The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-08-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Valparaiso, Chili's Capital City Visited
by Destructive Earthquake-An-
other Revolution Threatened
in San Domingo.

Bubonie plague has broken out at
Campos, Brazil.
Several bands Of Y aqui Indians are
on the war-path in Mexico.
The cruiser ST. Louis was placed in
commission at the League Island navy
yard.
A cloudburst at Freeport, ILL.,,
caused damage to the amount Of
s1oo, 900.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate the governor general
Of w Warsaw.
Connecticut tobacco growers are
reported to be holding their crop for
higher prices.
The health authorities OF Baltimore,
Md, have discovered new mosquito
extermin ator.
The island of San Domingo is again
in a ferment, and another revolution
is threatened.
The railroads will test the constitu-
tionality of some of the provisions of
the new railway rate law.
On account of the renewed terrorist
activity, Russian policemen are re-
signing in large numbers.
T. R. Abernathy, deputy sheriff
of Littleton, Ala, was shot and killed
by handeuffed negro prisoner.
The anti-Greek movement in Rou-
mania and Bulgaria is reported to be
assuming serious proportions.
D. F. Magruder, a real estate dealer
of Gulfport, Miss, was arrested on a
charge of violating the postal laws.
Reforms instituted in the govern
ment printing Office at Washington
have effected a saving of nearly
81, 900, 600 year.
Three automobilists we're killed and
a fourth fatally injured when their
machine eollided with train near AS
bury, N. J.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard
Oil magnate, is said to be considering
a proposition to endow a home for
chorus girls.
Candida ates named by the miners
were successful IN the Alaskan cleo
lions to choose deleg TO the United
States congress.
Thirty persons were killed by the
explosion OF car of dynamite on the
Mexican Central Railroad, at Chi
huahua, Mexico.
White citizens prevented q negro
mob from lynching Jack Samuels, a
negro charged with criminal assault,
at Mccormick, S. @.
The treasury department. purchased
900 ounces OF silver bullion for
coinage at the New Orleans mint, pay
ing 66.62 cents per ounce.
Lewis Morrison, the famous actor,
noted for his impersonation of 'tMe-
phiston IN Goethe's ssF'aust, died at
his home in Yonkers, N. 7.
Frank j. Marshall, the American
chess master, was declared winner OF
the intern ational chess tournament
held at Nuremburg, Germany.
Chairman T. E. Burton and other
members of the rivers and harbors
committee will begin brief tour OF
the southern states about Sept. 13.
Emil Bergen, an insane mechanic OF
Batavia. ILL.,, murdered his brother
in-law with a razor, fatally stabbed
his wife and then committed suicide.
One woman was probably. fatally
injured and a number OF others less
seriously hurt in bargain-day rush
at a st. Joseph, Mo-, dry goods store.
Labor agents are being sent from
Mississippi to eastern cities for the
| purpose of securing laborers to assist
in harvesting the Mississippi cotton
/ crop.
In fight between union and nom
union miners at Butler Junction, Pa,
one man was fatally hurt and twenty
/ FIVE others were more or less seriously
injured.
The city council OF Birmingham,
Ala, adopted an ordinance prohibit
ing brokerage houses which deal il
futures from operating in that city
after Oct. !.
r. b. Brown, of GAINESVILLE, o., was
elected comm mander-in-c chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at tbs
annual convention of that organize
ton held at Minneapolis, MINI. Sar,
atoga, n. Y, was selected as mex
| years. meeting place.
| The president of Colombia issued /
decree declaring Diego Mendoza
| former Colombian minister TO tbs
United States, to be a traitor fol
| having published a letter addressed
to political friends, in which he i,
alleged TO have disclosed diplomatil
secrets.
/ Valparaiso, the capital OF Chill
was visited by a terrible earthquake
Friday night of last week, fully one
| half of the thriving city being com
| pletely destroyed. More than 200
persons were killed or injured, an,
the property loss is expected to ap
proximate $50, 900, 900.
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