The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-09-07
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Richard Mansfield. Foremost American
Actor, Passes Away Disastrous Fire
at Hakodate, Japan-Labor
bay Celebrated.

throughout the country.
A mother and seven children were
drowned in food in New Mexico.
| Floods in Japan caused great loss OF
life and destroyed much valuable prop
erty
The Island of Protus, near the Phil
ippine group, has been seized by
Japan.
Edward II. Grieg, the we'll known
composer, died at his home in Bergen.
Norway.
Baron Demartino was killed in a
motor race for the Florio Cup at Bres-
cia, Italy.
The United States cruiser squadron
bound from the Orient was sighted at
Honolulu.
A Russian terrorist shot and killed
detective and soldier at Rodz,
Russian Poland.
Ten people were killed and many In
jured by the collapse of platform at
Oporto, Portugal.
A syndicate was formed In New York
to breed cattle on an extensive scale
in Santo Domingo.
Thirty persons were injured in a
passenger wreck on the Southern Rail-
way at Asheville, N. G.
A severe electrical and rain storm
damaged the cotton fields considerably
in the vicinity of Magnolia, Miss.
Charles M. Schwab announced that
he would give 81 .0oO, 900 industrial
school to the Pennsylvania College.
Statistics show that the year just
completed was the most prosperous in
the commercial history of Mobile,
Ala.
Richard Mansfield, one Of the fore
most actors on the American stage,
died at his home at New London.
Conn.
Fifteen thousand houses were de-
stroyed and sixty thousand people
made homeless by fire at Hakodate,
Japan.
A woman, near Lynchburg, Va,
after Staying her husband, hitched a
mule to the body and dragged it into
the swamp.
The Russian czar visited ST. Peters
burg for the second time in nearly
three years to attend the conservation
of church.
Three ''Blaek Hands'' were arrested
in New York while in the act OF taking
money from wealthy barber they had
blackmailed.
Fifteen persons were killed and about
fifty injured in a collision between aa
express train and a traction car at
Mattoon, Ill.
One trainman was killed and another
seriously injured in Queen and Cres-
cent passenger wreck near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
An alligator 8 feet inches long was
captured in shallow water at Bay st.
Louis, Miss, after a terrific battle
with six men.
James Money, Jr., was instantly
killed and James Money, sr., mortally
wounded at Money, Miss, by DR..
Grover Kirby.
Captain Henry Brown, inventor of
the American bell buoy used by the
government along the coasts, died at
Charleston, S. G.
As result of the French law sepa-
rating church and state, many priests
have been compelled to seek employ
ment at manual labor.
While under the influence of gas q
patient attacked a dentist in w Washing-
ton, D. c.. knocking him down and
beating him severely.
It was reported that seyenty-fiye
immigration inspectors would patrol
the Mexican boundary to keep out un-
desirable immigrants.
A riot occurred at San Francisco,
Cal, between Labor Day paraders and
employees of the united railways and
several men were shot.
A powerful touring car plunged over
a ffteen-foot. ot.embankment at Pine City,
near Elmira, n. Y, killing one man
and iniuring four others.
A section of new bridge across the
st. Lawrence river near Quebec col,
lapsed, carrying to their death between
sixty and eighty workmen.
Michael Clara, the x-year-o1d son
of a Brooklyn barber, was released
unharmed by Black Hand kidnappers,
who failed to secure ransom for him.
A policeman at Lyndhurst, N. j.,
was killed by burglar whom he had
just arrested, and the latter, unable to
escape from pursuers, killed himself.
Most Rev. John L. Williams, arch
bishop of the Boston diocese and dean
of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
church in America, died at Boston,
Mass.
Six persons we're killed and over two
hundred and fifty injured in 9 wreck
On the Canadian Pacific Railroad at
Horseshoe Falls, near orangeville,
Ontario.
L. P. Carter, son of Brigadser
General W. H. Carter of Chicago, was
electrocuted as the result of an acci-
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