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The Chairman remarked: All mem- | bers are-eligible except 3rd Member for ; Christiansted Country District (Robt. W. | Skeoch), because he is elected by the | Board. : ? 15 voting tickets were handed in. : Elected were: 2nd Member for Fred- | eriksted Country Distriet (Curry) with | 13 votes. ! Ist Member for Frederiksted Town | (Coulter) and 2nd Member for Christian- | sted Town (“anegata) received 1 vote | respectively. | 2nd Appointed Member (Noll) took the | word and said, -Mr. Chairman. I wish | to announce that I will be absent from the Island for the next meeting of the | Colonial Couneil. | There being no further business before the House the Chairman declared the | meeting closed at 2.30 p. m. I R RR R RR S TRR R R l It is with profoundest regret we an- 3 nounce the death of Miss AsTA EUGENIE i OGAARD. 17 years of age, second daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs. A H. @gaard, which occurred by drowning yesterday after- | noon in the bay of Estate Southgate Farm where a-small family gathering spent the day, some of the young folk indulging in sea bathing. It would ap- | pear that the unfortunate young lady lost her tooting in a treacherous shoal and fell into deep water where none of the | party could venture being upable to | swim. This is one of the saddest ac- | cidents on recent record. and our fullest sympathy is felt for the bereaved pa- ; rents, and relatives in their great afflic- | tion. { The fureral will take place from! Colquhioun Mt. Pleasant to Frederiksted | at 3.30 this afternoon. | iOCAL. ? During the absence of the Director of | Police on furlough in the States, the | popular Senior District Chief Espersen | acts as Director for St. Croix. Catle advice received from St. Thomas | reports a victory for the St. Thomas | Club in the football match played there | yesterday against the Dreadnought No. ( 1 of this town. : e e | The serial ‘'The Secret Kingdom’” was | continued in very interesting parts last | night. On Thursday the concluding pro- | gramme will be presented. ‘g Labour Day, yesterday, was very | quietly observed, the display of flags | being about all the outward evidence | in the town of the day’s importance. TELEGRA MS. ’ ST. CROIX STATION. Logan, W. Va., Aug. 3lst.—Airplanes today distributed copies of Mr. Harding’s 51 LRI 1X A YIS proclamation throughout this distriet. Thousand ~ were printed here last night. Friend and foe alike read the pamphlets eontaining the President’s command that all persons engaged in ‘‘lnsurrectionary Proceedings’ disperse and return to their homes at or before noon Thursday Sept. Ist. Flying eastward, the planes crossed Boome and part of Kanawha county dropping the circulars. At dawn the sgpruce ridge guard reported ‘"All Well’’. Later reports trom the south- western (i°r of counties were that eciti- zens and legionaries were being formed into companies: and would rush to the assistance of Logan if it was thought they were needed. Berlin, Aug. 31st. -Field Marshal Gen- eral Von Baclow. who was Commander- in-Chief ors the German second army dur- ing the war, died here today. London, Aug. 3lst. -The King, iu re- ply to an address f om the convocation of Canterbury, says. ‘‘Let as thank God that some measure of response has beer vouchsafed to my appeal to my Irish p.o- ple. With full heart I pray that their reconciiiation may be consummaie! by the deiiberations now proceeding and they may be united in making a new era for their native land”’. Athens, aug. 3lst. The vficial silence was broken (oday by a communique an- nouncing t .at as er seven days of des- perate fighiing on strongly fortified heights nortn or the river Scheuk and Katrandji, on alin2 sixty kilomeires in extent, the iurks have given way and have begun a ratreat to the northeast. The Greck troops are in c'ose pursuit. Harrisbur , [il., Aug. 31si.—The bod- ies of 11 minzrs were recovered tonight from the Harco Mine, followiag an ex- plosion tanis afternoon. More than 4 000 men nid o:2n working, but had bheen warned and escaped when dyna nite broke iowa the wall of the old room, releasing blackdamp. Seven men who escaped the explosior, but are suffering from the effects of blackdamp, were taken to local hospitals, it is believed they will reenver. Volunteer rescue teams were organized by miners but their efforts were tutile. A special train bearing a U. S. Buredu Car was disp2tch- ed to themife within an hour after the accident. "Flie mine will be sealed to- morrow by state authorities. London, Sept. Ist.—The King, in re- ply to an address from the ~onvocation of Canterbury refers to the conference of the Dominion Premiers, wherein His Majesty says: ‘‘lfeel a just pride to have seen the Premiers of my domin- ions assembled together, [ rest assur- ed that their broad representative states- manship wiil prove cqual to the gr:at task before them”’. London, Sept. Ist.—That a capitalist boss was behind the importation of Chi- nese into Canada and the United King- dom was the opinion expressed by a ma- gistrate at Pontypridd, Wales, yester- day, when, three Chinamen, charged with landing without permission of the immigration office Liverpool, were or- dered to be detained with a view to ar ranging for their deportation. The ma- gistrate declared that a great amount was being given to secure the services of these Chinese on the Pacific Coast and along the coast of Kngland. The co rt, he said, wanted to get at this boss. A huge business was being done in this way in British Qolumbia, and certain Chinamen were making fortunes very rapidly by getting young Chinamen into Englund. Loundon, Sept. Lst.—A de<tateh to the Daiiy Mail from Calcutta says the po- lice in the Punjab bove discovered a conspiracy among the Sikhs to overthrow the British Govt and assassinate Eu ropeans. The despatch adds that the prosecution of the alleged conspirrey will be undertaken. Dublin,Sept.lst. —The reply of the Irish. republic cabinet ro the latest communi- cation of Mr. Lloyd George on the Govt’s. peace propcsal was despatched today o Mr. Lloyd George who isin Scotland. The publicity department of the Sinn Fein will await the announce- ment of its receipt by Mr. Lloyd George before making its contents known or is- suing a statement concerning it. The reply is being taken te Mr. Lloyd George by Robert G. Barton, member of the Irish republican parliament, who has act- ed as courier for Eamon Ile Valera in his other eommuni-ations to the Pre- mier. It is reported here that tho ecabi- net’s reply was rediafted since an Jout- hreak of rioting iv Belfast. Odenbuirg, Burgenland, Sept. Ist. Lieui. Hejjas and other turbulent ele- ments have been expelled from West Hungary by the Hungarians. Two free- booters have been shot by the regular troops, who are mainiaining complete order in Odenburg. The Hungarian Govt justifies the postponement of the trans- fer of Odenburg and the second Zone nf West Hungary to Austria by the al- leged failure of the Austrian to enter into obligations to indemnify the state for property taken over, to retaim Hun- garian officials and to take over a propor- tionate part of the Hungarian war loan. Calicut, India, Aug. 31st.—In order to avoid the possibility of vielation of the Mosque at Marurangari, where the lebels are entrenched, the authorities have de- cided to erect barricades around the building and starve out the rebels, the Calicu and Molabar districts are quiet throughout. Geneva, Sept. Ist. - The dispute be- tween Poland and Lithuania regarding Vilna was settled by the representatives of the two countries here tnls morning, They agreed that there should be two Lithuanias. one the district of Kovno, which shall be independent, znd the other Vilna, in which the Poles will supervise the administration.