The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-02-22
NO. 2S
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Captain of fsteanner General sloouni, which
Burned In New York..Harbor. sem
fenced 10 Ten Years Imprison-
lnent-Floods Cause Dam
age in Several States.

-Four persons were killed and mum.
Der injured by tornado which swep.
j Tyler, Texas.
Fifteen hundred hungry school chill.
dren were given free hot dinners at q
restaurant in New York.
Five persons were killed as the re-.
suit of an explosion ia starch fac.
tory al Providence, r. /.
Mexieans at Sonora, Ariz., blew up
an American boarding house, seri.
! oasly iniaring fifteen men.
Two men and woman were seri.
ously injured in an automobile acci-
dent pear Montgomery, Ala.
The greatest epidemic of influeuza
England has known for years ragged
II London and claimed thousands OF
victims.
Merchants in New York city have
organized an association for the pur-
pose ofinstituting a campaign against
shoplifters.
Robert Bennett, a prominent tobacco
buyer Of Mayfeld, KY, resigned his
position because of q threat from
night riders.
Nicholas N Gerhard, governor
general IF Finland, has been removed
and N Won Borekan appointed to
succeed him.
Fire at Seminary, Miss, destroyed
the plant Of the Covington County
News and other buildings, causing q
loss Of $1,000.
L has been decided to reduce the ex-
penditure for the new terminal depot
n Kansas City, Mo-, from s27, GOO, 600
to S15, 900, 600.
More than 300, 900 buyers and busi-
ness men from all over the country
@ere reported to be IN New York pur-
chasing goods.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
v ashington, left China for America
on FEB. l3, and was accompanied by
thirty-two students.
Seven persons were killed and
dozen injured in a collision between =
Big Four passenger train and an elec.
tric car at Toledo, Ohio.
Carl Won Welthefm, German.
American, was sentenced in London,
Eng, to twenty years penal servitude
for attempted blackmail
a memorial window to Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis will be unveiled at Biloxi,
Miss, on Feb. 28 by the Confederate
associations of that place.
Baron Takahira, Japanese minister
to the United States, declared that war
between this country and japan would
be the most inhuman event in history.
Many persons were rendered home-
less and great suffering was expert.
eneed as result OF the cyclone which
swept through Mississippi last week.
Sixteen Yaqui Indians, en- route
from the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec and
Yueatan, attempted to commit suicide
by leaping from a government trans.
port.
a pearl necklace and pin OF extraor.
binary beauty, valued at $50, 900, were
stolen from the Countess Won Harten.
sleben, the wife of German army OF.
fcer.
The Mississippi Masonic grand
lodge provided for an endowment of
100000 for the Widows and Orphans,
Home hy leyying per capita tax Of
% cents.
Mrs. Marion Grey, manager of a
matrimonial bureau at Elgin, Ill.,,
was found guilty in Chicago of using
the United States mails for fraudulent
purposes.
Three masked men entered bank
at Granite Falls, Ne O., held up the
cashier, robbed the institution OF s27OO
and escaped, leaving the cashier
locked in the vault.
President Roosevelt h as ordered the
suspension of Captain Ira G. Wei.
born, military instructor at the Mis-.
slssfppt Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Starkville.
Deputy Fire Chief Charles w. Kru.
GER. known as 1.-THE grand old man,
of the New York fire department, lost
ais lie while fighting fire by drown.
ing in the basement of q building.
Because of the renunciation of free
service, the people of Halle.
1urst, Miss, have given the Cumber.
and Telephone Company thirty days
2 which to pack up and leave the
own.
Mrs. Parkhurst, sufragist leader,
.ogether with a number of delegates,
Who we're arrested for disturbing the
peace, went TO Jail in London for six
Feeks rather than give sureties of
rood behavior.
The British steamer Mercedes de Lar.
'inaga. from Galveston, Tex, for
Manchester, Eng, rescued the shin.
wrecked crew of the schooner Edward
Berwind, which cleared from New Or.
cans On ] an. ~
The annual food drivers and small
streams, causing loss OF millions of
iollars to property, crops, ETC., began
his week and scores Of cities and
owns in western Tennessee, eastern
ohio and West Vlrginia we're parsi.