The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-24
| THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Mrs. Stanford White to Marry Partner of
Deceased Husband Chinese
Revolutionary Move
nent Spreading.

enced at San Juan, Porto Rico.
| Nearly three hundred persons were
exiled from Russia during July.
The city of New York is hard pressed
for money to meet urgent obligations.
Diplomatic relations will be estab-
lished between Japan and the Vati-
can.
The revolutionary movement in
China is reported to be spreading rap
idly.
German scientists claim to have
found cure for abdominal typhoid
fever.
Russia and Japan have signed a
treaty guaranteeing the integrity of
China.
Foreigners are fleeing from Mo-
rocco, fearing general uprising of
natives.
Railroad construction in the west is
seriously handicapped by shortage
of labor.
Sixteen deaths resulted from an out
break of bubonic plague in south
Manchuria.
The lower house of the Georgia gem
eral assembly passed bill disfranchis-
ing negroes.
Lieut.. Gen. H. c. Corbin may be a
candidate for congress from the sixth
Ohio district.
Laysan Island, in the Pacific ocean,
sank into the sea and all the inhabi-
tants perished.
The United States was officially de-
clared to be the second strongest ma
val power in the world.
The fight for the restoration of the
army canteen will be renewed at the
next session of congress.
]. G. Walter Frear was inaugurated
governor of Hawaii to succeed Gov.
George B. Carter, resigned.
r. A. Pinkerton, one of the heads of
the Pinkerton detective agency, died
at sea while en- route to Europe.
Five persons were killed and eleven
Injured by the collapse of a two.story
boarding house in Chicago, I'll.
Fire at Old Orchard, Maine, de-
stroyed fifty hotels and cottages on the
beach front, causing loss OF $500, ,o0o.
The centennial of the first trip of
Robert Fuiton's s steamboat, the 'Cier-
mont, was celebrated on the Hudson
river.
A bear raid on stocks in the New
York exchange caused prices to drop
to the lowest level reached in many
years.
TWoJapanese were discovered taking
views and sketches OF the buildings
and grounds at Fort Mcpherson, AT
lanta.
Robert R. Gill, cashier OF The Staple
ton National Bank of Stapleton, L. L,
was arrested on charge of embezzling
s125, 900.
The California supreme court sus-
tanned the legality ofthe removal from
Office of Former Mayor E. E. Schmitz
of San Francisco.
The governor of Tennessee offered a
reward for the conviction of any of the
night riders in the dark tobacco dis
tricts of that state.
The English government is prepar-
ing to build three battleships faster,
stronger and more formid able than the
for 70 r,aS Tnan 3nn.~Lt
indications points to a war ia Cen
trail America between Guatemala and
Salvador on one side and Nicaragua
and Honduras on the other.
The United States government has
arranged for the maintenance of sea
postofiees on ocean steamships plying
between New York and Europe.
Thomas f. Shay, a noted criminal
lawyer and father OF Rose Cecilia
Shay, the well-known opera singer,
dropped dead in street at Ciacin-
natl.
It is rnmored that the next Demo-
cratic national convention will be held
in Chicago, Ill, and that arrangements
for the gathering are already under
way.
The Pope Manufacturing Company
of Hartford, Conn. one of the biggest
concerns of its kind in the world, was
placed in the hands of temporary re-
ceiver.
Miss Julia Mckinley, a cousin of the
late President Mckinley, and founder
of the irst chapter OF the Daughters of
the American Revolution, died at At
1anta, Ga.
]. Warren Hastings, an employee of
the Boston sub-treasury for more than
forty years, was arrested on a charge
of abstracting $4,000 from a package
containing 80, 600, 900.
A small British force invaded Vene-
zuelan territory and compelled the
Isauthorities to give up large quantity
of rubber gum claimed to have been
| taken from British Guiana.
| Mrs. Stanford White, widow of the
| famous architect who was shot and
| killed by Harry Il. Thaw at 4 roof gar.
den in New York city, will be married
| in London next month to Charles r.
Mchim, MIR. Whites former partner.
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