Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-16

The British government has agreed to the French proposal to limit the period to be covered by the investigation into atroc- ities in Asia Minor to the past year.
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 Illinois coal operators announced deH- nitely that they would deal only with their own men in any future wage con- ferences.
 Probate Judge VOltz, of Baldwin coun- ty, Ala, was waited upon by crowd of citizens, including town officials Sunday and was ordered to leave town. :. Maine railroads were authorized by the public utilities commission to gle reduced freight rates, effective July 1, on business inside the state.
 - A sentence of 10 to 20 years Tn state | prison, was given Arthur Becker of New l Britain, for shooting Detective Sergeant | Lawrence J : Lowe of Hartford. . Damage of between s5O.ooo and s75,- 900 was done by an early morning fire | which completely destroyed the Meeker l foundry in South Norwalk.
 Two arrests in connection with the dis position of bonds stolen in the s2, 1000, ,0o0 robbery in New York last October were announced in Minneapolis by postal in- spectors. Lord Lee of Fareham introduced in the house of lords a bill to be known as ''the treaties of Washington act of act 1922" to make effective the two treaties signed in February
 F Frederick CourtIand PenHeId, former ambassador to Austria, who is gravl.ly i'll with congestion of the brain at his home in New York, was reported slightly im- proved.
 Influence of the National Grange, Pa irons Of Husbandry, will be exerted to de- feat the ship subsidy bill Sherma J. Lowell master, announced at Fredonia, N. Y.
 The automobile of John Loxter, 25s East 10th street, New York, was burned after collision with the machine of Earl w. Mayo, of New Cannan, at the Stam- lford-Greenwich line.
 At the s9th annual meeting of tb. Womans Christian Temperance union O {! Fairfield county in Bethel yesterday, Mrs t4C B. Joyce of Bridgeport was elected president.
 Deputy sheriRs are Al control of
 the cellars of the Hammondsport Wine Company at Corning, ". r, after the seizure of 300 cases of champagne vaE,- led at S15,000 which had been loaded on a truck at the cellars.
 Recalled to Asia by petitions said to contain the names of numbers of .Siberi- ans, General Gregorie Semenoff, ataman
 of the Cossacks, is in Vancouver, B. C.,
 to sail on the liner Empress of Asia to
 Harbin, Manchuria.
 PostoGice inspectors are searching for Thomas F. Murray a clerk in charge of the money order division at the North
 postal station, Boston, who disappeared last Thursday shortly after auditors took
 his books for examination.
 The remote Hungarian village of AIiKo-
 falve, inspired by the success of Oberam-
 mergau, has organized Magyar passion
 play. The first performance, which was held last Monday, was a success, but the
 continuation of the play depends upon the
 amount of public interest.
 General wu Pei-Fu. China's military
 genius, who has turned his energies to-
 wards. the reunification of his country.
 has invited pr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the republic of South China, to come to Picking and aid the, reunion movement The house conference committee on the
 military appropriation bill decided yester-
 day to submit to the house the senate Il amendment appropriating $75o0,O0o for continuation of work on dam No of the
 Muscle Shoals power project n Alabama. ' Mime. Ernestine schumann-Heink yes. 7 terday celebrated her 61st birthday as the
 guest of honor of the University of : Southern California and was the recipi- ent of a degree of doctor of music in the : institutions commencement exercises. Proposals of Henry Ford to reduce l coal rates on his railroad, the Detroit. To. 7 iedo & Ironton railroad. which originally : were suspended by the interstate commits f sion, were allowed to go into effect un. : der. final decision of the commission. e The proposal of Senator Ladd. repub- r lican, North Dakota, for payment of the soldiers bonus in cash from profits oi banks was submitted by him to Hanforc .: AfcNider, head of the American Legion E with a request for an expression oi , opinion.
 Two rear sleeping cars Of the Sunshin, : Special on the Texas and Pacific jumped . the track at Lake Fork, nine miles eas
 | :, some of them seriously. The coache, - plunged down a 5-foot embankment anC s turned over.
 o Eight cavalry officers have been select : ed by the war department to begin train ;. ing at Mitchell Field, Long Island, mex s month preparatory to entering as an arm, i- team in the junior championship poll
 tmeet at Narragansett Pier. July 31-Aug
 ust 12. Fl Canadian and United States authoritIe
 are investigating the alleged. confession O '. William Johnson; alias N PrimatchencB f. that he caused the explosion of thre 1t British ammunition ships in the harbo l. of Halifax. N. S., in 1917, resulting fl d many deaths and great destruction. |, Fred Brown. sought by authorities Q " Omaha, Neb., for shackling two women il 1f an isolated cabin and holding them pris ,. oners for two nights doubled back int h, Nebraska from Wyoming and held II m. and disarmed the night marshal and der T. uty sheriff of Dix. IS miles east of Kim
 ball.
 of Washington. D. C.. was chosen in sa ID Francisco by the imperial council of tn
 order of the Mystic Shrine for its ne1 e. meeting place. The council also re-elec he ed two trustees for flie shriners' hospi to als for crippled children. They wei ct w. FFeeland Kendriek of Philadelphi. III and Dr. Oscar Lendstrum, of Helen Gont.