The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-06-13
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Extensive Irrigation Schemes Projected in
Mexico-PIot to Assassinate Portu-
guese Royal Family Frustrated.
Disastrous Floods and
storms

Jules Lambreaux, the famous Bel.
gian sculptor, is dead.
The British passenger steamer Powan
was wrecked near Hong Kong.
A typhoon in Australia wrecked forty
vessels and caused the loss of 27o lives.
The Uruguay government has signed
an extradition treaty with the United
States.
Five persons were badly injured as
the result of a street car riot in ST.
Louis, Mo.
Serious rioting between whites and
negroes is reported imminent at Long
view, Tex.
Twenty foreigners were injured in a
wreck on the Wabash Railroad near
Buffalo, N. Y.
The annual reunion OF the United
Confederate Veterans was held at
Birmingham, Ala.
Nine persons were killed and three
injured in collision of railroad
VI ANS III 162ly.
The International Cotton Congress
adjourned in Paris, France, to meet
next year in Italy.
Several persons were badly injured
as the result OF a street car collision
at Memphis, Tenn.
Harry Icklis, the American mining
expert, was murdered in the Philip
pine Islands by Moros.
The Mexican congress passed a bill
appropriating s25,000,0 900 to establish
irrigation works.
Influential women OF London, Egg
land, have started movement to op-
pose woman suffrage.
Anarchy reigns in Persia and it is
probable that the European powers
may be forced to utervene.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Mississippi Dental Association
was held at Jackson, Miss.
1t is reported that President Roose.
velt will go to Africa on a hunting
tour when his term Of Office expires.
Ex-Postmaster A. C. Walter, of
Union Springs, Ala, shot his wife to
death and then committed suicide,
The Tooth anniversary of the birth
OF Jefferson Davis was fttingly OBJ
served by every state in the south.
Many deaths from bubonic plague
occurred at aGuayra, Venezuela, and
strict quarantine is being enforced.
A tornado swept Charles City, Ia,
killing number of persons and de.
molishing over one hundred houses.
TWenty-one people were killed and
many injured by a tornado which
passed through Kansas and Nebraska.
The police of Lisbon arrested three
anarchists and frustrated a plot to
assassinate the Portuguese royal fam
lily.
Charles r. Lindsay, an employee on
the government works at Fort Morgan,
Ala, was drowned while bathing in
the surf.
| One man was killed and number of
persons injured when trolley car
jumped the tracks on curve at kirk
| wood, Mo.
Heavy rain and wind storms visited
various portions of Mississippi and
did considerable damage to property
and crops.
Eight persons were killed and a
score OF others injured in trolley
car collision that occurred near An
napolis, Md.
The Chinese government has formed
a plan by which It will send annually
100 Chinese boys to American colleges
| for ten years.
/ The manufacturing establishment OF
the Bluff City CONN Company was
burned at Memphis, Tenn, causing q
loss of s17 900.
Sixteen workmen were killed and
seventeen injured by an explosion in
a celluloid factory at Ottakring, a su.
burb of Vienna.
While asleep, fifteen year-old dea
mute fell from third-story window O.
the Jackson, Miss, asylum and wal
: instantly killed.
A Chinese Catholic priest stated il
an interview at Chicago, ILL.,, tha
there are 100000 Chinese member,
of the Catholic church.
Six men we're killed and eight in
! iured by the breaking Of boiler sub,
on the cruiser Tennessee, of the coas
Of Santa Barbara, Cal.
Seven thousand persons have beel
driven from their homes in Nortl
Topeka, Kans., as the result of al
overflow OF the Kaw river.
Colonel Harry f. Hodges, Of th
United States army. has been az
pointed to succeed Jackson Smith as
member OF the Panama Canal Con-
mission.
Representative Richmond P. Hot
son, of Alabama, has declared that
she American battleship feet shouI
leave the Pacific, war with Japan wi
be inevitable.
While driving on Roseville pike
near Chattanooga, Tenn, Josep
Knight was shot and killed and Mis-
a5 ai Sadie Poole seriously injured by
party OF masked negroes.