Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29

III the center or the city Of Philadelphia
 Brigadler General Vim. R. Blackwood. U. $. A., S4. retired, and holder of a con gressional medal of honor, died at his home in Philadelphia.
 Elijah Sanborn, who was a member Of the 18th New Hampshire Volunteers in the Civil war. observed his 103rd birthday in Raymond, N. II.
 The barge Harraseeket, converted from the hull of an incompleted shipping board steamer, went ashcrt on the eastern end of Long Island in Boston harbor. More than 4.OOO food refugees are be- 1 ing cared for in three canr2s established at Harrisburg, and Martinsyille, La, and l Natchez, Miss.
 The Boston chamber of commerce an- | nounced the appointment of q. special com mittee to find work for unemployed world war veterans living in Boston James ?. Sullivan who, until his resig- nation recently had been captain of police l in the most important section of Boston 1 for years. died at Dennisport. ! 1SFanu hltloch, WHTiIme anlDahhanOf to Belgium, will be made a member. of the French Academy of Letters of Belgium May 20.
 Burglars removed a small safe con | taining $500 in cash and bonds from the office of II. P. Hood & Sons Co. in East Boston.
 Francis L. Bacon, principal of MerIdeu ! High school, has resigned to become principal of the high school at Newton Mass, ending his duties there in June. | Brush fires on the outskirts of Wa terbury were SC numerous yesterday that 1 at noon firemen of the local departmen; were fighting three different fires in al many sections.
 Ii Senator Frederick P. Thompson oi Prediction, N B., died at hospital fir f Ottawa after a brief illness. He had large milling. banking and luEnoering in i.terests
 II City Prosecutor Vincent L. Kesting o'
 Bridgeport notified 2S persons there tha
 they cdald not advertise themselves a!
 certified public accountants and do bust
 ness under that title. They had nevel
 passed the state tests
 pr. Enrique OIaya Herrero. newly np
 pointed Colombian minister to Washing
 ton arrived in New York on the Slxaols
 after trip up the coast in which sneal
 thief kept him and other passengers II
 constant worry.
 The outlook for solution of Cuba's su
 gar problem is more promising at presen than for many months past, according to
 survey of the situation prepared by tn
 commerce department.
 An advisory committee of 12 to be ap
 pointed by the president to assist the sec retary of commerce in supervising radi,
 final report of the recent national radi
 conference, as submitted to secretar. Hoover.
 4 bill designed to prevent the extinction of the trailing arbutus, or mayfower : was killed by the Massachusetts stat senate. The bill would have prohibitel
 the commercialization of the flower.
 Forty acres of brOadleat tobacco
 weighing approximately twenty-two ton
 (44,OOO pounds) was sold for ten cent l per pound at public auction at the Hart ford county building today. r The fourth suspected rum-runner to b caught in the vicinity of New York thi
 week fell into the hands of custom off cials when the 60-foot motor launch Kraz Kat II hit a handbar in Jones inlet oi ) Freeport, L. l.. in a heavy sea. : Surrogate Foley at New York dismiss cA the action against the will of Davi 9 Bispnam, famous baritone. brought b
 hi~>widow and daughter. ruling that tn
 plaintiffs had failed to prove that Bis
 pham had been unduly influenced b
 Mrs Henrietta M. Ten Eyck
 Joseph Caron. alias Joserh Bernnrt . arrested in Springfield and wanted on charge of forging check for S2. $50 on tn First National bank of New .Haver Conn.,, engaged counsel and will fight ex } tradition to Connecticut Harold R. ShiIlinEton, former aS , countant of the London and Wester ) Trust company. London, pleaded guilty t } the theft of S1Oo,Oo0 in bonds from ths : company. He was sentenced.to six yeari
 imprisonment.
 A long search for a buried treasur
 was ended for Marion Newton, a farme , residing In Moores prairie township nea
 Mount Vernon, H.. when he found a wood en box containing $11,SS0 in gold, silve
 and currency hidden in stall in his barr
 The assignment of Col. George s. VII liams now commanding officer at Fof Ethan Allen, Vt. as officer in charge c national guard affairs in New England was announced in orders from Washing
 ton.
 John Baker Keys, wealthy 66 year oI = cIubman of Cincinnati, whose marriaR with Miss Florence Girardin, l9 year ol elevator girl at the Harvard club. Bostof of which he was a member. caused a sti several years ago. d.ed IT. Boston.
 Mrs. Hattie Hasbrouck. 4s, 8 widow killed herself and her 13-year-old daugr
 ter, Anna May, at her home in Torrins ! ton. The bodies were found lying Q
 the bed with gas pouring into the roor 7 from pipe strung from gas range i q the kitchen thence under the door int { the bedroom.
 3 Governor Everett J. Lake has appoint s ed Henry H. Buck. of the engineerin e firm of Buck and Sheldon, Hartford.
 act as consulting engineer to represer
 the state of Connecticut at the surve 1t which the New York state .engineerin $ department will make of the line betwee 3. the two states.