The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-22
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Mayor of San Francisco Convicted Of Ex-
tortion and Removed from once.
International Peace Conference
in Session at The Hague.

clared 200 per cent dividend.
The czar of Russia issued an inn
perial ukase dissolving the douma.
Cypriano Castro, president OF Ven
ezuela, says that country is now are-
bellion proof
By increasing the minimum weight
Of carloads the railroads hope to re-
lieve the car shortage.
The French government has decided
to arrest and prosecute the leaders of
the wine growers revolt.
Requests for gifts received by Miss
Helen Gould, of New York, aggregate
nearly 50, 600, 900 week.
Seventeen persons were injured in a
wreck on the Great Northern Rail-
road near Palermo, s. D.
Viscount Sfuzo Aoki, japanese am
bassador to the United States, will be
recalled by his government.
1t is said that the pope will mans
one. and perhaps two, American car
dinals at the next consistory.
Ten persons we're injured in coll
lision between street car and To-
comotive at Birmingham, Ala.
A pipe line map Of the United States
will be prepared for the use OF the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
The Ohio river is rising and thou
sands of acres of farm lands in In
diana and Illinois are submerged.
Eight political prisoners ere exc
cuted at Riga, Russis for alleged
participation in the recent prison dis
orders.
Hon. John Fl. Bankhead will be ap-
pointed United States senator from
Alabama to succeed the late John T.
Morgan.
The annual convention OF the Inter-
national Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice was held at the jamestown ex-
position.
United States government officials
have been directed to talk with moder.
alton and to minimize the idea of war
with Japan.
Chiefs ofpolice OF various cities in the
United States expressed the unanimous
opinion that crime is on the increase
in this country.
Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Fran.
cisco was convicted OF extortion after
a sensational trial and has been re.
moved from Office.
A mutiny of Russia's Black Sea
feet was discovered just in time TO
prevent the bombardment of Odessa
and other coast towns.
The secretary of the treasury issued
q call for the return, by July 10, of
$50, ,0Oo, 900 of government funds now
on deposit in national banks.
The Missouri two-cent rate law will
be given three months trial In order
to ascertain whether it reduces or in.
ereases the revenues Of railroads.
Darwin P. Kinsley, first vice presi-
dent OF the New York Life Insurance
Company, was elected president Of the
company to succeed Alexander e. Orr.
The second International peace con-
ference opened at The Hague last
Saturday. NJ. Nelidoff, head of the.
Russian deleg alton, was unanimously
elected president of the conference.
The United States department OF
justice will shortly institute proceed
ings against the American Tobacco
Company, the International Harvester
Company and the combin alton OF pow
der manufacturers.
An order issued by the United states
postofice department, effective July i,
increases the price OF stamped en-
ve1opes to postmasters four cents q
thousand, while no change is made in
the retail price to users.
The seven bishops composing the
Episcopal college Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, occupied
the pulpits of Atlanta's principal
churches last Sunday and raised 500.
600 for the Wesley memorial fund.
Fl. Z. Whitfield, state superintend.
ent of public education, was elected
president of the Mississippi Industrial
Institute and College TO succeed A. A.
Kincannon, who was recently elevated
to the chancellorship of the University
Of Mississippi.
J.. 7. Harahan, president of the
Illinois Central Railroad, enjoys the
distinction Of having travelled over
more miles of railroad than any other
man in the United States, If not il the
world. In thirty y-five years Mr.. Hara.
han has Travelled 2,2s1 ,250 miles.
/ The band Of young men known as
the poison squad, = who volunteered
as subjects for experiment on the par
of DR.. Il. w. Wiley, chief chemist d
the United States department OF aeri
culture, will be disbanded on July I
their work having been completed.
is believed that nine of the thir
teen members Of the senate comnaitte,
which Investigated the shooting up
OF Brownsville. Texas, viii sign rs
/ port declaring It to bs the conviction
I of the committee that the shooting va
done BY the soldiers Of the Twenty
fifth Infantry, although It Is impossi
bio to establish the identity of the Ii
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