Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-30

streets. Boston, caused an estimated loss of $75,ooo.
 Dr. Charles D. waIcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was elect ed president of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science In Cambridge, Mass.
 Records for Fairfield county during the; 12 months ending yesterday as the i last court session day of the year sho" 1 that 345 divorces have been granted as ! against 407 In 1921 and 46s iI 1920: 1 The annual supply blu for upkeep and operation of the government postal i service, ,--z-as reported to the house, carries total of $S4.614,191. or about i S2o o,ooo,eeo, more thsn-last year. l Robbers blew, open the safe of tfe HaF- 1 lem office of the New York Edison com pany and escaped with S40,ooo after
 gasging and assaulting the night watch
 man, Philip oConnor.
 Fears are entertained In New York for
 safety of the German freightef Heinrich Kayser, bound from Savannah fof Bremen, which has not been heard from 1 since December 6, when reported in dis tress 500 miles east of Cape May.
 Roscoe (Fatty) ArbuckIe, who recent | vas 'pardoned" by Will Hays after his films had been. banned by moviedom
 will appear in person at New York
 music hall when two of his new com
 edtes are shown on New Years eve. :. l Tho Ford Motor company has asquir' .N.. ,fri,, Sa1a nd equipment of the Pond Creek Coal com pany, in. Pike county. Kentucky, in z transaction involving approximately Slo'
 ooo.aoO.
 Major General Peyton c. March, retir ed wartime chief of staf, was eleete' Honorary ;preAdeat of the Belta Kappa
 Epsilon, College fraterlity, succeeding John Hessin Clark, of Ohio. former jus
 tice of the United States Supreme Court
 Teaching of, entomology In the lowe , grades of schools was urged by Presiden |. !. G. Sanders; of the American Associ alton of Economic Entomologists at tn , annual meeting of the association il ,, Boston.
 .j Recent rneasuienients by astronomer ?
 indicate that this remarkably brillian object. in the heavens may. be, a ,variabI
 star, 1t was said at the Harvard Observ atory.
 Union printers employed on the Law
 renee, Mass. newspapers have bee , granted a wage increase of $ wee . retroactive to December l.. The neN i, scale, $43 for days and s46 fer nights, i
 said to be exceeded in New England oni
 at Providence, R. l., and Boston. - Investigation by deputieS from tn state fire marshaps office investigatin
 the fire which wiped out the bushes :. district of Astoria, Ore, December 8 ha d dd resulted in the finding the fire was C f incendiary origin. :, Three --hunIred>- delegates, Includin o some of America's most distinguishe . authorities of modern languages and fl 7 erature,, are in Philadelphia for th = . meeting of the Modern Language AssC < ciation of America. . . |, Irving L. Paul, secretary of the Ne s York Wet Wash Laundry Protective al # sociation, was held in s25,o0o bail in COT |. nection with the recent burning of
 laundries. t..-. ,-t Captain Thomas VI: Grace; c vetera f member of the police department in. Ne
 Britain.- and one of the best known polic
 lofHicials in the state, dropped dead whi
 on the way to. police headquarters Second Lieutenant Waiter O. Coo i6sth infantry, Connecticut Nationl ' Guard has announced that he has the n quired number of men enlisted for bs { talian headquarters company of infanti 1. in Esw Britain. [ Fire in the Cedar Hin yards of q New York, New Haven & Hartford raj z road destroyed seven loaded freight car ]. with loss estimated at S75.ooo, A fal
 en overhead electric wire Is believed have started the fire. 2 Rev. John shAtler, for niae years re z tor of Christ Episcopal church. Brids . port, announced his. resignation giyiI = as his reason that: the present downtoE
 location of the church edifce preclud.
 any future growth.
 I. The. first blu ever filed. by wou
 legislator In Massachusetts,. presentl Ie yesterday by Mrs. Susan F1tzGera!d.
 representat1veF rom Boston, would pI se vide that congress be asked to. csu / n' national constitutional convention. rs pr. Alexnader Mann, blsllep-ezect . E the Episcopal diocese of ,Pitts6urgh, V m be consecrated on .January e25,- aecor d ing to a letter, received from the cha d man of the nominating committee
 .T7mberiands in the east are rapid
 vanishing and in l5 years the west cod lE. will be the only. source of supply. ".
 tQtseley. chief of the United States fc e. estry service said In an address befo pm the New England forestry congress. q Boston. ss' z esi.-.s.f u- Further ,aspeet6 ef tho nSve for 10. American -commission to inquire In hs fGsfmany lcapacity to pay .repsratio ID came to light when the chamber of col
 meres Of the United States made pub sy dennits request from German. bu Vy ness men shat such . -e6mmlssion be 2
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