The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-02-29
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Tunnel Connecting New Fork and Brock
lyn Open for Trafie Catholic Priest
Murdered BY italian Fanatic at
Denver-lIine Disaster
In England.

Miss Harriette Hosmer, noted
sculptor, died at her home in Water.
town, Mass.
DR.. Dubouchet, an American ar.
rested in Odessa, was ordered to leave
Russia within ten days.
Fourteen miners were killed as the
result OF an explosion in the Globe pit
in the village OF Wsshington, England.
A woman was killed and fifteen per-
sons were seriously injured in q troll
ley car accident near Cambridge, Ohio.
/ Two japanese who entered British
Columbia we're fined $500 each and
sentenced to twelve months imprfson-
ment.
i Four white men and twenty -four
Chinamen were killed by an explosion
in the Hercules powder works at Pi-
noles Cal.
/ Andrew Carnegie has contributed
s25, 900 to the Robert Koch Institute
for the investigation OF >tubereulosis
in Berlin.
| The first tunnel under the Hudson
river, in New York, was opened for
passenger traffic in the early part OF
! this week.
Geroima Celia, wealthy wine I'M
porter and one OF the leading Italians
in New York, was murdered By the
Black Hand
Six persons were killed and several
injured when train ran down Q
wagon load of merrymakers near
Spring Valley, N. Y.
Death and destruction followed in
the wake of terrific wind and hail
storm which swept over q portion OF
England and ireland.
Secretary OF War William q. Taft,
in a speech in New Hampshire. de.
clared in favor OF ultimate independ.
ence for the Filipinos.
Immigration from Antwerp TO the
United States has about ceased on ac.
count Of reports that work was unot-
tainable in this country.
man named Sullivan, who slugged
hoodlum for insulting President
Roosevelt, has been appointed post
master at Cripple Creek, Colo.
Ten persons were killed and score
or more injured as the result of u
panic during the passage of religious
procession at Teheran, Persia.
The formal reception of Baron TIA.
kahira as ambassador of Japan to
the United States took place at the
White House in Washington, D. C.
William Finn Halstead, former gen.
eral manager and vice. president of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West.
ern Railroad, died at Scranton, Pc.
Mrs. William P. Burden, the daugh.
ter of 0. H. P. Belmont and an east.
ern society favorite, was asphyxiated
at her Fifth avenue home in New York
city.
After struggling with his wife for
the possession of a pistol and seri.
ously iniuring her, ). B. Campbell
committed suicide at his home In AT.
lanta, Ga.
a banquet was given by Presidents
Parde to the officers of the American
battleshfp fleet, now at Lima, Peru, in
honor of Washington's birthday an
niversary.
The National Bank OF North Amer.
lea, in New York, one of the so-cailed
Morse institutions, paid 81, 200, 600 of
its Indebtedness to the clearing house
association.
Senator Asbury Latimer, of South
Carolina, died at Washington, D. C.,
and both the senate and house ad.
iourned for the day as . mark of re.
spect to his memory.
Business conditions In Lisbon, Por.
tugal, are suffering greatly onacconnt
of the unsettled state of affairs result
ing from the assassination OF the king
and the crown prince.
The United States Brewers, Associa.
ton and the United States Matters.
Association united In Chicago, ILL.,, Ia
common war against prohibition and
temperance movements.
The Right Rev. Henry Yates Sat.
terlee, D. D.. for the past twelve years
Protestant Episcopal bishop OF Wash-
ington, D. c., died in that city from
an attack Of pneumonia.
1t was reported that Russia had re-.
ceived information to the effect that
the Turkish military preparations
along the Russian border were not di.
rected toward the latter country.
Father Leo Heinrichs was shot and
killed BY Giuseppe Guaranacto, an
Italian shoemaker, while administer
lag the sacrament at carly mass in
St. Elizabelh's Catholic Church Ia
Denver, Col.
Nearly 1000 unemployed foreigners.
while marching to the city hall In
Philadelphia, Pa, TO make demands
for work, precipitated q riot, and
about twenty marehers and nolicemeh
we're badly injured.
The Missouri Pacific raiiuay shons
at sedalia, Mo-, employing 800 men,
and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railway shops at Little Rock,