The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-10
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Negro Lynched for Murder in Alabama.
Labor Day Celebratea-Big Fire In
Memphis-War Correspond
ents Coming Home.

was robbed.
The latest census of France shows a
population of SO. .961 ,945.
4 Labor Day was celebrated through
out the country last Monday.
/ Seven prisoners sawed their way out
of the county Jail at Memphis.
| Two thousand packing house strik-
ers returned TO work at Omaha.
Street car telephones were installed
by company at Pittsburg, Pa.
/ The Mexican Railway proposes to
change from steam to electricity.
Forty thousand men marched in the
Labor Day parade at New York.
Trouble is feared between Panama
and Colombia over the border line.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin refused
to welcome England Is channel feet.
Thegrand encampment OF she knights
Templar was held in San Francisco.
Charles Finney CLARK, president OF
the Bradstreet company, died in Lon
daon.
| Il is estimated that up to date the
war has cost Russia 272. 600, 900 rou-
bles.
Fire in the wholesale district at
Memphis destroyed property valued at
$500, 1000.
Seven men were convicted for at-
tempting to lynch q negro at Dam
vile, Va.
Three OF the men who have been
taking part in bull fights In ST. Louis
| were arrested.
The jewish year book shows the
Hebrew population OF the United States
to be I,253. .21s.
Another Italian boy has disappeared
in New York, and the Black Hand''
society is suspected.
Mrs. ]. Samuel McCue was shot
and killed by robber at her home in
Charlottesville, Va.
Seven persons were killed and
twenty-five injured in street car
accident in ST. Louis.
The Trades Union Congress, In sas-
sion at Leeds, England, adopted reso-
lutions in favor of free trade.
Five yachtsmea were drowned In
Lake Erie, near Cleveland, by the
eapsizing OF a naptha launch.
The cotton mills In New England
that shut down some time ego are be-
ginnining to resume operations
The Methodist congregation st
statesboro, Ca, condemned the recent
negro burning In strong language.
Labor Day broke the record for at-
tendance at the worlds fair, 2o7, ,454
persons passing through the gates.
It was stated il Chicago that 25, ,597
striking meat cutters voted TO remain
out and 24oS voted to return to work.
Four passengers were killed and
more than thirty injured in q wreck
on the Wabash road near Pendleton,
Mo.
The wheat yield in w Washington. Ore
gon and Idaho is estimated at Is, ,1Oo.-
900 bushels, against "a, ,7eo, 900 last
year.
William 3. Neal, under Indictment
for murder at Louisville, KY, shot
and killed his wife and then committed
suicide.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
county treasurer at Yadkinsville, N.
G., and secured between 1000 and
SIG, 900.
Two thousand men were killed and
1000 wounded in . fight between revo-
lutionists and the government forces in
Uruguay.
A house occupied By two negro
women at Jacksonville, Fla, was
blown up With dynamite. The women
escaped injury.
Rudyard Kipling's suggestion 10
make the general public liable to serve
in the navy has aroused adverse COM
ment in England.
@. B. Spahr, d magazine editor OF
New York, disappeared from the
steamer Prince Albert midway between
Ostend and Dover.
Miss Matte Atkinson, aged eighteen,
OF Marlin, Tex, died as the result OF
q bite from some insect, presumed to
have been eentipede.
9 A negro who murdered white wo.
man at Bronson, Fla, was hanged BY
a mob after his ears were cropped and
he was otherwise mutilated.
Five persons were killed and five
seriously injured by the premature
explosion Of nitrog1ycerine at an oil
we'll at Upper Sandusky. Q.
The American consul at Harpnt re-
ported to the state department that
$500 Armenians had been massacred,
or died from exposure, in Bitlis.
Minister Barrett reported to WASH
ington that Panama Is already crowd
ed, and warned persons against go-
ing TO the canal zone for this reason,
The jail was fred at Huntsville.
Ala, and Horace Naples. negro &C.
eused Of killing John Waldrop, an old
peddler, was lynched. The Jail was
badly damaged by the fire.
A number OF prominent war CORES
pondents, disappointed because they
we're not permitted TO get nearer than
four miles OF the fighting line, deserted
the second japanese army and will
return home.