The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-02
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Canadian Hamlet Wrecked by Avalanche
Death of ES-Premier Campbell
Bannerman-southsrn States
swept BY Disastrous
Cyclone.
England experienced a terrific biz.

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q revolution has broken out in the
province OF Santiago, Brazil.
Dr. ohdeaquno Castro, president Of
we nrazlllan supreme court, is dead.
W alter D. Munson, president Of the
aanson Steamship Line, died In New
York city. -"
Citizens Of skidoo, Cal, lynchea a
gambler who had killed a fellow
soWnsman.
Eyerette St. John. for many years a
prominent railroad official, died in
Wellesley. Mass.
Miss Julia Smith was drowned in q
pond near Tuscaloosa, Ala, while
gathering wild flowers.
Nine lumbermen were killed and ff.
teen seriously injured in log car ac-
cIdent near Laquin, Pa.
Iwo tale undergraduates were sns.
pended for shooting needles into the
nldes OF passing horses.
The situation of the Russian forces
on the Persian frontier is believed To
oe growing more serious.
Tom Simpson, The negro who pre-,
elpaeated the Kemper county riots, was
hanged at DeKalb, Miss.
The Mississippi Federation of Wo.
men s Clubs held its annual conyen.
ton at West Point, Miss.
The steamer Miriam was capsized
oy q storm near Helena, Ark, and
thirteen persons were drowned.
Flores Ontaneda. noted Ecua-
dorean chemist, died from an attack
of bubonic plague at Guayaquil.
Lieutenant General Linevitch, for.
mer commander 10 chief of the Rus.
sian army in Manehuria, is dead.
The one hundredth anniversary OF
the founding of the Catholic diocese
OF Philadelphia, Pa, was celebrated.
Many Influential Chinese nerchan
have formulated plans for contfnuirO
the boycott against japanese goods.
Sir Henry Campbell Banuerman,
until recently British premier, died 10
MS Official residence ID London, Eng.
land.
King Manuel OF Portugal will re.
fund the value of the Portuguese crown
jewels which were illegally sold by
his father.
The hamlet Of Notre Dame dc Sal.
letse, in Ontario, was overwhelmed by
az avalanche and thirty persons lost
their lives.
Disquieting reports from Guatemala
are said to be responsible for the
ordering OF six Mexican battleships to
the frontier.
Preparations are being made in
spartanburg, S. c., for the fourteenth
annual music festival of the south At.
lantic states.
4 report from London states that
mail bags containing securities and
Valuables worth $500. 900 disappeared
in New York.
Eighteen men who we're alleged 10
have been implicated in the plot to as.
sassinate President Cabrera of Guate.
mala, were shot.
Negroes In Millville, Fla, are said
to be leaving the town as the result OF
the agitation caused by the recent
lynching OF two blacks.
Wallace Polk, a farmer Of cayce,
Miss, while in . ft of insaaity, killed
his wife, wounded his daughter and
then committed suicide.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Cap.
tain Fitzhugh Lee made a successful
balloon voyage with Capt. Chandler of
the United States Signal Corps.
Four masked men entered the In.
diana Club at Hot Springs, Ark,
locked the occupants IL a room and
secured between $4,000 and s10, 600.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland was
reported to be seriously iii at his
hotel 10 Lakewood, N. Y, but the
ronor has been denied BY bis wife.
The Due de Chaulnes, who recently
married the daughter of Theodore p.
shonts, Of Washington, D. c., was
found dead in bed in Paris, France.
The last twelve months have de-
yeloped serious FIRE losses TO indus.
trial capital in Mississippi. especially
oil mills and lumber manufactures.
Two men we're killed, two injured
and 1885, 600 worth Of property de-
stroyed by the bursting of a fiyaheel
10 an electric plant at Waukegan, III.
The first accident to the bateleships
Of the American fleet occurred at
Santa Barbara, CAL, when cylinder
Of the engine Of the Missouri blew
out.
The Catholics of france, especially
the clergy, are auxiously awaiting a
decision from the pope regarding the
establishment OF mutual aid societies
for priests.
twenty eight OF the crew Of the
British cruiser Gladiator we're drowned
when the American liner ST. Paul
rammed and sent The big warship to