The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-10-12
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Fatal Accident In Japanese Ammunition
Faetory-Crime ON the Increase in
France-Death Of Two Famous
American Women.

| General Alexis Nord, president of
Hayti, is reported seriously i'll.
/ Mrs. Mary ], Holmes, the authoress.
died at her home at Rockport, N. Y.
| Two persons perished by the burn
ing Of river steamer near Albany,
| Ga.
It is believed that w ashington, D. G.,
will shortly become prohibition
town.
/ Fire at Center, Texas, destroyed five
business buildings, causing loss of
s35, 900.
Crime throughout France was re-
ported to be increasing at an alarm
ing rate.
one hundred boxers were killed by
Chinese government troops at Canaan
Flu, China.
Every vessel of the United States
battleship feet is toequipped with wire
less telephones.
French churches have been syste-
matically plundered and robbed by a
gang of burglars.
A street car conductor was robbed
and mortally wounded by bandits at
Admission, Alabama.
The annual convention of the Mis-
sissippi League OF Postmasters was
held at ] Jackson, Miss.
Three men were killed and several
fatally injured in mine explosion
near Birmingham, Ala.
British farmers want the restrictions
against American cattle removed so
their stock can be repIeted.
A cut Of ten per cent in wages was
put IN effect without friction in all
south Mississippi lumber mills.
European nations are adopting meas
ures to check the immigration OF labor
ers to North and South America.
Twenty-Five eonviets were killed by
their guards at Tobolsk, Siberia, fol-
lowing an attack by the prisoners.
Edmund Rostand, the famous French
author and playwright, is recovering
from an operation for appendicitis.
The forty fifth triennial general con-
vention OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church was held at Richmond, Va.
An investig alton shows that the re-
cent 81 100000 fire at Port Linop,
Costa Rica, was of tncendtary origin.
The United States department of ag-
riculturo shipped large quantity OF
humble bees to the Philippine Islands.
An angry mob at Danyille, Wash,
drove crowd of trespassing Hindus
across the boundary line into Canada.
Mississippi sent the largest delega-
tion to the Deep Waterways Conyen-
ton held at Memphis, Tenn, last
week.
o. v. Anderson, an army subaltern,
was blown to atoms while handling
vial of nitro-glycerin at San Antonio,
Texas.
sixty-three girls were killed and
over sixty injured by an explosion in
an ammunition factory at Osaka,
Japan.
Leander g. Merrick, miser, died at
Kenosha, Wis, and in his but the au.
thorities found $3.50. 900 in cash and
securities.
Austin Griffin of Key West, Fla,
shot and killed his wife at the break
fast table and then committed suicide
with poison.
Mrs. Susan E. Wallace, widow of
General Lew Wallace, the famous au-
thor, died at her home at Crawford
vile, Indiana.
Taree tramps at Winamac, Indiana.
killed Sheriff oglesby, who, after
dropping, managed to wound two Of
his assailants.
1t is reported that Great Britain has
accepted the reduced term of the ban.
dit Raisuli for the release OF Caid
Sir Harry Mclean.
William Burns, negro who killed a
policeman, was taken from iail at
Cumberland, Md, by a mob and shot
and kicked to death.
Sixteen men were killed and eleven
injured as the result OF an accident in
the Mexican Central stone oaarries
near Victoria, Texas.
The United States government il
concerned over the food of japanese
immigration, and is endeavoring TO
stop the illegal entry.
Thomas ). Dupree. prominent bus
ness man of Memphis, Tenn, was
killed in aeollision between his motor
cycle and street car.
The tugboat Roma, OF Greeneville,
Miss, sank in the Mississippi river
near the mouth OF the Yazoo, and the
negro cook was drowned.
1t was announced that A. e. Locke,
the Pennsylvania negro who won a
Rhodes scholarship, would be admit
ted by the Oxford authorities.
A squadron of German warships
will visit the Atlautic coast OF the
United States while the American
battleship feet is in the Pacific.
Alvah II. Martin, frst vice presi-
dent and governor OF transportation
Of the jamestown Exposition, was
elected director general of the exposi-
sion to succeed James N. Barr, re-
signed.