The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-09-14
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far
Niagara Falls Artifciany Illuminated by
Electric Light-Fatal Mine Dis
aster in Mexico--Nork ON Pane
anna Canal Progress
ing Favorabiy,

/ twenty men were killed in a
mine disaster in Mexico
i Three persons were cremated in a
hotel fire at Cleveland Springs, N. G.
Dennis Cooper, of Darbin, Miss,
Killed his wife and committed suicide.
The National Ffremen's Association
of America met at Oklahoma City,
t Ts
Seven men were killed and ten in
iured by lightning at Buckhorn Falls,
s. Cs
American yachts won in the races at
Bilbao, Spain, defeating the king of
Spain.
A negro desperate was killed by
policeman al Mobile, Ala, while re.
sisting arrest
A tornado at Winona, Miss, wrecked
two churches and damaged several
other buildings.
In the month of August ], ,274, ,404
cubic yards OF earth were thrown from
the Panama Canal.
A Catholic priest IN aided has closed
the saloons and dance halls of St.
Mary, No. on Sundays.
a New York policeman, in full uni
form, swan 200 yards from shore and
rescued drowning girl.
Three masked men held up and rob.
bed the passengers on Rock island
train near Mardock Nah
A disastrous fire occurred in hotel
at Shelton. Washington, fifteen per.
sons being burned to DEATH
During the army maneuvers in Ger
many hundreds of soldiers fell out.
exhausted by the intense heat.
The total cotton yield of the United
States for the year ending Sept. l was
estimated to be 13, 500, 76o bales.
The cornerstone of the Covington
county courthouse at Collins, Miss,
was laid by the local Masonic lodge.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad will
make improvements on the river front
at Mobile, Ala, at a cost of $500, 600.
As a result of domestic quarrel,
James Carlin, policeman of Port
Arthur, Tex, was shot to death by his
wife.
In wreck on the Rock Island Rail-
road at Norris, Iowa, twelve people
were killed and as many fatally in
| iured.
Renfx Francis Armand Sully Prud-
homme, the well known French poet
and critic, died suddenly in Paris,
| France.
-Four prominent politicians of Alle-
gheny City, Pa, were indicted in
connection with alleged tax receipt
frauds.
/ In wreck on the Texas and Pacific
at Arlington, Tex, one man was
burned to death and several others
injured.
| 1t is reported that the second of the
new 20,000-ton battleships to be added
to the American navy win be named
the New York.
| A destructive fire swept over the oil
| fields at Batson and Saratoga, Texas,
entailing property loss OF from s75,-
600 to 800, 900.
Five pers ons were seriously injured
and many others slightly hurt by the
derailment of Seaboard Air Line
train near Helena, Ga.
/ Following dispute over fare,
negro passenger stabbed and killed
Frank r. Barnett, street car con-
ductor, at Ensley, Ala.
1t is stated that the president has
planned to send the battleship fleet to
the Philippines and thence back to. the
United States by way of the suez
Canal
Five persons from Lincoln County,
Miss, convicted of whitecapping and
sentenced to fifty years Imprisonment,
we're pardoned by Gov. Vardaman after
serving three years.
Lewis Glass, vice president of the
Pacific States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, of San Francisco,
Cal, was convicted of bribery and
sentenced to five years imprisonment.
Amagnifcentspectacle was presented
when for the first time the Niagara
Falls were artifcfalIy illuminated by
fifty powerful seareh1ights, throwing q
combined light OF 1,115,ooO candle
power.
Suits were dled at vicksburg, Miss,
charging the Gulf Compress Company
, with violating the antitrust law OF Mis-
sissippi, and asking that the corpora
i ton be ousted from the state and
made to pay 81, ,825. 900 in fines.
, How 10 Catch Hin.
/ When man is through his days
! work and sits down to rest in his
home, he cannot read the advertise
nents on the fences. and the n and hi IIa