The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-05-13
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Over Score of Persons Killed BY Kan
sas Tornado-nTississsppi yVhiteeap-
pers Endicted-No Counter
feiters Arrested.
The cruiser St. Louis was launched

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/ A fire at Granada, Miss, destroyed
$50, 900 worth of property.
| The Florida house of representatives
passed aa anti-cigarette bill.
| The Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland, Oregon, will open June /.
| Eight battleships and twenty cruisers
will be built in this country for Rus.
sfa.
/ The state department will negotiate
q trade treaty with Germany in the
fall.
Two earthquake shocks were felt in
the City of Mexico. No damage re-
suited.
Dennison, Texas, will endeayor to
open water communication with New
Orleans.
Government railroads IN Japan
yielded q profit for the fiscal year OF
s5, ,55o, 900.
Washington, Duke the millionaire
tobacco manufacturer, died at Dur
ham, N. G.
All grades of refined sugar Were re-
dueed thirty cents a hundred pounds
in New York.
The Panama canal commission has
allotted 1854, 44O for sanitation work
on the isthmus.
TWenty-six persons were killed and
forty-four injured by tornado at
Marquette, Kan.
A conference OF Baptists from all
parts of the world will be held IN Lon
don July IL TO IS.
Edwin JefTries, young farmer OF
Port Gibson, Miss. fell out Of bed
and broke his neck.
John Drew was elected president Of
the Players Club to succeed the late
Joseph Jefferson.
Maxim Gorky has received permis-
sion TO live anywhere in Russia except
in st. Petersburg.
All immigr alton records for one day
were broken by the arrival Of 24,5o0
foreigners at New York.
Over s2o0, 900 worth OF berries rotted
at Chad dburn, n. O., last week On ae-
count Of 8 railroad blockade.
j ames r. Garfield, commissioner of
corporations, is inYestig gating the oil
situation at Beaumont, Texas.
The grand jury at Pekin. Ill.y re-
turned indictments against two high
officials CT the Standard Oil Go.
The Great Northern Railroad, to
run from New Orleans TO Memphis,
has been chartered in Mississippi.
The emperor OF Japan donated 5000
to the japanese army branch Of the
Young Mems Christian Associ alton.
Secret service officers arrested three
noted counterfeiters and captured 10000
in counterfeit money at Portsmouth,
Va.
Col. John Z. Rapier, proprietor Of
the Mobile RegIste died Sunday
morning after a long and distinguished
career.
The federal grand jury at Jackson,
Miss, returned 300 indictments against
citizens Of Franklin county FOR white-
Gaping
.raa steamer Aransas was a.,nk Il
collision off vinaya ard Haven. m aaa..
and one woman passenger was
drowned.
Two persons were killed, manv IN.
iured and thousands 81 dollars worth
Of property Gastroyad by 4 tornado In
Oklahoma.
Andrew Carnegie. Id q speech at
Leicester, England, indorsed the MOVE
ment for municipal ownership OF pub.
lie utilities.
a mopument erected Ia memory of
Confederate soldiers who were killed
II The civil war was unveiled as
Fayette. Miss.
The crop bulletin issued by the de-
nartnent OF agriculture shows tlaa con.
ditien OF winter wheat to be- 90. S and
the acreage %. .723, 900.
The Chinese minister al ~ ashine-
ton is collecting evidence with which
to test the constitution alIty of the
Chinese exclusion aes.
The United States supreme court an-
nounced that the argument ID the Lou
isiana- Mississippi boundary case