Gade
from where
his funeral
will
take
place this afternvon
ut 5.30 o’clock. —lbid.
4
MURDER CASE APPEALED.
Judge
Thiele,
on
December
30th 1920
on motion
of
Leo
F.
S. Horan,
Attor-
ney
for
Jose
Soto
and
Jose
Lopez,
gracted
an appeal
to the U.
8.
Circuit
Court of Appeals
for the
Third
Circuit,
Philadelphia,
from the judgment of
the
Distriet
Court
of
St.
Thomas
and
St.
John
in which
Lopez
was convicted
of
murder
and sentenced
to death,-and
Soto
was
convicted
as
an accomplice
in
mur-
dor
and
sentenced
(o six
years
forced
labor.
:
The
alleged offenses
were
committed
_on
board
the American
steamer
‘‘Polar
“* Scar,”’
last September.
and
relate
to tne
stabbing
of
Wiiliam
Dougherty,
wh»
di»d
immediat=ly,
and
the
stabbing
of
Joseph
Donahue,
whose
eye
was
cut out
and
wh)
w~as later
ramovad
to the
hos-
pital.
'
:
fna
appeal
nas
already
gone
forward
and
the brief of
couns=i
for the
appell-
anis
wiil be filed on
January
10,
1921.
[t
is
understood
that
Government
At-
torney Georg
2 A. Keyser
who prosecuted
the
case,
will file his
brief
in the
nehr
future.
:
Mr.
A.
Lugo,
Spanish
Consul
in
St.
Thomas,
has
taken
a
great
interest
in
the
case,
in view of the fact that
Lopez
¥is
a Spapish subject.—Sparks,
Jan.
9th.
TELEGRAM->.
ST. CROIX STATIQN.
Athens,
Jany.
9th.—Lord
Granville,
the British
Minister,
and
M.
de
Billy,
the French
Minister, have
protested
ver-
bally to M. Rhallis, the
Prime
Minister,
against
the
use
of
two
hundred
million
drachmas
of paper
money,
which
have
been
issued
without
the authority of
the
loan commission.
The
register of
visit-
ors which was
pleced
at the Royal
Pal-
ace,
in view of the visitof Prince
Cbarles
of Roumania
to
his
fiancee,
Princess
Helene,
was taken for
some
hours
to *he
Roumanian
legation,
to
allow
the allied
-
ministers
to place
their signatures
there-
in,
they
having
refused
to
go
to
the
palace.
Dublin, Jany.
9th.—ls
the reports
in
circulation
in
official cireles
are correct,
all the
negotiations
relative
to peace
in
Ireland have
been
broken
off.
Definite
information is lacking,
but it is said that
Mr. Lloyd George
has
definitely refused
a proposal
by the Sinn Feiners
to abolish
the Home Rule bill.
Officials here
view
the situation seriously, and the increas-
ing activity of the
military and
the
Re-
publicans
in the
zone of
martial
law
is
considered
as proof of
the
extension
of
guerilla warfare.
Sainte
Assise,
Seine and
Marne, Jany.
9th.
The Under
Secretary
of State
for
Posts
and
Telegraphs
today
laid
the
871Lll
X A NS
corner
stone
of
what
is
intended
to
be the
most
powerful
radio
station
in
the world.
By the aid
of two
transmit-
ting instrunients
it will serd
twenty four
thousand
words
per hour,
or
receive
six-
ty thousand
words
per hour
on
five
in-
struments.
Thirty per
cent of the
capi-
tal for the erection
of the station
is Brit-
ish and seventy per cent French.
Santiago,
Chile, Jan.
9th.—A despatch
from
Punta
Arenas
states
that the
mili-
tary authorities
of the territory of Magal-
lanes,
in the extreme
south of Chile.
are
taking extraordinary precautlon
through
fear
that
armed
bands
of strikers
who
are
operating
in
the
territory of
Santa
(‘ruz.
in South
Argentine.,
may penetrate
into
Chile.
Th- despatches
confirm
in-
formation
from
Buengs
Aires
stating
that encounters
between
bandjts
and the
police have taken place
on
the Argentine
frontier,
in
which
the
latter
sustained
losses.
A
Buenos
Aires
despateh
re-
ports
that
a group of bandits
are
virtu-
ally
controfling
the
territory of Santa
Cruz,
but that
some of their leaders
have
been
captured
and
several others
killed
and wounded.
=
Mexico,
Jan.
9th. —Mr
Samuel
Gom-
pers
and
fourteen
other representatives
of American
labour,
accompanied
by
a
committae
of
reception,
arrived
here
today
to assist
at the Pan-American
Con-
ference
of
the
Federation
of
Labour,
whieh
will
commence
tomorrow.
