Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-08

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 At least 100000, 900 gold rubIes for 1 aiding famine sufferers is expected to be realized through the confiscation of church treasures in Russia.
 According to report of the American Petroleum Institute, daily average crude oil production for the week ended April 1 totaled 1,462,S25 barrels. as compared with 1,465,70O barrels the previous week. Miss Mud A. Ritehie. IS years old. telephone operator in St. Louis, shot and seriously wounded her father. Geo. A Rit.chie, 53, a butcher, who, she as serted, was abusing her mother. Samuel K Hodgdon, pioneer in vau- deville, known as the man who ''booked thousand stars through his position as general booking agent for the E. F. Keith vaudeville theaters, died in New York
 State Senator George Gray and John J. Flynn, his business partner, of Phil adelphia, were held in bail for further 1 hearing on charges of unlawful pos session of hauos. Both signed their bonds and were released.
 Union moIders and coremnkers at the plant of the Farrel Foundry & Machine company, Ansonia, walked out yesterday. The strike, it was said, had nothing to ] do with hours or wages, but was in pro- test to working conditions.
 Adam 2szygada. 65. and Mrs. Mary Zabawa, 50, died in a hospital in New Haven from what physicians believed | was alcoholic poison. They were found | in a dying condition in a two-room ten ement by a policeman.
 Federal Judge John c. Knox. of New | York, signed an order which authorizes i the receivers of the Island Oil and i Transport corporation to continue oper- ations for the next sixty days, unless sooner modified or revoked. | Mrs. Antonio CasteIIa was accidental | ly shot and killed cary yesterday by her 1 son-in-law, Charles Mansfre. in Newark. Il N. J., when both started an investiga- I ton of strange noises in their Morris avenue home.
 James H. Bartlett of GreenvilIe, Me- drove his new seven-p passenger car across Chesuncook lake to Chesuncook village one day last week. He created consid- erable excitement when he drove into the village as his car was the first that had ever been seen there.
 Approximately 15O men were made idle when the New York Central rail- road reduced it's repair shop at Corning, N. Y, and operating department forces. The action. it was stated, was taken be- cause traffic had been curtailed by the coal strike.
 Mrs. Clara Woodward. committed to prison by the coroner to await the action of the grand jury on an indictment charging the killing of John Pepperman, of New York, in Philadelphia, last month was admitted to s5.OOO bond in Philadel- phia The prosecution offered no objec- tion.
 "The ancient fraud of better times has been exploited. Prosperity was here under the democratic regime hard times are here because of the republican pol icies," said Homer s. Cummings in an address to the members of the Demo- cratic Wonen's Alliance at the Strat- field, yesterday.
 The cargo of the steamer Poznan. Of- fered at public sale by federal court order in New York, at a minimum price of S200 900, or approximately S19 ton, failed to find g. single bidder among the thre score persons who at tended the auction. The sale was post poned.
 Information that "siik glove" sys- tenn of blackmail was being operated in New York by persons representing them selves as writers of society news for various publications, or as close friends of such writers, was placed before Dis trict Attorney Blanton and U. s. At torney Hayward.
 The British note to France concern ing interest on France debt to Great Britain. 1t was authoritatively explain ed was not an actual demand for pay ment of interest but formal notice that the three years of suspension of interest having expired Great Britain resumes freedom of further action.
 Henry M. Peers, of the cotton broI craze house of Henry NJ. Peers and Co.,, New York. was held in $5,000 bail by Magistrate McAndrews on grand lar ceny charge preferred by John S Oliver, of the cotton brokerage house of Oliver and Haughton.
 The navy department of Japan in . statement to the Toko newspapers to- day says a conference of the admirals has decided that the strength of the Japanese navy, as restricted by the Washington armament conference, is sufficient for the defense of the em- pire.
 Judge Rose, in the United States dis trict court at Baltimore, announced that he would order the production in court of the contracts between the Western l Maryland Railway company and the Dickson Construction and Repair com pany for the repair and maintenance of the company's equipment and the opera ton of It's chops in Hagerstown.
 The archbishop and bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church in Ireland have Issued a pronouncement expressing the horror and apprehension with which they have seen that the political differ ences which so unhappily trouble our land have been accompanied lately by terrible crimes which are widely attrib- uted to religious antagonism."