The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-10-19
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Cholera Spreading Rapidly in Russia and
Japan-Indiana Town Destroyed by
Explosion of Powder Plant.
Emperor of Austria III.


coast of Mexico.
i Cholera is spreading at an alarm
| ing rate at Toxic, Japan.
| Emperor Francis Joseph, of Aus
trla Hungary, is seriously i'll.
I French physicians have succeeded
In removing birthmarks by means of
radium.
General Adolf von Buelow, the i'm
perial adiutant of Germany, died at
Potsdam.
! J. D. Rockefeller has given 5000, coo
TO the University of Chicago for q
memorial library.
The steamer Cypress was wrecked in
a storm on Lake Superior and twenty
one lives were lost.
Four men were drowned by the over
turning of a gasoline launch near
Perth Amboy, N. J.
The steamer ]. w. Moore was sunk
in collision in the Detroit river and
one man was drowned.
The Russian council OF ministers
appropriated SO, 500, 600 for coloniza-
tion purposes in Siberia.
Three persons were killed by the ex-
plosfon of q Central of Georgia loco
motive at Columbus, Ga.
The steamship steerage rates between
Hamburg, Germany, and Galveston,
Tex, have been increased.
l
Sixteen men were sentenced to death
at Hayti on the charge of conspiracy
to overthrow the government.
One person was killed and nineteen
seriously injured by the collapse OF
trestle near MiddIetown, n. Y.
The cholera in Russia is spreading
rapidly and every province that suf-
Tered from famioe last year is now in
the grasp of the terrible scourge.
Solomon Frank and five daughters
were suffocated by fire which destroyed
their home at Goversyille, N. Y.
An automobile driven by Charles p.
Beard, of Philadelphia. Pa, ran down
and killed a boy at Paris, France.
Miss Grace Marvin was assaulted by
a negro cabman at Logansport, Ind,
and the fiend narrowly escaped lynch
ing.
Rudyard Kipling urged the importa-
ton of British people into Canada to
solve the Canadian immigration prob
lem.
It was reported that new steamship
line would be inaugurated on the west
coast of South America, shortening
the time between New Orleans and
Peru.
An attempt to hold up a train in Rus
sia resulted in the death of four rob.
bers and the wounding of a number of
others.
Jno. Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, is recov.
ering from an operation for appen-
dicitis.
Four people were instantly killed at
Pottsdown. Pa, when an automobile
tried to beat an express train to a
crossing.
1t was stated at Washington, D. c.,
that the shortage of enlisted men in
the army had reached alarming pro-
portions.
Two wealthy Mexieans were am
pushed near Guayamas by Yaqui In
dians, one being kiIled and the other
fatally wounded.
A three-year-old child left alone in
house with a negro near Memphis.
Tenn, was violated, and lynching
was narrowly averted.
Three Memphis, Tenn, negroes
charged with burglaries were taken
from jail at Tunica, Miss, By an I'M
known mob and lynched.
Owing to the increased cost of labor
and feed the price of milk in Chicago
will be raised to the highest point
known since the civil war.
A negro who refused to pay his house
rent and killed w. a. Sumner at Tex
arkana, Ark, was himself killed by
officers while resisting arrest.
One man was killed and eight injured
In collision between a Frisco pas
senger train and Louisville and
Nashville freight at Pratt City, Ala.
Miss Jennie Z. Stevens, brooding
over the fate Of her murdered friend,
Mrs. Bessie q. HoIliater, committed
suicide at Chicago, H., by drowning.
United States officers were dispatched
to the Canadian border ii the north
west by the immigration bureau to
stop the smuggling of Asiatics across
the border.
The Mississippi supreme court af-
frmed the two-year sentences of Geo.
Rfchberger. ex-cashier of the Jones
town Bank, who was convicted of EN-.
bezzling ss656.59
The ArosIc steamer F'rithioh. which
accompanied the Wellmap expedition
to spitzbergen, was wrecked off the
coast OF Iceland and the captain and
fifteen Of the crew were drowned.
Fontanet, Ind, was destroyed BY
the explosion of the Dupont powder
plant, two score persons being killed
and every one Of the eight hundred in-
habitants injured. The concussion
was felt 200 miles aWay.