The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-30
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Catholic Priest Stabbed by Demented
Worshipper-Texas Swept by Disas-
srons storm-Chicago Packer
Sentenced to Imprisons
ment for Violating
Fedaral i


Sentenced to ImprisonS
anent for Violating
Federal Law.
Sixty persons were badly hurt in a
train wreck near Antwerp.
Mexico is preparing to legislate
against Chinese immigration.
Francois Coppee, the French poet
and dramatist, died in Paris, France.
Peter DAILY, the well.knoWn actor.
died in Chicago, Ill, after a brief ill
ness.
Race track gambling was denounced
in eighteen churches in New York
city.
Train service in Oklahoma was sus-
pended entirely on account of destruct-
i've foods.
The United States battleship Michi.
gan was launched on May 26 at Cam
den, N. j.
It is reported that Japan is on the
eve OF facing national debt of 81
800, 900, 900.
IhFee persons were killed and seven
injured when a bridge collapsed at
Detroit, Mich.
4 monument erected to the memory
OF the late Mark Hanna was dedicated
at Cleveland, Ohio.
As the result of a short water sup
ply fire at Mayfeld, Ky. DESTROYED
property valued at $3.50. 900.
Eighty-fye thousand children
gathered in Vienna and paid homage
to Emperor Francis Joseph.
One person was killed and four in
Jured in a wreck on the Southern Pa.
ciic Railroad near Pinole, Cal.
seven persons were drowned near
Clarendon, Ark, as the result of an
explosion on gasoline launch.
Three persons werekilled and forty
five others badly injured ia street
car collision at Philadelphia, Pa.
The annual convention of the Amer
ican Cotton Manufacturers Assoeia-
ton was held at Richmond, Va, last
| week.
Fire at Memphis, Tenn, destroyed
two warehouses and grain elevator.
causing a loss OF several thousand
dollars.
Martin Jacoby, Mexican million
aire, was charged with the misappro-
priation of funds aggreg ating nearly
s5, 900, 900.
| The negro who assassinated Police
Officer 3. Z. White at Meridian, Miss.
was cornered by a posse and riddled
with bullets.
4 heavy wind and rain storm
swept Texas from Panhandle to the
Gulf, doing great damage to crops
and property.
Goodwin seudamore, the last sur.
vivor of the Union prisoners who
escaped from Libbey prison, died al
Lakeport, Cal.
Robert G. P. Holmes, purchasing
agent for the Edison Electric Com.
pany, was found murdered in an alley
at Chicago, III.
/ The Union Pacific Railroad is rom.
pietlng a cutoff from Denver, Colo.
to the main line in Wyoming at q
cost Of SIS, 900, 900.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. james Schurman af
pennsylvania were ordered to leave
Lenoir, N. c., for practieing social
! equality with negroes.
Jay Gould, of New York, defeated
Eustace E. Miles, of England, in three
straight sets oftennis at Queens Club
in London, England.
Twenty peasants who took part in
the recent agrarian disorders in the
Yekaterinoslav district were hanged
at Knerson, Russia.
Rev. Father Joseph F. Lubeley was
stabbed and perhaps fatally wounded
by delnented man in st. JOSEPH, &
Church, at Salisbury, Mo.
More than 10000 deaths have
, occurred as a result of the severe
famine that prevails in Usoga pro,
vince OF Uganda, East Africa.
The steamer Vile de Bruged wa,
wrecked by a cyclone on the Congo
} river in Africa and six European,
$ and forty-eight natives were drowned
The Worrell airship, the larges
]. ever constructed, burst while 300 fee
+ ia the air near Berkley, Cal, thereb,
$ seriously iniurfng TIE sixteen oeeu
t pants.
e Hugh I. Armour was sentenced t,
r eighteen months imprisonment in th
K federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, an
y lined $500 for violating the oleomar
o garine law.
+ John r. Perry. an amateur base
e ball player, dropped dead in 81
n Louis, Mo-, after making a Ion
e throw from the field, which retired th
i, opposing side.
y The pope has Instructed the Frene
@ episcopate to refuse the clause in th
o church devolution law providing fo
. the creation of mutual aid societie
+ + for aged priests.
IS Two persons were killed and fort,
7. two others were burned or iniure
otherwise as the result of an expIosio
IN the grinding room of the say sug,
IS refinery in Paris, France.
e The Chicago bureau of statistic
ps4l.Orfa That