The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-24
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Death of General Maxine Gomez at Ha-
vana-Negro Assaulters ana MUIR
derers Executed insects
Damaging Crops
in Texas.

Two inches of snow fell in Maine on
Tuesday.
The bureau of corporations will in-
vestigate the sugar trust.
/ The Fredonia National Bank, of
Fredonia, N. Y, has closed its doors.
German artillery manufacturers are
overrun with orders from the far east.
Five hundred persons were killed
in mine explosion in southern Rus
sia.
! New York's new eustomhouse. cost
ing $4,000, 900, is practically COM
pleted.
C. Oliver Iselin, the noted yachts
man, is seriously Ill at his home in
New York.
The postal treaty between the United
States and Panama was signed at
Washington.
The boyeots of American goods has
spread to seventeen out of nineteen
provinces in China.
The annual convention OF the South
ern Wholesale Grocers Association
was held at Norfolk, Va.
The president has appointed COM
mission to devise improved methods
of trans acting public business.
A Philadelphia broker swindled e.
nancfal institutions out of 81, 000, ,0O0
by raising certificates OF stock.
Prince Gustavns Adolphus OF Sweden
and Princess Margaret of Connanght
were married at Windsor, Eng and.
NorWegians in Brooklyn held meet-
ing and petisioned President Roosevelt
to recognize Norway's IS independence.
General Maxine Gomez, the Cuban
revolutionary leader and patriot, died
at Havana from gangreneous affee-
tion.
The followers of Alexander Dowie
have completed arrangements for the
establishments Of D Zion city Ia Mex
leo.
Thomas Lobb, maniac, shot and
wounded nine persons At san Fran
cisco, Cal. and then committed sui
eide.
The American zionists, lii conyen-
tion at Philadelphia, decided that Pal
estine was the best place for Jewish
colonization,
David Belasco, the American thea6-
rical manager, announces that he ex-
poets TO build theatre il London
within the next two years.
Simon Ford, who eriminally as
saulted white woman, was taken
from Jail at Hohenwald, Tenn, and
shot To death Ey mob.
The New York Central and Lake
Shore Railroads have put on . train
that makes the run FROM Chicago to
New York in eighteen hours.
Lightning struck and practically de-
stroyed the immense Armour Packing
Company's ice houses at MilWaukes,
causing q property loss OF $500, 600.
Bishop r. K. Hargrove resigned as
president OF the board Of trustees Of
Vanderbilt University, aand vas sue
ceeded by Bishop Charles B. Gallo
way.
Mrs. Lillian Langtry, the famous
actress known throughout the eonti-
nent as the Jersey Lily, has entered
vaudeville at salary Of s2500 per
week.
The, greatest scandal Chicago has
ever known will probably follow dis
closures made to the grand jury con-
cerning the settlement of strikea By
bribery.
Twenty y-three persons were killed
and many injured in collision be-
tween freight and passenger trains on
the Western Maryland Railroad, near
Westminster, Md.
S. P. sheerin, of Indianapolis, lad,
former secretary of the Democratic
national committee, dropped dead
while making an address before con-
vention at Chicago.
The hattleship Tennessee, when come
pleted, will be sent to New Orleans,
where Tennessee citizens are arrang-
ing to present the vessel with a mag
nifcent silver service.
Three negroes were executed stimuli
taneously at Decatur, Ala, two for
eriminally assaultiag and numbering
Miss Belle Bloodworth, prominent
young white woman, and the other for
numbering a policeman.
-Four American Warships have sailed
for Cherbonrg, France, to bring to
this country the body Of John Paul
Jones, the American naval hero who
performed many deeds of valor in the
revolutionary war.
Chief Justice Melville w Fuller will
shortly resign from the bench OF the
| United States supreme court 10 be-
come member OF the International
Arbitr alton Board. It il r0mored % at
4 Secretaray of War w. q. Taft will be
appointed to succeed Judge Fuller.
The Twentieth Century flyer on the
Lake Shore Railroad was wrecked by
running into an open switch as
4 Mentor, D. Eleven persons were
killed and number of others danger
! ously injured. The train was making
| its fourth trip on an eightaen- hour
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