The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-09-28
THE WORLDS NEWS.
FLASHES OF the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Unmarried English Women Coming to
Ameriea-Pierpont Morgan Fined
Cor Catching Trout Out of Sea.
son-Crimes and Casualties.

PIus, djed in Italy.
! The United States will attempt to
lease Magdalena Bay from Mexico.
One white man and one negro were
Killed in o race riot at Hatshorn, /, T.
a fatal wreck occurred on a Cotton
Belt passenger train az Stephens, Ar.
kansas.
John S. Bratton, the we'll known
turfman, died suddenly at st. Louis.
Missouri
| One thousand unmarried women left
Liverpool for America by the Atlantic
liner Baltic.
Five men were killed and one fatally
injured in Santa Fe wreck at Deyoe
Station, Cal
-Four trainmen were killed in a
collision of NJ, K. and T. trains at
Evansville, Mo.
J. Plerpont Morgan was fined sl55
for having thirteen illegally taken
trout in his ice. box.
The body of an unidentified f8.year.
old girl was found in trunk on the
beach near Seattle, Wash.
Joseph Harrison, under twenty
year sentence for abduction, commits
ted suicide at Norfolk, Va.
John Mees, a Philadelphia light.
weight, died as the result of blow
received in boxing match.
Eleven persons were killed and
twelve injured by the explosion of n
boiler in factory in Mexico.
The Alexander Nimmick, a lake
steamer, was wrecked on Lake Su.
perior and seven lives were lost.
The annual convention of tAe Amer.
lean Bankers Association was held
this week at Atlantic City, N. j.
Ihe Japanese steamer Tafoo Maru
was burned off the coast OF China and
over one hundred lives were lost.
Two men were killed and a number
OF others fatally injured by a gas ex-
plosion in d mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The entire Yucatan coast, ten miles
seaward, is strewn with dead fish, as.
sumably from submarius eruption.
The steamer Lusitania left New
York for Queenstown and Lfyerpool
in an effort to beat the record of the
Lucania.
carrie Nation was sentenced in the
Washington police court to seventy
five days IN the. workhouse in dafanlt
Of fine of s25.
Eppisonso Arcara, proprietor of an
East Side skirt factory in New York.
was murdered aud mutilated by an
unknown person.
Bessie Brown, a sixteen.year.old
wife, killed herself in Fort Worth.
Texas, because she was homesick and
her husband poor.
I. B. Edwards, accused OF safe
blowing at Vernon, Ala, was traced
by bloodhounds twenty six miles in
Monroe county, Miss.
Nose Dossett, negro who attempt.
ed to assault an aged white woman,
was taken from officers and lynched
near Mobile, Alabama.
The body of Mrs. Richard Ott, with
the throat cut, was found in an aban-
doned well on her husbands farm
near Thomasville, Ala.
The worst storm recorded In forty
years swept the coast of Newfonnd-
land, and several vessels were wrecked
and number of lives lost.
The New York Central Railroad es-
Inmates that it loses 800, 900 annually
IN freight stolen and destroyed by
tramps in its New York yards.
Six hundred and thirty. seven thou.
sand school children are enrolled In
the schools of New York, an increase
of more than 10000 over last year.
The Illinois Central and Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley Railroads pleaded
guilty at Jackson, Mics, to violating
the anti-pass law and were fined 800.
Major L. A. Geatz, prominent
Louisville lawyer. was found dead In
his berth in a Southern Railway Pull
man sleeper, near Knoxville, Tenn.
Fourteen miners were killed by the
breaking of cable and the dropping .
of steel cage TOO feet down the shaft
of an iron mine on the south shore of
Lake Superior, near Marquette, Mich
igan.
Thirty-two persons were killed and
thirty three injured in wreck on the
Mexican Central Railroad, caused by
a collision of the Ell Paso Express
with freight train, near Aguas Call
intes, Mexico.
The United States immigration
bureau has established division of
information for the purpose of fur
nishing employment to labor and dis.
immigrants over the country
where they are needed.
Five members OF a fanatical sect in
Zion City are under arrest for tor
turing to death an aged and crippled
invalid. They believed that she was
possessed of devils, and they killed
her while trying to cast them out.
Worked Like q Charm.
Mr.. D. N Walker, editor of that spicy journal.
the Enterprise, Louisa. Va, says: 7 ran a nail
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