Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-27

The Portuguese Cabinet, headed by Victor Hugo A. Coutinho, premier, re- signed.
 The United States steel corporation suspended the dividend on the com mon stock.
 A hundred thousand barrel pro- was reported in the oil fields of Law renee county, III.
 The susquehanna Coal Co. will spend S3O0O00 on coal handling i'm provement in Chicago.
 Alexander Elder. the founder of the Elder Dempster Steampship Line, died in Southport, England.
 The Pittsburgh Steel Co.,, plants at CharIeroi and AIOnessen, Pa, resumed operations on full time. The clubhouse of the New Jersey Yacht Club on Newark Bay at Bay onne was destroyed by fire.
 Only one of the employees of the Northern Pacific Railway Co.,, was killed in Montana during 1914.
 Secretary Hester, of the New or leans Cotton Exchange, estimates g. 520000 bales of the 1914 cotton crop.
 Full time work has been resumed at the tool room of the Singer factory at Elizabeth, N. J., employing 800 men.
 Captain Harry Lambert, while walk ing in New York with Detective Lieu teant Funston, had his pocket picked of s80
 The collier Earn, formerly British. i but captured by the German Karls- n .ar Porto Rico.
 Filling a contract for 5000 army horses began at Fort Worth Texas, between local dealers and d Greek commission.
 Frederick sharer, an American, was arrested for manslaughter in London, when his auto, running at high speed, killed a boy.
 A n1utiny which broke out in Q pris- on in India was not quelled until IS Berad tribesmen had been killed and 1 six wounded.
 A bill was introduced by Represent ative TalcOtt of New York proposing to double the size of the cadet corps at West Point.
 ! The MiddIetown Lace Manufaoturinq
 
 ration with the secretary of state, | capital $270,000.
 Negotiations were closed at sharon i Pa, by which a local company will make 100000 pairs of woolen socks for the French army. Three convicts escaped from the county jail at Syracuse, N. Y, after forcing guard at the point of a gun l tn CrIEr 1 Fifteen thousand worL<men in the 6S i plants of the H. c. Tricks Coke Co.,. i in F'ayette County Pa, were placed at work on full time. President Wilson named Robert Elm i met Jeffrey, of Newport Ark. as Min l ister to Uruguay, to succeed NicOlay A Grevestad of Chicago.
 R. N. Hudson. general manager of 1 the Louisville X Atlantic Railroad, was elected president of the Louisville. | Henderson & St. Louis Railroad.
 By the will of the late Alexander A. | Mckay of Chicago, the Munger col lection in the Chicago Art Institute will benefit to the amount of SI00,0OO.
 By direcion of the Public Service | Commission conditions in the subways
  l precautions will be taken to prevent accidents.
 The DuPont Powder Co.,, has taken an option on the big machine plant of l the J. Morton Poole Co. Wilmington. i Del. Powder-making machinery will ! be installed.
 Consular Agent Carothers reported to the State Department from Aguas 5 ~, l whaever for the rumors that he had | been shot by Villa.
 Alba B. Johnson, president of the l Baldwin Locomotive Works declared ] that the report that the French Gov 1 ernment ordered 100 locomotives from l his company is false ! Both the street car system and the 1 motor buses operating in Seattle. are 1 according to a. report of the Public l Service Commission
 A guest in Chicago hotel, feeling 1 in need of spiritual support, paid SS.5O ! in telephone tolls to call up Billy ! Sunday in Philadelphia and have him pray over long distance. ] Frank Ii. Higgins, who had served | in both branches Of the Maine legisla- l tUIc ana do county cLLJ1E1 OL OTIS county for three terms. died at the age of e. He was born in Portland.
 One hundred and fifteen thousand 1 bags of beet sugar seed worth $635.000 i in gold have been bought in Germany 1 for American growers. that the Amer l ican crop may not suffer by the war. | The British steamer Washington, l chartered by the American commission for relief in Belgium. sailed from Se- attle for Rotterdam with a cargo of food valued at $512,000 for Belgium 1 war sufferers.
 l Governor GoethaIs of the Panama. ] Canal Zone reported to President Will ! son that hard work on the slides at 1 Gold Hill and Cucaracha gave no promise of a guarantee that battle 1 shipus could pas through in March.
 At the convention of the Protestant i Episcopal diocese of Newark in Trini- ] ty church yesterday, the Rev Alex lander Mann, of Trinity church, Boston. ] was elected suffragan bishop. He will serve as assistant to Bishop Edwin $.