The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-18
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
British Cotton spinners Arranging to Pur.
chase Plantations In this Country.
Governor Vardaman to Lecture.
Protestant Chapel In China
Burned by Natives.

/ Terrorists have resumed operations
at Warsaw, Russia.
| The American forces in Cuba will
be Withdrawn by Feb. /, 1909.
| A convention In interest of forest
preserv alton was held at Atlanta, Ga.
W. E. Estes was accidentally shot
and killed by his wife at Savannah,
| Ga.
While student OF Cornell Univer-
vity, 7. ]. Liddell, of Fsyette, Miss,
went insane.
The Protestant chapel and school az
Che Kiang, China, was burned by q
Chinese mob.
/ Sixteen persons were killed and forty
badly injured in a thestre panic st
Berneley, England.
Four iremen were injured and prop.
erty valued at s10o, 900 destroyed in 8
fire at Detroit, Mich.
A severe storm caused great loss of
life and property on the coasts OF Eu.
rope and Northern Africa.
Ae"AAoo SOEcEum6nb Is having Bee
rious trouble with the natiAes in
Italian Somaliland, Africa.
British cotton spinners are making
arrangements to purchase a Missis.
sippi Delta cotton plantation.
| King Alfonso of Spain. Is con.
templating q visit to Mexico and
other Latin-American countries.
The Mississippi division of the
Southern Cotton Association will
meet at Jackson, Miss, on Feb. s.
The steamship Lurline was launched
at Newport News for service between
San Francisco, Cal, and Honolulu.
William Rudolph, of Biloxi, Miss,
committed suicide at French Lick
Springs, Ind, by cutting his neck
with razor.
a panic occurred In street car In
New York as the result of q shooting
ARRAY between two Italians, alleged
Black Hands.
The home OF Feodor A. Golvin.
former president of the second douma.
was destroyed by fire at st. Peters.
burg, Russia.
Two boy saloon robbers killed =
bartender at Normandy Grove, No..
locked the customers in an ice boz and
proceeded to rob the place.
Two negro farm hands who made a
murderous assault on Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Livingston at Goldsboro, Ca.
Were-shot to death by posse.
Baron Takahira, Japanese minister
to Italy, received Official notification
from Toxic of his appointment az am.
bassador to the United States.
Much uneasiness is being expert.
enced in Toxic, Japan, because of the
overwhelming sentiment in America in
favor OF japanese exclusion bill.
Sergeant Oscar Gatling, of the
Twentieth Company of Coast Artillery.
stationed at Pensacola, Fla. was in.
stantly killed by James Hart, negro.
Anton Bayori, an Italian, is charged
at Florence. Colo, with numbering
tour persons, cutting up their bodies
and throwing the pieces into river.
George B. Cortelyou, secretary of
the treasury, is reported to have been
offered the presidency of the Knicker.
| booker Trust Company, OF New York.
In a pamphlet issued recently, Lieut..
Col. Inge OF the German army stated
that mobilization OF the United States
army would produce a very poor re.
suit.
The United States census bureau rs.
ported 1855. .427 bales of cotton einned
up to Jan. |, against IL, TAI, ,O30 last
year. Total number OF active 0inner.
les, q, ,276.
John Trentem, sporting editor OF
the Houston Post, vas killed and saw.
eral other persons injured az the re-.
suit OF an automobile accident -
Houston, Texas.
G. q. Campbell, aged sixty ave, and
Il. A. Allison, seventy one years OF AGE.
who were comrades In the civil war.
died at Winona, Miss, within thirty
minutes OF one another.
Four fremen were killed and thraa
dangerously injured in > dre that de.
stroyed the twelve-story Parker build.
ing in New York. The property lose
is estimated at 50, 600, 900.
Because he lost his memory. Charles
j. Jackson, a nephew OF the late 10.
seph JAferson, committed suicide hv
strangling himself to death In the Ho.
tel Gerard, at New York, N. Y.
Governor Vardaman, OF Mississfpni.
has accepted an offer to 90 on the
lecture platform and discuss the negro
question, travelling from the lakea
to the gulf and from ocean to ocean.
Two white men and three negroes
were killed and two other persons r..
tally injured in 3 collision betwesn
passenger and logging trains on the
Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
near Vinegar Bend, Ala.
The weekly statement of the Naw
York Clearing House banks shows !
surplus OF reserves under the reoulra.
ments of the 25 per cent ruIe for sha
first time since the financial striuesnav
began in October. The surplus vas
s6,0s4, ,o50.