Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — SWETTENHAM QUITS POST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SWETTENHAM QUITS POST.

Jamaica Governor Also Apologlie* for Letter to Darla. In London Friday it was announced on unquestionable authority that Gov. Swettenham had sent an apology for his letter

to Admiral Davis to the colonial secretary, by whom it was transmitted through the foreign secretary* to the State Department at Washington. and that Gov. Swettenham had also placed his resignation in the hands of the colonial secretary. It has been freely stated in the British

colonial and other government offices'thnt it was quite impossible for Swettenham to continue, in office not only because of the incident involving the withdrawal- of the Apierican warships fr 9m Kingstori_hut also on account .of the protests against his conduct received from the inhabitants from Kingston.

GOV. SWETTENHAM.