Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-01

Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassa- dor to this country, dedicated the new | clubhouse of the British War Veterans in | New York.
 Although twenty-five persons were in it | no one was badly hurt when a notorious ! of the Connecticut company overturned | on the Milford turnpike.
 The public utilities commission made | an order directing tre Connecticut com pany to reduce the trolley fares in Nor walk from 10 to , cents.
 Five taxi men of South NorwaIk were fined SIS and costs each on charges of operating their taxis as jitneys. without jitney licenses.
 The trials of the destroyer TilIman, scheduled to begin at Rockland, Me, yesterday, have been postponed indef- nitely.
 The illness of Rear Admiral William s. Sims, who has suffered for several days with slight cold and touch of indigestion. has developed into pleurisy.
 A 100 per cent. assessment was levied on stockholders of the Cosmopolitan Trust company of Boston by Bank Com missioner Joseph C. Allen, who closed the doors of the bank year ago.
 To aid unemployment. Marion. O.. awarded contracts, to repair and remodel the city hospital. Contracts amounted to S73.S29 and Marion men will be en- ployed
 A chestnut tree Is in bloom, apple blossoms are out on two trees and lilac bush is budding in Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y, as result of the mild weather, according to report.
 As tribute to the memory Of John Mitchell, former president Of the United Mine Workers of America, virtually all mines in the anthracite region of Penn sylvania were closed.
 An effort to have Thomas J. McAu- life, former prohibition enforcement of ficer in Conn ecticut, placed under com plete jurisdiction of the federal court was made by the mans counsel.
 Frank Briggs. 54. a farmer of West Sufficid, was cut nearly in twain by a circular saw with which he was cutting up wood. He slipped while feeding in a stick and fell on the saw. pr. Marie Stopes leader of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. declared in London that limi- tation of armaments and reduction of taxes can be obtained by birth control. i Harry c. Seaman of New Haven. was l fined S250 and costs, charged with driv- ] ing an automobile while under the infiu- ence of liuor and with having a loaded revolver in his possession. House of Representatives of Australia passed Premier Hughes proposal that three shilling per bushel be advanced tC the farmer at railway sidings on all vol untarily pooled wheat
 Minister of the Interior of Quebec Ina, been asked to send aid to the famine threatened districts along the Labrador coast between Sshecatika and Brador, because of the failure of the seasons cod fish catch.
 Munib ipaI ferryboau1 Mayor iGaynor
 running between Staten Island ant tn
 Battery, grounded on a mudfbank in thu
 dense fog off Robins Reef Light. Tn
 boat was stuck for six hours. with near
 ly 1000 passengers on board.
 Governor General Leonard Wood ap pointed Raphael Corpus to be secretar.
 of agriculture and Antonio Vhiareal a
 attorney general of the Philippines, t
 succeed officials who resigned. Both ar
 Filipinos.
 Judson Cox, former publisher of tn
 Item, weekly newspaper of Bay Ridge
 Brooklyn, committed suicide by shoot
 ing himself at his home in New York
 He had been i'll and Respondent for sev
 eral months.
 House rivers and harbors committe decided to favorably report measure |
 prevent dumping of oil and refuse fror
 ships and manufacturing plants into tn fishing and bathing waters along the mid
 Atlantic coast.
 The international conference of state
 formed through the dismemberment of tn . Austro-Hungarian empire opened in Port , Rosa, Italy. Representatives of Franc, I Italy and Poland also were in attend , ance.
 , Abolition of the British protectorate i , Egypt and substitution of a permaner , treaty of alliance is provided for in l draft agreement which is the result of nc Gotiations between the British goverr ment and an Egyptian mission. 5 A jail sentence of 60 days was su, : pended by Judge Mink at Bristol when h 7 found Floyd Sullivan and Joseph Kenned l of Waterbury, guilty of transportin v grain alcohol bp truck and fined eac ] s25O.
 Before final adjournment the 0ld'
 Boys conference of the state at New Hay
 en adopted resolution pledging sup2ol - of the olstead law and declaring then
 selves in favor of strict enforcement (
 prohibition.
 An order to eIsiier dismantle his saloo g or spend ten days in jail, was made h :. Judge Boardman in the city court a Bridgeport when Fred Karass. Jr., ws l. arraigned charged with iiuor law viol; 8 tion. He was fined s4O0.
 l. Types of cloth used in the manufactu l. of clothing in various parts of the wor r were shown at a textile exposition whi' l. opened in Boston as an adjunct to il y fall meeting of the national associate
 of cotton manufacturers.