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Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
PANICS CREATED BY A
 LION, A MONKEY AND A RAT

New York, Aug. 16-Three animals lion a monkey and rat-today threw New Workers into panic.
 The lion, enraged in Central Park, at- tackled a keeper, Patrick O'Rourke, and injured hi mso seriously that he had 10 be taken to Flower hospital
 The monkey, of the Kapisian variety found on the west coast of South Amer ica escaped from an animal store yestar- day and today was still terrorizNg the Chelsea district after having raided a hotel and perched on the roof of a church. Poisoned bananas strewn along roofs failed to lay him low this evening
 The rat, which ran amuck on West 65th street, in front of the New York office of the secretary of. states where a number of women motorists were in line for licenses, brought forth feminine screams as he dashed into the maze of traffic. A policeman, running foot race with the rodent. finally killed it with an ash can he had picked up en route.
 The monkey escaped at 10 a. m, yes terday. He had broken open his cage in a store on West 23rd street.
 The proprietor, becoming frantic, I spread the alarm. The animal, he said, stood two feet six.
 
 up. He was scaling a drain pipe on the Chelsea hotel.
 His pursuers dashed up to- the roof to head him off. He. fooled them by hop i ping into a window.
 Wandering through the hotel, the monkey throttled a couple of songbirds in the managers suite, then ascended to the roof and made his way to the ridgepole of the Presbyterian church near Seventh avenue.
 Darkness by this time had descended and hotel guests given to literature turn ed into bed recalling uneasily a certain story Poe had written concerning murd CTS in the rue morgue. 1 The monkeys first appearance thi. morning was in the dressing table of { i him. He then disappeared through tht window. With him went gold pin.
 Later he was reported to have raided a boarding house kitchen and tt have crossed a back yard on clotheslines with neighbors laying down a barrage Up a fire escape he climbed and into factory, from which soon issued screams of girl operatives
 He made his exit by way of an cleo 1 tric light wire.
 He made his way to a neighborin church steeple from where he enjoye the sunset, but with the approach c twilight he perched himself on the roc of a fve-story building nearby. He wa there, making derisive gestures at tn seething crowd in the street below, whe Patrolman Ernest Freeberg walked b on his way to. his post. The officer too up the chase. The monkey jumped tw floors to another roof. Freeberg follow ed on a ladder. The monkey returne to the Chelsea hotel and was there col nered in a room. While eager assis ants blocked egress at the window Freeberg entered the room and subdue the monkey after a lively tussle in tt course of which he was thrice bitten the hand
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
hcorne TArea

The most prosperous per cent. of thS income receivers of the country in fsil had nearly 14 per cent. of the total in- come. This l per cent had incomes to- tailing Of $s.ooo. .eoo,o0
 That sounds like material for ntzrtins an oration on the capitalist class" 'ths rich are getting richer" or the domina- tion of the dollar"
 But 1t gets little different sounJ when we add the statement:
 When we start from the top of tns income scale we mus so down 10 peonle receiving Ss,00o per annum in order tc include per cent Of the. income rseelv- CTS.
 These figures are taken from ."Tncomo in the United States" the result Of more than a year of work by the staff Of the National Bureau of Economic Re- search According to the bureau the. az gregate Income of the American people-i 1918 was ssI.00o. .0e0.0 900; Thls does not include any allowance for the money value of work done by housewfNes .-< their own families. This has been ss- timated at s1s.45o. .ooo. 900. 7
 Most of the huge increase in the nn- tional income during the war was dns merely to the rise of prices The per capita income rose from s3l9 in 1908 to s5ss in 1918. If those dgures were turned into 1913 prices we find tnzi the 1909 income was s53s and the 1911 income ;572.-The Nations Buzlnexa.a
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17

