The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-13
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Frightful Railroad wreck in Colorado.
Sensational Suicide ofa Mississippi
Woman-support for strik-
ing Butchers.
A revolution is threatened in Para

4 A revolution is threatened in Para
quay.
a fire at strasbourg caused s., ,50o,-
4 900 damage.
English exports have decreased at
an alarming rates
/ Former Premier W Rousseau,
of France, is dead.
Wheat in the New York market went
above the dollar mark.
| The wealth of Russell Sage is es-
timated at s176, ,0o0. 900.
England has invited bids for two
16, ,500-ton battleships.
General Rafael Reyes assumed the
| presidency Of Colombia.
Forest fires near st. John, n. r.,
have caused $40, ,o0O, 600 loss.
Immigrants from Ellis Island were
put to work in Chicago packing plants.
Russell Sage eharacteristically spent
his 88sh birthday by working all day.
The annual encampment of the G.
A. r. will begin at Boston next Mon
day.
A new SIC, ,ooo, ,ooo coal combination
is in process of formation at Pitts
burg.
Boil weevils are reported to have
made their appearance in North Car
o1ina.
The saint day of the dowager en-
press was ally observed through
out Russia.
Mrs. Carrie Nation gave s1f50 to
the Home for the Wives of Drunkards,
OF Topeka, Kas.
The Porte has promised to give q
satisfactory reply to the American de-
mands in a day or two.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate President Ordenez, of
Uruguay, at Montevideo.
American merchants now have upon
the seas SO, 500, 900 worth of goods
consigned to Russia and Japan.
Heavy rains are flooding and de-
stroying the cotton and corn in the
neighborhood OF Trenton, Miss.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet thought she had
been robbed Of ieweiry worth saoo, 900
at Newport, but it was later found in
her sofa.
Daniel 5. sully 6 Co. informed
their creditors that they would be- un-
able to carry out the compromise
agreement.
At the invitation of President Roose-
velt, eight Igorrote chiefs went from
the world 8 fair on visit to the
White House.
A number OF persons were injured,
none fatally, by the derailment OF the
Meteor, fast Frisco passenger train,
at Vinita, T. r.
Trainmen on the Southern Railway
near Richmond, Va, refused to handle
a mail car because a negro postal
clerk was inside.
The Zfegler relief expedition did
not succeed in reaching the steamer
America, having on board the Ziegler
Arctic exploration party.
The Panama Canal Commission has
given a rush order for 2, 200, 900 feet
Of lumber, mostly cypress. This is the
second order for lumber for the canal.
In a public address at Chicago,
Rev. ]. Edward Kirbye, OF Atlanta,
Ca, declared that the only way to
save the negro was TO separate the
races.
Il is believed that Mrs. Florence
Maybrick win leave France for Amer
lea in short time, because of the un-
pleasant notoriety she is attracting at
Rouen.
The twenty third annual convention
OF the Supreme Lodge, 4. of P, and
the biennial eneampment of the uni
form rank will begin at Louisville,
KY, next Monday.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor,
300, 900 strong, has pledged moral and
financial support to the idle meat
workmen, and has assessed each mem
Der to support the strikers.
The japanese government has IS
sued treasury bills to the amount of
10, ,0oo,o yen, payable December Is.
i The issue has no relation to the war
finances OF the government.
A head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Louisville and
/ Nashville Railroad, near Horse Cave,
KY, resulted in the injuring OF thirty
tWo passengers and four Ir ainmen.
Il Mrs. Annie Miller McCargo, of
EOliYe Branch, Miss, while insane
/ with grief over the recent sudden death
Eof her husband, committed suicide III
4 frightful manner. She saturated her
hair and clothing with kerosene, and,
proceeding to the principal street in
the town, struck a match and applied
i the blaze. When horrified spectators
attempted to assist her she fought
them off, and the burns she received
caused her death in terrible agony d
few hours later.
The World % Fair Flyer. a fast pas
senger train On the Denver and Rio
II Grande Railroad, plunged through q
bridge seven miles north of Pueblo.
3 Col, and over one hundred people
q lost their lives in the wreck. Thus FAR
: eighty bodies have been identified ont
of eighty-two recovered. and the list
u of missing aggregates thirty-tWo. The
cause of the accident " as the weaken
{ ing of the bridge by recent heavy