The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-29
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Census Bureau Reports that 1908. 600
Bales of Cotton Were Gfnned Up to
Dec 13-Hnndreds of Horses
and Mules Cremated.

mas aHected the price Of grain.
Fire at Nacogdoehes, Texas, de,
stroyed property valued at $500, 900.
French wine growers have organized
for the purpose Of keeping prices up.
An earthquake shock was expert,
enced at Fort de France, N artinique.
Cypriano Castro, president OF Ven
ezuela, is reported to be in dying
condition.
General Eloy Alfero was elected
president of Ecuador for term oil
four years
Governor Charles E. Magoon ap-
pointed commission to revise the
laws of Cuba.
Great Britain and France have ef-
fected q combination which amounts TO
an alliance.
The United States supreme court
sustained the validity ofthe Louisiana
Inheritance tax law.
Twenty passengers were injured in a
wreck on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road at Reno, Nevada.
British battleships will be equipped
with turbine instead of reciprocating
engines in the future.
The. famine in China has assumed
alarming proportions and interna-
stoaal aid IS sssng asked. - 80
Henry Davis, negro who criminally
assaulted white woman, Waslynched
by mob at Annapolis, Md.
An automobile owned by Joseph
Letter ran down and killed a negro
boy at Washington. D. C.
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II.
defeated the La Provence il a trans
Atlantic race to New York.
Nose Abrams, negro desperate,
was shot and killed by D. Dennison, a
white man, at Pine Burr, Miss.
Count Alexis Ignatieff, member OF
the Russian council of the empire,
was assassinated at Tver, Russia.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured by al explosion OF dyna-
mite in 9 factory at Savannah, Ga.
The German cruisers Panther and
Bremen will visit a number Of south
ern ports during the next few months.
ames Bryce was appointed British
ambassador to the United States to
succeed Sir Mortimer Durand, re-
called.
Three men were killed and four Ia
tally wounded in a fight between guards
and strikers at a coal mine near
Sturgis, KY.
The German-American Lumber Com
pany's sawmi1l at Millville, Fla was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
s1Oo, 900.
E. r. Ellerbrock, a crank, attem pied |
TO assassinate Probate Judge Charles
A. Cutting in q court building at Chi
eago, Ill.
The vatican protested to the powers
against the action of the French gov
In searching the papal nuncia-
5ure at Paris.
The United States census bureau is-
sued a statement to the effect that H.
198, 900 bales OF cotton had been ginned
up to Dec. 13, 1906.
Capt. Edgar A. Maeklin, u. S. A.,
was shot and seriously wounded By
discharged negro soldier at Fort Reno.
Territory.
Earl Bowers, son of Congressman
E. ]. Bowers OF Mississippi, was bru-
tally assaulted by a negro policeman
at Washington, d. C.
State Senator A. S. Hawkins OF
Texas resigned rather than support
Senator ]. W. Bailey for reelection
TO the United States nate.
A disastrous fire damaged the New
port News shipbuilding and Dry Dock
plant at Newport News,
Va, causing loss of 5000, coo.
Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary OF
the treasury, has been offered the posi-
ton of president of the Mutual Life In.
suranee Company of New York.
William J Atkinson, charged with
wrecking bank at Morton Park, ILL.,,
is alleged to have shipped large
amount Of money to relatives at New
Orleans.
Nine men were killed outright and
forty other persons seriously injured
in a wreck on the Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and sault Ste. Marie Railroad
at Ender1In, North Dakota.
The attorney general OF the state OF
New York instituted proceedings
against the American Ice Company
with view TO forcing the dissolution
of the so-ealled icestrnst.
One hundred horses and four hum
dred mules were burned 10 death in 8
fire which destroyed large livery and
sale stable at Atlanta, Ga. The loss
is estimated at 300, 900, With insurance
to the amount OF about S55. 900.
AS q result of the strike of iron
molders in the shops of the Southern
Pacific and the Houston and Texas
Central Railroads at Houston, Texas,
the management announced the per-
manent closing OF the molding depart
ments, stating that henceforth they
will purchase all castings IN the open
market.