Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-03-14

ignation.
Prospective emigrants assembled in this
city have decided to cable President
Harding for assistance in securing pass-1
port vises.
The Passaic cotton mills of New Bed
ford. Mass, which have been shut down
six months, will resume operations on
March Il.
William Walter Husband. OF 81. Johns
bury, VT, was nominated by President
Harding TO be commissioner general Of
immigration.
Selection Of Eliot wadsworth Of Boston
to be an assistant secretary of the treas
ury is understood to have been virtually
agreed upon.
A mans body tied up in a potato sack
and pierced with a knife, was found near ,
the Eastern boulevard in the Bronx. The
body was still warm.
Druggists united in a rush to the Gus
toms house in San Francisco when they |
learned that Scotch whiskey was to be |
sold at IS per gallon.
1t is estimated that from 1000 to 5000
emigrants are new in Warsaw from va
rious parts of Europe seeking to depart
for the United States
The Polish newspa1 1,ers in Warsaw
publish dispatches frem the frontier de-
scribing the fight OF Jews from Russia
lin enormous numberL'
Reductions in wages OF common labor.
made by the Erie railroad on January 81,
have been cancelled and the former wage
schedule has been restored.
The steam canal boat Volunteer, bound
cargo of coal. sank near Penfeld light
house after striking a rock.
An appeal to the American people to
do everything in their power towards the
relief of famine conditions in China was
issued by President Harding.
Thomas W. Miller Of Delaware, a for
mer member of the house of representa-
tives, was appointed alien property Gus
todian by President Harding.
James Emerson, Fort Fairfield. Me-.
farmer, shot and killed his wife. Victoria
Flannery Emerson, it wss alleged, at the
home of her son, Cecil Flannery.
The unemployment situation has be-
come SO acute in Ill.ois cities that the
ratio of applicants to jobs now is more
than IL to l in the larger cities.
W. T. Brown, chief OF the American
engineering commission engaged in the
task Of surveying a route for a railroad
across Nicaragua, died in Bluefelds.
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Two men are dead and others are be-
lieved to have perished in a fire which
, carly destroyed the Grace hotel at Clin-
ton, Okla. The bodies were not identified
william b. Leeds, son Of Princess An
: astasia of Greece, who is i'll at Athens
twas a passenger on the steamship Imper.
ator, sailing from New York for Cher.
bourg.
. The interstate commerce commission
, granted the application of New England
+ railroads that examination of the trans
portation of mail in that territory be re-
, opened.
Conflict between Mayor Peters and Pc
lice Commissioner Curtiss of Boston de
veioped over an order by which Bostor
I policemen will wear badges bearing tn,
seal of the state.
The blowing out OF a transformer Sat
urday at the plant of the Salem Electri
f Lighting Company. Salem, Mass. left no
only that city but Maiden and contiguou
h points without light or power for time
a Launching Of the schooner Blue Nose
which is being built at Lun.nberg, y. S
for possible representation of Canada il
= the next international fishing schoone
. races, has been announced for March 2e
- The American Steel and Wire compan
! posted notices in its three Worceste
:. plants to the effect that beginning TO
:, day the plants will be run eight hours
day instead of ten in order to preven
). lay offs.
- Representatives of unsIxiIled labor o
= lrhe New York, New Haven and Hsftfor
system, will have their next conferenc
- with General Manager c. l.. Bardo, in tn
&c matter of wage reduction in New Haver
% tomorrow.
- One hundred and fifty patrolmen. d'
'e tectives and federal officers invaded tn
/ North End quarter Of Kansas Cit.
!. TO thwart what Chief Of Police Edward
:, characterized a threatened reign OF tel
- ror by imported gunner.
H. z. Allen, . state trooper. was G
=, stantly killed in a gun fight at Novi. nea
!! Pontiac Mich, between three member
of the state constabulary and five bar
dts. More than a score of shots were e.
:. changed. The bandits escaped.
Notices were posted by the Blgelov
Hartford Carpet Company, Thompson
willie, Conu., that the plant will be close
ID today. The action is taken because
the strike OF several hundred employ
rk which has been in effect since Feb. 2s.
ne The weekly survey Of labor condition
as issued by tie Detroit Employees ASS
ge citation, shows that more than 500
ed workers have been taken back by the
he member corporations since early in Il
y year when the first iml rovement In 1
a oustrial Sctivities was noted.
he Earl u. KIchmond, recently teller in Il
Hartsord-Aetna National bank. who di
appeared. gave himself uD Saturday al
pleaded not guilty to stealing $4,000
-E more from the bank. He was held 4
the federal court. Richmond had be,
Of in New York and Philadelphia.
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o. An United states district attorne
IT. have been instructed by Attorney &c
ol- eral Daugherty to dismiss profteerii
he and boarding prosecutions pending
ed their districts under section four Of q
o. Lever act. which recently was held u
%. constitutional by the supreme court