The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-24
THE WORLDS NEWS
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Well-Known Comedian Dies in New YoTia&s
sSo,94l for Arkansas Levee-Fire
atPaintvilIe. Ky.-Ao-
cidents, Etc.
The chinese boYcott against Ger.

Piracy OF the ancient klnQ mas Gosu
practiced lately in Chilean harbors.
The king and queen Of Spain ale
travelling through France Incegnftes
Canada is in the throes OF tha most
bitter political campaign in its bis.
tory. Ae
Five persons 0are cremated in a Ere
/. DESTROYED ss. '''''ia'' = PANS.
Gus Rogeray she well.known come.
dian. died os appendicitis in New
York city.
Kaiser wilAelm of: Germany has
invented safety brake for trains and
automobiles.
A eloudburst and tornado near Clay
ton, N. M, resulted in the death OF
four persons.
Three hundred lives were lost as the
result Of storm that swept Chang
Chow, China.
DR.. Angel Ugarte, the Honduran
minister to the United States, has
been recalled.
Antoine Muzzarelli, a veteran OF the
French army, committed suicide IN
New York city.
One passenger was killed and fifteen
injured as the result of q trolley car
collision In Kansas City.
The Masonic Widows and Orphans
Home at Meridian, Miss, was for
merly opened to the public.
A half-million dollar FIRE swept Bis
bee, Ariz., and dynamite had to be
used to check its progress.
Four sailors are believed to have
perished in a fire that destroyed the
steamer New York az Newburgh.
The officers and sailors Of the Amer-
lean battleship feet were given an
enthusiastic reception in Japan.
Seventy Rulgarians and ten Turks
are reported to have been killed in q
battle on the Bulgarian frontier.
The International Road Congress,
IN session at Paris, France, chose
Brussels as its meeting place in 1910.
Two inmates of the Mobile county
poor asylum were seriously injured
when FIRE destroyed the mems quarters.
The Signal Corps Company OF the
Mississippi National Guard was mus
tered into service at Vicksburg, Miss.
Fire at Amarillo, Tex, destroyed
the roundhouse and shops OF the Santa
Fe Railroad, causing a loss Of 5000.
600.
Contracts totalling s30,941 were
awarded for levee work along the St.
Francis river, south of Walnut Bend,
Ark.
A plant to manufacture shuttle
blocks out OF persimmon. wood has
been established in Washington eoun-
ty, Miss.
In a fire started by an overheated
stove, four children were burned to
death and their parents fatally hurt at
Altoona, Pa.
OF one hundred and fonr applicants
for ncence to practise medicine in
Mississippi, only 3s passed the state
examination.
Seven men were killed and twenty
three injured as the result OF q prema-
lure explosion at a lime quarry near
Fort Collins, Colo.
a secret treaty is declared to exist
between Bulgaria and Austria, au
thorizing the former country s declara-
tion of independence.
An engagement between Chinese and
Japanese troops in northern Cores
threatened to disturb the peace be-
tween those countries.
Despondent over broken leg, the
captain Of a Norwegian bark, just ar
rived at Pensacola, Fla, jumped into
the sea and was drowned.
On the fftieth anniversary of his
marriage, John S. Kennedy Of New
York gave ST 900, 900 to the Presby.
tsrian Hospital In that city.
Fifteen thousand government employ
ees will be permitted to go to their
respective homes for the purpose of
voting in the national election,
An attempt was made to assassinate
Rev. Father j.. K. Fielding, pastor of
Catholic church in a fashionable
residence district OF Chicago, III.
Six persons were killed and score
injured when q caboose filed with la-
borers was blown from the Union Pa
cifc tracks near Hermes Junction,
Wyo.
DR.. W. B. Wherry, Of the United
States Marine Hospital Service, has
made the discovery that rats and or
binary flies transmit the bacilii Of
leprosy.
Forest fires raging in the northern
part of Michigan have resulted in the
loss OF more than one hundred lives
and the destruction OF a number Of
villages.
Two prominent attorneys of Trenton,
Tenn, were seized by q mob Of mas
ked men at Ree1foot Lake. and one
was hanged, while the other escaped.
Trouble over the ownership OF land
was the cause Of the crime.