The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-24
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Huntsville Grand Jury Returns Twentyr
SIX Indictments for Lynehing Death
of Prince Bismarck Miiitta
Charged with Cowartlice.

Confidence men snatched s1l 900 from
| man in New York.
Football has been barred at Luther
College, Racine, Wis.
Swiss scientists have discovered that
blue rays Of light are anRsthetic.
About II 900 strikers have been re-
employed at the Chicago stock yards.
Ii Is reported from Shanghai that
money is being raised in southern
| China to start another Boxer move-
ment.
The worlds fair jurors awarded
Mississippi the grand prize for her
cotton exhibit.
j. Samuel McCue. ex.mayor of
Charlottesville, Va, was indicted for
killing his wife.
| NIB. Turner, an aged confederate
soldier, was gored TO death By an OK
near Helena, Ark.
Assessment rolls from fifty-two
counties in Mississippi show an IN
crease OF 81, ,oO0, 900.
The Italian government dispatched
1000 troops to Genoa on account OF
labor disturbances.
A panic was caused IN the Chicago
wheat pit By break of II cents in the
price OF May wheat.
Plans to make the Panama canal
forty feet deep instead of thirty-five
feet are being discussed.
The boil weevil-destroying ants from
Guatemala are prosperlng IN Texas
and increasing in number.
Three white men and three negroes
were killed in row that started over
a crap game near Cairo, Ell.
The treasury department reports an
active demand in the south for silver
dollars and subsidiary coins.
Antonio Lomonaco was placed un-
der bond Of $1,000 al Mobile, Ala,
for passing counterfeit money.
The ninety-fourth anniversary Of
Mexican independence was deliberately
celebrated IN the City of Mexico.
The German naval program pro-
vides for thirty EIGHT battleships and
a proportionate number of cruisers.
The investigation of the condnct Of
the militia at Huntsville, Ala, has
brought out charges of rank coward
| ice.
The report of the commissioner Of
immigration shows that 81 ,9a9 aliens
were landed In this country during
July.
/ The day Of atonement was marked
| In London by rioting in the jewish
quarter, orthodox Jews attacking 500
&cialistic Jews.
4 The Troquois Memorial Association
appealed TO the Chicago clergy TO
protest against the opening Of the
{ Troquois theater.
Twelve persons were injured, several
probably fatally, In wreck On the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad at Chicago.
Capt. Brownson, superintendent OF
Annapolis Naval Academy, declared
the American system of naval educa-
tion superior to any OF the European
systems.
! Commander Peary announced thata Q
contract had been signed for the con-
6bruetion OF new ship with which he
will make another attempt to reach
the north pole.
Il was reported that six weIl-known
citizens OF Huntsville, Ala, had dis
appeared on account Of the grand
iury's Investigation of the recent
iIYnching OF Horace Naples.
i The cry Of fight, mistaken for CRY
i of fire, caused panic among 5000
Hebrews assembled IN Progressive
Hall, New York. With much trouble
the police and fremen ayerted q
calamity.
Prince Herbert Bismarck, the eldest
son of the late Prince Otto Bismarck,
the great chancellor of the German
empire, died at Friedrichsruhe, aged
fifty-five years. He leaves an estate
valued at 81, ,000, 900, exclusive of tina
. lands.
The special grand jury which vas
impaneled to investigate the lynch
ing OF Horace Naples at Huntsville,
Z! Ala, returned twenty six indictments
and recommended the Impeaehmens OF
the mayor, sheriff and chief Of police,
charging those officials with gross
: dereliction OF duty ID falling so prn.
tect the negro prisoner.