The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-09-19
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Yellow Fever in Cuba-Cholera In Russia.
Largest Battleship Afloat Launched
at Portsmouth, England

in France.
The general elections in Cuba will
bs held On Nov. il.
A case of yellow fever was officially
reported in Havana, Cuba.
Asiatic cholera continues to spread
in ST. Petersburg, Russia.
Forest fires are spreading devasta-
tion and ruin in Minnesota.
Serious damage was done by
storm on the coast of Portugal.
Sixty-four deaths from cholera oc-
Cured in st. Petersburg, Russia.
Cardinal Gibbons will visit Ireland
before returning to the United States.
Orville Wright broke all OF his own
aeroplane records at Fort Myer, Va.
Persian insurgents defeated the
government forces in battle at
TabriE.
Great crowds gathered at Albany,
West Australia, to view the American
battleship feet.
Capt. Harry Simon Of Ohio won the
individual rifle shooting champion
ship at Sea Girt, NJ.
Rev. Angelo Chiariglione, leader OF
the Italian colony at Daphne, Ala,
died suddenly.
The Sc. Vincent, the largest battle
ship af1oat, was launched at Ports
mouth, England.
Low water In the Ohio river has
compelled packets plying above Louis
vile, KY, to tie up.
A number of persons were killed as
the result of hurricane which swept
Turks Island, B. W. I.
Three persons were killed and twenty
badly injured in wreck bn lumber
railroad near Samson, Ala.
Mohammed 81 Torres, chief OF the
Moorish delegation at the Algeciras
convention, died in Tangier.
A Connecticut farmer applied for
insurance against damage done to his
buildings by flying machines.
Thirty y-fonr persons were injured in
the wreck Of an express train on the
Erie Railroad at Geneva, Pa.
The refusal Of congress to pay
transportation charges has caused d
scarcity of silver In the south.
Princess Matilda, sister Of the King
OF Saxony, WAS thrown from her horse
in Dresden and badly injured.
Night riders in Mississippi and Ar
Kansas have organized for the purpose
OF reducing the cotton acreage.
An 1Sfoot shark, weighing 1900
pounds, was caught by three men OF
the coast Of New London, Conn.
Sixty thousand pounds OF Spanish
nackarel we're caught In East Pass
and marketed at Pensacola, Fla.
A near-beer saloon at Hattiesburg,
Miss, was raided by city officials and
3 carload OF the beverage seized.
An American syndicate has secured
% option on the house built By Benz
amin Fr&nklin in Paris, France.
Great preparations are being made
or the reception of the American
'attleship feet as Toxic, Japan, on
Oct. II.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Cos.
nodale Cement Company, at Cosmo-
Lale, KY, causing loss OF 90, ,00o, 600.
Two cases OF yellow fever we're re-
'orted, with four suspects under OBJ
ervRt1on, in Merida. Yucatan. Max.
co.
Under the new anti-opium law &
norphine seller was bantshed from
'eking, China, for q period of ten
ears.
The rife shooting match at Sea Grit,
I. j., for the $4,000 Dryden trophy.
'as won By the United States Marine
'orps.
Three persons were fatally injured
hen 9 race horse ran into a crowd Of
pectators at the state fair as Wheel
az, Va.
Count Leo Tolstoi's eightieth birth
az anniversary was made the &C.
sslon OF national celebration In
.ussia.
Kerr Hardie, the British labor
oader, in speech in New York city
rged American workers to 60 into
olitics.
One person was killed and twenty.
Sven injured as the result of 4 col.
sion between elevated trains in New
'ork city.
Winston Spencer Churchill, presi-
snt OF the London board Of trade.
as married to daughter OF the late
ir Henry Hozier.
Four persons we're killed and twenty
Z injured in wreck on the Yazoo
nd Mississippi Valley Railroad
ear Clarksdale, Miss.
Strong opposition is being shown
gainst the use OF the Washington
onnment at Washington, d. C., asa
ireless telegraph station.
One man was burned to death ana
'veral others injured when club.
ouse in suburb OF Philadelphia.
a., was destroyed by fire.
= me National Association OF Post
nee Clerks, IN session st Birminp-
am, Ala, chose Atlantic City, N. j..
their next meeting place.
FRANK IL. Bennett, formerly Of
ashlpgtons p. G., one of the best
aoWn hotel men In the country. com
iited suicide il New York,