The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-30
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland serionsly
In-Russian War Debt Llquidated.
Famous opera Singer Com
lnits Suicide.

Navigators reported volcanic erup.
ton off the coast of Yucatan.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is Sc.
riously i'll at his home in Princeton,
N. j.
Theodor Bertram, the celebrated
opera singer, committed suicide at
Beyreuth.
The prohibitionist national conven-
ton will be held at Columbus, Ohio,
next June.
Mrs. Jessie T. Hodges killed herself
and her two sons at Newton, Mass, by
asphyxiation.
Five children-were crem ated and two
seriously injured in a residence fire at
fitusville, Pa.
Emperor William of Germany will
shortly undergo an operation for
throat affection.
Twelve persons were painfully In.
jured in q collision between trolley
cars aeSandusky, Ohio.
Papinta, noted Spanish dancer,
dropped dead on the stage of q theatre
at Dusseldorf, Germany.
Justine Fernandez, the Mexican
minister OF justice, has resigned from
the cabinet OF President Diaz.
John w. Crawford, Admiral Dew
ey's secretary committed suicide by
jumping into the Potomac river.
In return for a slight tariff concas-
sion, Great Britain will allow valuable
privileges to American drummers.
It is reported that the Japanese are
ousting Americans and Europeans in
commercial affairs in the far east.
The Nobel prize for chemistry will be
awarded to Sir William Crookes, and
thatfor literature to Rudy ard Kipling.
The tug Escort, of Port Dalhousie,
Ontario, was sunk by q barge of Nj
agara Point and three of her crew were
drowned.
Russia paid her last war debt when
she sent check for s24, 1902, 200 to Ja-
pan in payment for the maintenance
of Russian prisoners.
A destructive storm swept the At
lantic coast, from Hatteras to Boston,
endangering shipping and doing
much damage in coast towns.
Harry Bureh, q carpenter of New
Hope, KY, fell from the seventh floor
OF the new Battle House at Mobile,
Ala, and was instantly killed.
Seven men were killed and thirteen
seriously injured by boiler explosion
in the plant of the John T. Roger Lum-
ber Company at Gilmerton, Va.
Fourteen girls comprising the entire
senior class of the Pentwater, Mich,
high school, were suspended because
they attended football game.
Surgeon General Rixey of the United
States Navy has recommended that
sailorsunder twenty-one years OF age
be forbidden to smoke cigarettes.
Mrs. Amelia Walton Alcorn, aged
seventy-eight years, widow of 8. A.
Alcorn, the reconstruction governor
OF Mississippi, died at Memphis after
brief illness.
Miss Edith Root, daughter of the
secretary of state, and Lieutenant Uly-
ses S. Grant, son of Major General
F'redrick D. Grant, we're married at
Washington, D. G.
A tablet to the Botetourt Virginia
Battery, the first Confederate memorial
to be erected in the Vicksburg Ma
tional Military park, at Vicksburg,
Miss, was dedicated.
The opening of the electric street
railroad lines in St. Petersburg has
been delayed indefinitely, owing to the
suspension of the credit of the RUS
sian Westinghouse concern.
John G. Stevenson, OF Bloomington,
H., brother of the former vice presi-
dent, was attacked by his veteran
coachman, Edgar N. jennings, and
barely escaped being shot.
The United States census bureau
reports 1911, ,202 bales of cotton ginned
from the 1907 crop to Nov. IA. This Ia
against 1852, ,242 for1906 and I ,5O1, 600
for 1905, and counts round bales al
| half bales. 80
i At Brentwood, a small village near
| Chattanooga, Tenn, Garfield Hill was
stabbed and instantly killed by Nathar
/ Dixon, because he playfully blew ou
match while Dixon was endeavorins
20 light his pipe.
i The bodies of Nicholas Smith, I
wealthy manufacturer, and his wife
were found in their home at New Ro
ehe1le, N. Y, and it is believed tai
woman killed her husband, attempted
to burn the house and cremate tn
bodies, and then committed suicide.
Iron beds, furniture and mating
strong feature In our business. A lool
) will prove it. r. Henderson & Bro
A Long Island farmer who is inter
] ested in raising winter vegetables /
trying-out q novel electrical expert
ment. An electric arc light Is used 9