The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-05-20
THE WORLDS NEWS
1sSssseFe-SA-
Flashes Of tie Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
storms Cause Loss of Life and Property
Damage-Governaae to Regulate
Shipment Of Explosfves-Nan
Patterson Released.

Gen. Maxine Gomez is dangerously
| i'll al Santiago de Cuba.
| 4 convention Of ex-slayes will BE-
held in Washington June I.
Seven men were killed by dyna-
mite explosion at Cora. Mont.
An oil gusher was brought in at
Dayton, Tex, opening new field.
There are 245 rural Tree delivery
mail routes in the state of Mississippi.
VI Han Eung, Corean charge dat
faires at London, committed suicide.
Thirty five or forty persons were in
iured in Vienna BY an explosion Of
eelluloid.
Ivan Kelief, who assassinated Grand
Duke sergius of Russia, was executed
at Moscow.
e,Nationa1 Association OF Manu-
faeturers met ia annual session at
Atlanta, Ca.
Hiram Cronk, aged 105 years, the
last survivor ofthe war Of 1912, died
at Ava, N. Y.
Five thousand storm caves are being
dug in Oklahoma in preparation for
possible future cyclones.
The Southern Railway will spend
81 600, 900 in improvements In and
around Chattanooga, Tenn.
Jessie Bartlett Davis. well-known
comic opera sAar, died in Chicago
after an illness Of two days.
The president approved the recon-
mendation to bury the body of John
Paul Jones at Annapolis, Nd
Herbert Y. Croker, son of Rich-
ard Croker, of New York, died sud-
denly on a train near Newton, Kan.
Al equestrian statue OF Gen. n. B.
Forrest, the famous Gonfederate cav
airy leader. was unveiled as Memphis,
Tenn.
A number OF persons were killed
and serious damage to property in-
ficted by storms in Indiana, Missouri
and Ohio.
A woman claiming TO be Carlotta,
wife of Maximilia ian, former emperor
OF Mexico, duped Italians ia Boston
out of s40, 900,
Over lit persons we're killed end az
many more injured II = tornado which
destroyed the town OF Snyder,
Oklahoma Territory
In fight ii the Island OF Jolo,
Philippine Islands, Gen. Wood lost
seven men and had nineteen wounded,
while SOC Moros were killed.
Torrential rains, gales and borna-
does have caused great damage TO
crops and other property 10 north
Texas. Little loss of Life is reported.
Experiments TO damonssra the pOesi-
bility OF curing consumption without
the use Of drugs are bslng successfully u
made in New fork tenement districts.
Arthur Haynes, q aeonvict In the Ala
bama penitenti iary. vas paroled on hls
honor By Gov. ] eIks in order that he
might be at the bedside Of hia dying
mother.
The United States may lodge pro-
test with China against an ofEensige
circular sent ont from " ashington by
Sir Chensung LIang Gheng, Chinese
minister.
w. B. Robinson, Of Los Angeles.
Cal, crazed with liquor, murdered
three men and ona woman, seriously 8
wounded two other persons and then
committed suicide.
Or. il. G. Gandin, Of New Qrleanss
was elected supreme president of she So
preme council Of the Gatholic Knights
of America at the annual convention
held in ST. Louis.
The executive committee OF tho
Panama Canal Commission decided TO
purchase in the markets Of the world
the materials and ships necessary Tor
the building Of the Panama canal.
Tom Witherspoon, q negro, was
Iynched at Belmont. fifteen miles below
Cairo, Ill, for holding the wife and
child of Frank Hess, member of the
Missouri legislature, until Hess gave
him $500.
Mrs. Renrietta Robinson, q dual
murderess, died IN an asylum at NeH-
burg, ". Y, after fifty years. con-
fnement, during which period she
stead5astly refused 10 disclose her
identity.
A Texan asked the treasury departs
ment to refund 8 portion of the money
which he recently contributed TO the
governments conscience fund. Sec
retary Shaw refused to comply with
the request
Leroy Irome Lixon, q nine-y -year-old
boy Of Durango, Col, will be given
an education By Miss Helen Gould
because he warned 3 railroad engineer
ID time to prevent q wreck in Colorado
last summer.
Nan Patterson. the chorus girl who
went through three trials at New York
on the charge u numbering Cesar
Young. q bookmaker, was released
without bail and ri probably not be
tried again.
The recent explosion Of car Of
dynamite at Harrisburg Pa.. has
created a sentiment Ia favor OF gov-
ernment regulasion Of the shipment &c
high explosives Senator ElkIns viii