incompetency the road is in position to hold it's own.
 Mir. Began said that the entire section between New Haven and New York is running 100 per cent. normal He ad- mitted that the section is electrified and the requirements were less than on sec tions operated by steam, but he ex- pressed confidence that these sections would soon be on par with the others.
 We are holding our own," said MT. Began, 'all places are filled, mostly by competent men. Of course there are a few who will have to be discharged be- cause of their inaptitdde to learn the railroad business, but We expecte1 U retain at least ninety per cent. of those at work now"
 It was said tonight that every con sideration will be given the complaints said to have been made by a committee of the Big Four Brotherhoods at the conference with Clinton L. Bardo gen eral managed of the New Haven road yesterday. Doubt was expressed as to the magnitude of the complaints, but an investigation is being made with 2 view to correcting any defects which may exist
 Railroad men who were interviewed tonight expressed doubt as to the num- Der of men the company claims to have at work and some went so far as 70 u,..- ignate the cancellation of contracts for | advertisements as propaganda on the part of the company for the purpose oi conveying the impression that the ro3e was not being effected by the strike.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
MoRZ APARTMENTS TO
 TARIFF BILL ADOPTED


 Washington, Aug. 1e.-With two ex- captions all important amendments to the administration tariff bill offered today by individual senators were approved by the senate Senator Harreld, republi- can, Oklahoma. lost his fight to impose tariffs on crude petroleum and fuel oil and democrats were unsuccessful in ef- forts to reduce the rates on aluminium.
 All remaining individual amendments will be acted upon before the senate re- cesses tomorrow Senate leaders hope that after the final vote late Saturday the measure can be sent to. oonfererce immediately. Chairman McCumbei and Senator Watson, of Indiana and Curtis, Kansas, republicans. to the finance com mittee, discussed this question with Pres ident Harding tonight at the White House. They said afterward that they hoped the bill could be made ready for the president early in September.
 The aluminium and oil questions furn- | ished the high spots" in senate debate today. The name of Secretary Mellon was brought into the aluminium discus sion as a large stockholder in what was | declared to be the aluminium. trust.' the 1 Aluminium Company of America. while a statement by Senator Harreid that hs ! had some financial interest in the oil in dustry was followed by renewed debate as to whether senators should vote or tariff duties which might favorabIy af feet their personal properties.
 Discussing the aluminium duties Sen ator Reed. democrat. Missouri, charged that the tariff bill was tainted" witt the self-interest of high officers of thu federal government He said every on knew the measure had been ''largel, prepared" by experts of the treasury de partment and asserted that the fedora officer who helped to prepare | bil ''to put money into his own pocket ough to be impeached."
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
NEW YORK NEGROES
 RIOT ON EXCURSION

New York. Aug. 1e.-A thousand negro men and women returning from an ah- nual picnic of the West Side Voters League. negro organization. ran riot on board the excursion steamer Smith, field crossing from the Jersey to the Manhattan shore of the Hudson tonight
 One oI the picnickers was probably fatally stabbed, several others received raor wounds. and the crew of eleven was intimidated. be ere :wu squads sf .e. serves. which boarded the steamer in mid-strcam from a police launch. re- stored order Four negroes who lesped overheard after being arrested were res- cued from drowning by biue jackets from the hsttleshfp Maryland
 The picnic was A .oisJ affair at Fe-ss: View Grove, N J.. at which there wal much dancing. more singing and not g little drinking. the Se.ise ShaSs. ., sunset the party went en board the Smith. field for the return trip to Manhattan The dancing and the ~~Sing. and ac- cording the the crew, the drinking con. tlnued
 Four negroes playing craps in the iee 1, of an aft funnel began to quarrel 4 razor flashed. One of the gamesters rar toward the stern. As he fled through the thronged companion way he held his hand over an open wound on his neck In -a moment the ship was in an uproar.
 Captain Raynor began a dash for th, Ycnkefs shore A police launch, with ter men. reached the SmithheH soon after ward. The arrival of the police was s signal for general outburst Rescuirs the injured negro. the police placed un ger arrest four men whom he pointed ou as his assailants. Two policemen wer, left to guard them while the other DO licemen made their way through the fighting mob. The crew was sumnone, and with the policemen began restorin, order.
 In the meantime the four prisoners lef al the rail had overpowered their cap tors and plunged overheard. They wer rescued by boat load of blue Jacket from the Maryland. which lay al an chor nearby.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
sEAPLANE sAMPAIO oORREIA
 HAS ARRIVED AT KoCKAwAl

