Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-12

the interior. is greatly improved following his operation last week for gallstones, at Rochester, Minu.
 An attempt to escape by two military prisoners at Fort Rodman, New Bed ford was checked early yesterday by rife fire from the provost guard.
 The statue of Ben Franklin, which Is isiting a number of New England cities before being finally SC. up at Water bury, was in Providence Wednesday.
 Eugene R. Grace. president of the Beth lehem Steel Corporation. in a statement said the company was not considering re- ducing wages.
 The Cerro De Pasco Copper Company | passed it quarterly dividend of 50 cents | per share because of unsettled conditions l in the market. i
 Samuel Untermeyer, chief council of the Lockwood legislative committee | charged that fire insurance costs in New York are exorbitant.
 House committee Investigating the BergdolI case was informed a formal de- mand on Germany will be made after the declaration of peace.
 The super-dreadnauEht Tennessee, commanded by Captain Richard c. Leigh arrived at Rockland. Me, from Boston 1 yesterday in readiness for today's stand I ardization trial on the Rockland course Daniel W. Lawrence. ninety. last of the makers of the Medford rum that was famous before prohibition died at his home in Medford, Mass.
 An explosion of powder magazine in | a stone quarry at Thornton, H., 22 miles south of Chicago, rocked half dozen towns south of the city.
 The appointment of Professor Henry P. Talbot, head of the department of chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as acting dean was an nounced by the executie committee.
 Gold ingots valued at s11,O0O, 900. con- signed to various American bankers. ar rived in New York on the steamship Unit ed States from Sweden.
 Admiral Henry E. Wilson command er-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, will be the new superintendent of the United States naval academy at Annapolis.
 Directors of the National City bank of New l OTk. voted 10 dDSOTn the IOmnPT- cial Exchange National Bank. The pro- posaI will be submitted to the stockhoId- CTS.
 The 45O employees of the Continental
 Paper and Bag company at Rumford.
 Me. refused to accept a reduction of l about 30 per cent. in wages when their
 contract expired and walked out. The mill was closed.
 Esteban Gill BorEes. minister of for : eign affairs of Venezuela. was enter tained at luncheon by Dr. Charles W.
 Eliot, president emeditus of Harvard uni | i versity.
 Wheeling Steel X Iron Co.'S plant ai ? Benwood w. Va. resumed operations c About 1.40O men returned to work. La t borers accepted wage reduction of 13 tcents an hour.
 X As the result probably sf a RaHg FsuS n previously marked by several assault! l. according to the police, Dominic Fsl h core of Cambridge was shot and fatall! d wounded while passing aiong Mt Au d burn street, Watertown. Mass
 An iceberg that had survived the sum
 of a year and still stood mountain higl ?, seven miles northeast of Cape Race, wa N reported by Captain Ledsome 0
 the steamer Lexington which arrived a ;, Boston from Glasgow.
 President Harding has requested At IS ey-General Daugherty to nvestigat
 charges of profiteering in contracts ant r purchases made by the war departmen III during the war
 IS Monthly tonnage report of the Unite, le States Steel Corporation showed unfille' 'e orders on hand April so totaled 5,s45,2 'd tons, compared with 6,2S4,765 tons fo e. the previous month.
 1e Walter F. Brown, Of Toledo was ap
 pointed by President Harding as his per e. sonal representative on the commission T. which is recognizing the executiv D. branch of the government
 President Harding contributed s25 t
 the American Legion fund for the deco
 ration of American graves in Europe
 flor those sons of the Republic wh 'V gave their lives in the World war" t. Attorney General Daugherty announce in he is considering plan to reclaim youn en prisoners in federal penitentiaries. espt m cially first offenders by placing them ed vocational institutions to be taught trade on Asking 1000 more policemen to heI ed enforce the new state prohibition act Pc
 lice Commissioner Enright of New Tor en petitioned the Board of Estimate for a he appropriation of s1,O31.S70 in special rev it enue bonds to pay one years salaries (
 the new men.
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