The Donaldsonville chief., 1906-12-22
THE WORLDS NEWS
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
German Military Experts Predict War Be-
tween United States and Japan-Car
Shortage Being Investigated.
Tourist Steamer Wrecked.

Mig 0ScdF OF SWeuSn Is seriously
i'll at Stockholm.
Edouard Muller was elected presi.
dent Of the Swiss Confederation.
The armored cruiser Montana was
launched at Newport News, Va.
Government troops defeated the
revolutionists at Pasaje, Ecuador.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Civic Federation was held at
| New York.
| Thirty thousand cotton mill opera
| tives in New England received an in
crease in wages.
| Foreign contractors will be debarred
| from bidding on Panama Canal con-
struction work.
1t is stated that the revolutionary
disorders in Poland have been com.
| pletely suppressed.
Five women suffragists were arrested
and placed in jail at London after 8
fight with the police.
Railroad officials attribute the coal
famine in the northwest to the failure OF
dealers to store sufficient supply.
| Two officials of the Oakley penal
farm in Mississippi were wounded DUR
ing a fight with mutinous convicts.
Numerous arrests of suspected rev.
olutionists followed the discovery OF
bombs in college library at Moscow,
| Russia
German military experts believe that
war between the United States and
Japan will become inevitable within q
few years.
Capt. James w. Lambert, we'll
known Mississippi newspaper man and
Confederate veteran, died at his home
in Natchez.
The heir-apparent to the Persian
| throne assumed the reins OF govern
ment, owing to the serious illness OF
the shah.
The national house of representa-
tives adopted resolution providing
for an investig alton of the alleged
lumber trust.
Commander Robert e. Peary, the
intrepid Arctic explorer, was presented
with a gold medal by the National
Geographical Society.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is inyestig the unprece-
dented shortage Of freight cars in all
portions OF the country.
The agricultural appropriation bill
will contain an item of 81, ,o00,000 to be
used in carrying out the provisions of
the meat inspection law.
The failure of German insurance
companies TO pay their San Francisco
losses may be made the subject OF in
ternational diplomatic discussion.
The federal grand jury at Toledo,
Ohio, indicted the Ann Arbor Rail- |
way and the Toledo Ice and Coal
Company for violating the anti-rebate
law. /
The German reichstag was dissolved
by order of Emperor William because
it refused to vote an appropria for
military operations il German South
west Africa.
Andrew Carnegie believes that the
major portion of the estates of enor-
mously wealthy men should revert to
the state upon the death of the pos
SCISSOR of the fortune.
The presidents of more than thirty /
of the largest life insurance companies
in the United States met at New York
yesterday for the purpose Of forming
national organization.
The traction committee OF the Chi
cago city council and the represents
tives of the companies concerned fixed
the valuation of the Chicago street
railway system at $50, ,000, 900.
The Standard Oil Company an
nouneed that beginning Jan. /, 1907,
1t will increase by ten per cent the
wages Of all employees who presently
receive less than s100 per month.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has
applied TO the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to reduce
the rates on cotton shipped from
Houston, Texas, to New Orleans.
The tourist steamer Prinzessin
Victoria Luise, bound for Kingston,
Jamaica, went ashore of Port Royal.
The captain of the vessel committed
suicide by blowing out his brains.
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