The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-11
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.


IL NEW 1OFk city.
Prince Baiidorkara,G ,Georgevich, a
cousin OF Prince Peter Of seryia, died
in Paris, France.
James JeoHrey Roche, American
consul at Berne, Switzerland, died
after long illness.
i The Southern Newspaper Publish.
ers Association will meet May 10 and
20 at Charlotte, N. G.
/ The Stand ard Steel Car Company
at Hammond, Ind, shut down, thus
forcing 1900 men out OF work.
/ After being IN business for a period
OF nearly fifty years the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Of New 7 York was closed.
! John Burrell. a negro, was lynched
near Beookhaven, Miss, for the mur-
der OF twelve-year-old white boy.
The Diamond Workers Union at
Amsterdam decided upon a complete
cessation of work during the month OF
April.
Corning 8 Co. IS distillery al Peo.
ria, H., was almost entirely destroyed
by fire, the loss being estimated at
$1,000. 600.
The city authorities of Paterson.
N. j., announced that the presence of
anarchists in that city would no longer
be tolerated.
j. 2. snmmerholder, a hermit of
Jackson, Ala. subsisting on rice and
camel goods, died from ptomaine
poisoning.
Prof. ]. A. Moore, who occupied the
chair OF mathematics at Millsaps Col.
Elege, died at Jackson, Miss, aged
ifty-four years.
The crisis in the diamond industry,
which Is due largely to the cessation
Of the American demand for the
stones. is acute.
The negro recently shot by Repre-
sentative Helm OF Alabama, in
Washington, D. G., has fled suit for
$40, ,006 damages.
Miss Marie Lehman committed sui.
eide at ST. Louis, Mo-, so that her in
valid and helpless sister might get
$1,000 life insurance.
New York's health commissioner
reports that there have been 50, ,655
birth from ] an. to April /, breaking
all previous records.
The fruit and vegetable crop In Mis-
sissippi is said to have successfully
passed through another critical period
Of unfavorable weather.
An army OF i've thousand men in
the service of Sultan Abb El-Azis,
with twenty pieces of artillery, began
It's march on Fee, Morocco.
The burning Of four factories and
four dwellings ID Lynchburg, Va,
causing q loss sof s225, 700. was thought .
to be the work of night riders.
A general strike of workmen
occurred in Rome, Italy, as protest
against the killing OF three rioters and
the Wounding of fifteen others by
troops.
:. Pierpont Morgan, the American
fnancier, and bis daughter, Mrs.
Margaret satterlee, were received in
Rome, Italy, by Dowager Queen Mar
gharita.
Fifty members OF the junior class at
Clemson College, Columbia, S. c.,
we're expelled, and ii is believed that
200 freshmen and sophomores will also
be dismissed.
Louis n. Hammerling, of Wilkes.
barre, Pa, has been selected by Pres.
ident Roosevelt to investigate and re-
port on labor conditions in the Pan
anna Canal zone.
The department OF plant Industry.
at Washington. D. c., reports that
promising results have been obtained
10 New Mexico and Arizona ID the
growing Of Egyptian cotton.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
increase his endowment OF the Carnegie
foundation fund by an additional gift
OF $4,000, 600, 50 as to provide pen
sions for professors OF state uniyersi.
ties.
Thomas 2. Watson OF Georgia and
Samuel Williams of Indiana were
nominated for president and vice presi.
dent of the United states by the
Peoples party convention ID ST.
Louis, Mo.
Thirty-six men, including Lieuten-
ant Middleton, commander Of the tor
pedo boat destroyer Tiger, lost their
lives il collision off the Isle of
Wight coast between that vessel and
the British cruiser Berwick.
Five men were badly injured in a
collision between q freight train and a
Burlington passenger train al Spanish
Lake near ST. Louis, Mo. A minister
amputated q leg Of one of the victims,
using q pocket knife.
Captain William Heinman, keeper
! Of Ghandeleur lighthouse and holder
4 Of q government med al for saving d
/ boatload of women and children sew.
eral years ago, was drowned By the
capsizipg of q sloop near Gulfport,
Miss. Captain S. w. Wallace, his
, companion, was rescued alter fighting
the sea for fifteen hours.