Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-20

Five communists were arrested in Ber- lin on charge of attempt to asassinate Gustave Streseman, leader Of the German Peoples party.
 Edwyn Let Barron, of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency of New York, was killed by a fall from a train in the Hudson tube
 National congress of India decided up- on a boycott of Japanese goods as a pro- 1 test against renewal of the Anglo-Jap-d anese alliance.
 The offerings at the wool auction sales i in London amounted to 10.902 bales. It | was a superior selection and there was a l brisk demand for fine kinds at firm prices |
 Prohibition laws in six Canadian pro vinces passed as a result of the dominion temperance act were held constitutional in a test case Pupils in subnormaI classes at Chicago schools will be fed on a sheep gland diet as soon as arrangements can be compiet- 4 ed.
 1 Thirty provincial governors of the | Philippines called on Governor General Leonard Wood in body to pay their re- spects.
 Marshal Foch has received by cable an invitation from the Ku klux I<lan to be guest of that organization while vis- iting the United States.
 Mederic Martin, member of the leEis- lative coucil in the province of Quebec was elected mayor of Montreal for the fourth consecutive term.
 As a result of differences between publishers and workers no Berlin news lpapers were published with the exception of socialist anu communist organs and two pan-German papers. John H. CowIes of Louisville. Ky, was
 elected sovereign grand commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, southern jurisdiction of
 the United States.
 Des Moines Street Car Mons Union
 made a voluntary reduction of cents
 an hour in their wages, to 'get service
 suspended Aug. restored and aid in
 bringing about a lower fare''
 The 125 anniversary of the birth of
 Rev Hosea Ballou, one of the founders and the first president of Tufts college. was observed with a reunion at the col lege of the Ballou Family Association.
 Two men were shot to death in an af- fray which, it is said, was the outcome of a kissing game" at a party at the
 home of John Alien at Curtis Bay, a
 suburb of Baltimore.
 Favorable report authorizing the crea- ! tion of a commission to arrange for fund ing and refunding of the ofreign debt was ordered by the house ways and means
 committee.
 e Nearly two hundred women patients s some of them bedridden, were rescued . when fire swept the main building of the | state homeopathic hospital at Middletown N. Y.
 Damage estimated at s15,00O was don,
 in Bridgeport, when fire of mysterious origin swept through barn, wagon shed S garage and house owned by Patrick Nc l. Gee a prominent coal dealer.
 Commanders in seven of the nine corp e areas have been directed to proceed . with organization of corps area training e center with a. brigadier general assignee o to command each center. b Concentration by President Harding O a Father and Son week. to be observe
 November to 12. wah embodied in let
 ter received by the international com
 mittee of the Y. M. c. A.
 Four army officer, all members of tn e Wood Forbes mission which investigate ,s Philippine conditions have been assigne l. to duty as assistants to Governor-Gen is eral Wood.
 m George S. Hossfield of Paterson, \. J 1t has retined his title as typewriting spec Id champion of the world, it was announced 1t He won a test in New York by writin
 an average of 136 words minute. S. Pope Benedict received the Bishop l Leeds and 100 British pilgrims He e2 m pressed the wish that the Irish peace cor ve ference will result in establishing pel ct manent pace between Ireland and Ems be land.
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 I John HauIish, who was described | of Judge Smith of Mineola, N. Y, as ''ba
 man." was sentenced to forty years ay Sing Sing for holding up couple in g n i; automobile and robbing them of s1o6 I h. was a second offender. H. Government consent to the constructit h. of drawless bridge across South Charl O. Basin between Boston and Cambridge, he replace the Harvard bridge would be gi lst en under bill reported favorably by t ass house commerce committee. ole
 es- Representatives of the Baldwin Loc
 motive works and the NIiddletown c
 company, subsidiary of the Standa
 Steel Car company, signed joint co sY tract with the Argentine railways
 railroad equipment costing s13,0o0.000. go Reduction of the size of the Britt ing army and a cutting down of the hous on hold cavalry by one-third is recommen
 ed in a report by a committee of busine be- men appointed to examine the expen JUS lures of the war office. led
 me Joseph Connolly of Belfast has be 1b- appointed consul of the Dali Eireann i'm New York, replacing J. L. Fasitt, W her has assumed a position under the D 10 Eireann's economic representative de- America.
 or Reviving 8 rumor that Great Brit: nus is preparing new naval base in the I ept ciffc, the Daily Sketch says it is intend
 to spend two million pounds il conve
 ing Singapore into a first class stati