Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-22

CoastWlse steamship lines have made 30 per cent. reduction on freight, rates for cotton shipments from the Gulf to North Atlantic ports.
 President Ernest NJ. Hopkins announc- ed gifts to Dartmouth college aggregat- ing more than $950,0 ,000 at the commence ment exercises.
 A third deficiency appropriation bill carrying total of S39,9S7,S23 was fav- orably reported from the huose appropri- ations committee.
 Coastwise steamship lines have made a 30 per cent. reduction on freight rates | for cotton shipments from the Gulf to | North Atlantic ports.
 Charles Greer, murdered. who escaped | from Sing Sing prison Sunday night | was captured at Harmon, three miles | north of the prison.
 Charles Goodrich Whiting. so. for 1 years an editor and writer for the ] Springfield Republican, died in his sum home in Otis, Mass.
 Appointment of six new division chiefs in the internal revenue department in Massachusetts was announced by Col lector Nichols.
 Prohibition enforcement officers seiz- ed liquor valued at s5,000 on the fifth floor of a Washington Street building in Boston.
 President Le Baron Russsl Briggs con- ferred the bachelor of arts degree on no young women at the Radcliffe college commencement exercises.
 Because they are penniless, many dis abled veterans of the world war are walking and riding box cars to San Francisco to attend the second national convention of the organization. The steamer saugus. which cleared for Constantinople and Odessa, carries cargo of food, clothing and medical sup plies for the destitute people of Medi- terranean ports.
 i As result of ballot recently taken among the alumni. Franklin D'Olier, of l Philadelphia and Charles N. Black. of | San Francisco, have been elected trustees I of Princeton university. An agreement striking employees and 1 the Mexico City Tramway company has been reached, following the intermedia- tion of President Obregon.
 Twenty-one thousand acres of Rio Grande valley land with crops valued at $2.5Oo,OO0 flooded in Hidalgo county, Tex.
 Theft of silk valued at S25.ooO was re- ported to the Boston police by three Beach street firms, all of whom have l warehouses in the same building,
 Yale university through its Fellows conferred degrees in course upon 565 candidates and in addition fourteen hon. orary degrees.
 Arthur J. Gaines, 10 years secretary and manager of the St. Louis Symphony society, has resigned and will become manager of the New York Musical socie- ty at a salary of $1O,OOO a year. Miss Margaret Shove Morriss, Ph. D., now associate professor of history at Mt.
 Holyoke college, has been appointed dean of the women's college in Brown university.
 Clues which are expected to lead to arrests in connection with the murder
 of Mrs. Lillian Northrup, of Bridgeport
 were uncovered during the inquest ot
 Coroner Phelan
 Armando Silva. one of the leaders of the
 Italian communists, escaped from pris.
 on in Rome, where he had been for seven
 months awaiting trial on the charge oi
 creating disturbance which resulted ir
 the death of a fascist leader.
 The New York Central railroad in be
 half of all of its subsidiary companie. and its own system applied to the inter state commerce commission for authori ty to issue and sell $27, 7,600,000 in 5 pel , cent equipment trust certificates. William T. Sheehan, actor. died at hi , home in Cincinnati For thirty-fiv : years Mir. Sheehan was stage manage
 and took comedy parts with Joseph Mur phy in the presentation of Irish plays. H . was 64.
 , Miss M. Sylvia Donaldson. Il. pension . ed school teacher of Brockton, Mass, aft
 CT forty-four years of service, announc ed her candidacy for a republican nom , ination for representative to the genera . court in the 10th Plymouth district.
 The corner stone of a new senior dorm
 itory at Holy Cross college, to be know l as Loyola hall. was laid by Bisho ' 1 Thomas D. O'Leary, of Springfield, i ] connection with the celebration of Alumn day.
 4 temporary injunction was granted b. Vice Chancellor Church against the strik = ing employes of the Henry Doherty Sil II company in Cliffside. N. J. The me have been out on strike for shorter hour
 since May 26.
 Joseph Walker, former speaker of tn q Massachusetts hour took out nominatio z blanks at the state house, Boston, in pur Il suance of his intention to seek the repub
 lican nomination for the United State
 senate in opposition to Senator Lodge. ). Legislation is being prepared wit
 President Harding's sanction which wi sr return to approximately thirty thousan al Germans and Austrians property take l. over during the war by the alien proT l. erty custodian in amounts of $10.o00 c le less.
 l. Fred Nader. president of the buiIdin le trades council, Chicago, was found gui 70 ty by jury of conspiring to defrau
 the wormen's exchange, and of conapii
 ing to halt construction on a hotel. HI
 punishment was fixed by the jury at on g year in prison and s1.000 fine n No publicity is to be given to th n benevolences and other activities { W which Mrs. Lillian Russell Moore con V tributed. her wishes, in these matter