Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-08

Wheat exports from New Orleans 1 increased almost tenfold in the last 1 five months.
 The American Bankers Association l convention will be held in Seattle, Sep tember 6-10.
 Italian and French Westinghouse plants will be sold to the British Wet 1 inghouse Co.
 Fire destroyed the Garden Theater and four other buildings in Colon at loss of $30,O00.
 A membership on the Chicago Board of Trade was sold for $3.100, an in crease of $4o0.
 Imports of gold into Argentina in 1914 were 271.81S,0oo pesos, a decrease of 149.534,000 pesos.
 The Cayuga Lake Cement Co.,, at Ithaca, N. Y, will be rebuilt to a 2,o0o barrel capacity
 The Cincinnati. Leaanon & Northern Railway Co. increased it's capital from S1,5OO,O0O to s2,5OO,OOO.
 The Buco Commercial de Costa Rica at San Jose, under management of British directors, failed. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange will be closed Tuesday, February 16 and Monday, February 2.
 General Ricciotti GaribaIdi, son of the Italian patriot, has arrived in Par
 is, accompanied by his wife. A Detroit knitting company secured contracts for 100000 pairs of army socks for delivery next winter. 
 The Tug Watuppa, Which Sank in the Cape Cod canal a week ago. does not interfere with navigation. Frank Amadeo, a Iaborer, of Des and two children and then himself.
 Terre Haute. Ind, was placed under
 foot-and-mouth disease among cattle there.
 The Government in 1914 built more ! than 2,000 miles of trail and 5000 miles of telephone lines in the national forests.
 Cynthia 5uffun1, of Little Valley. N. T., convicted of poisoning her hus- band William Bufum, was granted . i new trial.
 The United States Concrete Products Corporation. capital $12500,00O was granted articles of incorporation at Dover. Del
 Suit for the appointment of a re- ceiver for the Central Life Insurance Co. of Lexington, Ky, was filed in the Circuit Court.
 Twenty persons were killed and many injured yesterday by the expIo- sion of a boiler in a furniture factory at La Guardia, Spain. The French government calls for bids from Seattle lumber dealers for 500.000 feet Of lumber to rebuild hous- es destroyed by the war. Resumption of operations on full l time was ordered at the Calumet &- Hecla Co. at Calumet. Mich, and all its operating subsidiaries.
 The Spanish Parliament authorized the Government 10 purchase four sub marines for the Spanish navy from q | builder in the United States. The acreage in onions in the princi- 1915 is estimated at 7.S20. an increase
 of nearly 9 per cent over 1914. A favorable report will be made to ! increasing the salary of State Police Chief Egan from $3,0o0 to $5,O00.
 Beginning March 1, prisoners in the be fed for fifteen cents a day. instead of forty-tiye as formerly allowed. An Iron Manhole Cover weighing nearly 100 pounds was blown through 1 the passenger platform at the City ] ,oTe Ir>7 town, Mass, by gas explosion.
 To overcome financial shortage due l in the Transvaal and the Union of will be subject to a special tax on their profits.
 Mrs. Amy Gray of Boston will be the | sponsor of the submarine L-2 when ] that craft is launched at Quincy, Mass, ! on Feb II. Mrs. Gray is the mother | of Lieut. Augustine H. Gray, who will 1 be in command of the L-2. New York bankers purchased sS,OOO,-
 St. Louis Railway Go. consolidated
 mortgage gold Az per cent gold l bonds.
 Following the action of the United ! the Panama Canal from March to July I ! the Government of Panama postponed 1 to the same date the opening of the national exposition. A bill empowering the industrial welfare Commission to permit women employed in cannerieS to work more than nine hours a day when emerge cies exist, was passed by the lower house of the Oregon Legislature. Prohibition officers at Kenova, w Va while Investigating the high price of pumpkins brought into the state from Kentucy, discovered that hollow pumpkins with a bottle of liquor in side were selling from $1 to $1.50.
 During the Ten Days Trip from Manzanillo. Cuba the value of the cargo of the Norwegian steamer Pro-
 gresso, which arrived at Boston. in
 creased $21,0o0. When the steamer left
 Cuba the cargo of sugar was valued at
 about S249,600, but prices now make it worth about $371,200 at wholesale.