The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-04-06
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
chronological Experts Discover Parasite
for Boil Weevil- Disastrous Earth
quake In Turkey Prosecutions
Under Pure Food Law to
Begin shortly.

Richard Mansfield, the noted actor,
is seriously i'll IN New York city.
China has ordered 2,000, 900 rifles
from Germany for army equipment.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian author,
is suffering with consumption at Rome,
Italy.
Jim Williams, negro charged with
criminal assault. was lynched at Du-
rant, I. T.
Employees of number of the big
breweries at ST. Louis, Mo-, struck for
higher wages.
The residence of the American am
bassador at Rome, Italy, was dam:
aged by fire.
Fifty-four persons we're killed by an
explosion of dynamite in q South
African mine.
The peasant uprising In Roumania
has been suppressed and tranquility
is being restored.
Many cities are protesting against
the population estimates of the United
States census bureau.
The governor OF Florida advocates
the colonization of negroes as solu-
tion of the race problem.
James Henry Smith, q New York
millionaire, died in Toxic, Japan,
while on his wedding tour.
The San Francisco electric light and
power plant was destroyed By fire,
entailing loss of SO, 500, 900.
An earthquake occurred at Bitlis,
Turkey, causing great loss OF life and
destroying considerable property.
W. A. Proctor, prominent business
man of Cincinnati, O., committed sui
eide by shooting himself ia the heart.
Bishop John G. Cranberry OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
died at Ashland, Va, at the age of Il
years.
The census bureau reports that the
population OF the United States hal
increased by 5000, ,OOo during the pas
six years.
Twenty persons were killed ane
nearly 100 injured in wreck on tht
Southern Pacific Railroad near Col
ton, Cal.
james ]. Hill resigned as presiden
OF the Great Northern Railroad AMI
will become chairman OF the boart
of directors.
DR.. 3. B. Craighead, president o
Tulane University, delivered an ad
dress before the AIabama Educationa
Association at Mobile.
Herbert Knox Smith, United State
commissioner of corporations, vii
4 personally Investigate the cotton ex
changes of this country.
/ The United States department o
agriculture is making preparations :.
begin prosecutions under the nasiena
pure food law at an early date.
| Wreckers ditched 8 train on th
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gull Railroal
near Council, OkIahoma. three per
sons being killed and several injured
A hospital costing s2o0, 900 viii b
erected 81 Atlanta, Ca, By the officer
and employees Of the Southern Railwa,
as d memorial to the late samue
,I Spencer.
A popular movement to secure Q re
priege for Horace George Raynes
convicted of the murder Of Williar
Whitley, was started in London, Er
gland.
The entomologIsts Of the Unite
States department of agriculture hay
discovered that the common red 81
and the larvae Of certain wasp-lih
!. fs are the best parasites for the bo
Weeyii.
The New York Legislature passed
bill providing for d recount Of Il
votes cast ID the last mayor atty elel
tIon in New York city, when Villa
Randolph Hearst was defeated &
mayor bF George b. MeI4elIand.