But; (AB plus MAP) plus 234 p.c.,
-
=AB
pilis MAP)
- (BRL plus
NB)
Ang; (AE plus MAP)-(BRL plus
NB)
If any bydy is selling eggs for 5 cents
please
advertise
as
we
like eggs
very
much
for breakfast.
Yours truly
JONNIE IGNATZ.
WEATHER
REPORT.
San Juan,
2ar.29.96
Ther.
74, S.E.,
Vel
6, partly clcudy.
St. Thomss,
Bar.
29.96,
Ther.
78,
E.
Vel. 6,
Clear.
St. Kitia,
Bar.
2996.,
Ther.
72,
N.E.,
Vel. 6, cloudy.
Dominica,
Bar.
29.90,
Ther.
72, N.E..
Vel. 2, partiy cloudy.
;
St.
Lucia.
Bar.
29.90,
Ther.
74, E.
Vel.
6, cloudyv.
Barbados,
Bar.
29.92,
Ther.
74,
N.E.,
Vel.
4.
partiy cloudy.
Port of Spein, Bar. 29.86.
The:.
74, N. E.
Vel.
1, party
cloudy.
Curacao,
Bar.
29.80,
Ther.
74,
S.E.,
Vei. 8.
part
y cloudy
:
San
Dom
ngo, Bar.
29.94, Ther,
74,
N.
E. Vel
10,
ecleat
s
St.
Croix,
Bar
3001.
Ther.
84,
E.
partly cioudy.
Rainfiall for past-24
hours,
0
TELEGRAMS
Si. CROIX
STATION.
The
Wes
-rn
Union
Company
inform
us as follow- :
“"To curb
adviees
arising
from
the
I:ee registration
of
code
ad-
dresses
and
eliminate
the
laree
number
of dead regitration
on
the
books
which
interfere
w th
the
prompt
delivery
of
cables
recei -ed
under
live addresses,
it
has
been
(ecided
to
make
a
nominal
charge
of t+
o dollars
and fifty cents
per
annum
for
cegistrations
in
the
United
States
and
lavana, effective
November
Ist 1919
on
vhich
date
all present
regis-
trations
on
‘eceipt
of the fee
above
re-
ferred
10.
A.l registrations
will automati-
cally expire (welve months
from the date
of registrat'on
and
must
be
ren
wed.
Thirty days prior to be expiration of any
registration
formal notice
must
bhe sent
to tae Regis rant
in order that
the
sub-
scription
may
be
renewed,
if desired.
Registration
w th one Company
will hold
good for botl.
Western
Union
and
Com-
mercial.”’
Paris,
Oct.
24th.—Pierre
Tenoir,
con-
victed
on
a charge
of having held
intel-
ligence with
_he enemy
was
executed
at
Santa prison
at
seven
o’clock this
morn-
ing.
Ottawa,
Ort
23rd.
The
Government
Bill acquiring
the
Grand
Trunk, passed
the
second
rzading,
91
to 61, after Mr.
Mackenzie’s
six months’ amendment
was
rejected
by ti e
vote.
The clause
in the
agreament
with
the
Grand
Trunk
entered
into
+dn
1908
under which
Hal-
ifax and
St.
John
were
to receiye
a
=1
(. Bl
X AN IS
preference
of a cen* per
hundred pounds
on
freight shipped
through
these
ports,
rather
than
through Portiand,
and
which
agreement
was
never carried
out
will be
strictly
enforced
by
the
Government
when
the Grand Trunk is taken
over,
the
Hon.
Dr.
Reid
announced,
before
the
vo.e.
'
Washington,
Oct. 24th.
The last Govt.
effort
to
avert
the
coal
strike
set
for
November Ist, failed utterly tonight,
and
half
a million
miners
will quit work
on
the
very
eve of winter, with the nation’s
bins running
dangerously
low.
London,
Oct. 25th.— The
ex-(German
Emperor anl Crown
Prince
are
councern-
ed in
an intrigue of ihe German
royalists,
¢
the political correspondent
of the ""Daily
.
Mai,”” asserts.
‘‘The ex-Emper: r’’, says
the writer, *‘ls far
from
leading
a
life
of
detachment
from
German
Affairs.
He has recently
seen
a number
of myste-
rious visitors from Germany
and
is receiv-
ing m:ny
telegrams.
He
is
constauntly
in
communication
with
some
place
in
Germany
by telephone,
a private line
be-
ino
attached
to his residence
across
the
frontier.
The communications
are
with
German royalists.
The ex-Crown
Prince
is also known
to be intriguing
with
Ger-
man royalists,
and' receiving
meny
sus-
picious visitors.
Inquiries
on thi
matter
will be
made
in the
House
of
Commons
next
week.
'
‘
Washington,
Oci.
