The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-27
He WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Tornado sweeps Over Twin cities-Mar4
flar Mystery Cleared up-snit
for Heavy Damages-Quiet
Again at statesbero.
Three counterfeiters were arrested at

Atlanta.
The Galveston sea waIl has been
completed.
| Great Britain and Austria are nego.
tiating an arbitration treaty.
Several lives were lost So the results
of cloudburst at Globe, A. r.
Nineteen persons were injured in
street car accident at ST. Louis.
Prince Obolensky assumed the of1lee
of governor general OF Finland.
Two persons were killed and ten In
jured by a tornado at Venice, I'll.
August Anderson died Ia Chicago
from the effects Of mosquito bite. ].
Alfred Knoop, murderer Of i've We-
men, was eleetrocuted at Columbia, @.
England will make renewed efforts
to secure increased trade with Canad &.
The United States governments will
establish q large dry dock at Panama.
Mrs. Mary E, Fuller, wife OF Chief
Justice Fuller, died st Sorrento, HE.
Flour advanced thirty cents barrel
in Baltimore on account Of high wheat
prices.
Wireless fire alarm systems Will Be
established in the governments foress
reserves.
The arrival Of the drst foreign cargo
at Gulfport, Miss, was celebrat by
q banquet.
Extensive violations of the customs
laws have been unearthad In San
Francisco.
.. B. Bennett shot and killed his
wife at Brnnson, S. O., mlstakine her
for q burglar.
England will establish nava1 sta
tfon ard improve the fortIdcations at
Kingston, ] jamaica.
Forty-fiye persons were Injured ia
wreck On the Rock Island Railroad,
near TRENTON Mo. .
a negro jury has been selectea to
try case at PlaIndald, in which
the defendant is 3 negro.
Postal charges on mafl from thS
United States to Europe mag Is re-
duced from i've to tvo eents.
Jim Glover, q negro, was shot TO
death and his body burned st CEDAR
town, Co., for criminal assault.
All United States troops, wish the
exception of the artillery corps, will
be furnished with new uniforms.
Railroad managers in Chicago ars
trying to secure 5000 cotton pickers
For Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Cyclonic conditions In tbs aorth-
vest forced September options up DO
3. p in the Minneapolis wheat mar
get.
The s25, 600 due an American citizen
or land Illegally seized at Smyrna
aas been deposited in the Ottoman
Bank.
Live stock receipts for July show 4
decrease of 1000. 900 head, compared
sitn the receipts Of the same month
asst year.
w. w. Rsinbolt, marshal OF Forest
5itY, Ark, was shot and killed by
iohn Williams, negro. The negro
vas shot TO death By officers.
In raid on q fashionable poker.
DOM in Memphis, Mississippi
,anker and several prominent husi-
lessmen OF Memphis were arrested.
Acting Governor Cunningham, of
Alabama, offered rewards for the ar
est OF persons who participated in
hree recent lynehings IN that state.
George Rice, of Marietta, o., sued
he Standard Oil Company at Trenton,
I. J., for 81, 600, 900 damages, alleging
nat the bigltrust had ruined his bnsi-
ess.
Gen. William w. Blaeknaar was
lected commander-in-chief Of the G.
!. R., at Boston, and il was decided
0 hold the next encampment at
)enyer.
Quiet reigns again at statesboro.
Iov. Terrell has appointed court ct
aquiry to investigate the conduct Of
ae militia from which the mob took
ae prisoners.
The sentence of Private Fred &.
COW, Company NJ, Twelfth e. S. In
antry, who was sentenced TO be
anged for desertion in the Philip
ines, will probably be commuted.
New York adviees from Paris STATE
.ussian revolutionfsts declare ths
npress of Russia gave birth to !
,male child, and that the male child
( peasant woman was substituted
Or the girl.
The mystery of the murder of Gilbes
ates, a brother of John ". Gates,
ST, was cleared up by the deathbe
,nfession of Alexander Jester, wh
sclared that he killed Gates and sar
is body in a creek.
One man was killed and thr
ounded near Athens, o., as the
lit Of an attack made on members
% Ohio National Guard by soldis
the regular army. The secretary
ar has ordered full investigats
the trouble.
A tornado which swept over SO.
nd Minneapolis killed sixteen nee
] the first city and two il the laf
number OF others we're seriously
lred, and It Is probable that seg
lore deaths will occur. The prnr