The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-08
THE WORLDS NEWS
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.


i AEsc1Asll6 y WIfCka9 Y1c1A - FSpUEeSA
| TO be 9, 800 900 tons.
An English army officer urges the
| use of the lance Id warfare.
Frederick August Barsholdi. the
noted sculptor, dad at Paris.
Greater New York Is threatened with
an epidemic of typhoid fever.
Efforts are being made % unfonize
negro labor in Mississippi.
W ireless telegfaphy will BE- operated
on commercial basis ID 1905.
Fifteen million dollars In taxes were
Ieolleeted ID New York Tuesday.
The Novosti, 9 Russian paper, de-
clared internasional law d polite myth,
The month OF July showed . sharp
decrease IN the volume of immkgra-
tion.
At the worlds falr u, SIC, 5l1 admis-
sions were recorded for the first 1Ss
days.
The agricultural department Is nrg-
ing southern planters TO diversity their
crops.
There was $1,000, 900 fire il tho
Tenth street packing house distrsas,
New York. &.
A mail car containing much United
States mail was robbed between Paris
and Havre.
Surgeon General O'Rsi1ly reported
an Improvement Ia the general health
OF the army.
The New York Young Mems Christi
ian Association will establish i school
for chauffeurs. 5S
The automobile will be used In
searching for gold ii the Death Valley
region OF California.
The czar has donated $40, ,oo0, 600 10
the Russian treasury, 90 be used -
paying war obligations.
a census oil South africa shows 3
white population OF 10, ,t35, ,01o and 8
eolored population Of !, ,1gs, It's.
The International Peace Congress-,
In session 1t Boston, appsaled to the
powers TO stop the war ID the far east.
Secret serviea agents and detectives
are investigating an unsuccessful plot
20 sink the new battlAship Connegeleut.
George FrisEie Hoar, ths venerable
United States senator from M aasachu-
setts, died at his home in Worcester.
The chief Of Germany % navaI
bureau Ut Kiel Ii said 70 be under
suspicion Of selling government.
secrets.
Trade authorities ID Wall street de-
clare the present presidential cam
paign has disturbed business less than
previous contests.
A Chicago Judge fined two walking
delegates. placing Them under 500
bonds 10 keep the peace, and declared
they were Migrants.
English papers comment gooa-na-
tnredIy On the dning 81 the third seeEe~
tary Of the British embassy by q
Mass achusetts recorder.
M. Yoes Guyot, welIknoWn poliss
ieal economist OF france, arrived II
New York and will study economic
conditions il this country
=. T. Lorees highest sslarisd rsil-
road president IN the world. has re-
signed as executive head Of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific.
Charles F. Kelly, speaker q the St.
Louis house of delegates during the
boodle regime. wrote ont 3 confession
detailing the methods 81 The combine.
Ia 1908 the United States produced
| s73, ,5al, TOO In gold and e29. .a22. goo in
silver. The entire output of the world
was ss25, 81, 200 ID gold and s92, ,0se,
800 In silver.
] A society 10 bs known as The Iron
Hand of tbs World 2 has been organ
! lied al Bedford, Ind, 10 urge Iagfa.
| lasion providing a death penalty for
criminal assault.
Postmaster General P&yne died as
I M ashIngton, and First Assistant Post
master General Wynna has been ap-
pointed By the president 90 aes tenn
/ porarlIy as postmaster general.
| Hain of the town % W asgcs. IL. HI.
was destroyed BY q flood and sWsIve
persons were drowned. Reports rss
ceived at Albun state khas tI1s
towns of Valence and Los Len6as lad
been washed away and several hum
drad families left honeleaa.