Mr.
Gompers
has
limited his statements
to
a
declaration
that the
object of the
meet-.
ing
is to bring about
:good
relatious
be-
tween
the workers
of ‘the United
States,
Mexico and
South
and Central
America.
The
Conf2rence,
which will probably be
terminated
before the end
of the
week,
is the third of its kind
so tlke place,
the
first
having been
held at Laredo,
Texas,
in Novenber nineteen
eighteen
and
the
-second
at
New
York
in
July
nineteen
nineteen,
Delegates
from sixteen
central
and
south
American
Republics
and
re-
- presentatives
of the United
States
and
Mexico having assisted
thereat.
Marion, Ohio, Jany.
Bth. —Representa-
tive Butler,
Pennsyivania,
Chairman
of
the House
Naval
Committee,
was
called
into conference
today by President
elect
Harding,
to consider
means
for reducing
naval
expenditures,
without
affecting
the efficiency of the
nation’s
first.line of
defence.
Although
favouring
a
navy
strong
enough
to
ensure
safety
to
the
shores
of the United
States
and
United
States
commerce,
Mr. Harding feels that
much of the present
expenditure
for the
naval
establishment
could
be
dispensed
with by the exercise
of
greater
economy
and that possibly
the
naval building pro-
gramme
could
be safely curtailed.
Budapest,
Jany. Bth.—An epidemic of
hiccough
with which
the
physicians
of
this city are unable
to
cope,
has
cdused
much alarm
among
the
Budapest
popula-
tion.
The patients
are
unable
to eat
or
sleep
and
some of them
have
remained
in the grip of the malady for two or three
weeks,
until
the affection
had
run
its
course,
but
as yet there
have
been
no
fa-
tal results.
Praofessor
Benediet,
of
the
local
medical
faculty,
has
sounded
an
alarmist
note
in connection
with the
epi-
demic.
‘‘lam afraid’’,
he said,
that
this
hiccoughing
is the forerunner
of influen-
za
and it is pnssible
that
we shall
be vis-
ited by
even
a
more
terrible
plague’’.
London,
Jany.
9th.
The
imports
for
1920
were
1,936,000,000
pounds
sterling,
an increrse
of 310,500,000
over
those
of
1919.
The exports
were
over
1,500,000,
000
for
1920,
showing
an
increase
of
nearly_ 600,000,000
pounds.
New York, Jany.
9th.— The market
{or
raw sugar
i’ steady
and
unchanged
at
4% cents.
London,
Jan.
9th.—Sir
Michael
O’
Dwyer,
until
recently
the
Governor
of
the important Punhab
pyovince of India,
in
an artic.e
in the .“*Globe’ concerning
the
unrest
in India,
which
has
taken
the
form
of
Government
boycotts,
strikes
and
seditions
utterances,
declares
that
this
much
at least
can
be
stated
with
certainty,
that
the
present
extremist
movement
is
heading
straight
for
the
disorganization
of trude
and
commerce,
for the ruin of every
British interest
and
for
anarchy
and
rebellion.
He
asserts
that
the time for toying with sedition
in
this
vast
empire
has
long
passed
and
that if Britain is to retain
India, the law
must
be rigorously and
impartially
en-
forced,
irrespective
of persons,
caste
or
class,
and
1l
thosewho
are heading
the
revolutionary
conspiracy
should
be
dealt
with under
the law, before
too late.
Dub'in,-Jan.
9th.—The
first
candidate
to publiely
offer himself
for election
to
the
Southern
Irish
Parliament
is
Lord
Decies.
Publicats
FROM THE POLICE.
LL owners
of dogs are
enjoined
with-
Ain
the
ending
of
January
month
to
procure
from
the
Police
Office
(for
Kingshill Distriet
from
Kingshili Police
St: tion) the sizns
fcr dogs prescribed
by
the Police
Regulations,
which
aceording
to
same
must
always
be
worn
by
the
dog, and for whick
Frares
10.00 must
be
paid for
dogs
in
town
and
Francs
2.00
for dogs
in the country.
After said time dogs
met
not wearing
the
sign
for
1921
will
be
caught
and
brought
to
the
Police
Office (Kingshill
Police
Station) and
detained
for 3 times
24 hours,
when
it
will be killed, unless
the owner appears
(o claim
the dog,
pays
a
fine
of
Francs.
15.00
and
eventually
procures
the required sign.
Christiansted’s
Police Office, St. Croix,
the 29th December
1920.
*
F.
COULTER.