The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-15
TIE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.


ton Crop at 7s.s-Increase in Amer
lean Exports to Cnba-Swift
Justice TO Assaulters.
| The census bureau reports 403, ,20t
bales of cotton ginned up to Sept. L
| The packers have agreed to place
! labels on meat products beginning
Oct. l.
American exports to Cuba for 1906
show an increase of 25 percent over
those of 1905.
| The street Garments strike at San
Francisco was declared Off by tbs
union officials.
William Matterey, a Chicago aero
| naut, has disappeared in an uneon-
tro1lable airship.
Father Francis Xavier Wernz, OF
| Germany, was elected general OF the
Order OF Jesuits.
It is believed that the junk left by
the French company at Panama will
sell for 81, 900, 600.
| Mexico has requested the United
States to suppress the revolutionary
iunta at st. Louis.
The Southern Quar- rantine and Immi-
grafton Convention will be held at
Nashville in November.
/ Twenty seven persons were injured
in a wreck on the Southern Pacific
Railroad in California.
In an attempt to escape a prisoner
set fire TO the jail at Mineola, Texas,
and was burned to death.
/ Cambridge defeated Harvard in the
ietern ational rowing race over the
Thames course in England.
| Gold and silver in paying quantities
have been found in the walls of adobe
houses at Guanajuato, Mexico.
lightning started a fire at Admission,
Ala, that destroyed 400 bales OF
cotton, causing loss of $50, 900.
The town of KWareli, Caucasia, was
completely destroyed and 2s5 inhabi-
tants buried alive by an avalanche.
The state department will inquire
into the oyerhauling OF the fishing
smack Hatteras by Mexican gunboats.
| Dan Patch paced mile in 1:55 at
St. Paul, Minn.. clipping a quarter Of
a second from the worlds record, held
by himself.
/ Officers of the battleship Alabama
are to be eourtm artiaIed for hazarding
the vessel in connection with the Illi-
nois collision.
New York capitalists have formed
| an organization to bvv all Sea Island
cotton offered for sale below stipu.
lated price.
It is believed that Louisiana will
get part Of the fund appropriated By
the United States government to fight
the boil Weevil.
Three persons were killed, several
injured and considerable property
damaged by a dynamite explosion at
Republic, Ala.
The American yacht Vim won the
Roosevelt cup presented by the Eastern
Yacht Club in the International races
of Marblehead, Mass.
The crop estimating board of the
Department Of Agriculture estimates
the condition Of che cotton crop Of
1906 up TO Aug. 25 to be 77.3.
I
The executive committee of the South
ern Cotton Association IN session at
Hot Springs, Ark, recommended that
no cotton be sold under 10 cents.
Father Garstka, a Polish Catholic
priest at Glassport, Pa. !, shot and seri-
ously wounded a. parishIoner who at
tempted to obtain church records by
force.
The international polieyholdersa
committee met in New York to pre-
pare tickets for trustees OF the Mutual
and New York Life Insurance COM
panies.
B. S. Adams. formerly assistant
cashier of the Vicksburg National
I Bank, is under arrest at that place
charged with a $4,000 shortage in his
accounts.
Gen. Rivera, commander OF the
Mexican cavalry forces, says there is
no foundation for the reports OF q
/ probable revolution ia Mexico during
| September.
Richard Cheatham, secretary Of
the Southern Cotton Association, was
exonefated of the charge of dealing in
cotton futures while an officer OF the
association.
Two unidentified negroes who at
tempted criminal assault on two white
girls near stringer, Miss, were taken
from the jail at that place and are
missing
Jimmy Britt and Joe Cans, the
negro lightweight champion, have
signed articles of agreement to fight at
GoldfeId. New, on Christmas night
for purse of s25, 900.
Dave Moore, a negro, who assaulted
an eight year-o1d white girl and who
was convicted at a special term OF
court, was hanged at Gainesville,
Tex as, in the presence OF 1000 persons.
| Charles Miller, a twenty year-old
1 negro under arrest at Culloden, G a.,