The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-09
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Russian Town Destroyed by 1andslias,
Timhas supply Of United STATES
Nearing Observation-Disclosures
Ruiidos Killsd By Hans
ters in Pennsylvania.


dered at Garfield, N. j.
4 two headed baby was born to q
negress at Pea Ridge, Miss.
Two distinct earthquake shocks pro-
duced panic at Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Fire at Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed
the police station, causing a loss OF
800, 900.
A violent earthquake occurred at
Samarkand, Turkestan, but little dam
age was done.
L has been estimated that The ulti-
mate cost of the Panama Canal will
be 1864, 600, ,00o
a lone highwayman raided five ho-
tells at Prescott, Ariz., and killed one
man who resisted
Natives attacked a scandinavian
mission in China and stoned two wo-
men missionaries.
Enrico zampon, nephew of Pope
Plus, was shot and killed by work.
man at Monza, Italy.
The fifty fifth birthday anniversary
of the emperor of Japan was celebra-
ted in Washington, D. G.
Marina Hongoluzza, an Italian
washerwoman, was murdered and rob-
bed of S700 at Philadelphia, Pa.
John Sweeney narrowly escaped be.
ing lynched at Marietta, Ohio, for at
tempting to assault a young girl.
Three persons were killed and nine
seriously injured in q Queen and Cres-
cent wreck near Chattanooga, Tenn.
As the result of wreck on the Beau
mont, Sour Lake and Western Rail-
road, in Texas, two men were killed.
In a wreck on the Iron Mountain
Railroad near Little Rock, Ark, two
men were killed and one badly injured.
Sixteen lives were lost and fifty
houses destroyed in a cloudburst as
San Jose del Cabo, lower California.
Alex Johnson, a negro who crimi-
nally assaulted white woman, was
lynched by mob at Cameron, Texas.
George Lilly, farmer, while traiI-
ing a negro fugitive, accidentally shot
and killed himself near Clinton, Miss.
Abe Sumrall, negro murderer, apd
Frank Lucas, who aided him to elude
arrest, were lynched at Vinegar Bend,
Ala.
A negro who fired on a policeman
from ambush and killed him at Talla-
dega, Ala, was shot to death by
posse.
Two were killed and six injured in
head-on collision on the Queen and
Crescent Railroad near Morgan
vile, Ga.
Robert Simpson was pardoned from
the Pennsylvania penitentiary after
serving FIVE years for crime he did
not commit.
Clifford Pinchot, the government for
ester, declared the timber supply of the
United States would be exhausted IN
twenty years.
A terrific dynamite explosion occur
red near Canonsburg, Pa, four men
being blown to fragments and six
severely injured.
Two people were killed and several
hurt as the result of a wreck on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near
Cumberland, Md.
Five persons were killed and q
score injured in head-on collision OF
passenger and freight trains near
Little Rock, Ark.
Richard S. Evans, football player
on the Wooster University team OF
Ohio, died from injuries received In
game a month ago.
A trunk of dynamite exploded in the
union station at Pittsburg, Pa, seri-
ously injuring two men who had
handled it roughly.
Because it attacked an Irish setter,
Pennsylvania hunters shot and killed
Morland, q $4,000 bulldog owned by
Miss Inez e. Shaeffer.
Four thousand Illinois coal miners
/ quit work when informed that they
would be paid in check3 instead of
currency as heretofore.
Judge o. P. Temple, IS years old,
who stumped for Henry Clay and OPP
posed Andrew Johnson for congress,
died at Knoxville, Tenn.
Twenty one steamers have been char
tered in Scotland to convey coal and
other supplies to the American feet,
which is to visit Pacific waters shortly
Joseph Walker, United States se-
cret service man, was shot and killed
by miner in Colorado and there is
much mystery connected with the
tragedy.
AS Prince Gortchakoff, acting gov
ernor Of Vyatka, Russia, was driving
from the cathedral at Vyatks, bomb
was hurled at his carriage, but failed
to explode.
| The town of Karatagh Of Bokhara,
in Tashkend, Russia, was completely
destroyed by landslide following
the recent earthquake, and hundreds
Of lives were lost.