Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-18

for Henry Watterson memorial"
 William P. KennealIy. Tammany dis l trict leader, in New York, was indicted | with Robert P. Brindell, building trades | labor leader, for extortion.
 The probability of a delay of three | weeks in the opening of the Genoa eco'l- | omic conference was conceded in British | official circles.
 The American relief administration ex- poets to withdraw from it's undertaking | in the famine stricken Russia, by next September.
 Albert J. Beveridge, formally announced his candidacy for the republican nonlina- tion for United States senator for h. diana.
 Fire which wiped out one-fourth of city block of the downtown business dis trict of Birmingham, Ala, caused loss of more than s500,000.
 The brokerage firm of R. IT. MacSIast- CTS and company. of S2 Broad street. New York was expelled from the Consolidated Stock Exchange after having been chars- ed with violating exchange rules. 
 Over sT.o0O was pledged on the opening of a campaign in Waterbury to raise S2O,- 900 for relief of Jews in eastern and cen tral Euro2e under the auspices of the American Jewish relief committee.
 committee to study the whole Russian problem has been aItoointed by the French experts who are considering questions pre- liminary to the convening of the Genoa conference.
 On the recomme mendation of Congress- man Richard P. Freeman, the president has sent to the senate the nomination of Charles E. Burnham to be postmaster at Hampton.
 Frank Cornelius Drake newspaper ar 1 tist and writer, died in New York, after ar operation. He was 50 years old. He was F orgnizer of the of the American libeties league to combat the Volstead act
 John Hay lodge, No 61. Knights of ] Pythias of Hartford, voted S2,000 toward ] the Jewish Relief drive for s100,000 for the relief of the suffering sections of
 Europe.
 Federal prohibition agents and local
 police visited nine houses and one groe- cry store in Bridgeport yesterday after i noon and seized ten stills and a quantity l ol liquor mash.
 Bids for virtually the entire fleet own ed by the government. built at a cost of ing about 100000 tons of steel vessels
 were invited yesterday.
 Interests connected with the Me
 chanics and Metals National bank, New
 York, announced the purchase of a con-
 trolling interest in the stock of the Lfn-
 coin Trust company.
 The response of the American govern.
 ment to the invitation to participate ir
 the Genoa economic conference, it is un- derstood will be delayed until some re
 suits are achieved by the British and French economic experts. Fire from unknown causes did dam age of aIaut 15,0oo to the contents ot , an Adams Express Company car rout : cd from White River Junction, Vt, tc New York, and loaded with valuable merchandise.
 , Five year old Thomas Francis Burk'
 was killed while coasting down Manhat te1iA dNuiluSI -NtN 1OIhs HIS Sleu ran uIt
 der a motor truck and he was crushed
 in the chain drive. The chauffeur wa. arrested, but later was exonerated. . More than thirty per cent. of the prohi
 bition field forces are former service men
 and over 45 per cent. of the clerical fore Q rendered war service. according to fig 2 ures made public by Prohlbitio
 Commissioner Haynes. Strangers approaching Hquor storehous 1 es must give the countersign accordin to general instructions issued by Prohibi . tion Commissioner Haynes. designed [ ; prevent depredations against stored l :, o quors.
 ' Appointment of sixteen former saloo Il kee2ers and bar tenders to positions in tH e park department of Buffalo N.. Y, fa U caused one of the sharpest debates. ths '' has marged the somewhat stormy cal v reer of the present city council.
 Frederick Dixon and John R. Watt e who were. until the recent litigation > Boston. editor and business manager, r j. spectively, of the Christian Science Mon l. tor. have announced the established n new weekly to be called the Internatiol Il al Inteurreter.
 al Criticism of the Washington confe ie ence on armaments and Far Eeastel
 questions was voted in an address
 New York by Norman H. Davis, form
 under secretary of state, who said
 had been anything but an America \ diplomatic victory. nt
 a. Bankers interested in 6he readjus ct ment of the Mexican governments e ne ternal obligations were unable today 'y confirm reports that President ObregC " had renewed overtures for a conferen ne with his fiscal representatives in Ne
 York. of