The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-11
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Big Strike of Street Car Employees in New
York-Death of Gen. John n. Rea-
gan-Mrs. Chadwick ION Trial.
Jamaica Desires Annexation.


Sabbath has been started in England.
Subscriptions were opened in New
York for Japan's new loan $50, ,00o, 600.
Germany is sounding the United
States On reciprocal trade arrange
ment
-Four miners were killed and four
injured ia an accident at Shrewsbury,
w. Va.
The steamer Delta and cargo burned
IN the Mississippi river below Vieks-
burg, Miss.
The western grain rate war has been
settled and normal tariffs will be re-
stored April 1.
Between 5000, 900 and SIC, 900, 600
will be spent in improving the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Forty persons were injured, one fa-
tally, in an accident on a Chicago
elev ated railroad.
Seven persons were killed and
twenty injured in a railroad collision
near Pittsburg, Pa.
j The Texas legislature appropriated
s25, 600 for the investigation of the
beef trust in that stats.
Klatho Harjo, Oldest Indian in Amer
lea, died at Shawnee, Oklahoma Ter
ritory, at the age OF 10.
Two hundred indictments were re-
turned against the Standard Oil Com
pany at Cynthiana, KY.
DR.. Lyman Beecher Sperry. OF
Oberlin, o., declared that by correct
living man can live 150 years.
The trial of Mrs. Cassie +. Chad
wick began at Cleveland, o. Andrew
Carnegie was one of the witnesses.
The officers and cavalrymen OF the
American army will be supplied with
sharpened swords in the future.
James Inee, a farmer OF Whitley,
Ark, is under arrest on the charge of
killing his wife and three children.
The plant of the American Cereal
Company, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
destroyed by fire, causing 81, 500, 600
loss.
The remains OF Theodore Thomas,
the noted orchestra leader, were in
TERED IN Mount Auburn cemetery,
Boston.
Several persons were killed and
many injured in wreck on the Cleve-
land and Pittsburg Railroad at Cliff
ton, Ohio.
It has been decided that Porto
Ricans can enter civil service exami-
nationaeondueted by the United States
government.
Gen. John Fl. Reagan, postmaster
general of the Confederaey, died az
his home in Palestine. Texas, at the
age OF IS years.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Growers Assoeia-
tion will tour the south to urge re-
duction of acreage.
President Roosevelt rendered the
Office OF United States district attorney
for the northern district of Georgia to
F. G. Tate, q Democrat.
Joseph Patterson. editor of the Chi
cago Tribune, resigned to take the
stump in the city campaign in advo-
eacy of municipal ownership.
The property Of the Memphis Street
Railway Company was sold to Ford,
Bacon & Davis, OF New York, for an
estimated consideration of 81, 500, coo.
The German National Bank of Gin
cinnati is short $50, ,0o0 IL It's govern
ment reserve fund. e is believed the
funds were abstracted from the vaults.
Binger Hermann, member ofcongress
from Oregon, was indicted In W ash
fngton for destroying public records
while commissioner of the land Office.
An examination OF the body Of Mrs.
Jane L. Stanford, who died under
peculiar circumstances at Honolulu,
revealed traces of strychnine poison
ing.
Appropriations OF all kinds made
| by the recent congress aggregate
s697, , ,04s, az. The estimated revenues
for the next fiscal year are s725. $780,
515.
Il. Rider Haggard, the novelist. arr
rived at New York and will inspect
the industrial and agricultural col
onies of the salvation Army in Amer
ica on behalf of the British govern
Sment.
Five thousand employees of subway
and elevated lines in New York have
gone on strike. A collision in the
subway on the first day OF the strike
resulted in the injury of twenty-nine
persons.
Speaker Cannon was presented with
a loving cup by the members OF the
house without respect to party. a
similar presentation was made to John
Sharp Williams. che minority leader ),
| by Democrats of the house.
/ Senator Fosters amendment 10 6as
rivers and harbors bills providing foI
t improvements On the Tsehe was lost
The amendment to pay the Citizens
t Bank OF Louisiana over q quarter 3
8 million dollars, offered by Senate
MeEnery, vas stricken from the Ger
eral deficiency bill.