AUCTION.
AT the requésf
of Lawyer STAigE-
MANN
on behalf
of the parties
concerned
the
auction
advertised
for Thursday
the
14th of October
1920 of the Property
No. 23 in
.Company
Street
in Christian-
sted
belonging
to Miss
-~USAN
BOUGH is hereby postponed
un-
gl
‘
Tuesday the 26th October 192 U
AT 3 O’CLOCK P.
M.
Christiansted’s
Vendue
Office,
St.
Croix, October
13th
1920.
‘
Fee:
Fr.
5.00
-}
'
Say Five Franes
)
:
WILH
JENSEN.
LOST
A
GOLDP
STICK
VIN-
SHAPE OF A MALTESE
CROSS
WITH
A
STONE
OF
AME-
THIST SET IN THE CENTER.
:
~
Finder
will be rewarded
by bringing
same
to this office
e
was
by
an
oversight
accepted
at
this
office
on
Saturday
11th
instant,
and
as
it cannot
be exchanged
at the Bank here
and has
not the value of U. S. money
the
person
who paid it in
is
kindly
request-
ed
to call and ledeem it.
Post
Office,
Christiansted,
Virgin
Is-
tands,
Oct.
14,
1920.
'
g
B. R. LARSEN,
Postmaster.
The Vigilant from St.
Thomas
arrived
here
at 11 o’clock a.
m.
yesterday
with
St.
Thomas
and
Windward
mails,
and
will sail
on
the
return
trip
at
10
this
morning.
:
.
While
making the trip from St. Thom-
as
on
Tuesday
night one of
the
crew
of the Vigilant,
Francis
Reid by
name,
fell over??rd
and
may safely
be
pro-
nounced
drowned
as
the
efforts
made
to locate
and rescue
him .up
proved
un-
availing
The
man
'was
addicted
to
drink and
was bélievedto be
in liqour
when. the
accident
occured.
This
con-
clusien
is also strengthened
by the
find-
ing’ of two empty
rum
bottles
in
his
quarters.
The Carter
Case willgo on again
this
evening and
two. interesting
episodes
of
this
captivating
serial
will be
pre-
sented.
The
programme
publishea
in
this
issue
includes
also
two
comics
at
the
opening
and
the close
of the
show.
Rt
CROEX
AYV
#1
1.
+« TELEGRAMS.
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o
-+
ST. CROIX STATION.
(Delayed
ip transmission,
)
@.&?ha@"
Oect.
.kst.-—Bolsheviki
gold poured wito
the
coal
mining
dis
tricts
of England
and
Wales
to
bring
about
the-threatened
coal
strike
was
a fact
disclosed
in
documents
left
be-
hind_ when M.
Litvinoff
was
forced
to
leave
-Denimark“for
Norway.
The
au-
thorities
are, .investigating
the
records
also shcw a-numbér>
of extremist
papers
in various. eountries
and
trades
unions
were receiving
Bolshevist
gold subsidies
monthly.
Two- Copénhagen:
uinions
r=-
ceived 50,000 kroner annually.
"~
Ottawa,
- Oct.
Ist.—Canada’s
navy
consisting
of
the cruiser
Aurora and
the
destroyers
Patriot
and
Patrician
will be
commissioned:-
on November Ist and
will
leave
England
for
Canada shortly
after
that .date.
It was explaiped at the
De
partment
of Naval Sérvice that the
com-
missioning
of
the
vessels
"means
ibat
they are
placed
in
the
class
of
active
warships.
London,
Oct.
Ist.—The general
belief
prevails tonight ‘that a strike of the
coal
miners
will be
avoided as
a result
of
a
decision taken taday tocall for. a re-ballot
of the miners
.on the question.of ceasing
work.
A re-ballot
-isexpected
to
result
in
an-acceptance
by the men of an
offer
by the owners of an advance
in wages of
two shillings per’ shift when the
output
of
coal reaches
248,000,000
tons
yearly.
This
was the
rate of the
output of
the
first three months'of
the year.
Belfast.
Oct.
Ist.—According
to
the
Glasgow
correspondent
of
the
Irish
News,-a Nationalist
organ,
the
Govern-
mant
is considering:
the advisability
of
withdrawing- all garrisons
and
troops
from the inner regions
of Southern
Ire-
land
and to the sea coast
towns and es-
tablishing
a -boycott.
of
the
south
if
“reprisals
onmthe existing method and
a
more extepsive
scale prove
abortive.”’
London,
Oct. 2nd.—A proposal
tc re-
vise
the treaty of Versailles-
to
sthbilize
the world’s economic
conditions will
he
one of.the
: principal.topics for. discassion
at the Internalional E¢onomic’Conference
in London
on Oct.
