The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-28
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
General Strike of German Coal Miners.
Denver Grand Jurv Probing Elec-
tion Frauds Americans MUIR
derea in Mexico.

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Japan has recently captured $4,000
| tons of coal.
King Oscar Of Sweden is reported
dangerously i'll.
| Italy has abolished slavery in her
west African colonies.
| Russia's vast naval works at Sevas-
topol were destroyed by fire.
| The theatrical trust will built ne@
playhouse at Pensacola, Fla.
| The Mikado entertained the staff of
the American legation in Toxic.
Nearly 220, 900 men are now on strike
10 Germany's coal mine districts.
The birthday of Gen. r. 3. Lee was
observed at many places in the south.
| Booker T. Washington was refused
admission to- the hotels at Wichita,
Kan.
Russia has ordered 10000 tons of
steel from United States manufac-
Yturers.
Nearly every poolroom in New York
closed down IS result Of the police
crusade.
The coldest weather OF the winter
was reported in Kansas and western
J Missouri.
Seven men were buried alive in a
] cave-in on railroad work near An
toine, Ark.
The worlds championship automo-
bile races began Tuesday at ormond
Beach, Fla.
/ One person was killed and seven
seriously injured in railroad wreck
at Roy, N. G.
/ An arbitration treaty was signed be-
| tween the United States and Norway
and Sweden.
/ Four trainmen were killed and four
injured in railroad collision at
i Shawnee, Tenn.
/ Eight bills for improving the steam
boat inspection service were intro
duced in congress.
i A bicycle policeman was run down
! and seriously injured by automobile
lists in New York.
| More than so per cent of the striking
8 cotton mill oper aesves returned to work
at Fall River, Mass.
Two men were killed and another
| fatally injured in railroad wreck
| near Charleston, w. Va.
| Charles Houseman, cashier of
bank at Columbus, O., killed himself
and run on the bank followed.
| A New York statistician says the
cotton mills must yet handle from
/ 200. .000 to 400, 900 bales of cotton.
/ Congress passed resolutions accepts
ing from the state of Kansas statue
j of the late Senator John j. Ingalls,.
| -Four Americans and one Mexican
lWere ambushed and killed by Yaqui
| Indians near La Colorado, Mexico.
The international commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the North Sea
incident began its public sessions in
Paris.
/ King Victor Emmanuel, OF Italy,
conferred the grand Gordon OF the
crown on Whitelaw Reid, OF New
Yerk.
4 A delegation from Mobile, Ala.
called on President Roosevelt and In
vited him to visit th at city on his SOUTH
ern tour.
During 1904 there were thirty-four
lumber companies, with q combined
: capital Of 81, ,04o, 900, chartered in Mis-
sissippi.
A damage suit for s5o, 900 was en-
tered by the Southern Coal Company
against the Southern Railway at Mo-
: bile, Ala.
The grand jury at Denver, Col, in
r dicted the postm aster and number OF
r other public officers for completely in
election frauds.
, Daniel J. sully's seat on the New
York stock exchange was sold to Stuy-
vesant Fish Morris, Jr., for the re-
ported price of SIG, 600.
Miss Belle B1oodworth was mysteri-
j, ous1y murdered at Decatur, Ala. Gov.
Cunningham has offered a reward Of
s4Oo for the capture of her assailant.
q The Woman's Army and Navy
League petitioned the senate to restore
SO much Of the eanteen law as would
permit the sale of beer at army posts.
Frank Fl. Croker, son OF Richard
7 Croker, died from injuries received IN
an automobile accident atOrmond, Fla.
j Young Croker's chauffeur was In
stantly killed.
' The agricultural appropriation bill
j that will be submitted to congress
carries approximately So. 200, 900. For
! the eradication of the cotton boil
L weevil the sum of $3.50, 600 is allowed.
DIR. Thomas Fl. Norton, American
: consul at Harput, Turkey, reported
g to the state department that approxi-
K IN arely 5000 lives were lost at sasun,
Armenia, during last summers mas
5 sacres.
!, Arthur E. Macdonald, an English
man, smashed the worlds automobile
record for five miles on the Ormond-
: Daytona racing course in Florida.
Macdonald drove 90-horse power
American machine.