The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Ear.
Organized Band of eounterfeiters D,seov-
erasa-Arctie Exploration steam
ataip Lannched-Death of
Mexiean Ambassador
The italian cabinet has resigned.

A wireless telegraph station is being
established at Colon, Panama.
Maurice Barrymore. q we'll known
actor, died at Amityvi1le, E. I.
Four men @ere killed in powder
mill explosion near Troy, n.
| There have been 81, ,721 deaths from
bubopie plague in India since Ian. /.
i Damage to the amount of 500. .00o
was inflicted by a IRE at Marion, KY.
President ntRoosevelt will leave w ash
| ington on his southwest tour April 8.
The French torpedo boat No. $50
was sunk off Toulon. The crew we're
saved.
| The government will search for plat
inum deposits in eastern and western
states.
A bottle of Kansas crude oil will be
used in christening the new battleship
Kansas.
/ The death raAe Of employees on the
Panama canal during February was
IA per 1000.
Foreign nations will be invited to
participate in the jamestown expesi-
tlon in 1907.
Government agents have unearthed
an organized band OF counterfelters
at Denver, Col.
Commander RobertE. Pearyis Arctic
exploration steamship was launched
at Bueksport, Me.
The members of the Panama Canal
Commission resigned at the request of
President Roosevelt.
The daughter Of E. Fl. Hartman
was fined IN New York for violating
the automobile speed law.
JohnD Rockefeller s salary as presi-
dent Of the Standard Oil Company is
said to be only $40. 900 a year.
A tornado at Appleton, Mimi. In
iured seven persons, one fatally, and
did great damage to properly.
An American man of-war will be sent
to Port au Prince, Hayti, to protect
American interests at that place.
Col. Thos. II. w ats. great Iacoho-
nee of the Red Men of the United
States, died at Montgomery, Ala.
Six negroes are under arrest at
UnIontown. Pa. charged with crlrni-
nally assaulting white woman.
The Mormons are TO establish
church in Illinois on the spot where
John Smith was killed by d mob.
Otto schiel, German, has invented
a massive wheel that will prevent the
rolling OF vessels in storms at sea.
The town of Indianola, Miss, was
saved from destruction by fire by
timely change in the direction of the
wind.
. Henry Z. Woodward, Of New York,
and Charles A. Brouse, of Toledo, o.,
committed suicide in hotel at Cleve-
land.
Gessler Rosseau, charged with att
tempting to dynamite the steamship
Tmbrfa, was found guilty IN 1Teu
York.
Fire at Corinth, Miss, destroyed
two oil mills, 1900 bales ef cotton and
fifteen residences, causing sz0G, 600
loss.
Railroads traversing Texas. Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mexico are
planning large immigration move
ment.
One person was killed and several
injured in q passenger wreck on the
Frisco Railroad near Arthur City,
Texas.
Mrs. Mary Broekwell, Of Paducah,
KY, confessed to poisoning her three
little daughters and narrowly escaped
being lynched.
The stockholders Of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad net at Louis
vile and authorized the issue of $780,
000. 900 additional bonds.
Senior Don Manuel de Azpiroz, Mex
iean ambassador to the United States,
died at Washington as the result of
exposure on inauguration lay.
The general superintendent of AR
mour & Co.'s packing plant at Chi
eago has been indicted for interfering
with a witness in the beef trust inves-
.tigation.
Operators and miners in the central
bituminous district Of Pennsylvania,
failed to agree on wage scale and
So, 1000 miners are scheduled to quit
work today.
More than ], 500, 900 bushels of coal
were started soGtl from Pftssburg,
making a total shipment OF more than
$3.50, 3533 GOO bushels during the present
rise of the rivers.
The federal grand jury atLouis-
vile, KY, indicted the city Of Louis
vile and the superintendent OF the
Workhouse for alleged violations Of
the federal statutes against peonaee.
The federal courts have been called
upon to render d decision In a. novel
case. Secretary Shaw ruled ii at fros
legs should be elassed as poultry l,v
collectors OF customs. The New York
board OF customs appraisers eook tha
vleW aEaab the legs are tslnenunerataa
and unmanufaetnred articles. = and As
question e nov up to Ihe eoHr1s.