The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-23
THE WORLDS NEWS,
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Ear.
Marriage Of Catholics Witil protestaata
Prohibited bs ArchbisHoh of Mon.
treal-British Premier to Retire
from Public Life.

An earthquake occurred in italy and
did considerable damage.
The Trans Mississippi Congress
convened at Muskogee, Okla.
William E. Sheibler, who received
the first Atlantic cable message, died
in New York.
Two men were killed as the result OF
an explosion in pickle factory at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The national convention of the
United Daughters of the Confederaey
was held at Norfolk, Va.
Several men were killed in a battle
between japanese officers and outlaws
on tile island of Formosa.
j. D. Hope, widely known Confed-
edate veteran, was killed in mill &C.
cident near Oxford, Miss.
Eight people were killed in wreck
on the Canadian Pacific Railroad
near Saulte Ste. Marie. Mich.
Fire at McGhee, Ark, destroyed
fifteen stores, two hotels and five sa-
looms, causing loss of $50, 900.
Mrs. francesca Kimball died in ST.
Louis, Mo-, of blood poisoning, re-
suiting from the cutting of corn.
Two Southern Railway passenger
trains collided at Washington, D, c.,
and seventeen persons were injured.
Six men were killed and numher
of others badly injured in a. grade
crossing accident at Milwaukee, Wis.
Fire destroyed the furniture house
of the Willis Smith, Grail Company,
at Norfolk, Va, causing loss OF
s85, 600.
On account of Ill health, Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerman, the British
premier, will shortly retire from pub
lie life.
As the result of trivial quarrel,
Ed. Martis stabbed his brother
to death with pocketknife at Pea
Ridge, Miss.
Miss May French, well,known
young poet and writer, committed sui
eide at George sterling's colony, near
Monterey, Cal.
Twenty-Five persons were injured
and a dwelling house torn to frag-
ments by an explosion OF natural gas
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Two Russian gunboats were de-
stroyed and other vessels damaged by
fire at the shiphuilding yards in St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Two men were killed, several others
injured and many houses shattered Ia
an explosion at a nitroglycerine fac
tory at Bradner, Ohio.
While playing with a pistol Law
renee Exum, aged twelve years, acci.
dentally shot and killed his younger
sister at West Point, Miss.
a young Russian woman, believed to
have been selected to slay the czar.
lost courage and committed suicide by
taking poison at Tsarkoe- Selo.
Lyman Smith, a merchant, was
struck down with hatehet and killed
near Columbia, Miss, while present
ing a bill to a man named Slater.
Micheal McCabe, a miner, was res
cued at Pottsyille, Pa, after being
imprisoned several hundred feet nn-
derground for eighty seven hours.
Fire at Bay st. Louis, Miss. de.
stroyed a score of buildings, including
the Catholic church and ST. Joseph's
Academy, entailing a loss of $3.50, 600.
The Mexican government has an
nounced that Magdelena Bay, off the
coast of lower California, has been
ceded to the United States as coal
ing station,
A pastoral letter has been issued by
Archbishop Bruchesi, of Montreal,
Canada, absolutely prohibiting the
marriags of Catholics with Protestants
in his district.
70 crafty her husband s dying re-
quest, Mrs. George ]. Feintell, Of Bir-
mingham, Ala, had the seyen-pound
heart Of her husband cut out and sub.
mitted to medical examination.
Miss Lucy Wheeler, daughter of the
late Gen. Joseph Wheeler, sued the
Mclean Arms Company, of Cleveland.
o., for s1I5, 5,625, alleged to be due for
services rendered by her father as pres
ident of the concern.
Four kings and four queens, with
sixteen princes and princesses, took
luncheontogether atWind dsor, England,
comprising the most remarkable gath
eri1g of European royalty in many
years.
As the result of head-on collision
between freight train and an engine
on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad, near Vicksburg, Miss, two
men were killed and number OF 9TH
ers injured.
Mexican war vessels will be given
the privilege OF eoaling in American
waters whenever they desire TO do SO,
In return for the courtesy extended to
this government of keeping eolliers in
Magdalena Bay.
Wonderful Eczema Care.