Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-26

of New England opened it's annual two days session in Providence with nearly 75 met4bers in attendance. i
 United states labor board says average | daily rate of pay of all grades of railroad | workers totals s4.54 as compared with | an average of s2,S7 in 1917.
 After six months idIeness more than | 1000 men returned to work when 500 l ovens of the Prick Coal Co. resumed op- eration.
 Eighty-two boxes of gold was part of the cargo of La Lorraine which arrived at New York. The gold valued at s2,- 750.000 is consigned to New York banks.
 An important success by the Spanish troops in Morocco-the occupation of Mount Arruit-was announced in an of fcial comminque.
 Persons paying federal taxes under protest cannot bring proceedings to recov- CT such taxes against a successor of the collector to whom the taxes were paid.
 CourtIand P. Dixon of New York city, formerly associated with A. Barton Hep burn, and wei known in financial circles, died at Ridgefield of heart trouble.
 Moorish eontingents which bombarded | Spanish positions in the sector of Tigui- sas, Gonara and Magab Sunday morning were repulsed.
 Six employees and customer of the Hodiamont bank, outside of St. Louis city limits, were compelled to lie face down ward while four bandits robbed the bank of s7,O0o.
 4. J. BaIfour. with other members of the British delegation to the Washington Iconference. have booked passage for the United States on the steamship Empress of France, sailing Nov. 2.
 An attempt to organize a conference on the limitation of ornaments among Eng fish colleges similar to that to be held in Princeton on Wednesday, will be made shortly
 The board of directors of the Prov
 idence Chamber of commerce wired Pres
 ident Harding offering him it's co-opera-
 tion in his efforts to avert the threaten
 ed rail strike.
 Announcement was made that every
 coal mine in Nova Scotia and probably
 the steel plants as well would be closed
 if the miners did not moderate their
 wage demands.
 Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of tHillsdale, Ind, was sentenced to serve , three years in the penitentiary for forg- ing the indorsernent of Theodore Roose- welt to a note for $69,900.
 Four men were arraigned in Spring
 field before federal commissioner
 charged with knowingly receiving lottery s tickets, from a common carrier engaged
 in interstate commerce. l The price of seat on the New YorI : stock exchange dropped $1o,00O yester day when the sale of a membership wa ! announced at sS0.0OO. The last previou n sale. was recorded at $9O.OO0. Q Birmingham, Ala, undreamed of whel ? Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomatox q and in 1921 the largest city of it's az : in the United States, began the celebra
 tion of it's fftieth birthday. e ". Gamer n Forbes, former governo h general of the Philippines, arrived in Sa ! $ wit hthe report of the Wood-Forbes mis
 sion which investigated conditions ir
 the Philippines
 Ensign Lyle S. Gum was brought the navy yard in Boston, under arre.
 on charges arising out of the disappear 'e ance of s1.500 in Liberty bonds from tl ,e safe at the naval prison at Portsmout si N. H.
 w 4 final decree in divorce was hande ~ down to Mrs. Cordelia Riddle Duk , formerly Cordelia Riddle, daughter ,e Major and Mrs, Anthony J. Drexe VT against Angler B. Duke, in common ples ,e court at Philadelphia. e Declaring that "business is better f. the H. c. Prick Coke company, a s,1f
 sidiary of the United States Steel Cor
 oration,s extended it's order providing f
 the resumption of operations in the Co ', nellsville coke region. Major General A. ". Greedy, U. S. h retired veteran of Arctic exploratio VI and of the Civil war, today volunteer as at a citizens recruiting station in Bc 9 u ton, for any service which might be I ot 'G quired of him in the event of a railro 1ia Gn strike.
 3ie
 ti Prof. Paul Miliukoff. minister of fo o eign affairs, and Nicholas Avksentie .ad president of the Siberian directory und VI the former provisional government
 Ru@a, arrived in New York on t
 America, en route from Paris to Was
 ingtoh for the conference on armamen A0 The town council of Zurich Switzs .4 land, decided to profit by the easy mon ,o market terms in Switzerland and float @ @Ns internal loan from Swiss banks for t 3 .r purpose of redeeming the loan of $500 . ;, 900 obtained from American financie so. last October.
 ~ Zeke Anderson, mountaineer .,,o Elkhorn City, in Pike County, Ky, " ,,s escaped from the Rock Castle conv
 road camp last spring, went home a
 made crop so his family would ha
 food next winter. Yesterday he gave hi self up at the state reformatory. run Major General George ". Goethals, 'as s. A, retired, was selected to be co 'ge nlander in chief fan emergency supp cen system for the Metropolitan area of N Ire York in the event of a railroad strike les meeting of federal, state and army
 ficials.
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