Rocigaway. N y. Aug. 1s.-The giant seaplane Sampaio Correia today arrived rom New York, completing the first leg Df her $500 mile flight to Brazil and her commander, Lieutenant Walter Hin ton. announced that she would start Et daybreak tomorrow for Manteo. N. C.
 When the plane left New York, after having replaced a pontoon smashed in alighting yesterday, there was a re- port that minor repairs at Rockaway might consume two or three days, but Hinton was positive this evening that dawn would see the flying boat headed southward.
 Five minutes after the seaplane drop ped Into the water here. Hinton had dis carded the trim uniform he wore when thousands lining Riverside D-ive had seen him climb into the cock. of his ship. and arrayed in a grimy jumper, was directing a band of mechanics. In contrast Go the great assembly he had left behind him, Hinton found only this group of workers on the beach in front Of the naval air station to welcome him.
 Tn a few seconds excess baggage was rolnE over the side. Even some light wooden boxes in which spare parts had been placed were discarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
The Flying DutehmAn

The legend of the Flying Dutchnnan .s of a Dutch skipper. who in the early part of the seventeenth celtury. was trying to round the Cape of Coed r1ui in the teeth of a succession of heavy gales against which his clumsy craft was unable to beat to windw1rd and gain any way. This Dutch skipper is said to have blaspehmously defiei the Almighty to keep him from rounding the cape and declared that he would keep at it, in spite of heaven and nell, until he made it. He was taken at his word, and is supposed to be still at 1t Imag inative sailormen of by-gone years, when encountering the common occurrence of heavy weather off the cape and head wind. used to imagine that out of ihe mist they could see the galiot of the Flying Dutchman. with its ddunt4--~ captain standing on her high poop and shaking his fist at the stormy sky. It Is quite safe to say that the Flying Du..
 man has not appeared a great deal in recent years In fact modern seamen have never heard of the ,legend--Adven- ture Magazine for August.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS
 TO MEET MINERS TODAY

Philadelphia. Aug. 16.-Anthraeite op. orators and officials of the United Mine Workers were gathering here tonight for their joint conference tomorrow which. it is predicted will result in an early settlement of the hard coal strike Opti- mism was apparent on all sides. and some of those in close touch ~ith the situation said they confidently expected to see the suspelsiCn call-d eff with n a week and the men back in those mines which are in condition to work a few days later. Some of the colleries d e re- ported in bad condition and 1t is said that it probably would take a month or more to make them safe for ooerfatIon
 Most of them, however, could be started
 at once.
 Upon his return from the Cleveland conference today, Thomas Kennedy. chairman of the anthracit coal negotia- tions committee and member of the United Mine Workers policy committee
 in statement at Hazelton said the 1 miners had made powerful fight. They have been united and have CO operated with each other" he declared, | and in this way the struggle should be | carried to the finish, which we hope IS not far distant"
 Samuel D. Mariner, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation Com pany and head of the operators negoti- l ations committee. reiterated his belief : that tomorrow's conference, would bring
 about a settlement of the difficulty.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
SIGNAL SAVED BAR HARBoR
 EXPRESS FROM BEING WRECKED

Worcester, Mass, Aug. 16.-A signal warning the engineer to proceed slowly saved the first section of the Bar Har- bor Express of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad from being wrecked early today when the tender and forward trucks of the mail car left the rails about 100 yards east of the Jackson street crossing. Officials of the railroad could give no explanation of the derailment The slow slgnal had been set because the switching engine was at work in the yards.
 The engineer stopped the train within a few feet and hardly any of the 200 passengers were aware of the accident. The train was delayed fifteen minutes while another engine was attached to the coaches which were switched to an other track.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
CAPTAIN CHARGED WITH
 MURDER ON HIGH SEAS

New York, Aug 16.-charged with murder on the high seas in consequence of the death of a pantrynaan, Captain George H. Miles, former commander of the shipping board steamer President Van Buren was arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock today and sent to the Tombs to await a further hearing
 The captain denied the charge and said the pantryman, H. H. Baxter died from taking drugs. Assistant District At. torney Goldthwaite charged in. his. com plaint that Miles manacled the pantry man to stanchlon in the vessels hold and beat him so badly that he, died the next day and was buried at sea.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
FREE STATE FORCES ARE
 ADVANCING ON DUNDALK

