The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-21
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Loop-tfae-Loop Bicyelist Fatal1y Injured.
Strike of Coal Miners in Germany.
Treasure Hunters Fight-Dy-
naniter Arrested.

The English Parliament will convene
Feb. i.
An influenza epidemic has developed
! in Chicago.
Filipinos are to be enlisted in the
American navy.
A Mississippi convict chopped of
his hand to avoid work.
4 rapid rise was reported in the
Ohio river at Cincinnati.
A fierce gale on the British eoastre-
suited in the loss of life and property.
Disagreement over the military sit
uation disrupted the Danish cabinet.
F'ifty-nine persons were killed il an
avalanche of rocks at Naesdal, Nor
way.
One man was killed and thirteen IN
iured in railroad wreck near Deroy,
Kan.
Three witnesses il the Smoot case
testified that polygamy is dying out in
Utah.
Over 100, 900 men are idle in Ger
many as result of the strike OF coal
miners.
Reduced rates diverted about 4, ,0oo,-
900 bushels of corn from Chicago TO
Gulf ports.
District Attorney jerome began an
active crusade against New York
gamblers.
The battleship Connecticut may have
a bottom Of packed wool to resist tor
pedo attacks.
Nine. Loubet, mother OF the presi-
dent of France, died at Marsanne,
aged 90 years.
A general snowfall was reported il
the cattle districts of Texas, New Mex
leo and Arizona.
The house OF representatives broke
the legislative record By passing 459
pension bills In 1o8 minutes.
An international exposition devoted
to the 6ne arts, railroads and sports
is projected for Milan next year.
). Pierpont Morgan has purchased
the holdings of King Leopold of Bel
ginm In the Hankow-C Canton Railroad.
Three miners were killed and score
or more of others entombed as re-
suit of fire in coal mine at Decatur,
I'll.
Street carmen OF Pensacola, Fla,
were granted an increase in wages Of
two cents per hour for the next two
years.
Rival bands Of treasure hunters
clashed on Cocos Island, where tra-
ditionary pirates hoard is said to be
buried.
American trade with Japan in 1904
showed an increase In exports of 49,
424, 159 and an increase ii imports Of
sic, ,sOs. .597.
The Ohio river Is full OF floating ice
from Louisville to Cairo. The " abash
river is frozen over to the depth of
several inches.
DR.. William T. Councilman, profes-
sor OF pathological anatomy at Har-
ward, asserts that cancer Is not OF
parasitic origin.
A company has been formed In Paris
to construct an electric railway TO the
top Of Mont Blanc, the highest noun
tain In the Alps.
Il IS stated that the car of Russia
has contributed $50, 00o, 900 from his
private fortune toward the equipment
Of a fourth squadron.
John Matthews, an actor who was
held as suspect in connection with
the assassination Of President Lincoln,
died In New York last week.
The board of control OF the Missis-
sippi penitentiary will cooperate with
The farmers by holding 1000 bales Of
cotton produced on the state farm.
sDiavolos" loop-the-loop bicy-
slist, was probably fatally injured by
,he breaking of his wheel during q
performance at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Gessler Rosseau, arrested in Phila-
confessed that he attempted
10 destroy the statue OF Frederick the
Sreat and the British vessel Umhria.
la his inaugural message Gov.
Davis, of Arkansas, recommended the
passage OF 9 law separating the school
Eunda so the negro schools would re-
ceiVe only the taxes Daid hV negroes