The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-09-05
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
American Athletes Royalty Welcomed at
New York-Death of Noted Confed-
craze Genera1-Tokio EXPOSE
tion Postponed-Thirty
Miners sufTocated.

A0uO Is OOsOOos
The Toxic exposition has been post
poned until 1917
Antonio Henro Becouer, the we'll
known French scientist, is dead.
A waterworks plant will be estab-
lished at Ittabena, Miss.
Two prominent merchants of Tabriz,
Persia, were assassinated.
Thirty miners were suffocated in g
burning mine at McAlester, Okla.
The damage to cotton by recent
rains is estimated at | 900, 900 bales.
Twenty persons lost their lives
in cloudburst at Folsom, New Mex
leo.
Three persons were billed and ten
injured in train wreck near Hugo,
Okla.
President Alfaro, of Ecuador, is
seriously i'll with an attack OF heart
disease.
Floods in South Carolina are re-
ceding and railroad traffic is being
resumed,
The British steamer Dunearn, with
ffty.one men on board. sank near the
Sea of Japan.
Burglars blew open the safe Of d
bank at st. Eustaehe, Canada, and se-
cured s12, 900.
Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, ranking
officer of the Confederate army, died
at Biloxi, Miss.
Five men were killed and several In
iured in coal mine accident near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The funeral Of the late Ambassador
Speck Won sbernbarg was held at
Leipsie, Germany.
An important session of the Amer
lean Health Association was held ct
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Asiatic cholera in its westward
march across Russia has reached
Lodz, Russian Poland.
John Smith. negro accused OF rob-
berry, was taken from Jail at Itta-
bena, Miss, and lynched.
For attempting to assault white
woman in Tennessee, a negro was
seized by mob and lynched.
David E. Thompson, American am.
bassador to Mexico, was run down by
a bieyclist and badly injured.
A crazed negro at Mount Olive,
Miss, killed two white men and was
finally shot down by posse.
Governor Fort, of New Jersey, is
threatening to use troops at Atlantic
City to enforce the Sunday law.
Eight workmen we're killed and
swenty-eight injured by the collapse
OF brick wall at Chelsea, Masa.
The thirty seventh annual conven-
ton of the American Bar Association
was held at Seattle, W ashington.
Francis Mooney, an American, was
arrested in Salvador on charge of
violating the salyadorean neutrality
laws.
At the reputed age Of one hundred
and six years, Rabbi Wolinsky OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, was married for the
third time.
It was reported st Washington, D.
c., that President Castro, OF Vene-
zuela, is interfering with the United
States nails.
The Venezuelan reVolutionists have
organized a iunta in New York and
are preparing to start an insurrec-
tion in Venezuela.
Count Leo Toistoi, the famous Rus
sian author, is reported to be greatly
improved aud hopes for his recovery
are now entertained.
Mrs. Kate Howard, one OF the lead
ers OF the Springfield, Ill, riot, com
mitted suicide after her arrest on
the charge of murder
Frederiek-C. Hewitt, bachelor and
retired banker OF New York, died at
oswego, N. Y, leaving an estate
valued At $40, COG. 900.
William Tate OF Verona, Miss, &C.
cidentally dropped Q pistol from his
pocket and the weapon exploded,
wounding him seriously.
Robert Montgomery, negro
charged with the murder OF Sheriff C.
V. Douglas of Fayette, Miss, was
arrested in Chicago, I'll.
Louis Coxey, aged eleven years, ad-
mitted that he wrecked passenger
train near Buford, Ca, thereby caus-
Ing the death Of two men.
Two thousand men from the Ameri-
can feet marched through the streets
of Melbourne, Australia, TO hear mass
in ST. Patrick s Cathedral.
John D. Rockefeller has offered to
give s150, ,0Oe to Richmond College.
provided that the Baptists of Virginia
raise an additional $3.50, 600.
Fifteen United States government in
spectors made an investigation OF
Chicago's milk supply and found
conditions in an alarming state.
a white woman was found murdered
In a swamp near Wfagate, Miss, ard
the police authorities are looking for
q Norwegian who IS suspected Of the
crime.
A great parade, in which %, 900 per.
sons took part, was held in New York
city IN honor of the American athletes
VII competed IN the Olympic games at
Loadon.