The Donaldsonville chief., 1908-07-18
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires Frors
Near and Far.
Intense Heat in New York Ere at Att
lanta. Ga,-A utomobiie Injuries Six
People-Four Persons Drowned
ear Marion, Mass.

The new battleship South Carolins
was launched at Philadelphia. Pa.
Twenty revolutionists have been Or
dered executed at Chihuahua, Mexico.
Ten workmen were killed when the
roof OF house fell in at ST. Peters
burg.
Steamboat traffic on the river Seine.
in France, is tied up as the result OF a
strike.
Six persons were seriously injured
in an automobile accident at Louis.
vile, Ky.
Don Jose Domingo de obaldia has
been elected president of The republic
of Panama.
Four persons were drowned when a
launch exploded of the coast of
Marion, Mass.
The pope has decided to rebuild the
Lgteran palace in Rome to house the
Rota and segnasura,
Fire in Atlanta, Ca, seriously
threatened the orpheum Theatre and
caused 8 loss OF $4,000.
The Right Rev. Alfred a, Curtis,
formerly bishop of Wilmington, Dell,
died in Baltimore, Md,
Miss Daisy Powell OF Hattiesburg,
Miss, was burned TO death as the re-
sulb of kerosene explosion.
Four New Jersey boys died OF lock-
Jaw as the result OF accidents sus.
tained on the fourth of July.
A French army officer has invented
gun said to be capable of firing oy
electricity 200 shots per minute.
Several thousand Elks attended the
national convention OF the order
which was held at Dallas, Texas.
Leeds Ludlow, while rehearsing the
leap OF DEATH in al automobile at
Mobile, Ala, was fatally injured.
A member Of deaths and many pros
trations have occurred in New York
city as a result Of the intense heat.
Four passengers were injured when
an Alabama and Yicksbarg passengeF
train was derailed near Morton, Miss.
The bureau OF chemistry at w ash.
lngton, .. g., has ruled thai all cole
ors used In preserving food RE harm.
| ful.
/ TWO persona wers killed and 1our.
teen seriously injured In gas explos
sion followed BY FIRE at Boston,
Mass.
American Minister o'Brien 3was
fr,d On by the Paraguayan revolu.
tionists by mistake, but was not in
iured.
The new bridge under construction
over the Rhine at Cologne, Germany,
collapsed and many workmen we're
killed.
John Morris, a wealthy farmer OF
Union county, N. c., was found muir.
dered in his bed, which had been set
/ on fire.
Iu terrific squall which capsized
many small boats in the Baltimore.
Nd, harbor, nine persons were
drowned.
i An engineer and fireman were in.
stantly killed through the explosion
of their engine, standing at PoWelI's
Station, Ohio.
/ A lake of oil in Mexico owned By
the Pennsylvania OH Company was
accidentally fred and has been burn.
ing steadily for days.
The Mississippi Farmers Union, in
session at Jackson, Miss, adopted
strong resolutions against the Influx
of undesirable immigrants.
Mistaking his wife for burglar,
William A. Thomas, Of Philadelphia,
Pa, shot and killed her as she was
emerging from the bathroom.
X negro Pullman porter who as.
sauited young girl on Burlington
train near Denver, Col, was beaten
into insensibility by male passengers.
The United States government hal
ordered the cruiser Albany to sail for
Honduras for the purpose of protect
ing American interests in that coun
sry.
tJock't FIemmlng, who piloted tbs
Confederate cruiser Tallahassee on
If Halifax and eluded the blockadina
federal ships, died at Ketch aarbor
: N. S.
A Los Angeles detective vas sen
fenced TO death IN Mexico on charg
of kidnapping, for capturing q Mexi
s.an without procuring extraditioi
papers.
Charles scribner's magazine ha
closed a contract with Presiden
Roosevelt for his writings on his ex
periences during his visit 10 the Afri
can jungle.
Diplomatic relations between til
United States and yeneEuela were CON
pletely severed By the recall Of th
Venezuelan representative at Wash
ington, D. @.
Chester G. Mercury, an American
has demanded $50, 900 damages fror
the Guatemalan government for q
legged insults offered his wife by Gua
temalan officials.
Mother Edith, head Of The Protee
q e tant Episcopal order of the Sisters {
G. ST. Mary, has been fognsllg receive
!. into the Roman Catholic Church !
Philadelphia, Ps.