The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-06-06
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Famous Artist stFangied to Death In
Paris-Ensire Family Drowned in
schuyIkia River RebelIious
Mexican Indians to be
Exterminated.

A thousand lives were lost in a miu-
ing accident at KWang sa, China.
Five persons were killed and several
injured by a tornado in Oklahoma.
An amendment to The constitution OF
Mexico was adopted to restrict immi-
grafton.
4 fatal case of bubonic plague was
reported al st. Thomas, Danish West
Indies.
Former United States Senator J K.
jones of Arkansas died in W ashing-
ton, D. c.
NJ. Paulus, noted singer and COM
poser of many songs, died in Paris,
France.
A heavy fog in the English channel
resulted in the collision of a number of
steamships.
The reimmi grafton of Germans from
America to Germany is said TO be in
ereasing.
Considerable damage was reported
as the result of windstorm at South
Bend. Ind.
The port of La Guayra is still closed
owing to the continued epidemic of bu-
bonic plague.
| A convention of the American Medi-
cal Association was held this week in
Chicago, III.
J axe Mcdowell, negro, was lynched
at Dixon, Ky, for killing ]. B. Berry,
a travelling man.
At It's recent sessionscongress appro-
priated 1851, 1888, go for the needs of
the government.
The Mississippi Educational Con-
ference will bs neId at Oxford, Miss,
on July Is and Il.
High water in the Brazos river in
Texas resulted in considerable damage
to government work.
One man was killed and number of
persons injured as the result of a tor
nado near Beloit, Kans.
The fifth International Congress of
Cotton spinners and Manufacturers
was held at Paris, France.
Several persons were badly injured
at Montgomery, Ala, By jumping from
an uncontrolled street car.
/ Ten persons were killed and twelve
seriously injured by a tornado that
swept Alfalfa county, Okla.
John D. Rockefeller has made an adj
ditional gift of $500, 900 to the Rookie
teller Institute in New York.
High winds and rain swept the north
eru part OF the state of Mississippi,
doing great damage to crops.
Emanuel Cedrino, an Italian ehauf-
feur, was killed while racing on the
Plmlico track in Baltimore, Nd.
Mexico has decided to wage war
of determination on the Yaqui Indt-
ans unless they surrender by June 10.
Adolph Steinheil, a famous artist,
and his mother in-law we're strangled
TO death by burglars in Paris. France.
i Two persons were killed and two
probably fatally injured as the result
j of an automobile accident in Brook
} lyn. n. Y.
) 1t is reported that Moscow, Russia,
: will hold Pan Slavic exposition for
the purpose OF stimulating interest in
: Slavic affairs.
Mrs. Richard 7. Wilson, mother OF
+ Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Og-
t den Goelet and Lady Herbert, died in
: New York city.
7 Quarantine inspectors report thai
| there are more merchant vessels IN
!. New York harbor waiting for cargoes
. than ever before.
: The steamship Loanda, en- route
q from Hamburg to West Africa, sank
b off the coast of South Foreland, but
: no lives were lost.
Two men held up d Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway freight
d train near Cleveland, Ohio, androbbed
1t a car of merchandise.
= Seventeen seamen were drowned
r. when their fishing schooner was sunk
e by a steamer off the coast OF Var
ot mouth, Nova Scotia.
II TO aid physicians in finding pre-
re- yentatiye and cure for tuberculosis, |
IS New York man allowed himself to b
r Inoculated with the germ.
IL Herr Schwara, an author OF Leipsic
is Germany, was sentenced to twelv
8 years Imprisonment for disclosing
military secrets to France.
!. Twenty passengers were seriousf
- injured when a parRor car attached t
"a a Baltin 3re and Ohio flyer" weE
s over bank near Garrett, Pa.
2 City Electrician 7. q. Chamberlain
ID of Mobile, Ala, was shot and kille
~ by Daniel Brown, negro desperate
II who was in turn killed by a posse.
II A concert was given in London fc
the purpose of raising a fund to el
M able American girls to take post-grat
aa uate courses II Eaglish universities,
ns Delagrande, the aeronaut, broke q
a0 worlds aeroplane record at Rom
+ Italy, flying r. $50 metres and reunai
aat ing in the air 15 minutes and 26seeond
90 Ex-President Grocer Cleveland v;
removed from Lakewood. n. j., TO b
home in Princeton, and his conditie
was reported to be greatly improve