Day Adventists —their father being
a lay
preacher
of
that
persuasion—but
after
the
trial they
welcomed
the visits of the
+ Weslesan
Minister,
the
Rev.
E.
C.
Raynes,
who saw
tnem
almost
every day
between
sentence
and
execution.
They
were always attentive,
showed
signs of
penitence
and
made
full
econfession.
They
were
also
regularly
visited
by the
Seventh
Day
Adventists’
Pastor.
Both
the
men
requested
that
the
Rev.
E.
C,
Raynes
should
attend
them
at
the
last
and
accompany
them
to
the
gallows.
- Acceding
to the request
the minister
en-
tered
the condemned
cell about forty-five
ninutes
before
the fatat hoar and
a most
.mpressive
service
was
conducted.
At 7.55a.
m.
the
men
were
quickly
pinioned.
Evelyn
walked firmly anad®almost
bold-
ly
to
the
scaffold
and
took
the
place
allotted
to him; but the
younger
brother,
Hiiton,
was glad of
assistance
from
the
vinister
and
special
Constables.
The
i’
knot® of
necessary
officials
and
ot,
ers
kKept tense
silence, only broken
by
words
‘rom the minister,
as final
prepa-
rations
were
made.
The
brothers
had
regqueste
that
the
reverend
gentleman
snould sing
the
hymn ‘I hear Thy
wel-
come
Voice.””
Standinggby
their side
on
the scaffold
as
all
was ready
he
sang
the
first
verse.
Both
men
joined
in
the
re-
frain:
‘
:
“lI arg coming Lord
Coming
Lord
to Thee,
Wash
me,
cleanse
me in the blood,
I'nat flowed on Calvary.”’
The words
of
the
second
verse
were
heard.
“Though coming weak and vile
I'nou dost
my strength
assure.”’
when
the signal
was given, the bolt
was
drawn
and
the
men
passed
to
a
higher
tribunal.
About fifteen
minutes
after
Dr.
J. Y.
wefadyen
certified
the fact
of
death
and
the
following witnesses
signed
the
eclaration
of Execution
:
The Hon’ble J. Y. MacFadyen,
Provost
Marshall;
The Hon’ble W. Camypbell Roy,
J. P.:Mr.
J. E. T. Roberts,
Clerk
fto Pro.
varshall; Rev.
E
C.
Raynes,
Wesleyan
Mxmster;%r.
G. R. Meade,
Mr.
Sydney
H Knight, Keeper
of
Prison,
S&t. Kitts;
D. Simon
Longtord,
Gaoler,
Virgin
Is-
lands.
T'he hoisting of the
black
flag
at
the
goal-gate
hy a special
Constable
and
the
tolling of the bell at the Wesleyan
Church
opposite
the prison,
gave
the
announce-
ment
to
an
anxious
crowd
outside
the
Prison
that
the
Execution
had
taken
place.
—St. Thomas MailNotes, July 16th.
-
TELEGRaMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Linden,
N.
J,
July
18th.—The
loss
from a fire which
destroyed
33 of the
34
oil tanks and
15 asphait
stills at the plant
of the
Warner Quinlan Asphalt
Co.
near
ST
CRulX AN
S
here
was
estimaied
at
three
million dol-
lars
today
by
officials
of
ithe
Coy.
In
addition
to
the
tanks
and
stills,
the
entire
plan
was
ruined,
with
the
exception
of
several
structures.
Ex-
plosions continued
throughout
the night.
Three
hundred
thousand
barrels
of
oil
were
burned,
much
of
it
flowing
in flames
over
the nearby
meadows
and
water.
While
the
fire
was
under
con-
trol today,
firemen
estimated
that
some
of the
ground
might
continue
to
burn
for
days.
Wiremen
from
Elizabeth,
Rahway and Perthamboy
worked thrvough-
out
the
night,
while
private
and
New
York City ‘reboats
patrolled
States
Is-
land Sound
to save
shi.ping
menaced
at.
times by burnirg oil that flowed
on to the
Sound
and
the
Rahway
River.
Naviga-
tion
was
stopped
over
a radius
of a mile
from the
loeal danger
point.
Some
Uni-
ted States
Shipping
Boards
vessels
tied
up at
Arlington
had
steam
up ready
to
dash
for safety.
New York, July 19th.—i'he
raw sugar
market
opened
firm and
unchanged
at
4.61 for centrifugal.
Refined
sugar
was
firmer,
with
one
leading refiner
advanc-
ing list prices
15
points
to the
pasis
of
5.90
for
fine
granulated.
Others
were
unchanged
at 5.20
to 5.76 and
a
good
in-
quiry was
reported.
Belfast,
July
19th.—'I'be
return
to
Belfast
of Sir James
Craig
and
the
mem-
bers
of his
cabinet
who
have
been
with
him
in
Londor
in
connection
with
the
Irish peace
movement,
must
not
be
tak-
en
as
a
rupture
of
lhe
negotiations,
it was
declared
today
by
Col.
