The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-09-12
TIE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Ear.
Forest Fires in Minnesota Destroyed Many
Homes-Largest Packing Plant in
tbs World to he Erected at
Minneapolis : Cholera
in St. Petersberg

Two women were shot in strike
riot at Dunmore, Pa.
Cholera has made its appearance in
ST. Petersburg, Russia.
Army maneuvers are being held in
France and Germany,
Four employees we're erems ted in a
factory fire tn New York city.
The hop crop OF Eoelaad has been
seriously damaged by excessive 4tias.>
Emanuel Nfandel, prominent Chi-
cago merchant, died at Basic, sWitzer-
Iaud
J. B. Buckwalter will erect a $780,
600 yellow pine sawmill near Newton,
Miss.
Fire destroyed the business section
of Rawhide, New, causing a loss OF
s75O.OO0.
Lord saokville.West. formerly the
British minister to the United States,
died in England.
An earthquake occurred at San
Juan, Porto Rico. but no material
damage was done.
The union depot at Memphis, Tenn,
was destroyed BY fire, causing a loss
estimated at $50, ,0o0
Two persons were killed and FIVE
injured when a trolley car struck a
carriage near Ottawa, I'll.
Fire in Nilgata, Japan, destroyed
1000 houses and caused great desti-
tuition among the populace.
By the burning OF a garage flied
with automobiles in Boston, Mass, a
loss OF $500, 900 was incurred.
Surgeons in Paris. France, success.
fully removed an epileptIc's skull and
put an artificial one in. its place.
Four persons were killed and a score
injured in a fire that destroyed the
Belmont Hotel at Denver, Colo.
The United States collier A jaS was
damaged in collision with a steamer
in the harbor of Melbourne, Australia.
NJ. Alberti, former minister of JUS.
tiee of Denmark, confessed to a series
Of embezzlemenss aggregatlng 81. 800,
600.
The ninth annual convention of the
United National Association of POST
Office Clerks was held at Birmingham,
Ala.
The vatican will appoint Mgr.
Aversa apostolic delegate at Wash
ington. D. c., to succeed Mgr. Fal-
COMO.
E. Felice Nazzaro, the Italian auto.
mobile driver, covered 3I5 miles in A
hours, 25 minutes and q seconds, 1T
Bologna.
Receivers OF the Exchange Bank Of
Macon, Ca, filed a suit for S505. .0a0,-
against the former director of the IN
s5ltation.
More than $4,000, 500 will be 81
pended for improvements in the de-
Tense works of Pearl Harbor and
The holdings OF the William burg
Lumber Company, at Collins, Mss.
were sold to a New York syndicate
for $525, 600.
Neb Patton, negro who murdered
q white woman near Oxford. Miss. was
taken from the Oxford jail by a mob
and ynched.
1T is reported that Armour Il Co,
Of Chicago, Ill, will erect the largest
p packing plant in the world at Mime.
apolis, Minn.
The ediet OF the Russian church pro-
1ibiting members from celebrating
Count Tolstoi's birthday is beina 10.
sionsly criticised.
The storage warehouse of the Twep-
iieth Century Company at Bethlehem,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, entaliInp
loss OF 500, 600.
John Mitchell, ex president Of lha
Jnfted Mine Workers, may succee d
he late Frank z. Sargent as colnlnis.
,ioner of immigration.
The journal OF the American Med
cal Association reports that 5625 per-
sons were killed or wounded 10 Fourth
of July celebrations this year.
Theodore Duimiehen, author and
1ovelist, killed himself in Berlin upon
receipt of news that his fortune had
been lost in the United STATS.
It is stated that President Roose-
velt, in his final mess age, viii ask
congress 10 increase the starG.Ig
army from sc, 900 TO 160, 600 men.
Lack of water for domestic and
manufacturing purposes has caused
serious conditions in western Pennsgl-
Vania and the Ohio border Counties.
Two thousand Socialists and uaen1.
pIoyed men in Glasgow, ScotIard.
attacked the cathedral during services.
but were beaten back by the poiIce.
It is reported that the pope will
raise the standard for admission into
The priesthood, requiring candIa8tes
for ordination to be thirty years OF aee.
The woolhouse and fertilizer nians
Of Armour & Company 10 ne JTaIon
Stock Yards at Chicago, lis, we're
damaged by fire to the extent of $780,
900.
Forest fires in Minnese ta davas-
bated large sections, desfroyeG may
homes and threatened tfe tpFa Of
Hibblng, which has a popnl4tfon Of
1900.
Captain T. c. Carter, Of Meridian,
IS being boosted for membership IN
the Chickamauga Pafk Commission,
TO succeed the late General a. F.
Stewart.
The alumni association of The Mis-
sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical
College at StarkViile, Miss, discIains
connection with the movement seeking
to GUST President Hardy.
Canadian customs offers refused
to pass the special tfalu cfmGiss
car Of a party of American capitalists
on the ground that the auantity Of
liquors and cigars was excessive.