Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-19

as president of the University of the Philippines.
 More than 250 natives were drowned by the tidal wave that overwhelmed the towns of Ibajay and Macato, Island of Negrus, l., November 2s.
 The Prince of Wales is enjoying the sport cf t-geI hunting whte h guest of Maharaja Sir Chandra, Jung of Nepal.
 Official messages by radio instead of .telegrams are now passing between army posts and stations as meansof govern ment economy.
 The new naval program will cause Q marked reduction in officers on duty at navy yards.
 The principal part of the business sec- tion of Harrison, Me, was burned with a loss estimated at 75,Oo0.
 The New England Milk Producers q sooiation announced a reduction firm to 1-2 cents quart
 Leonid Krassin, soviet commercial en- voy, conferred with Premier Lloyd George regarding the soviet's promise to pay the old Russian foreign debt.
 J. Frank Lily, New York broker, charged with swindling amounting to a million dollars, was arrested in Dallas, Texas.
 According to report from Ottawa, 1 fn~ooo oI1aey 1,or- ~ nadian banks since the armistice and 2 14 have closed.
 Afore than 500 men employed at GIeen- wood shops of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road will be affected by the shutting down of the shops, effective today. Secretary of War Weeks is in favor of l the mobilization. of men, money and man. ufsetories under conscription law in the event of future war. 1 Postmaster General VIII H. Hayes who was reported i'll is taking a rest al the home of Col. William Boyce Thomp- son in Yonkers.
 Interstate commerce commission re- l fused to reconsider it's recent action ord | ering 16 per cent. reduction in tho railroad freight rates on farm product. | in the west.
 State authorities at Topeka, Kansas I ordered 500 warrants issued for leader of the army of women who oyerral 1 Pittsburgh county and caused the sus pension Of coal mining. Representative Arthur B. Rouse, o ktatue>y, was named chairman ef in
 democratic congressional committee tt succeed the late Representative Henr,
 D. Flood.
 Inc CTrs iton Products compupy of
 Chicago was cited by prohibition head
 quarters to show cause why it's permit t
 deal in alcohol for medical purpose
 should not be revoked.
 While he was attending charity bal thieves entered the home of Richar
 Mccormick in Chester, N T., and stol
 $3,ooO worth of liquor from his privat
 stock.
 Alfred Gould, the Santa Claus in
 New Brunswick, N. J.. store, was ser
 ously burned when his false whisker were ignited by cigarette which |
 had gone to the basement to smoke. The attitude of the American Kev ernlnent toward the proposal of Chile fc a plebiscite to determine the dispositio of the provinces of Tacna and Africa wa described as one of strict neutrality ! Baron De Marchienne,l Belgian nm g bassador to the United States, arrived 9 New York from Washington to preseI l a bust of Cardinal Mercier to New Yor
 university.
 b Proposed wage reductions of betwes $ 20 and 25 per cent, affecting 30 e granite cutters and quarrymen east n the Mississippi river, have been reject, = by the workers unions. n Merger of more than a score of feri 2 lizer plants chiefly in the south invol 2, ing millions of dollars with headquarte e in Baltimore is in process of consumm
 tion.
 The Rev. John J. Fitzgerald of n Roses church, Fair Haven, will eel
 brate the silver jubilee of his term ' service in the Roman Catholic church .s Christmas day.
 "a The Argentine wheat crop of larE f yield per acre than last pear is indics . ed in unofficial estimates received tot
 by the department of agriculture. If Federal Judge Augustus NJ. Hand, u ,e hell tla internal revenue bureaus ru'j "a that firms handling alcohol under who ic sale druggists permits must carry
 least $25'0oo worth of drugs in order
 qualify as wholesalers. Theories that some scientific reIatio 'o ship might exist between concurre .h volcanic activity reported during t .p week from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, t4 ally and Japan were discredited by f u ological authorities. IT. Ebenezer Nelson Blake, a banke, a
 business man of Arlington, Mass. Io many years, a former president of f ne Chicago Board of Trade, and a forn
 trustee of the University of Chicas Ig died at his home in Arlington, Mass
 Ja'oes ]. Grady, of Beverly, (,
 tractor, was summoned to appear befr
 State Fire Marshal George c. Neal R explain why he threw 49 sticks of dyr
 mite into the river near the Base brid e- at Beverly, Mass. ty
 he conspiracy to boycott his restaur. Is, because he would not discharge nc tn union employees was alleged by Char re. Hamilton of Lynn, in a bill in eau as brought against officers and members
 several Lynn unions. ds