The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-03-14
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Nearly Two Hundred schoef Children
Meet Death in Terrible Disaster at Col
Nnwood, ohio-Diplomatic Rupture
Between United States and vene.
sueia Threatened-Four Me-
grocs Lynehed In
mississippi,


"A Mississippi
N. Pokotiloff, Russian minister to
+ China, died in Pekins
: Gustaf NJ. Westman, a chemist of
note, died in New York.
An electric street railroad has been
built in Shanghai, China.
A displomatic rupture between the
United States and Venezuela is threat.
ened.
United States Senator Redaeld
Proctor, OF Vermont, died in Wash
ington, D. c.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt will make
a cruise along the Mississippi river on
the May flower.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese ambassa-
dor to the United States, has arrived
in Washington, D. C.
| 4 memorial institute and monuments
Will be erected in London as a tribute
to William Shakespeare.
Fourteen laborers were overcome BY
gas in railroad tunnel near Balti-
more, Md, and four of them died.
The excavations on the Panama Ca.
nal during the month of February
were the greatest since the work be-
gan.
Judge Norman D.ke of the supreme
court OF Brooklyn, N. Y, received a
Black Hand letter threatening his
life.
The Pieho river has changed its
course for distance of sixty miles
between Tung Chow and Tien Tsin,
China.
The French government will not
consent to the extradition of Paul
Roy, wanted in New Hampshire on a
charge OF murder.
Senator A. j. McLaurin, of Missfs.
sippi, has been appointed member
OF the commission to investigate peo-
mage in the south.
Rev. DR.. siIas c. Swallow, the pro.
hlbitfon candidate for president in
1904, is seriously i'll at his home in
Harrisburg, Pa.
Philip A. Laszio, a Hungarian
painter, arrived in New York for the
purpose of painting portrait of
President Roosevelt.
Two negroes, charged with the mur.
der OF Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hart.
were lynched and their bodies burned
near HawkinsVille, Ga.
Germany's first mammoth warship
was successfully launched at Wilhelm.
shaven and was christened Nassau by
the Grand Duchess of Baden.
Hotel proprietors in Denver, Col,
have pledged themselves net to raise
their rates during the session of the
Democratic National Convention.
Citizens at Meridian, Miss, have de.
manded the chief of police Of that city
to prohibit the printing, sale and dis.
tribution of newspapers on Sunday.
The city council of Budapest, Hun
gary, passed resolutions of sympathy
with relatives of the victims of the
Cleveland, Ohio, school fire disaster.
The Mississippi senate passed blu
creating the Office of attorney to the
railroad commission, appointive by
the governor, at salary OF $4,000 per
year.
All the schools In Illinois not pro.
vided with thoroughly efficient fire.
presentatives have been closed until
the necessary safety devices can be in.
stalled.
The verdict In the case of Lieut.. Gen.
stoessel, sentenced to death by court.
martial for the surrender OF Port
Arthur, was formally pronounced in
ST. Petersburg.
Emanuel Cedrino, in an Italian au.
tomobile, broke the worlds speed rec.
ord at Ormond Beach, driving 300
miles at an average rate of seventy.
seven miles per hour.
Gen. Count Wilhelm Won Hohenau.
former commander OF the guard corps
OF Berlin. was sentenced by military
court to be deprived of his rank in the
army and al orders conferred upon
him.
The house committee on arts and
expositions will report favorably a
bill appropriating $500, 900 for the
participation of the United States in
the International Exposition at To.
kio, Japan.
Wary Charles, wealthy China.
man OF Boston, Mass, and eight of
his eountrymen we're found guilty of
murder IN the first degree for the kill
ing OF four Cinnamon during August
of last year.
Queen Alexandria, the dowaeer EN-.
press OF Russia, and Princess Yicto-
ria, accompanied by a small suite.
visited J. Pierpont Morgan's art collec.
tion at Princess Gate, England, where
they were received by Mr.. Morgan.
As the result of defective furnace
IN the basement, the North Collin.
wood school building Ia the village of
Collinwood, a suburb OF Cleveland.
Ohio, was burned to the ground and
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