Dundalk, Aug. Is (By the A. P.)- During the last 24 hours, persistent ru- mors were in circulation that the Free State forces were advancing on. the town from different directions.
 The republicans have organized a large transport service while they have torn up the railroad between Endiskenny and Essensford on the south Ulster line There is great anxiety over the possi- biAtoes of z. Free State advance follow ing the recent landing of national forces at Cork and Tra1ee.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17

Washington. Aug 1s.-Reports re- seived by Attorney General Daugherty are that serious trouble" has occurred In connection with the railway shop nen's strike at Spencer. N. C. Strike syrnpathizers. he said tonight, had, ac- oording to hi -sreports, entered the shops, routed workers and had even intimidat- cd rslway police. An appeal had been made for marines and troops, the attor- ney general said he had been informed, aiding. however. that no federal action was being taken at present. although United States marshals were "on the iob."
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
NEW HAVEN ROAD NOW
 HAS ENOUGH sHoPMEN

New Haven, Aug. 1s-Claiming to have filled all positions vacated by the strike of .hA shopmen with enough men Co spare to send 300 to southern vdus, the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads today sent out notices cancel ling all contracts for advertisements in the newspapers here for machinists, cleo .riciahs and other shopmen.
 According sto Superintendent D. E. ReEan there is an estimate of six thou sand men at work here besides the 300 sent to the southern roads. MT Began said that the large majority of men at work at present are entirely competent To fll the places of the men who are out, and although 1t Is probable that a few will have to be discharged because of
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
PRESIDENT CONSIDERING
 THE DISTRIBUTION OF COAL

Washington, Aug. Is. (By the A. P1 President Harding in his contemplated statement to congress upon the nation al industrial situation will suggest lsg- islation giving the federal fuel erner- gency organization powers to control the distribution and price of coal to safe guard the country against hardship this winter, according to officials who talked today with the chief executive.
 The president was reported to be con sidering seriously recommendaL1 for definite legislation to provide legal pow CTS to supplant the voluntary system of understood to have before him draft of tentative plan of fuel admin1stra- ton prepared by Secretary Hoover Creation of a federal coal commission also would be recommended, it was re- ported, which would be designed tc make a thorough investigation of tht national coal industry and suggest legiS- lation for the permanent solution of la. bor problems.
 Pending the enactment of empowering | legislation the central coal distribution i committee, high officials indicated, would continue fuel control under voluntary price agreements
 | Existing fair price agreements mad, ! "lth MT. hoover py producing operator' were to be in effect during the strike but meeting of the federal coal com mittee with the commerce secretary ant 1 Fuel Distributor Spencer today, to con sider. the effect of partial settlement 0 the mine controversy upon price ar engagements. decided that the agreement would hold until production was nor largely resumed
 MT. Spencer said the price situation had improved considerably in the dis tricts south of the Ohio and Potoma rivers, but in the north it was not s good.
 Investigation of charges of prohteer ing in coal. however, was asked of Nil
 Hoover today by Senator Borah repub
 lican, Idaho, in letter calling for sug gestions as to immediate measure to pre- vent charging of excessive prices.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP
 OF RUSSIA INSURANCE CO

New York. Aug. 16.-Purchase of sub stantially the entire copital stock of the Rossia Insurance. company of Amer ica, said to be. the largest fire and marine reinsurance company in America operat- ing. under domestic charter, was an- nounced tonight by banking syndicate headed by Kidder, Peabody and com pany. Public offering of the stock probably will be made tomorrow @
 The change in ownership, it was an nounced, will not. involve any change in the operating management A state ment of the company as of June 30 showed total assets of $s,544,o2S and a total surplus of $3,S79,s2s.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
MOTHER AND SON DROWN
 TRYING TO SAVE EACH OTHER

Auburn. Mass. Aug 1s.-Mrs. Will fred Demerss of Worcester and her son Leslie. aged 10. were drowned late to- day at Stoneville while trying to save each other. The boy was padding in shallow water when he stumbled and feil. In trying to ragain his balance he got Into deep water. Mrs. Demeres in running to his assistance, tripped and fell also into deep water. The boy had partly got back to shore, but seeing his mother struggling went to her assist ance. He reached for her. secured a bold on her ciothing and when she went down he went down with her. The body Df the mother was recovered late to- night by the search for the sons body vas gwen up at midnight and the res rvclr VII be draRad tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
sHELBURNE RESTAURANT
 PERMITTED TO REOPEN

