Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-27

Condensed Telegrams

Cable facilities to Portugal are re- stricted.
 Buckwheat has jumped from $1.75 hundred pounds to $2. In German mines there are 37,563 women working and 43.095 boys. The Norwegian steamer Leander was sunk by a German submarine. Liberty Loan subscriptions in Porto Rico reached the million dollar mark. General Villa is reported to be l menacing Parral with force of l. 900 men.
 Photographers of the Wabash rail- roa' were granted 10 per cent. wage increase.
 The Boston & Maine railroad strike was declared off through an agreement to arbitrate.
 Sir. William James HerscheI, dis coverer of the finger print system, is dead at London. Roland s. Morris, the new American ambassador to Japan in succession to George Gurthrie, arrived in Tokio. Orders for 68S boilers for the 15o torpedo boat destroyera recently or dered were placed by the government.
 Treasury officials announced that up to the present time Greece has not ap- piled to the United States for a loan.
 President Wilson will name a com mission to plan the greater utilization or rivers to relieve railroad congestion.
 Directors of the Diamond Match Go. declared the regular quarterly divi- dend Of per cent, payable December IS.
 Thirty thousand employees of the Chicago Stock yards will demand in creased pay, and extra pay for over time.
 William B. Plunkett. prominent man ufacturer. of Adams, Mass, and friend of President Mckinley, died sudden- ly.
 Girl telephone operators of San Francisco, Oakland Fresno and San ta Rosa are being organized into labor
 unions.
 plan for banishnent for the czar from the Russian country is under consideration by the preliminary par liament.
 The second edition of the Harvard Lampoon was suppressed because it contained slur on King Edward of England.
 Union switehmen all over the coun- try are discussing a proposaI for general strike if they do not receive more pay.
 The New York G PennsvIvania rail- road will be abandoned The lines ex-l tend from Caaisteo, N. Y, to Shingel- house, Pa.
 The Liberty loan subscriptions reached s275.700 at Iitchfield The maximum allotment set for the district was. $244.000.
 Forty Sing Sing inmates appeared before the state board of parole. which convened at the prison and were or dered released
 An immediate lifting of the wheat embargo exportations from Uruguay was strongly advocated in the Cham Der of Deputies.
 The National City Bank of New York city has made the greatest pur- chase of bonds for any bank It has taken s85,000,0O0.
 Twenty seven Germars in Hutcbin. son county, South Dakota, were found guilty on charges of attempting to ob- struct the draft law.
 The Boy Scouts Libersy loan cam paign closed at Waterbury last night l with total of S273,25O, of which S31. = scc was subscribed yesterday
 Sufficient cars to move the entire | crop of the cane sugar belt and | enough in the Northwest to handle the 1 potato crop were properly stationed.
 The Austrian Lower house passed | the third reading of the provisional budget for four months Authority to raise loan of $2,250, 900 was voted.
 The French steamer La Touraine which arrived at an Atlantic port had on board many French and British soldiers and ambulance men and nurs- eS.
 Four leaders were arrested in a fed eral raid on offices of Metal Mine Workers in Butte The men were charged with interfering with the pro- duction of copper.
 Drafted negroes will go to Camp Upton in a unit. of themselves. It is expected that about 1,52S men will be in the unit. The men will go to camp on Tuesday, October 30.
 The Swiss Federal council decided to issue 100000 ten centime pieces and 100000 fve-centime pieces in bronze, as temporary relief for the of nickel and copper.
 The Netherlands government sub nitted the Second Chamber a bill in- s..~~