The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-10
NO. Is.
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Governments Estimate of Cotton Crop
Causes a slump in the Market-De-
crease in Isnmigration-Nu-
merous Fatal Fires.

The Servian cabinet has resigned.
! Snow was reported at Ell Paso, Tex.
A sailor died Of the plague in
London.
| Ohio's wheat crop has been damaged
| by drouth.
! An earthquake shock was felt in
California.
| There are sixteen candidates for
president in Cuba.
| The armored cruiser Tennessee was
launched at Philadelphia.
| Several persons were injured in
theatre panic at Norfolk, Va.
| About $50 persons we're injured in
railroad wreck at Holden, Mo.
| President Diaz, of Mexico, was in
Gngurated for the seventh time.
| The strike Of mi8ers in the Telluride,
ICol., district has been declared of.
| Gen. James N. Tyner, former post
master general, died in Washington.
Texas farmers are still determined
to hold their cotton for rise IN price.
Eleven men were hurt, six seriously,
in an explosion at Cabin Creek, w.
Va.
Three persons were burned to death
in rooming-house fire at Denison,
Tex.
Two negro women and negro baby
were fatally burned at Montgomery,
Ala.
New York financiers have organized
a bank that will be kept open day and
night.
Two of the Lincoln county, Miss,
White-eaps have confessed and pleaded
guilty.
The courthouse Of Covington county
at Williams burg, Miss, was destroyed
by fire.
The strike of cotton mill operatives
at Fall RiveR, Mass. is becoming
more acute.
Charges OF corruption Ia awarding
certain premiums at the worlds fair
have been made.
The second trial OF Nan Patterson
for the naRrder Of Cesar Young began
in New York Monday.
Russians are coming to the United
States in great numbers, according to
| immigration officials.
The steamer ST. Paul may have to
pay duty OF $3.50, 200 on repairs made
to the ship at Belfast.
Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, the
Oldest actress on the American stage,
died suddenly at Chicago.
Commissioners OF immigration sar-
gent reported a decrease in ianmigra-
| tion during the last fiscal year.
Two members of the Panama Canal
Commission will officially supervise
work On the canal after Jan. 1.
aHuckleberry Finn II and aTorn
Sawyer = have been excluded from the
public library at Des Moines, Iowa.
An effort to organize q telephone
trust, involving capital estimated at
s70o, 900, coo, is being made IN Chicago.
Three persons were injured and
$3.50, 600 worth OF property destroyed
IN New York by gasoline explosion.
One 0sn lost his life and several
patients were hurt in fire at the
Missouri Baptist saIitarium il Sc.
Louis.
Women's clubs at Forth Worth,
Tex, are indignant because telegraph
company has employed girls as mes
sengers.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has accepted
| the position of adjutant general on
the staff of Gov. Douglas of Massa-
chusetts.
The Chicago Wrecking Company
bought all the property OF the Louisi-
| ana Purchase Exposition Company
for $500, 600.
John Harrison Wagner, we'll
known writer and member OF 8 wealthy
| Australian family, committed suicide
| in New York.
A panic was caused in New York
theatre by cry Of FIRE, but the audi
ence managed to leave the building
without mishap.
LIE 0lusrenceS between pal anna and
the United States were settled as a
result Of the visit of Secretary Taft to
the new republic.
d The annual report OF the director of
the mints shows the largest coinage
output on record at Philadelphia, San
| Francisco and New Orleans.
A bill was introduced in Congress
providing for a committee to inquire
into the cost of presidential campaigns
from 1892 TO 1904. inclusive.
| The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
at St. Louis was officially closed on
Dec. /. The work of dismantling the
great fair has already begun.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Bristow recommended the appro-
priation OF $500, 900 for the purpose of
extending the rural free delivery
service.
The governments estimate of the
cotton crop places the yield at r.
| 162, 900 bales. A big slump in the
/ cotton market followed the annonnea-
ment of this estimate.
The secretary OF the thtreasury sub
mittedan estimate to congress calling
! for S619, ,669, ,s52 for the fiscal year en- d
/ ing June 5. 1906, as against S6I4, ,54s. .937
for the current fiscal year.