New York, Aug 16-The board of health granted the Shelburne req aurant. which has been closed since six persons died after eating pie containing arsenic, there. a temporary permit to reopen. The permit allows the company to op- crate for 30 days.
 According to department officials, 2,4SS pounds of foodstuffs wnlcn were in the restaurant at the time of the poisoning, 1 have been dumped into the sea.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
OBITUARY
Prof. ROllin D. Salisbury

Chicago, Aug 16.-Prof Rollin D. Salisbury. noted scientist, traveller and member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, died last night He had been Ill since June l
 Professor Salisbury was International ly famous as an authority on geology and geography He was a member of the expedition which rescued Commodore Peary in the Arctic regions in 1892.
 He was born at Spring Prairie, Wis, August IT, 1858.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
Railroads Mad. U. S.. Great

Rome was mistress Of the wa-ld sole ly because all roads lead to Rome Britain has been mistress Of the com merce on the seas for more than three hundred years only because. having de- feated the Spanish Armada, she has controlled during that periof the fnstru- mentalities of transportation on the hiEh seas.
 e. The application of steam to trauspor- tation marked the greatest sinsis ...S forward in human civilization that aiad occurred in forty centuries l. was the development of the railroad systern Of the United States. and that alone. taht made it possible to extend the confines of our great republic from vcu<- to. ocean. The greatest single economic value Of railroad trsnsportation to hu man society Is the fact that 1t renoves the artificial advantages of Esogranhio location and enables a. country that spreads over the continent to devesop consistently all the territory w.thin its | jurisdiction. ~ s-
 But the application of steam. but for the development of the greatest .Giiroo6 system of the ,kaown world. the pop1sz- tion of the United States woaid be along our ocean frontiers and our in- land waterxays.-The -Natton's Businerz.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
STATE TROOPS REQUESTED
 FOR DUTY AT SPENCER

Raleigh. \. C., Aug. 1s.-State troops were requested tonight by the sheriff of Rowan county for duty at Spenos~ where disturbances occurred last night and early today at the shops of the Southern railroad announce-atA was made that Governor Morrison before acting upon the request would go to Spencer for a personal investigation to- morrow on hts way 10 the capital from lev days
 adiutant generals office was making preparations 10 use troops, but it was learned at Charlotte that the company Of the National Guard stationed in that city had received orders to be In readi- ness for quick mobilization.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
MAN KILLED AT wALLINGFoRD
 BY AN EXPRESS TRAIN

, Wallingford, Conn, /, Aug. 1S.-Harry Blake. about sixty-two years old. a painter employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. was h. stantly killed today when he was struck by a : south-bound express opposite the station here. Blake Is said to have been deaf and to have failed to notice the ap- proach of the train for this reason His home was in Hartford.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
BoRAH SENDS EVIDENCE
 OF SOFT COAL PRoFITEERING

Washington. Aug. 1S-Information to support charges of bituminous coal prof. iteering was sent today to Secretary
 Hoover by Chairman Borah of the sen- ate labor committee who asked the cab inet officer for suggestions as to irnme- diate measures to rrevent Charging of excessive prioes. H
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
LOGAN COUNTY MINER
 CONVICTED OF MURDER

Charleston, w.. Va, Aug 1S.-John Wilburn who participated in the march of armed miners on Logan county a year ago, was convicted, in circuit. court here tonight of second degree murder~in. con ton with the shooting of Deputy Saeriff J., c. Moore. during the Logan battle
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
CALLED PARAGRAPH
Cholera Epldemlc in Crlu

Cholera Epidemic In CfIp
 Constantinople. Aug. 1s.- lera epidemic rages in Crimea, B to the reports of refugees arrj Con- stantinople Many Jews been stricken by the plague, bl figures are not available. The < lion, ser iously suffering from U .ne. is too weakened to offer any Ance to the disease.