The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-10-05
| THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Grape Crops of Southern France aud
Spain Ruined by storms-Monu-
ment to President Mckinley
Unveiied at Canton by
President Roose-
veIt, Etc.


a fire and panic at Louisville, XIV.
) Several towns along the coast. oil
Mexico were devastated by ahurricane.
Mrs. Bertha Mund, of Buffalo, n.
! Y, strangled her three children to
death.
Fire at Port Limon, Costa Rica, de-
stroyed four blocks, causing a loss oil
$500, coo.
An epidemic of cholera is rapidly
spreading throughout the provinces
of Russia.
The annual reunion OF the Missis-
sippi Confederate Veterans was held
at Meridian.
/ Three women were seriously injured
by jumping from burning building
at st. Louis.
The new twentyth ousand-ton United
States battleship will be named the
North Dakota.
Several people were Injured at
" ater Valley, Miss, by the explosion
of locomotive.
-Four men we're killed in the wreck
OF q Seaboard Air Line freight train
nesr Alamo, Ga.
The presence of Italian children in
q public school caused serious trouble
at sumrall, Miss.
A negro steamboat ronstabous bru-
tally assaulted little girl on a boat
near Pittsburg, Pa.
An outbreak OF Boxerism occurred
in the province of Kingsf, China, and a
priest was murdered.
The grape crops of southern France
and Spain have been destroyed By a
succession OF storms.
4 train bearing Americans was tel,
eseoped near Nantes, France, but no
one was seriously hurt.
Attorney generals from fifteen states
met at st. Louis, Mo, and discussed
plans TO curb the trusts.
Fire at Harriston, Miss. destroyed
the Gates Hotel and the entire block
in which twas situated
A heavy rain in Andalu, Spain,
caused the loss Of many lives and the
destruction Of much property.
Mrs. Q. T. Holt, prominent society
woman, is picking Gotten for charity
in Washington county, Texas,
Two persons were killed and one
seriously injured in Frisco passen-
ger wreck near Dixon Hill, Mo.
Hundreds OF houses and boats were
destroyed by fire at WI Chow, China.
and the loss of life was heavy.
More than six hundred persons were
drowned in the overflow of the river
otonashigawa, near Kyoto, Japan.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
seven submarine boats would be con.
tracted for by the navy department..
Sir hundred bales of cotton from
Galveston, Texas, were destroyed by
IRE on British steamship at Hayre.
Tom Scale, OF Columbus, Ca, com.
mitted suicide by taking morphine
in a Turkish bathroom at Mobile.
Ala.
The explosion OF gasoline yacht
on the Ohio river, near Gallipolis, re.
suited in the drowning OF four per.
sons.
Prince Charles Gustave Won Thur
mund Taxis was accidentally killed by
falling downstairs at Potsdam, Ger
many.
Fortystwo persons, including thirty
Japanese soldiers, were killed by the
deratlment Of train near Seoul,
Corea.
President Roosevelt was presented
with q jeweled sword by Tinemon Hit
achiyama, the champion wrestler of
Japan.
Fifteen persons were killed and !
score injured in collision on the Bal.
timore and Ohio Railroad near Bel
laire, Ohio.
A monument erected to the memory
of the late President Mckinley was
unveiled at Canton, Ohio, by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Joseph Leonell and Ben Marseen
committed suicide with gas while
clasped in each others arms In hotel
at Hamilton, Ohio.
One person was killed and heavy
property damage caused by q acollision
Of New Orleans and northeastern
freight trains near Purvis, Miss.
Gen. McCosky Butts, formerly 81
the New York militia, gave out an
interview in which he declared the
United States army 10 be inefficient.
One man was killed and three in
jured in bicycle racing accident al
Berlin. Robert Waithour, the Ameri-
can wheelman, was among the injured.
Secretary. in an address at a ban
quet at Toxic, said that war between
the United States and Japan would
be wicked and crime against civiIza-
ton.
Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a wealthy
Quakeress who gave s., GOO, ,000 to edu-
cate southern negroes died at her
home in Philadelphia, Pa, at the age
Of eighty Eve.