The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-08
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Paul o. stensland, Fugitive Bank Pres
ident, Arrested in Morocco-American
Army Transport Wrecked-Fam
inc Threatened in Ireland.

land of ST. Vincent is in eruption.
The French army maneuvers were
abandoned on account of the heat.
An independent telephone company
is being organized at N atchez, Miss.
Owing to poor crops, partial famine
threatens the small farmers of Ireland.
Boston fnanciers are preparing to
test the legality Of the rate regulation
measure.
The National Irrigation Congress
held it's fourteenth annual session at
Boise, idaho.
Lady Campbell -Bannerman, wife of
the British premier, died at Marien-
bad, Bohemia.
Mormons have purchased another
tract of land in Mexico for eoloniza-
tion purposes.
The federal government will estab-
lish pure food laboratories at New
Orleans and other ports.
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary Of
the treasury, left Washington yester-
day for q tour of the south.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Pharmaceutical Association was
held at Indianapolis, Ind.
| Warehouses for the storage OF cot
ton are being erected at numerous
points throughout the south.
A Galveston fishing schooner was
seized by Mexican authorities while
lying becalmed near Progreso.
Labor Day occurred last Monday
and was observed by organized labor
IN every portion Of the country.
The Illinois Central Railroad inaug-
urated a through freight service from
| Chicago, ILL.,, to Jacksonville, Fla.
| The reciprocal tariff schedule be-
tween the United States and Spain
went into effect last Saturday. the 1st
/ inst.
/ The New York grand jury reported
that it could not find sufficient evi.
dence on which to indict the alleged
ice trust.
The son OF Crown Prince Frederick
Wilhelm, of Germany, was baptized
at Potsdam in the presence of the
royal family.
Missouri's secretary of state refused
to permit the Armour Packing Com
pany and other concerns to file "mod-
ihed" anti-trust afidavits.
Herman 0elrichs, New York mana
ger of the North German Lloyd Steam
ship Company, died at sea while re-
turning from a trip to Europe.
The monthly statement OF the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness Sept. /, 1906, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted TO S970, 1868,
1888.
Judge Alton B. Parker was elected
president of the American Bar Assoei-
alton at the annual convention OF that
organization held recently in ST. Paul,
MINI.
Arizona rangers raided Mexi-
can revolutionary establishment near
Douglas, Ariz., and seized quantity
Of weapons and considerable printed
matter.
Property and crops in the vicinity
OF Puebla and Durango, Mexico, have
been damaged by ineessant floods and
rains to the extent of approximately
$500, 600.
The United States army transport
Sheridan ran aground on the south
western extremity Of the Island oi
/ Oahu, in the Pacific ocean, and may
prove a total loss.
Roy King, negro, was run over
and killed by a switch engine at Mo-
bile, Ala, while trying to escape from
another negro who was pursuing him
with brick.
The directors of the Real Estate
Trust Company of Philadelphia, Pa.
which recently failed for large
amount, will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Paul o. stensland, the abscondine
president of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank, of Chicago, was arrested
at Tangier, Morocco, and will be
brought back TO the United States for
trial.
Mrs. Frank Palsgrove, who on Aug,
4 q murdered her husband and three
children at Biggott, Ark, committed
suicide by hanging herself with 4
sheet in the state insane asylum a
Little Rock.
Justice Stafford of the supreme
court of the District Of Columbia rulet
that labor unions have a legal fright te
request their friends and sympathizerl
to withhold patronage from non
union tradesman.
T The Philippine currency system il
causing the federal government mucl
trouble. The rise in silver has upse
| all calculations, and, as q result,
| will be necessary to recoin the siIve
pesos used In the islands.
The manager OF Birmingham
Ala, brokerage concern was boun,
over TO the federal grand jury on
charge OF abetting the embezzlemen
Of sl00, 900 by the paying teller OF sh
First National Bank of that city.
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