The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-02
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Terrific Loss of Life Follows Explosion OF
Fire Damp In Prussian Mine-Owner
of London Department Store
Assassinated-The Con-
necticut Damaged.
rhe Spanish cabinet resigned.

1hO Sp1dAad
Bubonic plague has appeared al
New Chwang, China.
The Hague peace conference will
probabaly assemble in June.
The elections in Germany resulted
in a victory for the government.
A distinct earthquake shock was ex-
perienced at Schenectady, N. Y.
The town of Luxora, Ark, was
flooded as result of the breaking OF
the levee.
Enrique Mora, a noted Cuban ban
dit, was captured at Havana by the
secret police.
The battleship Connecticut struck a
reef near Culebra Island and was Sc
riously damaged.
Fifty vessels were sunk and over
100 natives drowned during squall
at Hong Kong, China.
Senator Russell A. Alger of Michi-
gan died suddenly at his home in
Washington, D. G.
Over $50 miners were killed by an
explosion of fire damp in mine near
Saarbrueck, Prussia.
New York capitalists are planning
the establishment of chain OF pack
ing houses in Mexico.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the noted Rus
sian author, is critically i'll at his
home in St. Petersburg.
Two cases OF leprosy were cured by
specialist at Havana, Cuba, after
several years treatment.
Transcontinental railroads declined
to offer reduced rate for the trans
portation of American troops.
The people of Kingston, Jamaica,
will be relieved of all rates and taxes
for period of fifteen months.
The German-American tariff com.
mission completed its sessions and eff.
fected harmonious arrangement.
An explosion in a coal mine near
Fayetteville, West Virginia, resulted
in the death of over eighty miners.
Six lives were lost ard property
worth half a million dollars destroyed
in cotton mill fire at Dover, N. H.
A section OF the Baldwin Locomotive
Works at Philadelphia, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire, involving loss OF
81, 900, 600.
New York Catholics held mass
meeting to protest against the seizure
of church property by the French
government.
A bill to make pipe lines common
carriers at rates to be fixed by the
state was introduced in the Kansas
legislature.
Freight rates on pig iron shipped
from southern points to the north,
east and west were advanced twenty
five cents ton.
The Phelps Publishing Company Is
extensive plant at Springfield, Mass,
was destroyed by fire, entailing loss
of nearly $1,000, 600.
Gen. William Booth, of London,
founder and head Of the Salvation
Army, will shortly visit America, and
later Japan and China.
French Catholic bishops submitted
proposition to the government which
may result in compromise on the
church and state question.
The lower house OF the national
legislature voted overwhelmingly In
favor of the free distribution OF seeds
by members of congress.
The Kentucky railroad commission
is investigating charges to the effect
that the Illinois Central Railroad Ii
indirectly interested in Kentucky and
Illinois coal mines.
The Missouri house of representa-.
ttves passed bill prohibiting the
manufacture, sale or giving away ot
cigarettes or cigarette papers within
the confines of that state.
William Whitley, owner of one o,
the largest department stores in Lon
don, was shot and killed by a young
man named Horace G. Rayner, who
attempted to commit suicide immedi
ately after assassinating Mr.. Whitley
According to report issued by tbs
United States census bureau, II, 167, 81;
bales of cotton OF the 1906 crop hat
been ginned up to Jan. 16, 1907. This
number of ginneries in operation thil
year is placed at %, ,525.
James L. Rodgers, American consu
general at Shanghai, reports that tn,
| famine at present existing in China ii
one of the worst in the history of tha
country, many and terrible as th'
Chinese famines have been. Ten mil
| lion people are in serious want, 1000,
600 of whom are absolutely destitute
Weather and Crop Notes.