The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Prominent Mississippians Indicte !:
Whitecapping-Big Fire at Minneap-
s-AEuniaeent Gift to Chicago pnf-
yersity-Eleven Miners Killed.
A new servian cabinet has been or

ganized.
Robert Burns family Bible sold for
S8250 in London.
There is a scramble for freight space
on ocean vessels.
A crack has been discovered on the
surface OF the moon.
Eleven miners were killed by an ex-
plosion at Burnett, Wn.
An Anglican monk in Wales claims
to have raised the dead.
j Three men were killed in an expIo-
sion at Catlettsburg, N. Y.
| The temperature in the Manchurian
war zone is degrees below zero.
Count Paul d'Abzac, former French
consul in New Orleans, died in Paris.
A fire at Mipnespolis destroyed
property valued at more than S6,O00,-
600.
a law will be proposed in Texas TO
force railroads to run on schedule
time.
Monroe Wells, lunatic, mortally
wounded his aunt at Birmingham and
then killed himself.
The Commercial Company IS Atlantic
cable is in trouble between Penzance
and the sei1ly Isles.
The validity of the peonage act is
being argued before the supreme court
Of the United States.
The Lord Mayor OF London has Is
sued an appeal for funds to relieve the
unemployed Of London.
Satisfactory tests Of the 6-inch
Brown segmental wire tube gun have
been made at Sandy Hook.
Striking operatives at Fall River,
Mass, are showing willingness to
return to work in the cotton mills.
Congressman Warner, of Illinois,
is candidate for pension commits
sioner to succeed Eugene F. w are.
-Four men gere entombed and four
others badly burt by an explosion in q
coal and coke mine at EldoraS b, III.
Snow, varying in depth from two to
six inches, fell in the entire central
western portion OF the United States.
The Cigar Manufacturers Associa-.
tion will oppose the IS per cent rednc.
ton proposed on Philippine tobacco
Sasonef, who killed Minister Voa
Plehye with a bomb at ST. Petersbures
has been sentenced to hard labor for
| life.
Texas bankers discussed the plan go
finance the cotton crop so planters
could hold the product for higher
prices.
Railroad men conferred with Com
missioner Sargent at Washington with
respect to the distribution OF immi-
grants.
Four seats on the New York Cotton
Exchange, three OF them held in the
name of Daniel J. sully, sold for
$40, 100.
Nc. syveton, the Nationalist deputy
who assaulted War Minister Andre
of France, was found dsad in his bed
at Paris.
Sight hundred Russians, who left
Manehuria TO avoid military service,
are coming 20 America by way OF
Liverpool.
A treaty OF peace has been signed
between the revolutionists and the gov
ernment OF Paraguay, the insurgents
being victorious.
Rear Admiral Davis, American
member of the commission to inquire
into the North Sea TRAGEDY. has
| sailed for Europe.
/ Capt. Mills of the American steamer
Philadelphia has fled protest in
London against reckless target prae-
tice at Plymouth.
/ Tue pressure OF the gas In one OF the
wells at Humble, Tex, became 80 great
that heavy rocks were blown CON-
pletely out of sight.
julius Kruttschnitt. on behalf of the
Hartman lines. has placed an order
for 100 locomotives, the largest order
of the kind on record.
John .. Rockefeller has given Chi
| cago University between two and three
! million dollars with which to found
sehoolof engineering.
Members OF the congressional COM
mittee who visited Panama favor q
sea level canal. The estimated in~
crease In cost is s10o, ,O00, 900.
President Roosevelt announced he
would as soon as practicable appoint
L.Q. q. Lamar, son of the late dis
tinguished Mississippian, to some in-
portant post.
Senator Stewart introduced bill in
congress fixing the presidents salary
at s1oo, 900 per annam, vice president
and speaker of the house s20, 900 each,
and senator's, representatives and dele
gates BIC, 900.
It was stated In New York that New
Orleans capital is interested fn the
Central American Commercial Com
pany, a 81, ,00o, 900 concern, organized
TO make extensive investments III Eic-
araugua.
T. E. Montgomery, member of the
Mississippi legislature, and j. 6.
Bryant and J. B. Willis, members -
the board of supervisors. were in
dleted for connection with the white.
/ capping organization at Prof,t lat