The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Two New States Admitted to the Union.
RadAum Mine Discovered in France.
Cotton AEills to be Merged.
''Pittsburg Phil '' Dead.

Fire at Schenectady, N. Y, caused a
loss Of S2o0, 900.
The spread OF smallpox is becoming
serious in Arkansas.
Mrs. Ghadwick's debts will aggre-
gate close to $1,000, 900.
The public debt of the United States
Feb. / was 1888, 929, ,61s.
An electric line from Memphis to
Pensacola is projected.
A raoium mine has been discovered
IN soane-et-Loire, France.
The sum OF $40, O0o, 900 was embezzled
in the United States In 1904.
Heavy loses were inflicted on stock
men in west Texas by the freeze.
Thirteen persons were Ealrt while
coasting at attanooga, Tenn.
It is officially reported that the
Isthmus OF PaEama is free of yellow
fever.
The new Groton dam, at New York,
has been completed at cost of
IS. 200. 600.
Chicago slavs have organized TO as
sist their kindred in revolution in
Austria.
Cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
may be merged in a 800, 0oo, 900 cor
poration.
A passenger train crashed into q
sleigh at Airport, N. Y, and killed
ten women.
The Kentucky law prohibiting CO.
education Of the races is being tested
in the courts.
Five men were drowned in Hooper IS
Straits, Md, while escaping from ice-
bound vessels.
The Momotombo volcano Ia Nicara-
qua is in eruption and thousands OF
people are in peril.
Admiral Crosby, q. s. N, retired,
died at Washington. He vas born IN
Louisiana il 1910.
A large Japanese colony will be es-
tablished in southwestern Texas for
tile manufacture OF silk.
Consular reports indicate gradual
subsidenee OF the trouble in the in
dustrial centres Of Russia.
Democrats in Colorado will intro
duee about 5000 witnesses in the guber-
Material contest in that state.
It vas stated that the United States
might acquire the Galapagos Islands
for naval base in the Pacific.
John &. Sullivan, at one time the
worlds champion pugilist, is suffer-
ing with pneumonia in ST. Louis.
Chicago manufacturers have received
orders from Russia for automobiles
with platforms for machine guns.
A special meeting Of the executive
committee OF the Southern Cotton AS
soeiation was held ia Atlanta Tuesday.
Johann Hoch is believed TO have
used eurare, most deadly of poisons,
ia getting rid OF his numerous wives.
Gen. Luke Wright, OF Tennessee,
former civil governor OF the Philip
pines, has been made governor gem
eral
One negro was killed and three white
men dangerously wounded in clash
between whites and blacks at Lang
ley, S. c.
Poultney Bigelow says the Flip
pinos are ten centuries behind civili-
zation and cannot be treated like
white men.
The threatened New York subway
strike has been ayerted, by the grant
ing OF all the demands made by the
Ten thousand pounds Of dynamite
exploded prematurely in a mine aS
Houghton, Mich. It Is believed six
men were killed.
It will require several weeks to re-
pair the telegraph and telephone wires
put out OF service in the middle south
by the sleet storm.
King Oscar, Of Sweden and Norway,
who is seriously Ill, has authorized
his son, Crown Prince Gustaf, to con-
QaGt 94S SOVGEuluGub.
George E. Smith, the noted turf
plunger known throughout the country
as Pitts tsburg Phil, y died OF consump-
5ion at Asheville, n. G.
The steamer Damara struck rock
off the coast of Nova Scotia and is
believed to have foundered, with the
loss OF many lives.
The Russian imperial family has
contributed s25, 900 TO the relief fund
for families of persons killed in the
rioting at St. Petersburg.
A wMnan in Chicago, who believed
she was called to offer herself as
sacrifice, poured oil on her clothing
and set herself on fire.
England has decided to withdraw
her troops from the British West In
dies aud rely upon the United States
10 protect her possessions.
The Mallory liner Eeuces went
aground near San Luis Pass, on the
Texas coast, but was pulled of by
Galveston tugs without much diff
ioulty.
The United States senate passed
statehood bill admitting Oklahoma
and Indian Territory as one state and
New Mexico as another, Arizona to re-
main . territory.