The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-16
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Destructive Rain Storms and Floods In
jure Crops in Italy-H Historic Catho-
lie Church Destroyed by Fire in
Canada-Isise of United States
Among Naval Powers.

The Mississippi state fair was held
at Jackson.
OF the worlds naval powers, the
United States now ranks second.
Six men were killed in ginhouse
boiler explosion near Pine Bluff, Ark.
Dominion Park, pleasure resort
at Montreal, Canada, was destroyed
by fire.
Archie Venuto died at Fremont,
Neb., after living one week on pea
nut diet.
A terrific prairie fire was reported
sweeping over the plains near Crooks
ton, MINI.
The motto. SIN God We Trust. "
has been omitted from the new SO
gold coins.
Two persons were cremated and
5000, 600 loss caused by fire at
Charleston, W. Va.
The American Federation of Labor
held its annual convention at the
jamestown Exposition.
The Roman Catholic church at
Tongue Pointe, Canada, built in 1923,
was destroyed by fire.
Seven armed bandits blew open the
safe in bank at Canova, S. ID, se-
cured $500 and escaped.
Five men were killed and three In
iured as the result of boiler explo.
sion at Steubenville, Ohio.
A great confagration in Iquiqui,
Chill, rendered thousands OF men. wo-
men and children homeless.
An aged woman living near Roehes-
ter, N. Y, was tortured and probably
fatally Injured by burglars.
A serious landslide occurred near
the village of Valcombre, Spain, as
the result of an earthquake.
At Mobile, Ala, Frank Over fell ten
stories and half down an elevator
shaft and was killed instantly.
As the result of duel ia Kentucky,
William Hopkins was killed and
Frank Hopkins fatally wounded.
Destructive transforms and floods
occurred throughout Italy, doing
much damage to property and crops.
A mysterious white man, masked,
attacked two women at Paragould,
Ark, and robbed them of their tresses.
Fire at Jackson, Miss, destroyed
the residence of William Hemingway,
causing loss of more than $40, 900.
E. II. Hall died in New York of
myxedema, said to have been caused
by handling money constantly for
twenty years.
A package containing s22, 1000 in
tended to pay miners mysteriously
disappeared from a stage coach near
Trinidad, Col.
Several lives were lost and con-
siderable damage done by an earth
quake at Terre la Ribera, province of
Huesca, Spain.
Several men were killed and thirty
seriously injured by boiler explo-
sion on the German schoolship Blucher
at Kiel, Germany.
The Northern Cooperage Company's IS
factory at ST. Paul, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire and three employees
were reported missing.
Three people were injured at Hatties-
burg, Miss, when an elevator in the
Carter Office building broke its cable
and dropped six floors.
At Wilmington, Del, Fred Under
Hill killed his wife and seriously in
iured her sister because they did not
have hot supper prepared for him.
The Great Northern Elevator, filed
with grain, and number of other
structures at Superior, Wis, were de-
stroyed by fre, causing a 81, 600, 900
loss.
Max Duffen, of Munich, Germany,
walked on his hands down all the steps
of the Washington Monument at
Washington, D. c., and won wager
of $500.
Minister of State Jonkheer van
Panhays, of Holland, his brother,
Mayor Lock, and their wives were
drowned at Amsterdam by falling into
a canal during dense fog.
The birthday anniversary OF King
Edward, who was born Nov. 9, 184l,
was observed throughout the Britieh
empire with the customary military
and naval salutes and displays.
Miss Catherine Vosbaugh, So years
old, who passed for sixty years as
man, marrying woman thirty years
ago to protect the latter, died at Trim
dad, Colo, wearing her trousers to
the last.
Michael McCabe, alive and well, is
awaiting slow death by starvation at
the bottom of an s0O-foot shaft In a
colliery near Malone City, Pa, where
he was walled in as the result of an
explosion.
Mrs. j. Carter Wright, of Mobile,
Ala, was accidentally shot and killed
as the result of pistol dropping from
the pocket of negro 1aborerjs coat.
which she had removed from the bath
room of her home.
Don't Pay Alimony