The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires FrsD
Near and Far.
Handsome Elks' Home at vicksburg Dee
stroyed by Fire-Anarchistlo Plot 10
Destroy American Battleship
Fleet Discovered.

| The Masonic Temple at Baltimore,
Md, was destroyed by FIRE.
| Gov. E, F. Noel was inaugurased
with elaborate ceremonies at Jackson,
Miss.
Aarchdnke Ferdinand w., grand
duke of Tuscany, died In Salisbury,
Austria.
George H. Mercer. cotton broker,
was killed by an automobile al New.
port, N. j.
The Second Congregational Churen
in Dorchester, Mass, was completely
destroyed by fire.
| Sir John Lawson Walton, mem.
Der OF the British parliament, died 10
London, England.
The United States cruiser Des
Meines has been ordered to Hayti to
protect American interests.
More than q thousand unemployed
men paraded the streets OF New Brit
ain, Conn, appealing for work.
Col. james. r. Randall, author OF
the famous song, Maryland, NJ
Maryland, " died at Augusta, Ca.
The tWo.cent rate Law now Ia forcs
in Pennsylvania was declared uncoa-
stitutional by the state supreme court.
Two girls were killed and seversl
Others injured by FIRE In the Imperial
Underwear Factory, at Scranton, PA.
Henry Farman, French aeronauS,
won the Deutseh-Archdeacon prize OF
$4,000 in an airship contest st Paris,
France.
The Mississippi house OF representa-.
tiyes passed a bill reducing shs bond
OF the state treasurer from $3.50 900 70
500, 900.
Edmund Clarence ssedman, known
as the Banker Poet, died suddenly
IN New York at the ripe age OF seventy.
five years.
Henry NJ. Waddell. secretary ana
treasurer OF the Mississippi Industrial
Institute, died at his home ia Colum.
bus, Miss.
The Western Bank and Trust Con.
pany. Of Dallas, Tex, capitalized 81
$500, 900, has passed into the hands or
an assignee.
Walter Cole, a negro, who killed
Walter Langley, bridge watchmnn,
was lynched by a mob 10 Morpnn
county, Tenn.
japanese immigration 10 America il
decreasing, according to ofaeial reports
received by the immigration bureau
at Washington, D. G.
Charles Emory Smith, editor OF the
Philadelphia Press and former minisA
ter to Russia, was found dead al hin
home in Philadelphia, Pa.
Five women suffragists we're M.
rested in London as the result OF
public demonstration at Premier Camp
bell Bannerman's residence.
The Elks' Home at Vicksbure, Miaa..
together with the old PresbstsrIen
church adjoining, was destroyed b.
fire, causing loss OF s40, 900.
In terrific fire which DESTROYED tfsA
Rhodes Opera House al Boyersown.
Pa, one hundred andi seventy. thrss
persons were burned to death.
Two men were killed and threa n
jured By the derailment Oh 4 gorn
train on the Atlanta, Birmingham ana
Atlantic Railroad near Tyrone, Cs.
A. D. Bailey, P. ). Brown and Fred
Mcdonald were rescued from the shafs
OF the Giroux minenear Ely, Nev., afsAr
having been entombed for forsy.six
days.
J. A. Funk, who disappeared frora
skidmore, Mo-, fourteen years AGO.
and who was thought to be dead, re.
turned to find that his wife had mar.
ried again.
Mrs. Herbert NJ. Sears, 8 wealthy
woman of Boston, Mass, committed
suicide by leaping from a thirseenth.
story window In the St. Regis Hossl IS
New York.
Judge MCPHERSON, In the ssdsrai
court at Kansas City, No., declared
the Missouri Law prohibiting shs teans-
fer of cases to the federal courss 70
be unconstitutional
Lawrence Yerger, Of Jackson, Mlss.,
was elected secretary OF the board of
trustees Of the Mississippi penitensi.
ary, in place Of W. j. Brown, Who
will contest the action.
Il is reported that the Americas
battleship feet will cross the Pscifc
ocean to the Philippines and return "a
the United States through the suez
canal and the Mediterranean sea.
Baron Rio Branco, Brazilisn nninie.
ter of foreign affairs, toasted the pYee.
ident OF the United States Of : baA.
qnet in honor of the officers Of as
American battieship aset st Rio az
Janefro.
| Secretary of War William q. Tar.
IN a letter to President Roossysla,
recommended an increase in the widsh
of the Panama Canal locks from 100
to 40 feet, q. an addisional cost cs
81. 900, 600.
The police of Rio de Jansiro dls.
covered an anarchistfc plot TO DESTROY
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