The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Deadlock in Missouri Legislature Broken.
Eatal Explosion in Shoe Factory.
Gambling ParaphernaliaB Burned.
Jules Verne Dying.

SafebloRers secured $1,000 from a
bank at Petersburg, Tenn.
| Germany is said to be anxious for a
reconciliation with France.
:. A new island has been created by o
volcano in the Sea OF Japan.
| A chair of baseball has been estab-
lished at Columbia University.
/. The Nebraska senate passed a bill
abolishing capital punishment.
| Ex-President Grover Cleveland eela-
brated his 6Sth birthday March IS.
Antonio Proust, French minister of
| finance, committed suicide In Paris.
/ More than Il 900 foreigners landed
at New York on Moflay and Tuesday.
Robbers wrecked tr ain near Hemp
stead, Ia, and six persons were in
iurea
! Cerebro-spinal meningitis is epi-
/ demie in the poorer sections of New
! York.
There are now under contract 1900
miles OF railroad construction in this
country.
Meyer Guggenheim, the well-known
copper capitalist, died at Palm Beach,
Florida.
/ An ocean poolroom, advised by wire-
less telegraphy, will be operated near
New York.
| The proposition to place an import
duty on coffee is meeting with strong
opposition.
Six men were killed and four injured
by an explosion in coal mine at
Princeton, Ind.
The Missouri legislature passed
bill making betting on. races in that
state felony.
Jules Verne, the famous author and
novelist, Is dying at his home at
Amiens, France.
| Witnesses in the beef trust investi-
CATION at Chicago will be guarded by
secret service men.
K. Higashf, jiu-iitsu expert, has
challenged James Jeffries. champion
heavyweight pugilist.
Donald MurrN5D Britisher, has
invented a process Of typesetting auto
matically by telegraph.
Kansas oil producers organized per-
manently to conduct a two years CAM
paign against the trust.
The hoesehold property OF Mrs.
Cassie L. Chadwick vas sold at auction
| at Cleveland, O., for S25, 200.
! Emperor William dined with
French ambassador for the first time
since the Frances German war.
The Cuban treasury department
issued ruling giving preferential
rates to American cotton goods.
Twenty-fosr persons were killed by
explosions inShe Fed Ash and Rush
sRun mines near Fire Creek, ". Va.
| Andrew Griseom, OF Philadelphia,
jumped overheard from the steamer
Minnetonka at sea and was drowned.
A foreign diplomatic vandal mutt
lated a historic tab5 during the recent
inauguration ceremonies at Washing
! ton.
| Twelve persons were injured, two
probably fatally, in a passenger wreck
on the Erie Railroad near Winfield,
Ind.
Nine passenger trains were tied up
in the California mountains for sew
eral days as q result Of floods and
landslides.
Over $4,000 worth Of gambling par
aphernalia, seized at the direction of
District Attorney Jerome, ofNew York,
@as burned In public.
The commission appointed by the
British government TO inspect cotton
growing possibilities in eastern Africa
made an unfavorable report.
/ New England ministers have pro-
tested against the American Foreign
Mission Board accepting gift of
800, 900 from John D. Rockefeller.
Gen. Joseph 3. HaWley, United
States senator from ConnecticnI for
nearly twenty-four years. died at
Washington last week. The funeral
took place at Hartford Tuesday.
Over score Of persons were killed.
fifty were injured and total OF more
than one hundred are reported missing
as the result of boiler explosion in
shoe factory at Broekton, Mass.
United States Minister Bowen noti-
fed the Venezuelan government that
the American claims must be arbitra-
ted and settled. # this Is not done in
/ the near future the United States will
adopt other measures.
i The deadlock in the Missouri legis-
1ature over the election of a United
States senator to succeed Francis NJ.
Cockrell was finally broken at fifteen
minutes before the time set for sine
die adjournment last Saturday by the
election Of 1aior William Warner,
Republican, Of Kansas City. The
dead lock has existed since fan. I8.