The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-18
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Heavy Mortality from the plague in
India-Mrs. Chadwick convicted-New
York Transit Strike settled-In-
diana Wheat Flooded.

ooASSsA SSSCA duORtC0
the gold standard.
santo Domingo's debts amount to q
total of s24, ,643,37s.
An American negro murdered
| policeman at Colon.
The Bank OF Lawton. at Lawton,
Okla, closed its doors.
/ A bank at Benton, KY, was robbed
OF $4,000 by safe-blowers.
Uruguay has signed an extradition
treaty with the United States.
Twenty-six miners were killed by an
explosion in colliery in Wales.
The navy department will detail
vessel to destroy ocean derelicts.
The emperor of Corea has become
converted to the Catholic religion.
Chicago's board Of education may
establish school for child wives.
"A Sinner" has sent S12, 900 to the
conscience fund of the government.
Thirty-four thousand persons died
from the plague in India last week.
A physical culture city will be es-
tablished in Middlesex county, N. J.
| TheOhio river has flooded thousands
OF acres Of growing wheat in Indiana.
A feet of barges carrying $500, 900
bushels of coal started south FROM Pitts
burg.
Henry Norcross Mum, editor of the
Scientific American, died at New
York.
A negro imprisoned at Longview,
Tex, was shot to death in his cell by
mob.
Russia paid England s325, 900 indem-
nifty in settlement OF the North Sea
matter.
Three fremen we're killed by falling
walls in a conaagration at Birmlng-
ham, Ala.
The strike on the New York subway
and elevated railroads has been de-
clared off.
i Nineteen persons were killed and
forty injured in a tenement house FIRE
in New York.
The steel trust will restore wages TO
the rate paid before the ten per cent
cut was made.
A fund of So, ,000. 900 has been raised
for the purpose Of fighting the beef
trust in Chicago.
A hurricane swept the coast Of EGG
land and Ireland and inflicted consid-
cradle damage.
Damage amounting to $500, 900 was
caused by storm along the south
California coast.
The second trial OF Nan Patterson
for killing Caesar Young will begin in
New York April 10.
Federal authorities in Mississippi
are investig gating the beef trusts oper-
ations in that state.
Cotton exports for February totalled
$40, TAO, lao, against $40, ,565. .022 for the
same month last year.
Peasants in Russia have plundered
and destroyed property of the royal
family worth 81, 200, 600.
Hope OF ratifying the Santo Domingo
treaty at the PRESENT session of the
senate has been abandoned.
Ex- Senator Frank j Cannon, editor
of the salt Lake Tribune. has been
excommunicated by the Mormon
church.
The coroner's jury at Honolulu de-
elared Mrs. Leland Stanford died OF
stryehnine poisoning administered with
felonius intent.
The Southern Pacific has ordered
an engine which will travel 5000 miles
without stop, running at the rate OF
100 miles an hour.
A woman pronounced dead at st.
Louis has been revived and is appar-
emily recovering, as the result OF an
injection OF salt solution.
Gov. James B. FREEZER was nomi-
mated by the Democratic legislative
caueas at Nashville to succeed the late
Senator Bate, OF Tennessee.
Mrs. Cassie Z. Chadwick, charged
with conspiracy 70 defraud s national
bank, was found guilty by jury in
the federal court at Cleveland, O.
One hundred and eleven bodies have
been taken from the Virginia coal
mine, near Birmingham, Ala, which
was wrecked by an explosion Feb. 20.
Two Of three negro murderers who
escaped from jail were killed in
fight with a posse near Dumas,
Ark. A member of the posse was
wounded.
The statement that the water OF the
great lakes IS rising gradually every
year causes scientists to fear chat in
the dim future Chicago may become
Venice.
Joseph Thompson and James
Gaines, lifelong friends, killed each
other at Wheeling, W. Va, In
bloody duel following a quarrel over
piece of soap.
President Roosevelt is said to be
considering the appointment OF Mrs.
John B. Gordon, widow Of the late
Gen. John B. Gordon. to an import
ant federal position IN Georgia.