London via Bombay, 15th January.
The coal famine in-the United States is causing severe distress, At several towns in Illinois the mob have forcibly seized carloads of coal as the trains were passing through.
Numerous deaths from freéaing are Later.
The U.S. Congress -has: passed at a single sitting a: Bill suspending for one year the duty on imported: coal.
ter, London, 16th January.
Over sixty steamers have "been chartered since Christmas to convey British coal. tothe. United States.—Exclusive service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.