The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-08
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Famous Cotton Leak sCase ON Trial in
District of Columbia-Chinese Insur-
rection Spreading Rapidly-Wa-
ters-Pierce OIL Company
Heavily Fined.

-Four persons were killed by a tor,
nado near Crockett, Texas.
The scout cruiser Birmingham was
launched at Quincy, Mass.
The Hungarian government took
steps to restrict emigration from thai
country.
Three men were killed by the explo.
sion of car of gasoline at Reddick,
Illinois.
Ground was broken for the Alaska
Yukon-Pacif exposition at Seattle,
Washingtou.
Capital and labor are engaged In a
desperate struggle for supremacy at
San Francisco.
1t is estimated that 40, 900 persons
are idle in San Francisco as result
Of labor troubles.
Edna May, the American actress,
was married in London to Oscar Lew
issohn, of New York.
The anniversary OF the birth of JEFF
ferson Davis was generally observed
throughout the south.
A. A. Kincannon, of Columbus,
Miss, was elected chancellor OF the
University of Mississippi.
It is probable that congress will
enact additional legislation for thereg-
ulation Of American railroads.
One man was killed and score in.
jured in a wreck on the Southern Pa
cifie Railroad near Lozier, Texas.
The charter of the International
Brewery Workers Union was revoked
by the American Federa alton of Labor.
Five persons were killed and eleven
injured in a wreck on the Cuban
Eastern Railroad near Guantanamo.
Four thousand persons were crushed
to death and a vast number OF houses
destroyed by an earthquake at Hsing
Kiang, China.
A suit to enforce payment of leg
acies to natural sons of the late King
Alfonso will be tried in the Spanish
supreme court.
The trial of prisoners charged with
completely in the attempted assassina-
tion of the king and queen of Spain
was begun at Madrid.
The Chinese insurrection is reported
to be spreading rapidly. Thus far
American interests have not been in
volved in the troubles.
The Tennessee anti. race track gam
ling bill has been declared unconstitu-
tional because the caption contains
more than one subject.
Chinese revolutionists captured the
entire family of a prominent brigadier
general and compelled them to drown
themselves by jumping into we'll.
Standard Oil magnates are buying
up southern turpentine lands, with
view to securing control of the tur-
pentine and rosin markets in the south.
President Roosevelt issued q proela-
nation creating a reservation sixty feet
In width along the entire northern bos-
der of Mexico, for the purpose OF sup
pressing smuggling.
At Elyria, Ohio, a street car running
al high speed crashed into the rear
end of an other car standing still on
a straighs track in broad daylight,
seven fatalities resulting.
Legal proceedings will be instituted
to compel E.. II. Hartman TO answer
questions propounded to him by mem
bers OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at the recent hearing in New
York, when the merger of the Hartman
lines was under investigation.
The United States department OF
agriculture reported the average condi-
tion of the growing cotton crop on May
25 to be 70.5 per cent, as compared with
84.6 per cent last year. The 1907 acre
age is placed at 81, ,060, 600, an increase
of IL, 900 acres over the 1906 total.
In the custer suitof the state of Texas
vs.. the Waters-Pierce Oil Company,
the jury rendered verdict granting the
prayer of the state that the company's
permit to do business in Texas should
be cancelled, and imposing q fine of