The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-04
THE WORLDS NEWS.
FLASHES Of the Telegraph dires From
Near and Fars
Former Membersaf Russian Douma Gone
victed of Tteason-Fifty Seven Per-
sons Lynehed in the Uaited
States DurIng 1909

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Missionaries report that IN Lucknow,
Iudia, it raIaed only four days during
1907.
The Russian parliament has appro.
priated $1,000, 600 for tho relief of
famine sufferers.
One hundred and sixty seven former
members Of the Russian douma were
convicted OF treason.
New York 5 foreign business for the
year 1907 showssau increase of $110,-
49, over last year.
Five persons were killed IN disas-
trous wreck on the Grand Trunk Rail-
road near Detrois. Mich.
John Major, o negro desperate,
was killed by posse after a desper-
ate battle at Midwife, "a.
Count Leo fotstoi, the noted Rus
sian author, was seriously injured by
being thrown from horse.
Elias F. Nance dropped dead while
attending a Christmas service in a
church at Tottenville, n. Y.
Ftfsy-seven persons were lynched in
the United States during the year 1907, /
against seventy y-three in 1906.
DR.. Joseph Pessdenr a noted scien-
tist, diagnosed his own illness as
lockiaw and died at Chicago, I'll.
The nude body of q woman who is
believed to have been murdered was
found IN q pond near Newark, N. j..
John Clark, his wife aud their three
children were eremated in a fire that
destroyed their home at Boston, Mass.
Three children were drowned and
six others narrowly escaped the same
fate while skating near Rutland, Vt.
Robert Morris, an eleven year-old
youth, was killed by the explosion Of
a large cannon cracker at Seminary,
Miss.
john S. Moore, a well known ctti-
zen Of s5oc8ton, Ca, was shot to
fdeath By his wife, who claims self-de--
fense.
The general offices Of the Trinity
and Brazos Valley Railroad will be
removed from Fort Worth to Houston,
Texas.
An explosion of gas in the stock ex-
change at R2me, Italy, wrecked the
building and seriously injured several
| persons.
j DR.. Alexander P. Riedel was ar.
rested at Washington, D. G., on
charge of conducting fake branch of
Masonry.
/ Anderson Galloway, negro,
charged with attempted criminal as
sault, was lgnehed by a mob at Mar
quez, Texas.
i Two hundred and ten persons were
killed and over fifty wounded during
strike of nitrate workers at Valpa-
raiso, Chill.
The Southern Educational Associa-
tion, which met last week at Lexington,
Ky, passed resolution fayoring me-
gro education.
The Passaic Steel Company, with an
authorized capital OF over Sc, 900, 600,
applied TO the federal court for. the ap.
+ pointment of receiver.
, Mistaking him for burglar, Ber.
tram Somers shot and killed his five.
, year-old boy, who was walking in his
{ sleep, at San jose, Cal.
American Ambassadors O'Brien has
j opened negotiations with japan fol
!, the limitation Of japanese immigra
j tion To- The United States.
Henry Thaxton, q negro murderer,
. while about to be executed at Bir.
mtpgham, Ala, was given respite o
) tifteen days BY Gov. Conner.
Ernest g. stedman, a wealthy pro
> moter, recently declared bankrupt
: committed suicide at New York b!
. leaping in front OF subway train.
) W. B. Ridgely, comptroller Of tht
! currency, states that official report
: show the banks throughout the Unttet
5 States to be IN frst-eiass condition.
Jean Francois Edmund Guyot Des
saigne, the French minister of justice
i dropped dead from an attack of apo
: p1exy during a session of the senate
= Three persons were killed and eigh
- teen badly injured in collision be
a tween Pennsylvania passenger train
on elevated tracks at Caaden, n.
1t is estimated thai during the las
fiscal year tie United Staes govern
ment lost s163, ,367, 900 in postofice SUI
he plies. which we're either stolen or. d.
d stroyed.
a Mrs. Mary Anson Jones, widow /
in the drss grand master of Masons
lie Texas, and Of the last president of IL
Id republic Of Texas, died at her home
or Houston.
tut DR.. Walter Il. Amesbury shot an
re killed his wife, Anna, a teacher of m
lat sic in the Roanoke College. Danvill
or Va, as the family we're about to /
ID down to their Christmas dinner
,s ay HYDE Park. Mass.
A petition signed by many Amel
,us can citizens CT New YORK, chicaI
at and Boston, pleading for the liber
~ 'af tion OF Nicholas Tschaikovsky a
!, d Nine. Brashlaovskg, was received
St. Petersburg, Russia.