Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-04


 
 Miss Fife Elisler, veteran actress, is seriously i'll at her home in New York fol- lowing her collapse while she was speak ing the lines of her part in "The Bat.''
 The Duchess of Albany doed at Inns- bruck, in the Tyrol, it was announced in. London. The duchess was visiting her son the Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha.
 The semi-centennial of the organization of the Grand Lodge of Maine, Knights of Pythias, was observed in Portland Me, by hundreds of Pythians. Captain Thomas Reynolds Webber, de- signer of the racing yachts Dragoon and ] Surprise, died in New Rochelle. N Y, in his s 7th year. He built yachts for more i than SS years.
 i The end of the textile strike in Law renee, Mass was assured when the Pat | chogue-Plymouth plant announced that i the old wage scale would become effective tomorrow.
 Because he played a practical joke on an undertaken, Henry G. Sykes, of Bel | T, N J 1 liam A. Bamford to cut the grass in iron of the public library.
 The Greek retreat in Asia Minor before the Turks continues toward Uchak. The army is preceded by thousands of women and children fleeing toward Smyrna to avert possible massacre by the Turks.
 4 British delegation headed by Sir Charles Wakefield and organized by the i Sulgaye> institution sailed from London aboard the steamship Adriatic for an American tour.
 Manuel Conception, former vice pres :, ident of the Philippine National bank Manila, and son of it's. convicted former i president, was senter Nd to two years imprisonment for misuse of the banr funds.
 Four thousand fascist seized the towr of Terni, Italy, and forced the manager: :, of the steel works to reopen the shops (which have been closed for two months owing to wage dispute. Terni is forty nine miles northeast of Rome
 Recognition of the soviet government by Japan will be insisted on by Russian del egates, according to Adolph Joffe, envo! of the Moscow government, and Jacob! Anson, foreign minister of the Chit;
 government.
 E. F. Crable. president of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Maintenance o Way men is critically i'll in hotel i Chicago. He is suffering from nervou
 collapse.
 , Land feuds in the Province of Aarlai P. l.. have resulted in an armed encouni , CT. Homestead holders. organized for rt sistanee to landlords who attempted {
 drive them from their holdings, kille , three landlords in a concerted attac . with rifles.
 The Bates College-oxford universit
 debate in Lewiston. Me. on Septembt n 18th will be conducted under the COT ventional American rules governing intel . collegiate debate.
 0 The Pomerene bill regulating campaig l expenditures of candidates for election : the senate and house, was passed Satu : day by the senate. The measure talk, 2 the place of the law held unconstitutiol
 al in the Newberry case. It now goes :. the house.
 ' Senior Vice Commander William ' Doyle, on Maiden. was elected depar 5 ment commander by exclamation at Ne . Bedford, Mass, at the closing session the American Legion state convention.
 n of :, chairman of the tariff commission, w
 nominated by President Harding to co . tinue as member of the commissi, h tember 8.
 T. The only platypus that ever lived | captivity away from Its native sOII uI $ at the Bronx Zoo where it was hous -- forty-nine days ago, after journey fro e far-off Australia. 1T Fire apparatus from four towns nea l. by was summoned early Saturday to he cope with a fire which destroyed t a First Congregational church at waylar .1 Mass, and threatened to spread to oth ,e buildings.
 !. The body of young woman found
 the Charles River. Cambridge, a ft s days ago was identified as that of Mi .t Margaret Mary Lyons of West Some t, vile.
 h Conspiracy in restraint of trade Is [
 legged in a suit for s1000,00o damag
 filed in the federal district court by Re
 CT I. Sherman of Boston, dealer in fo W products, against numerous individua
 banks, associations and large corpor
 tions.
 " Finger prints O. man arrested s Portmouth. N. H. were identified O. state experts in Boston as those of Jo ,h Sullivan, wanted as the leader of a ga sn of automobile thieves who naV- be .A . operating in Massachusetts
 The re-establishing of the head of Myles Standish statue at Duxbury up n. the colossal shoulders from which it W le recently tumbled by lightning bolt pro .n ably will be a matter for legislative e
 sideration.
 = Luke Flanagan, who has been fight .. Hires in New York 22 years. the last f h. years as a battalion chief, announced ps would retire next Thursday and pract r. law. He studies at New York Univers t. between fires and obtained his deg
 three years ago.