, 1908-01-15
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.
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ofthe Panama Canal by one hundred million
dollars. approximately to a quarter billion OF
dollars.
The United States Government has init
mated to Japan that unless it restricts emf
grafton according to engagements which are
now being violated, it will incur the danger
of Congress passing an exclusion law.
INFORMATION has been supplied Japan OF
the manner in which the maladminis-
tration of Japan's laws ss,promotes ar
rivals in the United States. Japan has
renewed her assurances of restriction
with a request for a stipulation against
action by Congress, but this the United
States will refuse, although the Administra-
ton will use its influence proportionately
with Japan's success in the restriction OF en-
igration.
A Paris telegram says that M. Millevoye,
q member of the Chamber of Deputies, has
published a sensational appeal to England .
and France to intervene in the American
Japanese crisis, before any orgy of blood
should make the world shudder. Europe's
interests are identical with those of the
United States, and United States sentiment
is not apprehensive, the crisis being believed
more remote, not nearer, and Japan is
thought to be as friendly and
dating as Mr.. Lemieux reports.
New York, Jan. 1lth.-The United States
torpedo fotilla arrived at Pernambuco five
days behind it's schedule. kilograms from Rio
Janeiro report festivities each day the feet
remains there, from the eleventh till the
t~wenty-frst.
The Jury for the trial of Harry Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White has b. en- COM
pleted.
Trinidad 11th-Two more cases of yellow
fever, one fatal, we're officially reported yes
terday to have occurred here.
st. Kits 18th The following gentlemen left
here by mail today to attend the agricultu-
raj conference at Barbados. FL. Ell. the Ad-
ministrator, the Hon. S. L.. Horsford and
Messrs. Adamson and Shepherd.
London, Jan. 13th.-At Barnsley, York
shire, on Saturday, sixteen persons were
killed and several others are dying among
scores who were injured in a mad rush to
obtain better seats at a cinematograph show
at the Harvey Institute. Every seat was
filed and the aisles and galleries were
crowded, and to relieve the crush in the
galleries an usher shouted directions to come
down stairs. A struggle then occurred be-
tween the ascending and descending crowds,
Resulting in the banisters being pushed
over end falling into the stairwell with
Adozens of people piled in a suffocating mass,
leaving dead and wounded piled together
~0aisclininately. The show, however, pro
eeeded, the audience being kept in igno-
rance of the catastrophe.
The inquiry into the disappearance of
the State regalia from Dublin Castle is
proceeding secretly, Sir Arthur Wears
being absent. The Solicitor General has
rejected the request of the Commission
to drop the investigation as being useless
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withheld in disgust at the restriction and
privacy of the investigation. To protect
himself Sir Arthur Wears wants sworn pub
lie evidence leading further than the autho-
rites desire, and suggestions are made that
the offense is of a more immoral character
than robbery.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston denies the re-
port of his intention to retire in Difference to
the growing opposition to his candidacy as
Irish representative peer, which is regarded
by his opponents as merely personal ambi-
tion and not representative of Irish interests.
It is expected that litigation will take
place to prevent the transfer of the control
of the Times.
"A despatch from Lahore announces that
the drought in the Punjab has broken, and
the threatened famine has thereby been
averted.
A Pretoria telegram states that Mr..
SHUTS, the Colonial Secretary. has refused
to receive a delegation to protest against
the sentences inflicted for noncompliance
with the Registration Law. Mass meetings
have been held at Pretoria and Johannes
burg, and resolutions adopted sthat the in
human sentences are welcomed as a test of
Indian suffering, but for the sake of the
Empire and humanity, we deplore them, and
will cOntin1a the Strr1pofe in the name of
God"
1t appears that Lord Elgin approved
the registration regulations without con-
suling the Cabinet, and in reply
to criticisms he has declared thai
rahellion was the only alternative. The