The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-18
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Alabama Railroads Fined for Not Having
Safety Appliances ON Their Cars.
New Prime Minister of Eng
land Appointed Riot
ing in Brazil.

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cruising IN the Mediterranean sea.
Langdon Smith, a well.known news.
paper man, died in New York city.
All grades OF refined sugar have
been advanced ten cents hundred
pounds.
Ten miners were killed as the result
OF gas explosion in somersetshire.
England.
A gang of Japanese roughs attacked
the American consulate at Mnkden,
Manchuria.
Serious rioting broke out in Cam.
pos, Brazil, on account OF exorbitans
freight rates.
Three hundred and five students at
Clemson College in Columbia, S. g,
were expelled.
Two thousand persons were drowned
as the result of food in the province
OF Hu Peh, China.
Count Giuseppe Tarnielli Brusati
di Vergano, the Italian ambassador
10 France, died at Paris.
Two small boys were killed and sew.
era1 persons injured in s25, 600 tene.
ment house FIRE in New York.
J. T. Daniels, Of Meridian, Miss,
mistaking his brother, B. B. Daniels,
for burglar, shot and killed him.
Germany will shortly begin the ersc-
ton of q great docking and repair
plant for Warships at Brunshuettel.
Three well-known anarchists and a
cart filed with dynamite we're cap
tured by the police in Paris, France.
The state convention OF the Missis.
sippi Kings Daughters will be held
May u, 13 and IA at Harrisburg,
Miss.
Charles Henry Parker, ninety.two
years of age, the Oldest Harvard al
umnus, died at his home in Boston,
Mass.
It Is reported that The National
Cash Register Company will remove
It's plant from Dayton, Ohio, to New
York.
The United States consumed more
than s6, 6,oo0,ooo worth of lace goods
during 1907, 90 per cent of which was
imported.
The American Asiatic squadron has
assembled in subig Bay for four
months cruise in Chinese and Japan.
ese waters.
King Edward has formally ap.
pointed Herbert Il. AsQuith prime
minister and first lord Of the treasury
Of Great Britain.
Rev. Joseph Graham, rector of the
Roman Catholic church at Albany,
n. Y, committed suicide in the vestry
OF the sacred edifce.
Many battle.sorn flags were de.
stroyed when the historic Garrison
Church in the Neue Friedrichstrasse In
Berlin was burned.
Adelina Patti, the great diva, Is
said to be considering another Ameri-
can tfnai farewell, = having received
an offer to sing in New York city.
A Russian captain and three sol.
diers were killed and five others
wounded in a conflict with brigands
near the Belexivar frontier in Persia.
Count Andreas Potocki, governor OF
the Anstrian-Polish province OF Gall.
cia, was assassinated by Ruthenian
student in Lemberg, Austria Hungary.
Mrs. Sadie Collett, a former resi-.
dent OF Mississippi, committed suicide
by jumping from the fourth door OF
st. Mary's Infrmary at ST. Louis,
Mo.
The immigration from Germany, via
Hamburg, for the quarter ending
March 81, was "a. 900, as against 1O3,-
$50 for the corresponding term OF last
year.
It is believed that great scandal
in the commissary department. OF the
French army has been discovered and
developments are awaited with keen
interest.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 70 st. Thomas College, Catholic
institution in St. Paul, MINI, to be
used for the purpose OF erecting 3 new
dormitory.
The condition Of Sir Henry Camp.
bell.Bannerman, former British pre-.
mier, has taken change for the worse
and grave anxiety for his welfare is
felt In London.
Leading bankers in Mississippi
pledged the Farmers Union financial
assistance IN holding every bale Of
cotton on storage IN Union ware
houses until Sept L
IS result Of the Chinese boycott Of
Japanese goods aud vessels, the jap.
aneae steamer America left Hong Kong
for San francisco, Cal, without )
single package Of Chinese cargo.
Col. " q. Bixby, president Of the
Mississippi River Commission, ar
rived at St. Louis, Mo, and left on q
government steamboat for the annual
highWater inspection Of the river.
The suit brought BY the Pennsylva.
MA Sugar Refining Company TO re-.
cover penalties of $50, ,0Oo, 900 from the
American Sugar Refining Company.
was dismissed by the court i. New