rev. Chapman s. Lewis. rector of st. Stephens parish Jersey City, x. J.. has accepted the cal to be rector of Trinity Episcopal parish, South Norwalk.
 A statue of St. Joan of Are. found only
 slightly scared in war ruined French village, today graces an altar in a church
 at Elmhurst, New York.
 The Commonwealth National Bank at
 Rockville, Virginia. village. was robbed
 of cash and securities totalling $119,-
 900 and then set on fire.
 According to . bulletin issued by the
 National Geographic Society. fisheries of
 Alaska may soon be displaced by rein
 deer as the major industry of the coun-
 try.
 A naval court of inquiry has been or dered to investigate the shooting of Lieu tenant John C. Taylor, naval medical officer, at the operating base, Hampton [ Roads, Va, by a sentry.
 Three barEes. the tow-of the tug Tri- ton which was taking them light from , Boston to New York, were in trouble off Sandwich, Mass, in a northeast snow storm.
 Three detectives were shot and seri. f ously wounded in Detroit by three ban.
 dits who. robbed the Morton Bond com. - pany's offices in the public square down.
 town.
 d Miss Gretchen Brandit, a, was founc . beaten and stabbed to death in her room V at the home of her brother-in-law, Dr < Lester SiemeR, in Cleveland, where sh, v lived:
 Mrs. James H. Glover and her thre ,r children, the eldest of whom was eigh a years old. were suffocated when th.i Il home at London, Ont, caught fire iron n an overheated stove.
 " Three hundred men at o'clock thi morning were damned around front an " rear entrances of an Indianapolis ten { .d twenty-five cent store in answer to ,o newspaper advertisement for five persons D.
 On account of the increased cost O
 newsprint beginning Feb. l, the A. B. (
 and other Madrid newspapers announc
 their prices will be increased from te E centimes to fifteen. en Csl. Frederick W. GaIbrafth, IT., ma h. tional commander of the American Le ls zion, arrived in Hartford on visit i ls the interests of veteran of the worl so was in need of hospital care. ' John l.. Lewis, president of the Unite u Mine Workers of America, who is visit hu ing his home in Springfield. H., deciaI hs ed the organization would oppose an b,, attempt to reduce miners wages. ne Sir Ernest Shaekleton, noted Britis re Antarctic explorer arrived at New Tor ne on the Cunader Aquitania. He will lea1 IA" soon for Montreal. He predicted V
 would have no real" winter weather. ns Banner the tho late Charles Dole ,,s , prominent Uuray (Cal.) rancher hs buried a fortune has caused a rush = people who are searching the ranch aT Io digging the ground up for the allegt >w buried treasure. on Mrs. Victor Jacobson and her daug' nd ter, Victoria, IS, were burned to deat
 at Bessemer. Pa. in a fire which fo
 flowed the explosion of a can of kerosei
 with which Mrs. Jacobson was kindlir Y, q fire.
 A The body of Alfred Tredwny White, tic years old, credited with building Il w. first model tenements in this country m 1878, was recovered from Forrest Lax nv. near Central Valley, N. J., where he "; he drowned while skating. me
 ITS Drugs valued at S6o,oo were seiz, ed and three men arrested by narcot nd agents at Baltimore. The men a on members of the crew of the steamsh 'ed westwood and are alleged to have smu r's gied the drugs into this country. led YaS 1RtSn~uI no.t5.-4