The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-06-20
NO. As
THE WORLDS NEWS
flashes Of the Telegraph Vines from
Near and Far.
Bobonie Plague Spreading venezue,a.
Race Tack Gambling rohibited
IN Belgium FataI Fire IL Kan.
saa City Packing Hsuse.

ne ~ afqnls de Armigo, former
Spanish premier, died in Madrid.
fredrieS Arthur Stanley, Earl Of
Derby, died IN London, England.
Belgium courts have put a ban on
s&1nbllng ct race tracks IN that coun-
Five persons wefe Killed aud several
injured in railroad wreck id Bel
GUM
Archbishop Nixon, formerly Of
Georgia, was assassinated in Tifis.
Asiatie Russia.
thirteen persons charged with 20.
ltleai otfenses we're executed in yari.
Gus cities Of Russia.
me government boat Tensas, an.
ehored near Natchez. Miss, was serf-
ousiy damaged by FIRE.
Eraak Good, young Kansas
farmer, murdered his three children
anta then committed suicide.
Norman I. Buick, United States il.
torney for Idaho, was removed from
office BY President Roosevelt.
f1isy vessels were wrecked and $50
persons drowned as the result OF 8
storm on the coast of Japan.
Germany is threatening 10 cause
trouble # Great Britain, Russia and
France form triple alliance.
ne postotf1ce at Houlka, Miss, was
broken into by bnglars, who made away
with 500 in money and stamps.
Blind Tom, the famous negro musi-
eiaa, died il Hoboken, N. j., whers
ne had lived for years on charity.
Mrs. Daniel Cooper, of Cadillac.
Mich killed her husband and their
slx#cilll'iren and eommitted suicide.
William Henry Metzenger, Jr.
seized live wire during a storm It
Mobile, Ala, and vas elecsrocuted
Four negroes were drowned when an
uneontrollable automobile plunged
into the Hudson river at New YORK,
Receding water at La Crosse, Wis,
following The food, revealed valuable
pearls thrown up By the high water.
Joe Constantine, a waterworksem.
plosee, was killed by the explosion of
gasoline in main at ADMISSION. Ala
T Z. Birchfeld shot and killed
Mrs. ". a. Van Hooser and then
committed suicide Al Birmingham.
Ala.
Albert Crosby, of 'The Road 10
Yesterday" company, was beaten 10
death and robbed By thugs in New
York city.
The Mississippi Pharmaceutical AS.
soeiation. az its closing session il
Meridian. Miss. elected officers and
selected Vicksburg as the next meet.
ing place.
Bnbonic plague is spreading il o..
racas, Venezuela, and it is reported
that the proper authorities are doing
nothing whatever to check the dread
G. A. Lfnxwiler, of the Painters and
Decorators Union of America. iumped
from train at Amony, Miss, and
was killed.
the prevalence OF crime ii Francs
mas caused parliament to postpone
action on the bill to abolish capital
punishment.
While party Of seven young men
were hunting IN North Carolina, one
vas killed and four seriously injured
By lightning.
Negrosvoodoo artists in Cuba kid
napsd and murdered white girl for
the purpose Of securing some Of ner
hearts blood.
The Honduran government has con.
sented to the extradition of Francis
G. Bailey Of New York. charged with
grand larceny.
me monitor Florida was str1ck -
a torpedo al Fort Monroe, Va, in or
der to test high power explosives and
modern armor plate.
Orders have been given for tbs assem-
ping at San Francisco, Cal, of the
Atlantic warship aset preparatory
to the homeward start.
Twelve persons we're injured b. the
Of platform at Montgomery,
Ala, during The unveiling of a statue
Of General Robt. &. Lee.
The British steamer Bengore Head
ran apuck in Portsmouth harbor and
grounded after striking and damaging
rhe battlesnlp Vengeance.
General Clement A. Evans, OF Geor.
gia, vas elected commandments
OF The Gated Confederate Veterans to
succeed the late General S. d. Lee.
Thousands Of suffragettes paraded
the streets Of London. England, and
were joined by the barmaids, who
were making separate demonssra.
tion.
The national congress of Mexico
has appropriated s4oo, 600 for the erec.
tion Of a mammoth eoaling station al
The port Of ManzaniIlo. On the Pacife
coast.
Twoslaborers were killed and others
injured il an explosion and fire Ia the
packing house of Morris & Company
al Kansas City, Kans., that caused s
pr 'perty loss Of nearly ssagvvo.