The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-20
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Negroes Burned at the stake IN Georgia.
Blrth of an Heir IN Russia-settls-
ment Reached with Turkey.
Big Fire at Gulfpors.

ISlmaGI MONIES mas D0SD lD8uEus
rated president of Bolivia.
Paris dressmakers have formed q
trust to protect their designs.
The cruiser Denver, now at Porto
Rico, has been ordered to Hayti.
Five persons were injured in an
automobile accident in Kansas City.
The rice acreage in the United States
has increased 80 per cent in five years.
Italy has been investigating hostil-
ity OF negroes to Italians in this conn-
try.
Fire in the central part of Gulfport,
Miss, destroyed property valued at
SAC, ,o0o.
Oil in paying quantities has been
struck in New Brunswick. Dominion
OF Canada.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar is re-
ported to be dying at his home In
Worcester, Mass.
The government will give out It's
September cotton report on Sept. 2
instead of Sept. 3.
The total attendance at the worlds
fair, up to date, is given as 7, COZ, 900
in round numbers.
German troops numbering 1000 de-
feated 6000 Hereros near Hamakari,
German East Africa.
England's s cotton culture expert
ments in the West Indies are reported
to be satisfactory.
Twenty-six thousand veterans of the
civil war attended the annual reunion
! Of the G. A. r. at Boston.
The police of Houston were dee
nouneed By preacher in sn address
before the Citizens Alliance.
It is said that the New York pack
ing houses will import men from Eng
land to take the place Of strikers.
There was great rejoicing In ST.
Petersburg over the birth OF son and
heir to the car and czarina, Of Russia.
San Francisco merchants will apc
peal to Secretary Hay 10 protect Am
erican ships from seizure in the
Orient.
a farmhouse was struck by light
ming near Perth, o. r., and four per-
sons were cremated in the fire which
followed.
The ezar has abolished corporal
punishment in Russia as an act OF
grace to signalize the birth OF an heir
TO the throne.
Four persons were killed and twenty
four severely injured in collision
between railroad train and trolley
cars in Chicago.
It is announced that no immediats
change will be made In the Mexican
monetary system, which Is at present
on silver basis.
Tbs International Typographical
Union, which has been il session In
ST. Louis, selected Toronto as next
years meeting place.
The United States is investigating
the shooting of Clarence Way and
Edward Latimer by police officers at
Aguas Calientes, Mexico.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Decoy was lost of the scilly Islands
in collision with another destroyer.
The crew Of the Decoy were saved.
One man was killed and about forty
persons injured In the wreck of pas
senger train on the Tennessee Central
l.
Railway, seventy miles east OF Nash
vile.
Expert Webber, of the agrtculaaral
department, is perimenting With
method of grating TO produce cotton
plant that viii be proof against the
boil weeviI.
Gen. W. ]. Behan, Of New Orleans,
in q speech at Boston, refuted Gen.
Chamberlain's charge OF southern
cruelty to northern soldiers during
the civil war.
The negro who attempted TO crimi-
nally assault white girl at Hernando,
Miss, last October, was captured in
Arkansas and taken to Jackson for
Safe Keeping.
Secretary Hays handling Of the
question of the rights OF neutral
powers with respect to contrahand, and
his dennnciation pf the Porse's di1a-
tory tactics. met with approval in
| London.
It is supposed that Frederick Smith,
Of New Orleans, and Jackson Wilson,
of Nashville, who disappeared four
years ago at Divide, Col, fell over q
cliff. The skeletons of their horses
were found tied TO tree.
Ten persons were drowned as the
result of the capsizing of naDtha
launch on the Potomac river or
Georgetown the western section OF
the city OF W ashington, during the
| annual Potomac regatta.
After a prolonged discussion, and in
spite of the interference OF the palace
functionaries, satisfactory agree
| ment has been reached with Turkey.
The American fleet may sail from Con.
stantinople within few days.
/ Paul Reed and Will Cato, negroes.
charged with the murder and bnrnino
| OF the Hodges family near States boro,
9a., three weeks ago, we're burned al
/ the stake by a mob last TUESDAY,
! Another negro was killed the next day