The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-03-07
NO. 80
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Chief Of Chicago Police Department At
tackled by Anarehist-American Rail-
roads Accused of fraudulent
Practiees-New Liner
Launched.

One millioa feet of lumber were de-
stroyed IN sawmill fire at Bogue
Chitto, Miss.
William Jennings Bryan was a
guest of the Mississippi legislature at
Jackson, Miss.
I A ITO Rotterdam Holland Ameri-
can liner was successfully launched at
Belfast, IRELAND.
/ Mobile, Ala, experienced the most
successful Mardi Gras celebration in
the history of the city.
/ Advices from Tegucigalpa, Hondu-
ras, announced the death OF former
President Marco A. Soto.
Capt. Gilezan, commander of the
Russian cruiser Askold, committed SUI
ieide rather than face a court martial.
Three men were killed and a fourth
mortally wounded In battle with re-
yolYers in a lumber camp at Evelyn,
KY.
The internal revenue collections in
Washington, D. c., for the month of
January showed decrease of s967.-
E013.
| France is greatly stirred over learn
ing Of the alarming increase of opium
smokers among the officers OF the
French navy.
Wheeler King, charged with the
murder of Marshal A. M. Buchanan,
was adiadged not guilty by jury at
Forrest, Miss.
Mrs. Lydia A. White,s eighty years
of age, a real daughter OF the Amer
iean Revolution. died at her home in
Lancaster, Pa.
President Roosevelt will appoint w.
S. Rossiter, of New York, public
printer to succeed Charles S. Stillings,
of Massachusetts.
Eight employees OF the National
Sulphur Company s mill IN Brooklyn,
N. Y, were terribly burned by ap ex-
plosion of sulphur.
Chinese Minister WI Ting Fang
was the guest of honor at banquet
given by the Oakland chamber of com
merce in California.
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince
Henry narrowly escaped serious In
jury as the result Of carriage acci.
dent near The Hague.
The remains of Rev. Father Lao.
Heinrichs, who was murdered by an
anarchist in Denver, Col, were In
TERED at Paterson, n. J.
Rising temperature prevented the
breaking of hundreds OF miles of tele-
graph wire as the result Of severe
sleet storm in Chicago, Ill.
The United States government will
soon begin an active crusade TO sup.
press the Black Hand, Chinese High
binders and anarchism generally.
a great ceremony was held in the
Hall Of Beatifcation in Rome. Italy,
for the repose of the souls of the late
king and crown prince of Portugal.
a dynamite bomb was thrown
against the carriage of President FL
corta in Buenos Ayres, while he was
out riding, but it failed to explode.
An attempt was made in Teheran to
assassinate the Shah of Persia with
bomb, and though three outriders
we're killed, the Shah was not injured.
A mother and her three children
were burned to death and several per-
sons were injured as the result of a
fire In the foreign district ia Pittsburg,
Pa.
A jury at Brazil, Iowa, held Mr..
and Mrs. E. g. Palmer to blame for the
death Of their ten. year-old boy because
Christian Science was depended on to
aid the child.
Giuseppe Aniello, in a jealous rage,
shot and killed his wife in New York,
and was SO badly beaten by brother
Of the dead woman that it is expected
he will not recover.
The United States collier Caesar
arrived at the New York navy yard
for the purpose Of making prepara.
tions to carry two subma marine torpedo
boats to the Philippines.
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Rev. Michael MuiyihiII OF St. Peter's
Cathedral fn Chicago, H., was
guarded by detectives while ceIebrat-
ing mass last Sunday, because OF
letters received which threatened his
life.
More than Eve thousand granite
| cutters, quarrymen and others en-
| ploged il the granite industry In Ver-
mont and Rhode Island were left with
out work, owing TO a disagreement
over a new wage scale.
It vas charged ia congress that the
| railroad system Of weighing mail in
force for the past twenty years
has been fraudulent. and that the peo-
pie have been robbed out OF SIC, ,000,-
600 By the railway companies.
Four naval officers, experts in tur-
ret construction and ammunition man
ufacture, testified before the senate ma.
val committee at Washington, ID. c.,
in defense of American battleships
against all forms OF criticisms.
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Company fled at Hattiesburg, Miss,
a mortgage for 81 .e0o, 600 in favor of
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