The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-03-21
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Fzeal Explosion aud Fire at Natohex-YtaI.
ian Who Murdered Catholic Priest SEN.
fenced to Death-BattleshIp Fleet
TO Visit Australia.

i1osc WCiS hll1eQ as the result
OF fire at Marysville, Cal.
Fire at Bahia, Brazil, caused a loss
OF property estimated at ST, 600, 600.
Hugh Bonner, fire commissioner of
New York, died at his home in that
city.
/ King Alfonso, of Spain, completed
his visit to Barcelona and returned TO
Madrid.
An explosion of fire damp in the
Lukes mine, near Dortnund, Prussia,
killed five men.
A disastrous fire occurred at Big
Timber, Mont, causing an estimated
loss of 81, 200, 900.
Two United States revenue cutters.
the Snokomish and the Davey, were
launched in Wilmington, Del.
Government detectives arrested two
men near Pittsburg, Pa, for alleged
counterfeiting OF half dollars.
The news that the American fleet of
oatbieships would visit Australia has
caused great rejoicing in that country.
The steamer Mauretania crossed The
Atlantic ocean in FIVE days and five
minutes, establishing new ocean
record.
Charles sehalberg, said to have
been pursued by detectives for the past
ten years, was captured at santa
Clara, Cal.
Notices announcing a wage reduc.
ton of 10 per cent were posted ia
seven OF the large cotton factories in
Lowell, Mass.
Two persons were killed and eight
10 Iured when a Frisco passenger train
was wrecked on a high trestle near
BristoW, Okla.
rive Greeks were fatally wounded in
q race riot with negroes, whom they
had displaced at a cooperage plant at
Belhaven, N. g.
Prince Helie de Sagan arrived in
Paris, France, thereby dispelling the
reports that he was on his way TO the
United States.
The superior court of Venezuela
lined the New York and Bermudez
Asphalt Company s5,o00,o 900 for aid
ing reyolntfonists.
Fred. W. Foster, machinist and
gunner on the Alabama, the famous
Confederate cruiser, was found dead
at Atchison. Kan.
It is predicted that at the end of the
present biennial period there will be a
deficit of about $500, 900 in the Mis-
sissippi state treasury.
Five hundred persons were poisoned
by refreshments served at church
social in sandusky, Ohio, but no
fatalities were reported.
Six peasants were killed and several
others wounded in an encounter with
detachment of police at the village
OF KochetoVka, Russia.
James Johnson, a leading politician
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, committed
suicide on a train en- route from Bir.
mlngbam, Ala, to his home.
The Russian douma has been asked
for an appropriation of 81 900, 600 for
the enlargement of prisons, which are
said to be greatly overcrowded.
A report that school in Pittsbur0.
Pa, would be blown up by members
OF the Black Hand caused many pupils
to remain away from the building.
FEts
The action of the Mississippi fepis.
lature in raising the tax on oysters
from two cents to eight cents a barrel
caused great indignation il Biloxi.
A IRE panic was narrowly ayerted
IN the Holyoke, Mass, opera house.
where 1900 men, women and children
were witnessing moving picture
show.
Benson Bidwell and his son, pro.
moters OF the Bidwelr Electric Com
pany, were found guilty in Chicago
of obtaining money under false ore.
lenses.
The new scout cruiser birmingham
arrived at Boston. Mass, after com.
pleting her trial trips, in which she
exceeded the requirements OF the gov.
ernment.
Ten persons were killed and much
valuable property destroyed as the
result Of a gas explosion In the
Nafchez Drug Company's building at
Natchez, Miss.
The Liberty League, organized in
Chicago, ILL.,, and backed by the liquor
interests, has launched its campaign
against the Anti Saloon League and
prohibition in the south.
Dr.. Chin Tao shen, senior secretary
Of the Chinese board OF finance, arr
rived in San Francisco, Cal, for the
purpose OF studying the currency sys-
| tenn ef the United States.
| Miss Sarah Weed shot and killed
Miss Elizabeth Hardee and then COM
nitted suicide while the two were in bed
1 at Boston, Mass, where they eon.
Quoted fashionable boarding school.
Giuseppe Ala, who shot and killed
| Father Leo Heinrichs In St. Eliza
beth s Church, at Denver. Col. on
FEB. 23, was tried and found guilty 81
murder in the first degree. Hanging
was fixed by the jury as a penalty.
i Inc trustees Of the University Oi
mississippi have accepted the propo.
sition TO transfer the care and control
| OF the State Charity Hospital at Vicks.
burg TO the medical department of tbe
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