The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-08-11
THE WORLDS NEWS,
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Terrible Loss OF Life Follows Wreck OF
italian steamship-seoret of South
ern Cotton Association Found
Guilty of Specializing
in Futures.

Serious riots ofunemployed laborers
occurred at Cape Town, South Africa.
Less than 1900 fire losses have so
far been adjusted at San Francisco.
Four earthquake shocks were ex-
perienced at Fort de France, Marti-
nique.
The railroads may decide to test the
constitutionality of the new railway
rate law.
One man was killed and three seri-
ously injured in an election fight at
Cold Springs, Texas.
Fire in the Intern ational Exposition
at Milan, Italy, inflicted loss of ap.
proximately $500, 900.
The annual convention OF the Inter-
national Brotherhood Of Teamsters
was held at Chicago, III.
Mrs. Thomas w. Lawson, wife of
the noted Boston fnaneier, died at her
home near Scituate, Mass.
Property and crops were seriously
damaged by floods in western Texas
and the Indian Territory.
A Pennsylvania corporation ac-
quired control Of 125, 900 acres OF bitu-
minous coal lands in that state.
Depositors in the wrecked Enter
prise National Bank, at Allegheny,
Pa, will be paid a dividend OF 20 per
cent.
Rear Admiral Charles j. Train,
commander of the Asiatie feet of the
United States navy, died at Chefoo,
China.
Richard Cheatham, secretary of the
Southern Cotton Association, was
found guilty Of specializing in cotton
futures.
The San Francisco relief committee
is distributing $1,000, 900 in cash to
refugee families, at the rate of $40, =
900 per day.
A band of Pu1aj anes raided the town,
of Abuyog, Island OF Leyte, F. t.
killing six men and burning the mu-H
nicipal buildings.
Fay Templeton, the popular actress,
and W. J. Patterson, a Well-knoWn
business man OF Pittsburg, were mar
ried at Philadelphia.
DIR. Julian 2. Thomas and Roy.
Knabenshue travelled in balloon
from New York city to Brant Rock,
Mass, a distance ofs225 miles.
J. T. Harahan, vice president of the
Illinois Central Railroad, declares
that New Orleans is destined TO become
one OF the worlds greatest ports.
Following a strike OF smelter men,
the Boston and Montana mines at
Butte, Montana, suspended operations,
throwing thousands out utofemployment.
Reports from the bureau of statistics
show that the foreign commerce of the
United States has grown more rapidly
than it's population in the last decade.
New York, Washington and other
eastern cities experienced the hottest
weather OF the season last Monday.
Twenty deaths occurred at New York.
The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank,
OF Chico 20, was forced to close It's
doors as result of the ,embezzlement
of nearly sl,0o0,00 by several OF its
officers.
The Italian steamship Sirio. with
800 passengers aboard, was wrecked
off Hermigos Island, near Cape Palos.
Nearly three hundred immigrants were
drowned.
A Chinese commission has underA
taken the task Of translating the con-
stitutions OF the principal nations OF
the world, with a view of compiling q
constitution for China.
The British naval department has
abandoned all attempts to refoat the
frst.class battleship Montague, which
went ashore off Lundy Island on the
2rd OF last May.
The state health food commission of
Illinois issued notice to Chicago res
taurants and hotels that no watereds
skinned or otherwise adulterated milk
must be served to patrons.
William Fl. Beleher, who absconded
while filing the position Of mayor of
Paterson, N. j., surrendered to the
authorities after remaining at large
for several years, and was sentenced
to twelve years Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer,
purchased the John Harvard home at
Stratford on-Avon. Eng land, with the
Intention of presenting it to Harvard
University, but may not tender the
gift on account of the prejudice that
has lately been aroused against the
American meat packers.
| Three negroes charged with murder
! ing MIR. and Mrs. Isaac Lyerly and
their two children, Well-kn own resi-