The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-03-28
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Famous English Theatre DESTROYED by
Fre-Minnesota Railroad Law De.
eiared Unconstitutional No
Trouble Expected in Hayti.

Ralzberger, Germany, and ten per.
sons were drowned.
Mrs. Alice Fair, convicted of forgery
at Mobile, Ala. was sentenced to two
years IN the penitentiary.
The Drury Lane theatre, in London,
the most famous playhouse in Eng
land, was destroyed by fire.
Col. Walter Fairfax, an oId-time
southerner and veteran of the civil
war, died at his home in LeesyIvania,
Va.
One person was fatally shot and
several seriously hurt in a riot
among idle laborers at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The oil mill OF the Summit Improve
ment Company was destroyed by fire
at Summit, Miss, causing loss OF
s45, 600.
The Duke of Devonshire, one of the
most influential OF English statesmen,
died at Cannes from an attack of heart
failure.
Rain and wind storms in Mississippi
towns caused serious damage to prop.
erty, and a number OF persons were
injured.
Abe Hummel, the New York lawyer
who was released from the penitenti-
ary on Thursday of last week, sailed
for Europe.
The United States has made a formal
request to France for the extradition
of Paul Roy, wanted in New Hamp.
shire for murder.
Hayti is reported to be in tranquil
condition, and the president of the re-
public stated that the presence of war;
ships is not necessary.
Five thousand card players are ex-
pected to attend the annual Skat Con-
gress to be held in New York city dur.
ing the month of June.
The strike of the German reporters
at the Reichstag in Berlin was settled
when Herr Grober, who had insulted
the journalists apologized.
The United States supreme court
held the Minnesota Railroad rate law
to be unconstitutional because of the
enormous penalties imposed by it.
A resolution was introduced in the
japanese house of peers providing for
the abolfshment of the word .shaimin,"
as used to describe the common peo-
ple."
United States Senator William
James Bryan, recently appointed to
succeed Senator Mallory of Florida,
died of typhoid fever at W ashington,
D. C.
The explosion of the government
powder houses at Batuco, Chill, was
mistaken for an earthquake in Santi-
ago, thirty miles away, and a panic
followed.
A review OF the casualties off the
coasts of New England and British
North America for the fall and winter
season just ended showed about $50
lives lost.
Henri Rochett, at one time waiter,
was arrested in Paris, France, charged
with conducting swindling scheme
by which he is said to have stolen
So, 900, ,o0o.
d. w. Stevens, an American, who
was a member of the diplomaticcouncil
at Seoul, Corea, was shot and fatally
wounded by Corean at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
It was reported in Madrid that King
Manuel of Portugal might lose an arm
by amputation as the result off wound
he received when King Carlos was as
sassinated.
Two record books disappeared from
the municipal Offices at Mobile, Ala,
and the general council has ordered
an investigation and offered a reward
for their recovery.
Twenty persons were injured, three
fatally. in a head-on collision between
special passenger train on the Queen
and Crescent Railroad and freight
train, in Kentucky.
Farmers in nearly all of the forty
two tobacco-raising counties of Ken
lucky are destroying their crops, and
many families are leaving the state
owing to the threats made by might
riders
Judge George A. Carpenter of Chi
cago, Ill, in rendering decision,
ruled that all marriages OF Illinois
residents within year after divorce,
as set forth by the statutes, are illegal
in. that state.
Japan has requested China to take
such steps as may be necessary to
| prevent a boycott of japanese goods
10 China and to put an end to the anti
japanese egitation growing out of the
Tatsu Maru incident.
A series Of mysterious hotel robber-
les on the French River, extending
over many years, has been explained
by the arrest in Paris of the beautiful
and dashing, but masquerading
Countess of Alonteil.
The Freeeh chamber of deputies
adopted a resolution serving notice on
the government that a compromise on
the workmen S old age pension bill
must become law before shs sxpira.
ton Of the present year.