The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-22
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Five Thousand Lives Lost in Typhoon
at Hong Kong-A Romantic Marriage.
Passenger Train PlunGes Into
an oklahoma River.

A Baltimore crank mailed package
OF ice to President Roosevelt.
A monument to George w ashington
was unveiled in Budapest.
An anti-Jewish outbreak is expected
at Warsaw, Russian Poland.
Lightning exploded 8 powder maga-
zine in France and killed seven per-
sons.
Four Tartar villages in the Russian
Caucasus were destroyed by Arme-
mans.
Fire at Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
caused a loss of several million
dollars.
The Cuban insurrection is causing
great loss to sugar planters on the
island
A statue of the late President Will
liam Mckinley was unveiled atColum-
bus, Ohio.
The Treasury Department purchase
200,0 ounces of silver for coinage
| purposes.
Germany has made an emphatic de-
mand for protection for German SUBJ
| jeets in Russia.
| The japanese are charged with
| barbarous methods in the execution
of natives in Corea.
Turkey has called the attention of
the European powers to the warlike
attitude of Bulgaria.
Moonshiners at Boaz, Ala, robbed
a saloon of $1,000 and murdered John
| Davis, the bar keeper.
A serious crisis exists in the Japan
ese cabinet. and Foreign Minister
Hayashi has resigned.
| The report of trade with Egypt
shows that we import ten times more
than we sell to Egypt.
| Mexicans at Aguas Calientes, Meg
| leo, threaten to drive the Americans
| out and burn the railroad shops.
| The Cuban Junta has appealed to
the American Red Cross Society for
aid to furnish nurses for wounded
1 soldiers.
/ Chinese laborers taken to Panama
for work on the Isthmian canal will
be deported at the conclusion of theil
service.
/ A young man claiming to be q
nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan was
arrested IN England on a charge d.
swind ling.
In fight between Japanese and
Russian fisherman of the coast ot
Kamchatka, several were killed an6
many wounded.
Alfredo Zayas and Loynaz del Cas-
tillo, two Of the Cuban insurgent lead
ers, have offered TO surrender TO the
United States.
Twelve men were drowned as the re
suit of handcar plunging through
an open draw bridge into stream
near Toledo, Ohio.
Mexican independence Day was eel
ebrated quietly, and there were many
public expressions OF friend1iness to
wards the United States.
President ohm Mitchell OF the United
Mine Workers, says the miners are il
politics and will support candidates
favorable TO the cause OF labor.
Two men were killed and anothe
wounded il. q saloon quarrel at Ham
: mond, Ind, as a result OF an ar
: gument over the Gans-Nelson bout.
The contract was awarded for th
construction Of new Battle House a
Mobile, Ala. The building Is TO con
tain nine stories and will cost 81,
600, 600.
Herbert Frazier. negro VIII,
stabbed q white man at Rosebud
Texas, was taken from the jail an
lynched by mob Of unmaske
= farmers.
Charles Conley, q negro who al
9 tackled two white women at Whining
: ton, Del. was sentenced to fifty years
: imprisonment and thirty lashes at th
= whipping post.
English and French views expires
: confidence Ia the attitude OF the Unite
= States towards the Cuban revolt, an
7 indicate approval of whatever cours
is followed by this country.
= D. J. Hogue, of West Memphis
Il Ark, and Miss Wilbur NJ. Drummond
e OF San Antonio, Tex, were married &
e midnight on the middle OF the Missis
sippi river bridge at Memphis.
a The Democratic party in New Yor
s is split into warning factions an
e chaos exists. The Hearst men clail
e they will control the state convention
: but this is disputed by the opposition
lb The Interstate Commerce Commii
y sion issued an order permitting raj
r roads TO issue through bills of Iadin
lr on export cotton and permitting the
e to reduce rates On three days notict
+ A passenger train on the Roc
q Island Railroad plunged into Il
2 Cimmarron river at Dover Oklahomi
g as . result OF the coIlapsing of I'll
2 bridge spanning the stream. and eigl
persons were killed, q score or mo-
y injured and many are missing.
10 Five thousand lives were lost, tweI,
ships sunk, twenty four stranded al
seven more badly damaged by {
e. phoon at Hong Kong, China. e
ST financial damage will amount 10 m
rs lions OF dollars, and the shippil
hs trade Of the port has been complete
4, paralyzsd by the greatest disaster
has ever known.