The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-16
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Disastrous Fire at Atlanta-M Monetary Re-
ward for Boil Weevil Exterminator
Projected-Crime and
Casualties.

The German Reichstag has ad-
journed until Oct. 20.
A case of yellow fever is reported in
Santiago province, Cuba.
Fire at Detroit, Mich, destroyed
property valued at $3.50, 900.
A revolutionary movement has
broken ont in western China.
Ludovic Halevy, French dramatist
and novelist, died in Paris, France.
Eleven men were drowned in ship
ping disaster off the coast of Oregon.
Five men were drowned by the over
turning of a naptha launch at Newbury
Port, Mass.
Prince Philip zp Eulenburg OF Ger
many has been arrested on a charge
of perjury.
4 mob at Miyazakia, Japan,
wrecked timber factory owned by a
F'renchman.
Two hundred persons died as the re-
suit of an epidemic of typhoid fever
at Kiey, Russia.
Seldom 2. Clemmons, father of Mrs,
Howard Gould OF New York, died in
Jacksonville, Fla.
The eighty first annual council of the
Episcopal diocese of Mississippi was
held in Aberdeen.
John w. Gamble, of Charlestown,
Ark, was killed by a street car in
Washington, D. G.
Train robbers shot and killed Ex-
press Messenger Charles II. Wright,
but secured little money.
Fire in Atlanta, Ca, swept two
blocks in the business district, causing
a loss estimated at 81, 500, 900.
Charles E. Bamford, former lieu
| tenant in the United States army,
committed suicide at Washington.
Four persons were cremated and
twelve injured in fire that destroyed
a tenement house III New York city.
Jim Kennedy, negro, set fire to his
house in Montgomery, Ala, and five
of his children were burned to death.
Bnbonie plague continues to spread
in La Guayra, Venezuela, and the en-
tire town is now affected with the dread
disease.
The annual convention OF the Mis-
sissippi Division, United Daughters
of the Confederaey, was held at Yazoo
City, Miss.
Two wealthy Guatemalans were put
to death by order of President Ca
brera for alleged completely in plot
against the president.
Fifty thousand acres of lard in
Adams county, Miss, are inundated
as the result OF a number Of creyasses
caused by the recent torn ado.
| a ban has been declared against rats
and mice on the Panama Canal Zone
in an effort to prevent bubonic plague
from gaining foothold there.
/ United States Senator A. J. Nc
Laurin, of Mississippi, has introduced
!! a bill Offering a reward of $50, 900 for
a cotton boil weevil exterminator.
| Edward e. Brannon, lawyer of
Butte, Mont, was arrested in New
York on charge of attempting to
/ extort SAC, ,000from f. Augustus Heinze.
Two fireman were killed and the
plant of the w. G. Wood Lumber
Company at Collins, Miss, seri-
ously damaged as the result of boiler
explosion.
There were $4,000 less births in
France during 1907 than in the pre-.
ceding year. The average yearly de-
crease for the past seven years has
been II, 900.
Robert B. Jones of New Jersey,
American vice consul general at Qua.
yaquil, Ecuador, was injured In q
railroad collision in which many per.
sons were killed.
The hurting of lighted lamp by 1
burglar at night Watchman resulted
in fire that destroyed the Lighberr
J Factory of the Cortez Cigar Com
} pany at Key West, Fla.
: A woman at Nancy, France. mar.
3 rowly escaped lynching at the hands
! of an infuriated mob, after it had been
t learned that she was guilty of brutal,
I strangling to death a seven year-olt
: boy.
!. John Joseph, the negro assassin o
g Branch T. Archer, near Port Gibson
q Miss, was shot to death by posse II
| a swamp near Bruinsburg after he hal
5 refused to surrender.
9 A med allion head of Presiden
b Roosevelt is to be on one side of th
y medal which is to be awarded 18th
mian Canal Commission employee
who have rendered two years, salts
J. factory service on the isthmus.
The heads OF the princely houses G
) Germany, led by Emperor William
! assembled in Vienna to present thei
congratulations to Emperor Franci
i Joseph on the occasion OF the damon
5 jubilee OF his reign as emprorer-kin
s of Austria-Hung ary.
The United States battleship Illinoi
went adrift in Monterey Bay in a storI
8 and narrowly missed crashing int
d the Alabama, anchored near by. B,
e = cause of the storm 1000 men who ha
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