26th.g—Due
to
the
illness
of President
Wilsen
the
stay
of
the Prince
of Wales
in
Washington,
set
for early
next
month.
will be scmewhat
shortened.
The
visit
of
the
Prince
of
Wales,
it was
said
by offi~ials, probably
will correspond
in
length
with
that of
King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth
of Bel-
gium who will spend
three days here
next
week.
Honoiulu, Oct. 24th.—Admiral
Jellicoe,
Commander
of the
British Grand
Fleer,
arrived
here todey
aboaid
the
warship
New
Zealand.
He
will ieave
for
the
mainland
on
November
14th.
Airplanes
dropped
wreaths
and
flowers
on
the
vessel
as it came
into
the harbour.
Ad-
miral
Jellicoe
was
made
the
guest
of
honour
at
a
reception
tendered
him
by
naval and civic organizations.
Copenhagen,
Oect.
25th—The
entire
ctaff of Leon
[rotsky,
Bolshevik
Minis-
ter
of War
has
been
captured.at
't'sar-
koeselo,
according
to
a
naval
des-
patch
t»
the
National
Tidende.
Trot-
sky
himself
<=scaped
by
eclingiug
to
a
raillway car
after fleeing from the
scene
in
an automobile.
Troops
of the
North
Western
Russian
Army
pursued
the
Minister
and
fired
upon
his
car,
but
Trotsky
succeeded
in reaching
Petro-
grad.
The left flank
of Gereral
Yuden-
itch’s
army is reported
to
be
under
fire
from the Bolshevik dreadnought
Poitaka
which is lying in
the
Neva River
inside
of the limits of Petrograd
and is shooating
over the house-tops.
:
|
” Buenos
Aires,
Oct.
25th.——Fubonic.
glagug is raging
in all parts
of the
terri-
tory
¢f Formosa,
in
the
northeastern
part
of Argentina,
according
to
advices
received
here.
The
inhabitants
are
panic-stricken,
many
of
them
having
fled
from
the
district.
Medicines
are
scarce,
and
the
sanitary
station
unable
to
cope
with
the
situation,
has
asked
assistance
from
the
National
Health
Department.
Trimdad,
Qct.
26th.—The
following
has been received
here from the
Jamaica
Imperial
Association:
‘‘Following
res-
olution
passed
by the
Association.
Please
cemmuni
ate
the resolution
to the
Asso-
ciated
Chambers
of Commerce
who
have
been
asked
by
ecable
to
join in
protest
that
the
Jamaica
Imperial Association.
representing
large numbers
of producers,
nmerclints
and others
in Jamaica,
who are
proud
of their position as British subjects
protesis
with
all
its
might
against
the
suggestion
of
Lcrd
KRothermore
that
some
cr any of the
British
West
Indian
Colonies
should
be
sold
to a foreign
Pow-
er
to
liquidate a
small
part
of
Great
Britair’s war debt,
that
this Association
1s convinced
that the increase
of produc-
tion throughout
the Empire and
a
ecloser
inter-relation between
her
several
parts
thereoi
will
result
before long
in
un-
paralled
prosperity
of the Empire
as
a
whole,
will
render
unnecessary
any
con-
siderat on‘of parting with any
portion ot
the Enpire
towards
payment
of its obli-
gations’’.
Jamezica,
Oct.
24th.
- Quarantine . has
been
es ablished
against
all Russian
ports
on
account
of an outbreak of- small-pox
at Havana.
NEw
YORK. Oct.
27th
1919.
Fiour, Blencad
Ciear
St. Lawrence
' rand
pr. brl. $10.90.
Meal, kilndried
per
100 ibs $3.80
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per obl.
$45.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Molasses
39
test
pr
100 Ibs.
no quotation,
Cotton, Middling Upiand,
at Liverpool
per
Ib. 22 68-100 d.
wxchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’ sight $4.13J
Exchange
New York and
London,
sight
:
$4.174
LoNDON, Oct.
27th
1919.
Sugar-Uemerara
Crystals
duty paid price.
fixed
hy
the Royal Commission
per ewts
575. 9d.
-91s.
od.
Muscovado,
89°/- basis,
floating terms
in
bond,
Ditto duty paid.
555.
6d. - 765. Od.
German
Beet 38°/¢ f.o.b.
no further sales
durirg
the
war
Java 967/
Gibraltaror Channel for Orders
floatiag terms,
no yuotations.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidac
Cocoa,
Good
Middling
Red
pei
cwt,
1265.
od.
130s. od.
Cotton,
.Medium
[Fine Sea
Island,
at [.;v-
erpool
nominal
per b,
Bank
of England
rate
of
Discount
pe:
cent.
5.
Consols
52
Three
per cent
rentes
in Paris
Fes.
61.00