The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-25
NO. 20.
THE WORLDS NEWS.
glashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Terrible Disaster in an Alabama Coal Mine.
international conAaission Uphold
Robestvensky-BigF Fires atm
dienapolis and Boston.
ian Paterson 3 new trial will begin

Philadelphia.
Fifty vessels are reported overdue
on both sides Of the Atlantic.
A dearth Of naval officers has forced
two cruisers out OF commission.
The sugar beet crop OF Europe will
be 100000 tons short this year.
Admiral sehley and wife will visit
Mobile, Ala, the Arst week in April.
William R. Harper, president of the
University OF Chicago, is critically i'll.
4 bull pool has been formed TO send
the price OF May wheat to S1.50 per
bushel,
Five men were killed and thirteen in
inred in coal mine accident at Potts
| vile, Pa.
Grand Duke Sergius, uncle OF the
Gear of Russia, was assassinated at
Moscow.
The peach crop in Georgia will be
greably curtailea as tbe result OF the
cold wave.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
wss wrecked by d alandslide near Santa
Barbara, Cal.
An unidentified negro and Mexican
were lynched near Smithville. Tex,
for criminal assault.
| The Standard Oil properties have
yielded profit of S348, 600, ,ooe to stock
holders Ia nine years.
Exports from the United States to
Cuba in 1904 show an increase of 38.9
per cent over exports for 1903.
| The Pope will put wireless teleg-
raphy in the Vatican observatory. He
has also ordered two automobiles.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad has
routed more than three hundred cars
OF corn for New Orleans for export.
Major Darlington. u, s. A., con-
victed Of falsifying vouchers, has been
sentenced to sixty years Imprisonment.
| A large double pier was burned at
Boston and the steamer Philadelphian
Was badly damaged. Loss, s., ZOO, 900.
| Louisville. KY, is being agitated by
| remarkable religious revival. Thou
sands Of people have been converted.
| Fire in the wholesale district OF Tn-
dianapolis destroyed eight buildings,
including three hotels. Loss, 81, ,5o0.-
O00.
Berea College, Richmond, KY. was
fined $1,000 for violation OF the new
state law prohibiting co-edncation OF
the races.
It is believed that the three cold
waves in Texas daring the present
month have materi8ly thinned out the
boil weevils.
-Four men were nlled and fourteen
more or less seriously injured by an
explosion on British submarine boat
near Queenstown.
The federal government has taken
steps at Chicago to prosecute members
of the beef trust for alleged violation
of the antitrust law.
The degree of LII. D., was con-
ferred on President Roosevelt and
Emperor William OF Germany by the
University of Pennsylvania.
Western railroads have $4,000 cars
tied up as result OF weather eondi-
tions, and it is estimated that $1,000
cars are tied up on eastern lines.
The house committee on military ar
fairs voted to return to the Confeder-
ate states the Confederate flags now in
the custody of the war department..
Over 15O men were killed in coal
mine disaster at Virginia, Ala. Scores
of bodies have been recovered, but
many more yet remain in the wrecked
mine.
The omnibus claims bill was finally
passed by congress and is ready for
the presidents signature. e contains
number of Louisiana and Mississippi
claims.
Conventions were held in nearly
every cotton growing state in the
union and resolutions adopted p1edg-
ing reduction OF 25 per cent in the
acreage Of the next cotton crop.
The Mann bill, abolishing the
Isthmian Canal Commission and pro-
viding that the president shall govern
the canal zone until the end OF the next
congress, was passed by the house.
Milton W. Arrowood, a midshipman
who deserted from the lbattlsship Kear.
sage Ian. 5, was arrested ID New York.
Arrowood declares he left the serviee
because his associates were immoral.
Mitsui & Co., of New York, agents
Of the japanese governments placed
with Philadelphia firm an order for
seyenty-seven locomotives, the largest
purchase ever made In this country by
foreign government.
An important conference of cotton
men was held at Washington for the
purpose OF formulating an address to
the president asking for his aid in the
extension of the American cotton trade
in Asia.
The report Of the North Sea Com
mission, according to Paris adviees,
will declare that the Russian admiral,
Roiestvensky, legitimately believed
his squadron in danger and acted
within his rights in firing on the trawl-
ers. The finding has caused great
indignation in London and a number
OF leading newspapers declare a death
blow has been dealt to arbitration.