The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-02-01
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires Fren
Near and Far.
Inclpient Revolution in Portugal Sup
pressed-Death of Great American
Composer, Noted English Nov
eIist and Far Famed
Living Skeleton,
Severe earthquake shocks were felt

Severe earthquake shocks were felt
IN Spain.
A pew in St. Johns Episcopal
Church at Washington, D. G., sold
for s285o.
Fire at Portland, Me-, destroyed the
city hall and police building, causing
a ST, 600, 600 loss.
Edward A. Mcdowell, said to be
America 5 greatest composer, died in
New York, n. Y.
/ .Four public schools were closed in
| Pittsbargr Pa, on account of an cpl
demic of measles.
| Edward Neidling, known all over
| the country as the living skeleton, !"
died at Ansonia. Conn,
The Mississippi branch of the South
err Cotton Association will meet at
Jackson, Miss, on Feb. 5.
i Thousands of men were turned away
from the United States army recruit
| ing Offices in New York city.
Charles ". Patterson, a prominent
resident Of Natehez, Miss, committed
suicide by asphyxiating himself,
'4Ouida," Louise de Rameel, the
famous novelist, died at Florence,
Italy, in the most abject poverty.
Plans for the establishment of bar
iron plant, to cost $40, 200, 900, have
been formulated in Mexico City. Mex
leo.
An explosion in a coal stove at
Madison, ILL.,, resulted in condagra-
ton thai destroyed property valued at
5000
King Alfonso OF Spain narrowly
escaped with his life from an attack of
a wild boar while hunting near Ma
drid, sdain.
/ A dynamite explosion occurred at
Hooking. Iowa, in which five persons
we're injured and great deal OF prop
erty damaged.
The most recent estimated cost of the
Panama Canal was $500. 200, 900, as
compared with the first estimate of
s184, 900 900.
The North Carolina senate, by
unanimous vote, passed bill provid-
| ing for q state election on prohibition
TO be held Aug. 6.
/ An attempt to overthrow the mon.
archy and proclaim Portugal repub-
lie was suppressed by the prompt ac-
| tton of the government.
i 1t is stated that owing to assas-
siuation plots, Premier Franco of
Portugal is obliged to sleep In a diff
ferent house every night.
Robert WARSAW Ware, a negro
banker wanted at Memphis, Tenn. on
a charge of embezzling $1,000, was
captured at Vicks burg, Miss.
| Frank r. O'Neil, vice president of
the Pulitzer Publishing Company and
assistant manager of the Post-Dis-
patch, died at st. Louis, Mo.
i The price OF cotton on the New York
cotton exchange first advanced and
then declined sharply after the receipt
of the governments census report.
The marriage of Miss Gladys Van-
derbilt, Of New York, to Count Laszlo
Szechepyi, of Austria, Hungary, was
celebrated last Monday in New York.
city.
Countess Won sturza. a member of
the Hungarian nobility, was arrested
in Dresden on the charge of having
j carried out a series of literary swim
dies.
Mrs. I. Simmons, faith cure advo.
cate at Mobile, Ala, threw away med
icine prescribed for her infant, and the
lite one died despite its mother Is
prayers.
: One fireman was killed, a score in
iured and the Mayer building and Ho-
. tel Florence damaged to the extent of
: half million dollars in a fire at Chi
!. cago, III.
: The worst storm OF the winter swept
5 over the eastern Atlantic states, caus-
: ing great damage and seriously Grip
ping traffic in New York and other
4 large cities.
L Appraisers appointed by ex-Goy. j.
<. Vardaman to make the annual ap-
praisement Of the Mississippi peniten-
tIary property fixed the valuations at
i so28, ,077.27
2 4 bill placing attempted criminal
z assault in the same class with murder,
q by providing the death penalty or life
It imprisonment, passed the Mississippi
9 legislature.
I Bonb-throwers at New York demol.
:, ished the windows of the Pati Italian
ss Bank, where $40, 900 was displayed tc
q reassure depositors, but failed to Sc.
q cure any of the money.
70 Mrs. Mary B. Eddy. founder and
e head Of the First Church OF Christian
!. :, Scientists, has left her old home in Con
q cord, q. H., to live in Brookline,
1g suburb Of Boston, Mass.
George Z. Thomas, freight broker
: : of New York city and Z. B. Taggert
S. his clerk, pleaded guilty in the United
ar States district court at Kansas City
re Mos to the charge Of eonspiring t,
y. =. pay rebates to shippers. Judge smitl
8 Mcpherson fined Thomas $1,000 an,
Taggers $4,000.