Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-20


 Officials of J. P. Morgan Company confirmed cable reports that the firm had purchased 220,e00 shares of the Land Mortgage Bank of Vienna.
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 Samuel GOmpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived in Montreal to confer with Canadian labor leaders.
 W. T. Reid, former president of the University of California, died at his home in Berkley, Cal He was head of the university from 1881 to 1883.
 Mexicali, Lower California, just across the international line from Ca1exlco, b. gan 'deporting Americans addicted 10 drugs as undesirable citizens.
 Fire. believed to have been started when a still exploded, caused the death of two men. at Milltown, near North Bes- semer, Penn.
 A plan to harness the winds and make them produce electricity for rural dis tricts has been presented to the ministry Of agriculture in London.
 laundering operation, which have been held up by bare ground, were given boom in the western part of Maine, by the eight inch snow fall
 Radio messages received said that the Greek steamer Melpo bound for Boston from Birmingham, was in need af assist anee, with her steering gear disabled.
 Mrs. Anna F. Connolly and Thomas F, Kenney, lodgers at house in Waltham were found dead, victims apparently of escaping gas.
 slight earthquake, apparently center. ed in or near the West. Indies, was re- corded at the Harvard College seismo- graphic station.
 The Reverend Henry Anstice, 80, prom tnently identified with the Protestar Episcopal church for over half a cen tury, died suddenly of heart disease on a train near Montclair, N. J.
 A campaign to rid Boston or bandits and other criminals was iauched by Po- lice Superintendent Crowley as a result of recent series of holdups, including one murder.
 E. L. DOheny, president of the Pan- American Petroleum and Transport com pany' announced 20 per cent. stock div idend payable in class stock to holders of the common stock
 Unemployment insurance was attack 1 ed as unsound by F. L. Hoffman G Wellesley Hals in testimony before tn, state unempcoyment commission ar j, hearing in Boston.
 An appropriation of s2eo. o.sOo for pre-. venting t.ha aarsad efsthe Earepesal corr borer, prevalent in the New England states is recommended in the agriculture supply bill for the next fiscal year, re ported to the house.
 The frelghter West Hardaway.. whicl has been adrift in the Atlantic short O fuel for several days, has been picked up by the steamer Argus, also shipptn, board vessel. and is being lowed t ] to Halifax, N. s.
 i Governor General E. Mont Reilly o Porto Rico, who arrived in New York fol 1 months stay in the United States 1 charged that attacks upon his admins tration had been initiated by disgruntleC office holders whom heNhad elected iron power.
 The allotment of "preferenee" votes fo members of the federal house of repre- sentatives in last Saturdays general cleo 1 tions in Australia shows the nationalists the party of Premier Hughes, second il standing.
 New York has found two unusual per sons, one visiting girl from Ok1ahoms who, though deaf, sings plays the piano and dances, and the other an infan prodigy who can point out on map tn more important cities of the world. An investigation to determine th cause of the dera51ment Of the Prov. dence express on the New York, Ne Haven and Hartford railroad near tn
 Hyde Park station was begun by of ciais of the road.
 | A tentative rrogrsm locking towar the proposed merger of the Brotherhoo
 of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotf efhood of Locomotive Bremen and Er ginemen has been worked out to the sa; isfaction of joint committee of the tw organizations. aa f
 Alsxander J. MaoDshaIds of GIouceste one of the: three bandits who held } employees of the New England Bakin Company at Somervfile, Mass, Fat gu fpoint Saturday night, while they too $17s0 and fled pleaded guilty to.sa- chare tof robbery. He vas held in $zO,Oe bonds
 The two thousand cases of alcohol ca,
 ried by the French schooner Saivatrit , will be placed in the customs house Boston fof safe keeping while the fit
 vessel Is hauled out to repair the damas Ecaused by storm on the long trip fro Antwerp.
 7 Bishop Coadjutor sIa4tery of the Epi copal diocese of Massachusetts,, addre
 sing an assembly of Congregational mil 1. Ericher unity between the denomination ! which s'can ultimately hope to bind in one body the whole church of Christ this commonwealth.p
 gabastsano D'Amieo ef Lswrehs
 Mass, accused of having counterfs
 sfhottled in bond" revenue stamps in I
 possession was held in si.o0o bail i si United States Commissioner Hayes f i hearing Dec. 27. D'Amieo pleaded n ? guilty
 ' An appeal to landlords net to raj F rents during the winter months, or ev }, tenants who are not undesirable or r arrears in rent, owing to scarcity
 surplus housing was issued by { e Massachusetts state commission on t Q necessaraes of life. d