The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-03
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
United States Has Coacluded Fourteen Ar
bitration Ereaties-Nan Patterson to
Have New TriaH-Religtous
Fanatic Dies gonn Fasting.

ARIZONA mas racfaI ant1pathy GO
consolidation with New Mexico.
Henrick Ibsen, the author, is re-
ported dangerously sick at Stockholm.
A new industrial COLLEGE for negroes
will be erected near Birmingham, Ala.
P Thirty-fye persons were hurt in a
railroad wreck near Columbus, Miss.
An attempt was made to wreck q
bank with dynamite at Wabash, Neb.
/ Newspapers conducting guessing
contests" 80 to be barred from the
mails.
| Nine. CalVe, the famous singer. was
suddenly stricken with appendicitis at
Vienna.
| Nicaragua and Costa Rica have
decided to arbitrate their boundary
dispute.
One man was killed and three badly
injured by an explosion OF gas in
New York.
Two persons were killed and FIVE in
iured BY boiler explosion at Vieks-
burg, Miss.
Mineral oil exports from the United
States will probably exceed Ste, ,0Oo,-
900 in 1904.
Paul Krneger, 1ste president Of the
Transyaal, left fortune estimated at
50, ,75O, 600.
Eight official receptions at the White
House are planned for January and
February.
Frank Duncan, safe-blower and
murderer, was legally hanged at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
Pierre Richard, French consul at
New Orleans, is about to be trans
ferred to Odessa.
Advices from Hawaii report that the
recent election there was also Re-
publican landslide.
The armored cruiser Pennsy ylvania
made a successful trial trip of the
New England coast.
Fifteen persons were injured, three
OF them seriously, in trolley car ac-
cident at Cleveland, o.
A new commercial treaty between
the United States and Russia is sug-
gested in ST. Petersburg.
The Cuban house of representatives
passed q bill prohibiting religious
professions in the streets.
Fourteen arbitration treaties have
been concluded between European
powers and the United States.
The Prussian army budget for the
coming year is estimated at s11e, ,00O,-
900, and increase OF 81, ,25O, 900.
The merchant marine commission
will recommend an increased tonnage
tax and increased lighthouse dues.
A trolley car accident at Roseben,
n. j., resulted in the death Of one man
and the iniuryef about forty persons.
Charles &. Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
is mentioned for secretary OF the in
terror IN President Roosevelt's cabinet.
Estimates of appropriations to be
asked for at the approaching session
Of congress amount to 1890, 200, 900.
Much suffering exists in Poland as
a result of the Japan Russia war,
which has cut off The Siberian market.
The large railroads OF the country
will ask congress TO pass an act which
will tend to decrease railroad acci-
dents.
Ten American fishing vessels were
seized and their owners fined for
alleged illegal fishing in Canadian
waters.
Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident OF the American Federation of
Labor at the annual convention in
San Francisco.
Salvatore Pompinnello, the head of
the Italian colony at New Palermo,
Ala, was shot and killed on the
public highway.
The committee OF German railroad
men who visited the United States
found little 60 praise in American
railway systems.
Negotiations for the issue of Russian
treasury bonds to the amount of $780,
00o, 900 are said to have been closed
in Berlin and Paris.
4 naval officer at Washington de-
clarsa the United States was behind
other countries IN torpedo develop
ment and equipment.
Russia is planning new and power
ful navy. Lewis Nixon, who will
undertake the task, will leave New
York for Sevastopol Feb. /.
In fit of Jealousy, Mrs. John
Kyzer shot and mortaily wounded
Miss Nellie Edwards at Birmingham.
Ala, and then shot and killed herself.
The jury in the celebrated Nan Pat
terson case in New York was dis
charged on account of the serious i'll
ness Of one Of the jurors. A new trial
will be begun next week.
Rev. d. c. Buckles, former Metho-
dist preacher, died from fasting at
Cincinnati, @. The man had abstained
from eating for forty days under the
impression that he was obeyine q di-
vine command.