The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-15
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Blue-Ribbon Event of English Turf Won
by American Horse-Death of Senator
John 7. Morgan-Fa1nine In Ha-
vana Cigars Threatened-Fur-
niture Dealers Indicted.

ragua and Salvador.
The village of Berai, Turkey, was
destroyed by an earthquake.
A raft of 1000 logs is being towed
from Nova Scotia to Brooklyn.
A German scientist claims to have
discovered cure for spinal menin-
gifts.
Miss Julia Magruder, the novelist,
died at Richmond, Va, at the age of
fifty-one years.
Fire destroyed the Princess Anne
Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va, causing
loss of s185, 900.
Fifty-seven persons were injured in
wreck on the Southern Railway
near Lebanon, Tenn.
Secretary Root has accepted the
invitation of President Diaz to visit
Mexico this summer.
Mark Twain sailed for England to
receive the degree of doctor of litera-
ture at Oxford University.
Death is removing civil war veterans
from the federal pension rolls at The
rate Of about 120 day.
The National Negro League was
organized at New York with delegates
present from eleven states.
A famine in Havana cigars is threat
ened should the strike of Cuban cigar
makers continue much longer.
The United States department of
justice will institute proceedings to
dissolve the anthracite coal trust.
United States Senator John T. Nor
gan, of Alabama, died at his home in
Washington, D. c., aged SO years.
Twenty eight passengers were
drowned by the sinking of the French
schooner La Jalouse of Barbados.
A large increase in wages was
granted the telegraphers and station
agents OF the Mexican Central Railway.
The June cotton report of the New
York Journal of Commerce indicated
an increase in acreage of IL per cent.
Richard Croker's American horse
Orby, ridden by an American jockey,
Johnny Reiff, won the English derby
at EPSON.
The Philippines commission passed
an act creating retired list for men,
bers of the constabulary who serve
twenty years.
The Catholic church of the Sacred
Heart at Ottawa, Ontario, was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
more than 5000, 900.
Naomi Fisher, an inmate of the
insane asylum at Jackson, Miss,
killed her roommate, susie Camp
bell, with a bed-slat.
Both Mexico and Guatemala are
massing troops on the border, and
war between the two countries is be-
lieved to be inevitable.
The board of trustees of the e. S.
Grant University voted to change the
name of that institution to the Uni
versity OF Chattanooga.
The steamship Humboldt arrived at
Seattle from southeastern ALASKA with
the first gold shipment of the season,
amounting to $525, 900.
A new law making obligatory the
registration in detail of the Americans
residing permanently in Paris, France,
will go into effect on July Is.
Governor Hughes vetoed the bill in.
stituting fat passenger rate of two
cents per mile on every railroad system
in New York state more than 80 miles
long.
Disastrous storms swept over the
towns OF Gradyville, KY, and York
and New Minden, ILL.,, twenty-nine
persons being killed and forty in
jured.
William Jennings Bryan, In an in
teryieW at New York, said that the
trusts, the railroads and the tariff
will be the issues in the next presi-
dential campaign.
The first of 932 cases against the
Standard Oil Company, all charging
violation of the Ohio antitrust laws,
was called for trial in the court OF
common pleas at Findlay.
Presidents of western railroads held
a conference at Chicago and decided TO
contest the two-cent fare laws in at
least five states-I Illinois, Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas.
The federal grand jury at Portland.
Oregon, returned indictments against
100 furniture dealers of Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and California for
alleged violation. OF the antitrust law.
Capt. John Walker, q prominenl
banker OF Biloxi, Miss, shot and
killed his wife and then committed
suicide. Domestic dificulties il
assigned as the reason for the terrible
deed.
Owing to the enactment of unfavor-
able legislation, several of the large life
insurance companies have decided C
withdraw from Texas and to write na
further insurance in that state aftel
July 10.
4 steam launch containing six brighi
young midshipmen and boatsWain
and four enlisted men attached to the
United States bateleship Minneeota
was wrecked Ia Hampton Roads, " Va.
and all on board we're drowned