The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-11-26
YHE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Statue of Frederick the Great Unvei1eds
Negroes Ordered to Leave Nevada
Town-Ya1e Defeats Har-
y@rd Mt Football.

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An entire block of business houses
was destroyed at Eufaula, Ala.
ST. Louis contemplates getting its
water supply from Lake Michigan.
Twelve persons perished in tene-
ment house fire in Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Fourteen miners were killed by an
Iexplosion in a mine at Fernie, B. C.
| The chief OF police of Reno, Nev.,
ordered all negroes to leave the town.
A race war was threatened "a Frazer,
Ia, becausefa a negro shot white man.
The Missouri state building at the
ST. Louis worlds fair was destroyed
by fire.
/ An Important improvement of the
long distance telephone has been an
nonnced.
Andrew Carnegie offered $40, 1000 for
a separate library for negroes al At
lanta, Ga.
The Japanese are negotiating with o
Californian for an airship for war
purposes.
Jewels worth SlUO, ,UOO were stolen
from Mrs. Carolyn D. Alexander in
New York.
Two passengers were killed and nine
hinjured in a railroad wreck at Elm-
dale, Mich.
! Yale won the annual football game
from Harvard last Saturday by the
score Of u to O.
Russia will probably have several
battleships built in the United States
during next year.
George Gould accidentally shot an
attendant in the eye while hunting near
High Point, N. G.
In a street car accident at Toronto
nine pers ons were killed and dozen
others were injured.
The Chicago Subway Company. with
a capital OF $50, 900, 900, was ineorpo-
rated at Trenton, N. j.
The pay wagon of Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers circus was robbed OF
$50, ,00e at Tarboro, N. G. g
Col. w. c. P. Breckenridge. noted
author and congressman from Ken
lucky, died at Lexington.
Andrew Carnegie and others are
planning the establishment OF large
university at Pittsburg, Pa.
A gas explosion in Chicago re-
suited in the death of four persons and
the injury of score of others.
More than 10000 men have been put
to work in New York as the result OF
an increase in railroad business.
More than three thousand home
seekers have settled on the bay shore
near Mobile IN the past few months.
An automobile accident near Los
| Angeles, Cal, caused the death OF one
person and the injury OF two others.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick authorized
a denial Of the statement that she in-
ptended to go on the lecture platform.
A mob formed to attack the jail and
lynch three prisoners at Lexington,
KY, but was dispersed without trou-
| BILE.
| The feseral grand jury at ] Jackson,
Miss, has returned total Of eighteen
indictments against men for whites
Gaping.
| The statue OF Frederick the Great,
presented to the American people by
Emperor William, was unveiled at
| Washington.
Frank +. Heeker, member of the
Panama canal commission, resigned
because he could not stand the 18TH
mian climate.
4 Forty three men. charged with com
| plicity in the blowing-up of the depot
at independence, Col, were dismissed
at Cripple Creek.
The New York Journal of Com
merce, after a telegraphic canvass,
published a cotton crop estimate OF
| Il, ,275, 900 bales.
The annual report of the postoffiee
department shows that s67. .931, 43O was
expended In transporting inland mail
| during the year.
The Italian ambassador at w ash
| ington has been authorized to sign an
arbitration treaty between she United
States and Italy.
| Naval estimates for the fiscal year
Pending June 30, 1906, aggregate s114,-
$50, 1888, an increase OF 81, ,372, ,448 over
the last appropriation.
William Moore was killed at Lex
, ington, KY, by three negroes. An eff
effort to lynch the negroes was de-
feated by an Odd Fellow.
A Bay Shore train, going forty
miles an hour, ran into an open switch
five miles from Mobile. The fireman
and one passenger were badly hurt.
The American Federation of Labor,
in session at San Francisco, voted in
favor OF excluding the japanese in the
same way the Chinese are excluded
under the present law.
The Anti-saloon League, which held
its annual convention at Columbus,
O., declared against the army canteen.
The next meeting of the organization
will be held in Indianapolis.