The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-09
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Plot TO Assassinate the Czar of Russia
frustrated = Battleship Oregon to
be Modernized- Alleged Theatri-
cal Trust 1ndieted-Public
Debt Decreased.

| Property valued at $3.50, 900 was de
stroyed by fire at Harrisburg. Pa.
| The famous battleship Oregon Is tt
be modernized at cost of 81, 900, 600
/ A plot to assassinate the czar O
Russia was discovered at St. Peters
burg.
A woman and two children wer,
frozen to death at Grand Rapids
Mich.
Eight persons were killed and four.
teen injured in q snowslide neal
Salida, Col.
The anti-dynastic uprising in cen
sral China is reported to be growing
serious.
Severe earthquake shocks were ex-
perienced at Highland and Greenyille,
Illinois.
A fight occurred in Nicaraguan ter
ritory between Nicaraguan and Hon
durean troops.
The New York grand jury returned
an Indictment against the alleged
theatrical trust.
Sir Michael Foster, a member OF
the British parliament, died suddenly
at his home in London.
At Pitts5urg, Pa, an unsuccessful
attempt was made to lynch q negro
who attacked white boy.
Thirty seven miners lost their lives
as the result of an explosion in coal
mine near Elkins, w. Va.
The bookkeeping system of the
United States treasury department Is
being revised and improved.
Capt. George J. Grammer, vice
president of the New York Central
Railroad, died at Chicago.
Mrs. Jacob F. GallInger, wife OF
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire,
died suddenly at Washington.
Major Austin Cushman, organizer
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
dropped dead at Boston, Mass.
The New Jersey legislature elected
Frank 0. Briggs United States sem
ator to succeed John F. Dryden.
Isaac M. Hutchinson, prominent
American manufacturer OF Mexico
City, died at San Antonio, Texas.
The various companies comprising
the Illinois state national guard will
be recruited to maximum strength.
The dispute between The Southern
Pacific Railroad and the fremen in
its employ was settled by arbitratioa.
A bill providing capital punishment
for burglary and highway robbery
was introduced in the Illinois legisaa-
tnre.
The appointment of two former in
surgent generals to government posi-
ions in Cuba caused much adverse
comment.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobsen, the
noted American lecturer, expressed |
he opinion that war with Japan 10 |
The American Periodical Publish.
,rs' Association will fight the pro-
posed changes in second-class mail |
The sultan of Turkey appointed q
commission 20 invastig ate charges
against Fehmf Pasha, chief of the
palace secret service.
The Michigan legislature elected |
Alden Smith United States
senator from that state to succeed the
aee Russell A. Alger.
Returns from the Russian provincial /
elections indicate that considerable /
number of Social Democrats and rev.
olutionists have been successful.
Lady Dorothy Cuthbert was acci-
shot and killed by her hus-
,and while hunting pheasants at I
8eaufront Castle, Northumberland.
The upper house of the Colorado
general assembly placed itself onk
'ecord as favoring the election of
United States senator's by direct vote
If the people.
The New York board of health
added q section to the sanitary code
the sale of cocaine in eom-
,ination with other substances except
vhen prescribed by physician.
The monthly statement of the public
laIf sf1ora IN AZ at the aIcea of huci /