The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-03
THE WORLDS NEW {
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires FrOS
Near and Far
Jsnfies Defeats Guaroe In Two Roandt
Woman win Attemps TO ssslm Rapids.
Big Fire m Beagian-Treasara
Discovered In the Transvaal.

9 placed on the retired list.
{ Joseph Pardox win be inauguratedI
president of Peru Sept. 24.
August MoIler, American vice con-
sui st Valparaiso, Is dead.
Wireless telegraphy is being in-
stalled on The Chilian navy.
5 Diplomatic relations between Ar
gentina and Uruguay have become
) strained.
8 Clyde Fitch, The playwright. vas
! injured ID an automob bile aecidsnt al
New York.
8 Government employees have been
warned against making canpaign
j donations,
The federal government has made
but little progress IN It's war on the
boil Weeyil.
The Victorian, the largest turbine
vessel yet built was launched al Bel
fast, ireland.
Personal iewe1a of the late Queen
Isabella Of Spain will be sold al aus.
tion in Paris.
Mississippi banks win be able Ia
handle the state crops withoub aid
from the outside.
Emil Vaudervelde, Belgium So
eialist, is In this country studying the
growth Of his cult.
pr. +. T. Jones, who was IN jail for
killing his wife at Benjamin, Tex,
committed suicide.
-Four new cases Of yellow fever ere
reported at Merida and four at Coat
zacoaleos, Mexico.
New York Is confronted by acritical
situation because of the threatened
! strike of motormen
United States troops as Manassas
participated in the unwilling of j. con
federate monument.
Dynamite was used ia al efFert to
blow up the dwelling Of . nonennion
miner at Dolomite, Ala.
Mississippi cotton planters will tn-
port cotton pickers from Mexico on
account OF the scarcity OF labor.
The textile strike 1t Fail River,
Mass, begun four weeks ago, hes cost
the operatives $3.50, ,Oo0 Ia wages.
Reports received at w ashington in-
dicate that tbs Egyptian cotton fields
are IN great danger from locusss.
Miss Cora Beckwith, the famous
woman swimmer, announced ehas she
would swim the rapids st Niagara.
A revival Of Bozerism IS reported Ia
the Pc Chi ri province OF China, Mis-.
sionaries have been forced 10 leaye.
One man was killed, one 9ataifv
wounded and two badly hurt In a
shooting affray at Silver City, N. M.
The garment workers. In session aS
Buffalo, voted down resolution CON-
hitting the Organization to socialism.
Louisiana and Texas, according to
the government estimate, contain as.1
per cent Of the rice acreage of she United
States.
ack Munroe was knocked ont ia the
second round by Champion James ..
Jefries IN the ring contest al san
Francisco.
Treasure removed from Pretoria
during the Boer war. and valued at
q. 300. 600, has been found ia thc
Capiases were issued for twenty
eight prominent eitizers enf crinnIe
Creek, Col, for participation il recent
mob violence.
Tobacco men declare they will make
q hard fight against any effort to re-
duce the rate on the Philippine or
Cuban products.
A negro was taken from the isil at
Laramie, Wyo., and lynehed for com
mftting. marderous assault Oh
young white woman.
Barney 0ldfe1d Is antomo obi1eerashed
through fence during the ausomobiia
speed contest at the world ss fair and
two men were killed.
John Redmond, Irish loader ia tas
English parliament, and bis party
were banauetted By The Irish League
Of America id New York.
The wilt OF the late William Weight
man, of Philadelphia, left his entire
estate, worth $50, coo 900, TO his daaeh-
ser, Mrs. Anna N. VI gIkar.
Marshall Field, the Chicago msr-
chant prince, is the heaviest taxpayer
ii the United States, his properly
being assessed at sac. .oo0, 600.
Salvador Bosoto, an Italian hoy
eighteen years old, was shot and killed
II New York because hs disclosed 10
he police the secrets Of The Black
Hand society.
DIR. James Fletcher, entomologfss at
he Ottawa experimental station, de-
Jared the wheat yield il Manifoba and
he northwest would be l00, 0O0. .o00
million bushels.
u was reported at w ashington dat
5ount Cassini, Russian ambassador.
would ask TO be recalled because i1a s.
70 longer persona grata to She Drssi.
lent and Secretary Hay.
I'll tanks at Hoboken, three miles
E rom antwerp, Belgium, containing
Q, COG, 900 gallons Of petroleum. csI1qhS
Ire. Millions of dollars worth 81 Drns,.
rty was destroyed. Three lives ara
snoWu TO have been LOST and saanv
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