The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-25
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Big sawmtll Resumes Operation-Whi hite
Man Killed at Estherwood-Pro.
hibition Campaign at Ba-
ton Rouge.

Floods IN north Texas caused great
loss OF life and property.
Bandits in Korea ara causing the
japanese considerable trouble.
Scarcity of water in Cuba has caused
many sugar mills to suspend work.
General Linevitch, aide-de.camp to
the ezar OF Russia, is seriously i'll.
| David Dannhessier, of Pensacols,
Fla, was asphyxIated in bathroom.
Henry Chadwick, the father OF
baseball, died at his home in New
York.
Several Japanese were killed by a
snowslide in Alberta province, Can.
ada.
The body OF the seventh victim was
recovered from the fire ruins in Chel-
sea, Mass.
Several points IN Mississippi re.
ported torrential rains and severe
eleetrail storms,
One man was killed and seven in
jured when sawmill boiler exploded
at Carrabelle, Fla.
In a battle with Arab tribesmen in
Algeria the French losses were %
killed and 100 wounded.
More than fifty blind tigers were
captured in Wholesale raid by the
police of Savannah, Ca.
Five thousand sailors and marines
from the American battleship feet
paraded in San Diego, Cal.
One man was killed and two seri-
ously wounded in an automobile acei-
dens near Boston. Mass.
Ehs reeonstrsebiop OF t1ae British
cabinet has plugged tbs eountry into
3 Wsrm political 0anpaign
Rear Admiral G. b. Balen, ST years
old, CORNER commandans of the naval
academy, died at Raleigh, n. G.
Eaglish shipbuildfng employers have
threatened a general lockout unless
the strikers return to work today.
As the result of children's quar-.
rel, Mrs. James Wright shot ard
killed q negress at Memphis, Tenn.
The twelfth annual convention of
American Cotton Manufacturers will
be held in Richmond, Va, on May 20.
Enraged over an April fool prank a
New York physician shot his daughter
and then killed himself at Asheville,
N. C.
Jessie Llewellyn Call, daughter of
former Governor EleWellyn of Kan
sas, committed suicide in a Chicago
hotel.
| \. w. Psingle, Jr., fourteen-year-
old youth of Mobile, Ala, was run
down By an automobile and seriously
injured.
The Chinese commercial boycott of
japanese products is reported to have
the moral support of the British in the
Orient.
A Polish woman immigrant, beliey-
ing her child had died on the vessel en-
route to America, cast the infant into
the sea.
i Forty-one persons were killed and
sixty injured in a collision between
railroad trains near Melbourne, Aus.
bralia.
The next debate in the Russian
douma will be over the proposal TO
exempt Jews from Russian military
service.
An attempt will be made TO secure
the release OF Harry K. Thaw from the
MatteaWan Insane Asylum on writ of
habeas corpus.
Two robbers at Chauta uqu a.
Kan, locked bank cashier and
a business man in bank vault and
looted the place of $4,000.
Mistaken for burglars, John and
| William D. Frank, sons OF r. O.
Frank, a groceryman, were killed by
the police at Columbus, Ohio.
! During religious celebration in
Mazatlan, Mexico, twenty-five sol
diers ran amuck, killed two police
men and citizen and robbed three
persons.
| Federal authorities at Mobile, Ala,
are investigating the sale by New
York firm of toy cash registers for 81
that were advertised as the real
article.
| President Nord Alexis, of Hayti,
threatens a general massacre unless
| he is allowed to serYe out his term
nnmolested. A Feign OF terror EXISTS
on the island.
Real estate owners in tas Isthmus OF
Panama have demanded fabulous
sums from the United States for 120
square miles for the construction of
the G atun Lake.
s. Rev. George W. Thompson, of
Woodbury., n. j.. Who had been at
tentive TO two widows, both of whom
insisted on marrying him, committed
suicide by shooting himself.
A young man at Warrensburg, Mo-,
j believed 10 have been demented, killed
the town marshal and q watchman,
fatally shot another officer and Was
himself killed by the negro porter Of
hotel.
A special from Washington, ID. c.,
i states thai Andrew Carnegie will give
! S25, 600, 900 for the founding OF a
great national university in Washing
ton, aud that President Roosevelt, at
the expiration Of his terms OF office,
will organize the university and be its
phannalI0p