The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-05
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Disastrous Wreck On the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad-Large Quantities
of Arms and Ammunition
Struggled into Cuba.

The national pure food law went into
effect Tuesday, Jan. /.
A revolutionary outbreak in the re-
public of Salvador was crushed.
The town of africa, Chill, was par
italy destroyed by an earthquake.
Gen. Marcus P. Miller, q. S. A.,
retired, died at Fort Barrancas, Fla.
American exports to Panama during
the year 1906 aggregated s14, ,0o0, 900.
Fire in "a garment factory at Los
Angeles, Cal, caused loss of $780,
900.
The native residents OF the province
of Bengal. India, are boycotting Brit
ish goods.
Wholesale arrests of suspected rev.
ontionists were made at ST. Peters
burg, Russia.
President Roosevelt's New Year re-
ception at the White House was
brilliant affair.
Large quantities of arms and ammu-
milton have been smuggled into Cuba
by unknown parties.
Japan will spend large sums Of
money in increasing the efficiency of
her army and navy.
An American and several Mexicans
were butchered by aqui Indians near
Valencia, Mexico.
Sixteen battleships of the Atlantic
feet assembled in Hampton Roads for
the winter maneuvers.
The Mexican government has set
aside land for an Indian reservation
in the state of Chihuahua.
The seventeenth annual session of
the Southern Educational Association
was held at Montgomery, Ala.
w. D. Howsee, a merchant OF Cren-
shaw, Miss, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun.
Sixteen persons were killed and
score of others injured in train
wreck near Arbroath, Scotland.
Bishop A. Coke Smith of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. South, died
at Asheville, n. G., aged 81 years.
Thad. Stampley was killed and W.
F. Magee seriously wounded in a fight
with negroes near Hamburg, Miss.
The American Shipbuilding Com
pany, of Cleveland, O.. raised the
wages of all its employees 5 to 10 per
cent.
Esther McGinn, aged Is years, acci.
dentally shot and killed her 1l-year-
old brother while hunting near Bay
st. Louis, Miss.
Managers of western railroads de-
cided to take no action on the demands
of their employees for Is per cent In
crease in wages.
The chief of police of Alton, H.,
instructed his men to arrest street
''mashers,n and to shoot.them il they
attempted to resist.
Fifty-three persons we're killed and
about sixty injured in wreck on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near
Washington, D. c.
Sir Thomas Upton advocated the
use of seaworthy yachts instead Of
mere racing machines in future races
for the Americas cup.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion has ordered an investigation of
the block signal system used by the
railroads of this country.
A. j. Cassat, president of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company, died at
Philadelphia, Pa, and was inferred at
Byrn Mawr, in the same state.
Baroness Burdett-C Couts, one of the
greatest and most famous philanthro-
pists Europe has ever known, died at
her home in London, England.
A call for second conference be-
tween cotton growers and manafactu-
rers was issued By the president of the
National Association of Cotton Manu-
facturers.
George W. Perkins and Charles s.
Fairchild, oeicials OF the New York
Life Insurs nee Company, were indicted
for forgery by the New York grand