Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-18


The white lead department. of the
United Lead company's plant at Perth
Amboy, N. J., was destroyed by fire.
with an estimated damage of s1,5o00eo.
The Princess Festitics De Tolna. di-
yorced wife of the Prince of Monaco, is
dead in Budapest, aged II, after an op-
Grafton for appendicitis.
The eases of George Mubarek. and
Sam Shaia, charged with arson. which
came up for trial in borough court in
Torrington, were continued until May
%.
CLIFFORD I. stoddar1 of Woodbridge.
has resigned as trustee of Connecti- |
cut Agricultural College, to take effect |
as soon as his successor can be appoint
ed.
The Stafrordshire regiment Las. cm-
barked at Queenstown on n special |
steam as further re1niorcements for |
Belfast says II Belfast dispatch this /
afternoon to the London Evening Star.
When a keg of grain aicohol which
he was sitting while reading a aews-
paper in Portsmouth, Va. drug store,
exploded and lit the ceiling, JAMES
Parker, negro, was instantly killed. =
Sunday blue laws 'Have I,,en attack
ed by members af .he religious liberty
| lists national convention in session in
San Francisco
The French budget for 1923. submitted
to parliament by the government pro-
vides for expenditures amounting to 49,
| 1S0,0Oo,0 900 francs, with receipts amount
ing to only 1s,2S5,OOo,O goo francs.
| Several hundred pickets cOngregated
in the vicinity of the Mmomack Spin
ming Company in Lawrence. Mass, and
hooted and jeered the few workers who
went into the mill.
John Frederick Lewis, president OF the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
and an attorney of Philadelphia, was
elected president of the Sesqui-Centen-
nial Exhibition ASSOCIATION at I meeting
LOT the board of directors.
The German government has deposited
with the Belgian treasury the final pay
ment of 50,000,000 gold marks under
the provisional moratorium granted by
the reparations commission.
More than 100 members of the first
class of midshipmen at the naval acade-
my will resign after graduation TO ac-
cept civilian jobs or commissions in the
marine corps or the United States army.
Mayor Hylan of New York issued a
statement formally aVowing his advocacy
Of William Randolph Hearst as a candi-
date for the-@democratie nomination for
The first long distance flying attempted
in the Phmilippines resulted in record
of FIVE hours for the 500 miles between
zamboanga and Manila. The flight was
made by two army planes.
Supreme Court Justice McAvoy de-
cided that the First Church of Christ
Scientist was acting within It's power
when it expelled from membership Wal
ter Fairchild, a New York attorney.
The case of Arthur Barry, of Worces-
g ter, charged with manslaughter, in
connection with the shooting of Petar
E A. Wagner on April 10, was continued in
n Bridgeport until the September term OF
the court. Barry pleaded not guilty.
The Butler bill, authorizing the presi-
e dent to scrap warships IL conformity
r with provisions of the havai treaty, and
e. to authorize conversion OF two battle
: cruisers into airpIane carriers, was tax
:, en- up by the house.
( Postmaster General Work announced
= that in view of the fact that increased
costs of handling parcel post mail ne.
d cessitates a corresponding advance ir
e parcel post rates." she was writing to q
e large number of parcel post users to gel
: their views on proposed changes.
l. When neiEhbors entered the home o
= Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Mason in Union
Il vile to assist in putting out a fire the!
8 found Mr.. Mason dead in bed. He wa
d IS years old and had been i'll for som
h tine.
Word received in winsted from Tol
: land, Otis and Blandford, Mass, toll
= of woods fire which from yesterda.
1t noon until this noon wept through 1900
J. acres of farm and timberlands.
IS Harry H. Williams, composer an,
+ motion picture director, IS dead in Dab
1t land. Cal, after a brief illness. He wa
le credited with composing In the SHADE o
10 the Old Apple Tree I'm Afraid to G.
-N Al SAA0 DoA NJ anu OIHSl POpOioI
J. songs.
v
General Treasurer Richard ". Jen
Is nings, of Providenc rcivd chick fo
IL $457,917.42, rpresenting most of the in
10 heritanee tax due the state of Rhode Is
At land from the estate of the late Henr.
1t A. c. Taylor, of Portsmouth and New
York.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the British cx
g plorer left property amounting in valu
to 556 pounds sterling .approxialatel,
IS $2,500) that had not been disposed of b,
TO settlement prior to his Heath on tn
lg steamship Quest off the Island Of Soutl
ps Georgia, January 5.
le Five men who were concerned in ,
IN hold-up in the Dewey club in Bridg@por
n in August, 1921, during whieh Bernarr
Kilkelly, street railway conductor, wa
beaten to death, were sent to state pris,l
after they had entered pleas of guilty t
II charges Of manslaughter.
IL Mrs. Lewis A. Wills was acquitted O
ay a charge of murder after she had take
III the stand on the opening day OF he
or trial before a jury of min. men anG thre
to women and toll a dramatic story of 10,
n 81" had shot her husband in SELF -Sere.,s
Ne in their apartment at A,.anlic Ci:y las
liarch.