The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-24

Cuban Sssngress ApproprIates Large sum
for Sanitation Fatal Explosion ON
Batt1eship- Plan
ming to Hold Cotton.

The postoffice at Eutaw, Ala, was
robbed of $500.
The United States senate adjourned
Wednesday for the holidays.
Three men were killed at Rosa,
Ark, as the result OF an old feud.
The sultan of Morocco he's dismissed
all his foreign military instructors.
The Cuban congress appropriated
s1e0, 900 for purposes of sanitation.
Church statistics show an increase
| of membership during the year 1904.
Russia has submitted TO the United
States new form OF arbitration
treaty.
Three firemen were killed and several
injured during the big fire at Mime
apolis.
New York was visited by snow
storm which proved the most violent
in years.
A treaty Of arbitration between the
United States and Italy was signed at
w Washington.
The entire Spanish cabinet resigned
and q new one Is being formed under
the kings direction.
Nine lives were lost by the burning
of the steamer Glen Island in Long
Island Sound, N.
-Four of the leading cotton companies
| of Canada have combined, with an ag-
gregate capital OF $40, ,o0o, 600.
An ugly condition OF affairs exists
in Poland as a result Of Russia Is mo-
bilization Of 1000 reservists.
Ice above Cairo has forced suspen-
sion OF navigation in the Mississippi
between st. Louis and Memphis.
Gold produced in the United States
| in 1908 was valued at s73, COX, goo. a de-
crease of s6, 408, 500 compared with
| 1902.
Ginners in states west OF the Missis-
sippi river organized the National
Cotton Ginners Association at Dallas,
! Texas.
| Three persons were killed and Eve
others injured by the collapse of
bridge over the Elk river at Charles
ton, w. Va.
Farmers in Georgia held mass meet-
ings at many points and decided to
hold their cotton. Reports from Texas
are Of similar import.
Spinners and manufacturers at NJ an-
chester, England, express the belief
that the limit of American cotton pro-
duetion has been reached.
Four mora men died from drinking
wood alcohol at Beaver, KY, making
a total Of ten deaths. Two others are
reported in dying condition.
The proposition to appropri ate $780,
900 TO improve the New Orleans harbor
is not favorably considered by the
rivers and harbors committee.
The navy department opened bids
for the construction Of the battleship
New Hampshire and the armored
cruisers North Carolina and Montana.
Textile workers at Fall River, Mass,
decided to submit the whole question
i Ia lily StE2AS W 1EblbI NtIOus#L IG GQRtoU
mIllmen are saidto be opposed TO this
/ plan.
An explosion on the batsleship Mas
sachusetts at League Island Navy
Yard resulted in the death OF three
seamen and the serious injury of two
others.
Efforts are being made to prevent
the circulation OF the ] anuary number
Of Every body's Magazine because Of
Thomas w. Lawson's attack on Henry
Fl. Rogers.
The United States supreme court
held that alimony and allowance to
wife and children was not an ordinary
debt and could not be discharged in
bankruptcy.
A resolution has been introduced
j into congress instructing the bureau of
commerce and labor 10 furnish state
ment Of the cost Of all wars from 1900
down to che present.
i The senate committee on territories
reported favorably the bill TO admis
i into the union Oklahoma and Indian
4 Territories as the state of Oklahoma.
and the Territories Of Arizona and
New Mexico as the state Of Arizona. q.
Citizens of Arizona are protesting
log ain the bill.