Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-23

Postmaster General Hays announced deposits in United States postal savings banks on July S1 were $152. .5o0.e 900 for the month.
 Several persons were killed and a num- Der wounded in fighting between Indians and federal guards in Guatemala because of land disputes.
 Spanish military mission in England has been instructed to purchase eighty British battle planes. to be used in the campaign against the Moors.
 King George has bestowed a unique honor on his uncle, the Marquis of Mil ford Haven, formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg, by promoting him to be ad- miral of the fleet on the retired list.
 Forecasts of the wheat yield in the northern hemisphere issued by the Inter- national Institute of Agriculture show that it will be approximately 55,2O0, C DO tons, compared to 51, 800, 900 in 1920.
 There will be further reduction in wages by independent steel companies, accord ing to James E. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Steel and Tube company of Youngstown, O.
 Chief Justice Taft has declined to um- pire in the first annual golf tournament of the Washington correspondents to be played at Washington Country Golf club. President Harding will be a participant According to reports received in Chi cago, terrific electrical storm which swept over Wisconsin and Illinois result ed in two deaths, fifty persons injured and half a million property damage. ! Former Emperor Charles of Austria- Hungary is said to be planning to ask the council of the league of nations to con- sent to the restoration of the monarchy in Hungary.
 On the basis of prices in 1913 equal tS 100, commodities imports shifted from an index number of .102 during June to 103 during July. The aIl-commodities index stands at 141 as compared to 139 in June. A "spurned woman" is blamed by Rev. John A. Spencer, former Santa Rosa, Cal, preacher, for causing his arrest on l warrant charging wife murder. He | again asserted he was innocent of any 1 attempt to do away with his wife. l The board of directors of the Ohio oil | company. one of the largest oil companies in the United States, yesterday declared the regular quarterly dividend of s125 a share, payable Sept. 50 to stockholders of record Aug. 29.
 Premier Briand has refused to accept the resignation of Paul Doumer, French minister of finance, which was rendered l following reports that Briand was dissat. isfied with the results of the financial l conference.
 1 Liquidation of Camp Funston, with tn. exception of one-quarter of the wartime fcantonment. which the government re. tains, has been completed. Proceeds o1 1 the auction sale will reach s50O,00e, it i, estimated.
 | General Pietro Badoglio, vice chief oi i the Italian army general staff. on an off l cial mission to America, exchanged calls with Major General William H. Wright commanding the Ninth corps area at Sar Francisco.
 1 United States customs officials at Du ] luth have been notified of plot to shiI | $600,000 worth of liquor into the United States by way of Rainy river and Beau dette. It is alleged the plot is being en gineered by Winnipeg shippers.
 A new national forest area of betweer l 500,e0o and 100000 acres at the head O the Allegheny river has been decided upon by representatives of the United States forest service and the Pennsylva mia forestry department.
 Capt. M. C. Carron of the schooner Sophie Christensen was killed at sea il a fight with his Japanese cook, who il turn was killed by the officers of the yes sel, they reported on arrival at SaI Francisco.
 The next annual convention of the In ternational Photoengravers union will b. held in Chicago, it was announced at tn, close of this years convention. The con 1 vention also settled upon plans for an ad vertising campaign to be conducted.
 The index number of wholesale price in the United States compiled by tn federal reserve board for the purpose O international comparisons showed an in crease of prices during July of litt more than l per cent against a decline o per cent. during June.
 Mrs. Richard s. Hawes, wife of tn former president of the American Bank CTS association, died at her home in St Louis of the sleeping sickness. She ha been suffering from the malady for tn past five months, but did not lose con sciousness until Saturday.
 It is estimated several hundred person will be sent to Russia for service with tn American relief administration in Russia Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer, repre- senting the league of nations, declare that S50,0o0,Oo0 will be needed to hell
 famine-stricken districts.
 In less than a month the Mosco11-Kazau railroad has carried 50 900 peasants iron the famine district toward Siberia, 4o, ,00 have departed on Volga river. steamers while many others are tramping the road without waiting for local relief scheme to be put into operation.
 Cigars and cigarettes seized by th l government for tax delinquency instead
 of being destroyed when their value i not equal to the tax would be turne, over to hospitals in which disabled Va veterans were quartered under a bil
 reported by the house ways and mean committee.
 Announcement was made that the al rectors of tle Laura Spellnan Rockefelle Memorial will pledge s75O,000 and tha John D. Rockefeller, Jr.i will donate per sonally $25o 900 toward the Young Men Christian association retirement fun plan providing the remainder of the $4 ; Ooe,000 believed necessary is pledged b
 Dec. 31, 1922.