The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-11-19
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Strength of the Army-Young Californian
Accused of Terrible Crtme-Another
Battleship Observation-Disclosures
GUS Railroad Wrecks.

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Snow was reported in Georgia, South
Carolina and Tennessee.
The battleship New Jersey was
launched at Quincy. Mass.
President Roosevelt will visit the
St. Louis exposition Nov. 20.
Real estate men in New York organ
lied to suppress incendiarism.
Gen. Andre, minister Of war, has re-
signed from the French cabinet.
George Lenox W Watson, the noted
yacht designer. died at Glasgow.
DR.. Wiley, the government chemist,
will investigate cold storage foods.
Southern tobacco planters organ
lied an association at Lynehburg, Va.
Leo Fleischmann, 16-year-old boy,
has mysteriously disappeared in New
York.
Brazil is seeking loan OF $50, ,0o0,- :
600 to strengthen the navy Of the
country.
Commissioner OF Pensions Ware has
rendered his resignation to President
Roosevelt.
One person was killed and ten in
jured ii q railroad wreck at South
Mound, Kan.
A passenger Grain was ditched at
Cochran, Ca, and thirteen persons
were injured.
Three alleged white-capers were in
dicted by the federal grand jury at
Jackson, Miss.
Judge Alton B. Parker will move to
New York city and take up the
practice Of law.
The German kaiser is again i'll and
another surgical operation has be-
come necessary.
Sugar planters of Mexico decided to
export a large part Of the surplus OF
the crop OF 1905.
Isidor Rush, the actress, died of
heart failure while bathing in the surf
at San Francisco.
The sum OF s5, 200, 600 was set sside
for the purpose of double-traeking the
Siberian Railway.
The American Federation OF Labor
began a two weeks session IN San
Francisco Monday.
Twelve negroes are reported TO have
died from eating poisoned ice cream
at Cedar Lake, Ala.
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and twenty were injured az the result
of fire in New York.
Eleven persons were killed and twelve
or fifteen injured in a railroad wreck
at Azusa, Wyoming.
r. L. Irby and s. A. Phillips fought
duel with pistols near Columbia, 8.
c., and both were killed.
Congress may pass a law prohibit
Ing the org anizations OF unions among
government employees.
Fred. Tharpe was killed and Frank
Christian was fatally wounded IN a
knife duel at Macon, Ca.
Gen. Wade, commander Of the
Philippine division, reported that
cholera had disappeared from the
islands.
Preliminary reports to the bureau
of statistics at W Washington Indicate q
corn yield in 1904 Of 2.453, ,ooo.00
bushels.
The LaWson-McGee library was de-
stroyed by fire at Knoxville, Tenn.
Several members of the fire depart
ment were hurt.
4 steamboat company, capitalized at
81, 600. 900, is being organized at Gin
cinnati to control the Ohio river and
New Orleans trade.
A monument erected to the memory
OF men from Maine who died in prison
during the civil war was unveiled at
Andersonville, Ga.
Hon. Harvie Jordan, of Monticello,
Ca, president of the Southern Cotton
Growers Association, advises planters
to market cotton slowly.
The annual report of Gen. AIMS
worth, military secretary of the army,
shows the strength of the army to be
1871 officers and 68,s46 men.
A motion for new trial was made
in the case of former Mayor McCue,
Of Charlottesville, Va, who was con-
victed of numbering his wife.
TheTwe1fth National Irrig gation Con-
gress met at El Paso, Tex, during the
week and transacted business Of much
importance to the country at large.
The thieves who robbed the bank at
Cody, Wyo., two weeks ago held up a
saloon and gambling house at Their
mopo1is, Wyo., and got safely away.
Major Leonard Hay, retired officer
ofthe United States army and a brother
of Secretary of State John Hay. died
at w Warsaw, Ill, in the SEVENTEEN year
of his age.
Adolph Weber is under arrest at
Auburn, Cal, charged with numbering
his father, mother, brother and sister
and burning their home IN order to
conceal his crime.
James p. Storm, county treasurer at
Prescott, Ariz., was robbed of S15, 900
by two masked men, who bound and
gagged Mr.. Storm and locked him in
the steel vault in his Office.