11th, 12th and 13th.
Copenhagen,
Oct. 2nd.—Reports
that
a
strike movement
is: rapidly spreading
in
Russia
resalting in-serigus
disturbances
invarious parts-of
the country have been
received from Helsingfors.
The corres-
pondent
declared
-that
travellers from
Russia
-confirm
- the recent
reports
that
street
_conflicts .had
occurred
in Petro-
grad where several Soviet commissioners
‘were
killed by the .mob, Persistant
ru-
mours
that
Leon
Trotsky
had
been
wounded
and’ that General
Budenny,
the
noted
‘cavalry - leader,.
.was
being
ecourt
martialled alsa.were
in.
circulation,
the
report says.-+At
g mass g_eetihg
“which
was
largely attended
by.Petrograd
peo-
ple
a resolution
is said to. have been
un-
animously passed
in favour of an immedi-
.
ate peace
with the rest of the world.
-
.- London,
Oct.
2nd.
,An «interesting
.
rumour that the Prince of Wales
had
be-
.
come engaged during -his tour in Canada
~is current in political clubs and Canadian
'
cireles.
The
st ry originated .with
a
i~
'woman
member
of the Royal
Household
.
who "said
the
identity ‘of the ‘girl was
|
being
kept
secret pending
sthe Prince’s
rerurn to England.
° P2rhapsi€Canada
can
.
supply
information was the answer
giv-
|-
en by one
interviewer.
:
-
;
New York, Oct.
2nd. —Furness
Withy
-~
and Co.
have
acquired
through purchase
.~
the Trinidad
Line of steamers
with
eer-
-
tain properties of
the Trinidad. Shipping
-
and” Trading ‘Company
- located
in
the
.
West
Indies.
While the price paid
will
|
range
in the millions the figure -at which
|
the deal was consummated
was not reveal-
.
ed. It isstated
that the Trinidad Line will-
- be
. closely.affiliated:-
with
the Quebec
| ““Steamship ‘Company, which.
line: covers
-
~the
prineipal.-islardso
th:.-Windward
|
"and-i .eewiaied group. going a8 far seuth
|
a8 Dewme¥ara.i
@
<
wpgion
e
b
"
~Londen, Oct:::2nd.~-The* Miners’ Cen-
,
ference has.decided
to ask the. miners
as
-2 whole
to vote'on the question
.wheiher
-
the wage dispute ~shall
be ‘submitted
to
.
an impartiab-tribunal’ .
.
o
o
< Antigus, ‘Aug.: 10th—Mr. L,.-S..Crans-
i “téun, proprietor and fember
of the Le-
| gislative Council,died here at noon-today.
!
~“Demerara,
Oet. sth.—~lt is .announcd
.
that Major C. H. King, Acting Inspeetor
.
General
of Police
and Commandant
of
the local forces,
has been
olered and
ac-
.
cepted
the position
of Commissioner
of
'
Police, Sierra Leone.
Fo
'
Cork, Oct.
10th.—It it anneuneed
that
Lord Mayor MacSweeny
continues
eclear
.
and vigorous in mind, although
he
is
in
-
a'state
of extreme
weakness.
- i
g
Havana,
Oct. 10th.— The Iniernational
Bank
of Cuba
has
suspended
payment
.
and closed
its operations,
creating by this
~ action
a general panic
among the
depo-
sitors
of
all the banks
of .the
rgpublic.
-
~
On
Saturday
the Spanish an%li?tlional
Banks
paid more
than
ten
million
dol-
lars
to their clients who
withdrew their
.
deposits.
ThePresident
of the Republic
has declared
that he
will take
measuxes
“'to ‘assist
the
banking
houses
in
order
~
that they may not succumb
on account
of
-
this groundless
alarm.
The Stock
-Ex-
-
change ofHavana will
be closed
as long
- as
an actual
crisis exists.
The director-
ate
of the Exchange-is sitfing perma-
nently, for the
purpose
of studying
the
~financial situation.
-
:
.
)
Riga, Oct..loth.—The delegates
to the
-
‘Peace
Conference
contemplate
signing
the treaty on":Monday.
The
Polish..de-
"
wmand for three
hundred millions
of- rou-
i
bles
appears to: have
been
met by the
~
pdyment
of eighty 'millions.
€T
~
Havana,
Oct. 11th.~—Under
the
terms
'+ of the presidential
moratorium
whieh has
been issued,: drafts,
bills of exchange
and- prf¥misory notes will not be effective
"
until
the “firet of ‘December.
Between