Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-27
BRIEF TELECRAMs

BRIEF TELECRAMS
United State shas been ratified by the
Colombian congress
storm which swept both sides of the
lower Mississippi river took a toll Of 81
lives and injured about 10.
The Peoples Gas company of Chicago
announced it would resume payment of
dividends Jan. II with quarterly pay
ment of l IA per cent.
Joint manoeuvres of the Atlantic and
Pacific fleets. scheduled for February in
Panama bay, probably will be abandoned
in the interest of economy.
An all-army fruit cake, prepared by
the bakers and cooks school at Fort
Riley, Kansas. formed part of the Christ
mas dinner of Secretary Weeks.
Rioting broke out In Csiro, Egypt. on
onstrators were killed and a number
VIZ unded.
Sixty-two more nationalist volunteers
and members of the All-Indiaa congress
| have been arrested, and nine sentenced
to three months imprisonmrt each.
With the passage through the locks
| at Sault Ste Marie, Mich, of the steamer
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. navigation Of
| the Great Lakes formally ended for the
| 1921 season
| Ralph A. Day, New York state prohibi-
| tfon director, issued an emphatic denial
| of reports that he was working to bring
| about prohibition of the use of fermented
wines for sacramental purposes.
| The board of directors of the Ameri.
| can Chamber of Commerce have adopted
a resolution favoring extension of the
coastwise shipping laws to the Philip
pines next February.
Food supplies for starving Russians
| valued at $4,000, contributed by mem
bers of the International Ladies Gar.
ment Workers union, left New York fol
Riga on the steamer Orla.
The new dollars, now in process OF
coinage, and expected to be available fol
circulation about Dec 81. will not bear {
broken sword, Director Baker of the min
announced.
A determined fight by Hazel Morgan
clerk IN the office of the Niagara Opt
cal company, Buffalo. n. Y, frustrated
hold-up and resulted in the capture n
| two bandits.
Considerable excitement prSvailed
throughout Alexandria, Egypt, SUNDAY
que to natlonahsts' agitation. Police pa
trelIed the city in armored automobiles
frustrating attempts to stage demonstra
tioLs,
Selection of Camp Johnston at Jacl
: sonYille, Fla, as the site for a vocation
al training university to be establishe
Y by the veterans bureau is understood
? have been practically decided upon b
Director Forbes
Notice has been received hv tho .ta,
department from the new government
Guatemala that Dr. Julio Bianchi. mil
a | lster to Washington under the Herrel
q government. recently overthrown, I
n longer represents that country
Christmas pies in San Francisco tb
year contained liquor, local pie bake
having availed themselves of the pc
8 mission under the law to pep their pie!
with brandy from the government stor
: houses.
e Value of the estate Of Charles
g | Roebling, Of the firm of joan E Roe
h | ling's Sons Company, cable and wi
y manufacturers, is S15,355.671.32. accor
IS ing to tn executors account filed wi
g Surrogate Madden at Trenton, N j.
/ Three hundred and fifty tenants of
Il downtown arcade building in Clevelar
If O., received Christmas presents in I
le form of rent reductions of 10 to Is L
lie cent Present leases do not expire un
April.
% Peter Caprom is dying as a result
IT burns received when a large still explr
es ed in the basement of an East Side n
IS York tenement and set fire to the hon
o. Th elves of members of % families W,
&c endangered
n signorina Italia Garibaldi. rror
rs daughter of the Italian patriot. has arr
D. ed in Washington to join the Italian 4
Il egation as a men5er of the press 6,
on ton. She was assigned by Maruis De
re Torretta, Italian minister of foreign
ly fairs.
fhinp ;. Honywood, youngest son
the late Sir John William Honywood ?
III nephew of the Earl of Devon of Powd
ham castle, Exeter, England. was crlt
as- beaten and robbed of a large amount
FOR money not far from his home NJ
Of Woodcliff lake, New Jersey.
ng
lis. Joseph Oats of New York CITY ,
m taken to the Englewood, n. j., hosp
ef- with dangerous bullet wound in
Of side, and the police held him under S
ted veillance on suspicion that he was
of the two bandits WHO held I'D a oi
ian store in the Bronx, New York.
la
a Directors of a score of the largest
is servatories in the country and m;
st other porminAo astronomers are exn
ed 20 attend the annual meeting of
re- American Astronomical society
eek Swarthmore college Thursday. Fri
ve- and Saturday of this week.
the
ans Representative Albert johnson, reu
est tcan, washington VIII introduce a
olution when the house reconvenes
to make permanent the temporary
day release granted to LOO aliens
AZ at Ellis Island because quotas for Il
countries under the immigration law
been filled