The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-19
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.


i icOnValeSelngs
/ Gen. Fernando Figuera was elected
president of Salvador.
The pope granted an audience TO
American students in Rome.
A merger of American packing es-
Establishments is contemplated.
Property valued at $500. 900 was de-
stroyed by fire at Chicago, Ill.
The Catholic population Of the
United States totals 13. .089, 1853.
A famous Spanish matador was
gored to death by bull in Mexico.
The personal estate of the late Rus
sell Sage was assessed at $50, ,O00, 600.
Anti-clerical demonstr ations oc-
CURED at Bilbao and San Sebastian,
Spain.
Severe earthquake shocks were ex-
perieneed in Norway, Sweden and
Russia.
The crown prince of Portugal fell
from his horse and sustained serious
injuries.
A warehouse FIRE at Lancaster, Pa,
caused a loss Of approximately
81 ,O00, 900.
Heavy rains occurred in southern
California, with resultant floods and
loss OF life.
Washington women organized q
club to work for the restoration of the
army canteen.
A movement was inaugurated in
France to organize an independent
Catholic church.
The United States senate passed q
bill limiting the hours of labor of rail
road employees.
The annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America was held at
indianapolis, Ind.
Locomotive engineers employed on
Western railroads will shortly re-
eeive an increase of pay.
The worst blizzard OF the winter was
experienced in the northwestern states
during the past week.
Numerous reforms will be instituted
in China as result of the work of
the imperial commission.
Hudson Maxim, the noted inventor,
has patented torpedo which may
revolutionize naval warfare.
The Argentine government will
probably raise its legation at Wash
ington to the rank of an embassy.
Importations of American cotton
goods into China were considerably
smaller in 1905 than in the year before.
A total eclipse of the sun occurred
in central Asia and was observed by
astronomists from all parts of the
world.
Marie Cahill. the actress. has of.
fered to establish library for dra-
matte students at Georgetown Univer-
sity.
The leaders OF the strike of textile
workers in the Orizaba district of
Mexico were shot by government
troops.
A tidal wave caused great loss OF
life in the Dutch East Indies, more
than three hundred :. persons being
drowned. ,
Kentucky farmers refused to accept
mail delivered by negro rural
carrier, and the route was promptly
abolished.
eoL+ haf,uoo,a ,,n;oyo ona unr
union longshoreman at Eureka, Cal,
one man was killed and two fatally
wounded.
Five persons were killed and eight
injured in a wreck on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at
Barney, N. NJ.
The grand jury of Findlay, Ohio,
returned thirty-nine indictments
against the Standard Oil Company
and its officers.
The import and export trade of
Great Britain for the year 1906 ag-
gregated FIVE billion dollars, breaking
all former records.
Representatives Gaines of Tennessee
and Mahon OF Pennsylvania became
involved in a bitter debate in the ma
tioual house of Representatives, and
personal encounter was narrowly
averted.
The state senate OF South Carolina
adopted resolution indorsipg the ac-
| tion OF President Roosevelt Ia dis
charging without honor the negro
| troops which participated in the
| Brownsville outrage.
w. j. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn,
and a. NJ. Bangs, OF New York, sub
nitted the lowest bids for the con-
| struction OF the Panama Canal and
| will probably be awarded the contract.
Twelve workmen we're instantly
killed and ten or more frightfuliy in
| iured as the result of an explosion of
molten metal in the Jones & Laughlin
/ Steel Works at Pitbsburg, Pa. A
/ score of workmen are missing.
Kingston, the picturesque capital of
the island of Jamaica, was dev astated
By violent earthquake, followed by
/ q destructive fire. Nearly q thousand
i lives were lost, and millions of dol
| lars worth of property was destroyed.
/ Sensational charges against Her
| bert D. Pierce, United States minister
to Norway, were made before the house
committee on ways and means by Prof.
/ Fl. w Elliott, of Cleveland, O., Ia
connection with hearing on reso-
/ luton providing for the further pro-
lection Of fur seals on the high seas.