The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-08-22

Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires FroH1
Near and Far.
1"S'ee Riot in Tninois CapitaI-FatsernG
constitutional Convention Asked
for by Tw"nty-Tyyo states.
Terrible Deed of Re
AiGt0Mg Maniac

| has IhSIltHSeQ a bOycOGa
against Dutch vessels.
Fire at Texarkana, Ark, caused fl
property loss Of SI70, 900.
An epidemic of cholera is threatened
IN ST. Petersburg, Russia.
Fire a. Parkersburg, W. Va, do
stroyed property valued at Sl5O. 900.
An alleged japanese spy was killed
while resisting arrest at Pekin, China.
-Four persons were drowned when o..
pleasure boat capsized near Kilbourn,
Wis.
Chlnese soldiers at Wuchow, China.
murdered their commander and stole
100000.
DR.. Friedrich Paulsen, professor Of
philosophy ia the University of Bert
lin, is dead.
Two masked men held up and robbed
train in the outskirts OF Spokane,
Wisconsin.
A weight fell from the. courthouse
clock at Columbus, Miss, and killed
DR.. A. C. Halbert.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans haa
retired from active service in tbe
United States navy.
The Atlantic battleshp feet Iefl
Auckland, New Zealand, and sailed
for Sidney, Australia.
Two persons were killed and sTS
others injured by the explosion of a
balloon in LQndon, Eng.
Mehmed Ali Bes. Turkish minister
TO the United States, has been dis
missed by his government.
Pau! Mausero the aged inventor OF
the rltie bearing bis name, has in
vented new military rife.
Springfield. H., is in the throes OF
a race riot resulting from an assault
on a white woman by negro.
Fhe arrest OF two Russians at Tes
heran has caused friction between the
Russian and Persian governments,
General D. K. Wardwell, who de-
tended his leper wife SO nobly, died
while IN quarantine at Tombstone,
Ariz.
Government Statistics showed that
IN this country $4,000, 900 smokers con.
sumed o5,402.330, lib cigarettes ]aa
year.
The taneral of pedjab Pasha, war
N OF turkey. which WAS held Ia z
Constantlnople, was witnessed by I00,-
900 persons.
Six men were killed and eighteen
injured as the result of an explosion
on the French gunnery schoolship
I. Hammer Greenwood, Canadian
member OF the British parliament, has
pfedlcted war between Japan and the
United States.
Fl. J. Deputy. q religious maniac
killed f4s son and daughter at Los
Angeles Cal, and then attempted to
commit suicide.
j. Montgomery Sears, young mil
OF Boston, Mass, died as the
result OF injuries received in an auto
mobile accident.
The HOnduran minister at w ash
ngton, D. c. received assurances
hat peace had been fully restored in
1t was announced that Kermit Roos.
7VelS would accompany the president
3n his "trip 60 Africa and act as pho.
for the party.
Two children of Santiago Diaz. o4
81 PaA5os Iex.s were instantly killed by
/ bolt Of'lightufng ia at passed through
he body OF sheir father, iniuring him
atally.
The great oil we'll fire in Mexico is
till burning and the mouth OF the we'll
las widened from eight inches in di-
Imeter to more tnan one hundred
ards.
1t was stated Chi at the medical, sur
al
Juited States army were planning a
borough investigation OF the Island
u Hayti.
Twenty-Five states have passed reso-
utions demanding federal c0nstftu-
ional convention for the purpose of
naking United States sem atoFs eIectire
y the people.
The modern development or the elecp
ricaI business in Japan has caused
uch a large demand for electric wire
hat the annual sale OF the article
.mounts TO about 5000, 900 yen.
Emperor William has invited Major
ieneral Leonard Wood, of the United
states army, TO be his guest at the
Terman TBaneuvers 20 be held in AL
ace-Lorraine during September.
DR.. Charles ". Vogel, of the United
states Marine Hospital Service. ar
ived in New York from Venezuela,
here he made an exhaustive study of
be bubonic plague conditions in that
Benjamin de Gildo, an Italian Of
Pa, shot and killed two
/ his fellow countr9men at Westcfles.
er, Pa, and then committed suicide,
0 escape the vengeance OF q mob that
vas pursuiIg him.
Thirty white children ia Chicago
uburb refused 70 participate in drill
xercises because there were negro
hildren in the line, and coaxipg and
nreats from the teachers did not Snake
heir determine alton.
The president of the Mass ssachusetts
society for the Prevention of Cruelty
o Animals stated that he would -
eavor TO preVenG William -
rom riding horse back igsud
wing to his extreme. -