Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-07

Board of Trade for $500, decrease of s25 from the previous sale.
 Directors of the Philadelphia reserve bank made no change in the discount rate at their fortnightly meeting.
 Maurice Herbette has bean appointed French ambassador to Germany. succeed ing M Laurent. who resigned.
 John Thomas "Jack" Pickett, q fanail- far figure on professional baseball fields in the days of Cap Anson, is dead at Chicago.
 Foreign sales of copper during the month of June, as estimated by the Cop per Export Association and independents, totaled more than 7o.ooo.0oo pounds. ' At the beginning of July it is estimated that 1s5 furnaces were in blast through out this country as compared with ITS on June h.
 Postponement of the hearing in the val uation case ofzthe Philadelphia Rapid Transit Go. until Sept has been granted to the company s3
 
 During last month failures in this ooun- try totaled 1.656. an increase of .1s per cent. over the same month last year, ac- cording to Bradstreet's.
 As-a New regulations covering stamp taxes on documents in conformity with the rev enue act of 1921 were issued by the treas- ury.
 Senator Borah introduced 2 bill to re- duce the number of shipping board com missioner from seven to three, declar- ing it is waste to pay sl2.oOo year while losing money.
 It was said in the shipping district n, New York that because of better denand here for refined sugar. shippers of that commodity have virtually deserted the export market.
 | The estimated ultimate cost of the new terminal of the Illinois Central Railroad Co in Chicago Is ssS,S0l, ,562, of which s7S,057,616 is chargeable to capital ac- count.
 ] According to department of counmerc, statistics for May, the tide, of prosperit, is rising steadily. Of 42 industries tabu, lated for May 3S of these showed in cerases in production over April. The Standard oil Co. of Indiana fore casts the heaviest demand for petroleum !, products this year the nation has eve
 known and has keyed it's entire organi
 zation to meet 1t.
 The Shipping Board freight stearne , West Caruth that was operated by tn ; Bull Lines in West African trade. ha
 been sold to F. c. Strick Co. of London I for s7o,ooo. , Advices from Cairo, Egypt, state tn conference steamship lines have advance , the freight rate-nn -coftdn< lon, mak T ing the rate Sos to tiiis country and 25 to the United Kingdom. Generally improved business condition
 in the conuntry are reflected in increase [ customs receipts-the highest during tn [ past fiscal year for 133 years, accordin , to statement issued by Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury Elmer Dover
 Frank J.. Bowling was sentenced { : ten years in Sing Sing prison by Suprem Court Justice Tompkins at Poughkeepsl, N. Y. Bowling was convicted of abduct ing Herbert Barnhart, a chauffeur (
 Waterbury.
 Thirty courses through the agency ,
 the K. of c. national correspondent . school with headquarters at New Havel
 will be furnished to veterans of the wa iwho live in small towns.
 The arraignment of Governor J. B. l Robertson of Oklahoma on a charge r accepting a hribe, was postponed unt
 August 2S by Judge Mark L. Bozarth 1
 district court.
 Miss Joyce wethered. holder of tl British women's golf championship hs , cancelled her proposed trip to this coul . try, according to information reachir New York.