Spender,
Secretary
of the delegation,
on its arrival
here.
It is thought
inideed
the delegation
will-be
called
to
London
next
week.
None of the
cabinet
members
had
any-
thing to say for
publication.
De
Valera
is regarded
by
the
Ulster
Unionists
as
a visionary and the
feeling
in
Unionists
circles here
is that
no
discussion
among
all the parties
concerned
in the Irish set-
tlement
will be possible
until he
consider-
ably
modifies
his
position.
When
Sir
James
Craig
saw the
Kepublican
leader
in Dublin
befrre the
recent
Irish Parlia-
mentary
negotiations,
the
Irish Premier
is aeclared
in
Unionist
quarters
to have
heard
a long
discourse
on
an
Irish Re
public
and
the Unionists
expressed
the
belief here
today that De Valera had
ex-
pressed
himself
similarly
in
his
inter-
views
with
Mr. Lloyd George.
Thisat-
titude of the
Ulster Premier
and his_col-
leagues,
as
expressed
by
Sir
James
in
his statement
made
in London
last night
in which he declared
that Ulster
was
de-
termined
to maintain
her present
status
with
her
own
parliament,
is
cordial-
ly approved
by
the
Belfast
Unionists
in general,
as is indicated
by their
news-
papers
organs.
There
was
never
any
other way cut of
the
negotiations
possi-
ble,
says
the
Belfast
news
letter,
ex-
cept
in
the
minds
of
thouse
who would
sacrifice
us
on
the altar or a false peace.
We
shall
have
nothing
to
do with any
settlement
terms
that
infringe
upon
or deminish
the
status
of our Parliament
and
we
base
that
attitude
on the same
ground
as
De Valera makes
his ciaim
to
selfdetermination.
On
the
other hand,
the Irish
news,
which
voices
the views
of Joseph
Devlin,
the nationalist, says.”’
if the six
special
chosen
Ulster
counties
are
to
self
-determine
themselves
into
rainous
conflict
with
the rest
of [reland
why
deny
the
elaim
of
any
country
to
selfdetermine
itgelf
out
of
gesoeciation
with
secessionists.
The
claim
insisted
on by Sir Jamres
Craig
is
on allfogrs
with
that put
forward by
the Southern
States
of
the
American
republic
60 years
ago.
This
is
a
true
and exact
parallel.
The
formula
that
Ireland
is like unto
the
se-
cessionist
state
has
been
abandoned.”
London, July 19¢h.—It is from
the
con-
cluding
paracraphs
of
the
Ulster
Pre:
miers
statement
that
the
Times
gleans
some
hope,
but
otherwise
it refers
to the
statement
as ‘‘rigid and
unyielding’’.
In
other
quarters
the
statement
is
geferred
to us
a
disagreeable
shock }whic? brings
matters
to
a
critical
stage
and
causes
a
very
unpromising
and
unpleasant
posi-
tion.
It
is pointed
cut
that De Valera
is
inflexible
in his
demand
that Ulsters
au-
tonomy
must
be derived from
an all Irish
parliament
sitting
®at
Dublin,
while
the
(Jister
leaders
are
equally
determined
that
the
Ulster
parliament
be
subor-
dinate
only
to
Great
Britain,
Several
of
this
morning’s
newspapers
agserted
that
if thls
attitude
is
persisted
in all
negotiations
must
break
down,
while
others
advance
the
belief,
that
if
the
present
conference
fails,
Parliament
may
be desolved,
and
the issue
submit-
ted
to
the
British
people
in
a general
¢ lection.
:
London, July
19th.—The
Greeks
claim
to have
taken
at Kutaia
30,000
prison-
ers
many
guns
of Russian
origin, a large
quantily of ammunition,
stores
and
ca-
mels,
according
to
a
dispatch
to
the.
Daily Mail from Smyrna.
NEW YORK, July
19th.
Flour,
Blencdead
Clears
St. Lawrence
[-rand
pr.
brl.
$8.60.
Meal, Kilndried per
100 bs
$1.95
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. S3)HO
Heavy Mess Pork
per bbl.
$24.(
Sugar---Crystals
maximum:
per
104
Ibs.
$4.50
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upland,
at
Liverpoo!
;
per
lb.
9 17-100¢.
Exchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight
$3.57
Exchange
New York
and
London,
sight
$3.59%
LONDON, - July
19th
1421.
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
per cwt.
435.
—EOs
6d.
**
DMuscavado
per cwt.
365. 6--455.6.
German
Eeet 8% f.o.b.
no
sales
White
Java
sugar
cif United
Kingdom
21s.
June
shipments.
Denmerara
Kum,
per gal.
nominal.