The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-12-12
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of Persia.
Asiatic cholera is Increasing in ST
Petersburg, Russia.
The Italian rice crop for 1908
yielded 25, 900, 600 bushels.
Five persons were burned to death
in fire at Dickson City, Pa.
The annual conference of North
Mississippi Methodists was held at
Water Valley.
Two docks and steamship were
burned at Portland, Me-, causing a
loss of $3.50, 900.
i J. Pierpont Morgan bought the King
Charles I. bible at the Amherst sale in
London for $4,000.
The Venezuelan government conlis-
Gated and sunk the British schooner
Lady Kensington.
Two men were killed in battle be-
tween police posse and moonshiners
near Webb, w. Va.
Two miners were killed and three
others fatally injured In an explosion
at Norwood. W. Va.
The steamer D. M. Clemson, with
twenty Hour men aboard, was lost in
storm on Lake Superior.
Becoming suddenly insane, Fl. I.
Badger, of Wakefield, Mass, shot
and killed his two daughters.
Frost on the rails caused collision
OF Santa Fe trains near Amarillo,
Tex, and two persons were killed.
Charles A. Ekstromer, Swedish vice
consul at ST. Louis, Mo-, committed
suicide by swallowing prussic acid.
Two trainmen were killed and sew
eral others injured in wreck on the
Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas.
Austria. Hungary celebrated the six
tieth anniversary of the beginning of
the reign OF Emperor Francis Joseph.
| G. A. Gentry, juror in criminal
case at Memphis, Tenn, became in
sane while celebrating on a verdict.
Grief-stricken because he accidents
ally killed his pet dog, fifteen year
old boy Of Louisville, KY, committed
suicide.
Revolutionary societies OF Persia
have passed the death sentence on the
shah for violating his promise OF q
constitution.
AS the result of a fead of long stand
ing, DR.. 9. NJ. Cottongfm, wealthy
physician, was assassinated
League, Tenn.
While suffering from temporary
fit OF insanity, a woman in Arkansas
killed herself and her young child with
carbolic acid.
Pu VI. the baby emperor of China,
ascended the throne and was formally
proclaimed ruler under the name Of
Hsuan Tung.
A tmo-eent letter rate, to go into
effect on an. |, was agreed upon be-
tween the governments OF Germany and
the United States.
The United States cruiser Yankee,
which had been relocated after having
been ten weeks on the rocks, sank in
Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
sAhOAC shesA A1p4 SGhLlSA 4OsI buEIE
lives on the upper north Atlantic
coast as the result of storm of
unprecedented severity. !.
Edward Thomas committed suicide
at Minneapolis, Mimi, after oficia.
ting as best man at the wedding OF the
woman who rejected him.
Joseph 81. Painter, botanist In the
service OF the United States govern
ment, was accidentally drowned in the
Potomac river near Washington.
Eleven men were killed and twenty
six wounded as the result OF an explo-
sion 10 the powder magazine OF the
military barracks In Calcutta, India.
The Harvard treasure seekers who
went to Jamaica In the hope OF secur-
ing lost wealth in sunken Spanish gal
Icons, returned to New York unsuc-
cssful.
New York women organized for the
purpose of campaigning to procure
signatures to petition in behalf OF
woman suffrage, which will be sent to
congress.
Two persons were killed, three
fatally shot and several others
wounded in a desperate battle between
religious fanatics and police officers at
Kansas City, Mo.
While William Jennings Bryan was
delivering an address at the Texas
State University. at Austin, James b.
Clark, proctor of the institution, fell
dead in the audience.
The French government has given
official notice that it viii not permit
President Castro, of Venezuela, to
stop in that country unless an imrne.
diate operation is necessary to save
his life.
Francisco Martinez, who murdered
four members of family near Trini-
dad, Col, in order to ahduct Maggie
Garcia, shot and killed. the girl and
committed suicidewhen closely pressed
by posse.
Don Juan Barrios, eGuatemala's
minister of foreign affairs, and Senior
Don Luis Toledo Herrate, Guatemalan
minister to the United States. were
seriously injured in an automobile ac-
cident near Washington, D. G.