The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-17
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Special Grand Jury to Investigate Ala.
bama Lynching-Ne New Race Circuit
Planned Bandits Hold mp Train.
DynamIter ConSesses.

PAanned-hand1ls AoLa hp tram
Dynamiter ConSesses.
Mexico will establish legation at
Pekin.
Progresso, Mexico, was visited by 8
81 900, 900 fire.
The sale OF Mississippi's bond issus
has been closed.
The cotton boil worm is causing
alarm in Oklahoma.
The county treasury at Pomeroy, o.,
was robbed OF s14, 900.
A mob of white men deported ali the
negroes at Carlisle, Ind.
Lawrence Clifton died at the age of
LOT at Paseagou1a, Miss.
Drouth and forest fires are doing
great damage in Germany.
Heavy rains are interfering with
railroad traffic IN the west.
The new cruiser Milwaukee was
launched at San Francisco.
Forest fires are raging ii the timber
sections OF northern California.
The German government will ask the
Reiehstag to increase the army.
The bank OF Murphy, n. c., Was
robbed OF s450o by safe blowers.
Sir Thomas Lipton, Of England will
visit the worlds fair al St. Louis.
Capt. John Ewing, collector Of Gus.
toms at Mobile, Ala, has resigned.
Prince Herbert Bismarck 10 NOR
tally ii at Friedriehsruhe, Germany.
Il is estimated that Oklahoma will
produce 10000 bales OF cotton this
year.
Sir Howard Vincent, Of England,
commended the American secret serv-
ice system.
The Interpa Union asked
the world powers to intervene IN the
eastern war.
-Four persons were killed and thirty
five injured in railroad wreck near
Monroe, s. G.
The ninth convention of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen was held
at Buffalo.
4 new race circuit, with tracks at
New Orleans, st. Louis and Chicago,
is being planned.
Announcement was made that Ad-
miral schley would shortly publish
his autobiography.
The sale OF earbolic acid except on
aphysician s prescription has been for
hidden in New York.
Five bandits held up a Rock Island
train near Let's, Ia, and rifed the
express safe OF its contents.
Peace negotiations between tha Par.
aguayan government and the revo1u-
tfonists have been resumed.
A labor leader at Louisville declared
q strong sentiment favored drawing
the color line in unionism.
Six persons were burned to death
and six others seriously injured in d
tenement FIRE in New York.
Only five states replied TO Secretary
Taft's circular offering service In
struction to officers of the national
guard.
England's new treaty with Thibet,
signed Sept. 7, recognizes the suze-
rainty OF China and does not annex
any territory.
Assistant engineer Calvin hasnaned
three New Orleans and three Missis.
sippi men as his assistants On the
! Panama canal work.
The butchers strike at Chicago vas
brought to an end The packers an-
nouneed that they would take as many
OF the men back as possible.
Twelve negroes were arrested by
railroad detectives in Sussex county.
Va, for organizing a rough riders
club to rob and burn houses.
Two negro members of Before Day y
clubs confessed q Athens, Ca, that
six white men in Clark county had
been marked for assination.
i b. f. slagel, alias Robert Romaine,
under arrest at Toreka, Kan, confessed
to completely il the dynamite outrages
last June at Cripple Creek, Col. sla-
/ gel duplicates twelve other men.
A special grand jury will investigate
the lynehing of the negro at Hunta-
vile, Ala. Gov. Cunningham has
called upon Capt. Hays OF the militia
to explain his conduct and that of h;l
troop.