The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-04
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
obstreperous Negro Shot by Alabama Con.
gresham at National Capital-Prime
Minister of England Seriously Ill.
Chester Gillette Eleetrocuted.

nent banker Of Toxic, Japan, died.
Night riders are suspected of caus.
ing a s1Oo, 900 tobacco fire a. Coving.
ton, Ky.
Moses B. Colworth, an English
scientist, claims that the north pole is
shifting.
The price of meat in Chicago, Ill,
has increased from one to five cents
per pound.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
prime minister of England, is reported
to be seriously i'll.
The Norwegian bark Inglewood was
burned at Mandal, Norway, and thir-
teen lives were lost.
Tom Morrisey, Jr., accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunting
near Greenville, Miss.
Cotton mills in Waltham, Mass,
announced wage reduction of 10 per
cent, to take place on April 8.
Announcement has been made that
nationalrange for the preservation of
bison will be established in Montana.
q vigorous campaign has been in
augurated in Paris to prevent the de-
struction of the forests of France.
The funeral of the Duke of Devon.
shire, who died at Cannes on March
"a, took place at Edensor, England.
Chilapa, Mexican town of 5000
inhabitants, was greatly damaged by
an earthquake, but no lives were lost.
The Due de Chaulnes, who married
Miss Theodore shonts, of Washing
ton, D. c., was sued BY a London
tailor.
The Women's Foreign Mission So
Eclety of the Mississippi conference
held its annual meeting at Brook
haven.
L is rumored in London that the
Prince of Wales will visit the United
States and be the guest of President
Roosevelt.
The ]. T. Willer lumber and manu-.
featuring plant at Epps, Miss. was
destroyed by fire, causing an estimated
loss of 1926, 900.
Nearly seventy men lost their lives
in two explosions that occurred in the
Union Pacific Coal Company's mine
at Hanna, Wyo.
Several firemen were injured and
property valued at $3.50, GOO destroyed
in fire on the Joy Line pier IN East
river, New York.
Chester g. Gillette, convicted OF the
murder of Grace Brown in 1906, was
electroeuted in Auburn prison, New
York, on March 80.
Work on the federal railroad tun-
mel through the Rieken Mountains In
Switzerland, begun four years ago,
has been completed.
By the premature explosion OF
bomb intended for the New York po-
lice, one an narehist was killed and an
other fatally injured.
Mexico City was shaken consider
ably by an earthquake, but no lives
were lost and property was not dam.
aged to a great extent.
Sixty thousand men in Boston,
Mass. were affected by a general re-
duction of 10 per cent in the wages Of
New England cotton mill operatives.
Society women of Atlanta, Ca, pc
titioned the street railway msnage-
ment in that city to order conductors
not to assist women on and of the
cars.
A. o. Bailey, of Kansas City. an
express messenger, was murdered by
an unidentified robber on Santa Fe
train between Florence and Newton,
Kan.
The general assembly of Virginia
adopted a aresolution removing Judge
J. W. G. Blackstone from Office on
the grounds of gross neglect OF official
duty
Emperor William of Germany has
informed President Rooseyelt that he
will be pleased to receive DR.. David
Jayne Hill as American ambassador
to Berlin.
Fire at Springfield, ILL.,, damaged
the Leland Hotel to the extent of $40, =
600, ali the baggage ofthe delegates to
the Republican state convention being
destroyed.
Three eonvicts escaped from the
Rankin farm OF the Mississippi peni-
tentiary, making total of nine that
have escaped from that place during
the past month.
Congressman Heain, OF Alabama,
shot and wounded Thomas Lumby, q
negro, and Thomas McCreary, white
man, during fight on a street car In
W ashington, D. g.
Henry Richer, paying teller, and
John Young, auditor of the Farmers
Deposit National Bank of Pittsburg,
Pa, confessed to stealing 81, los, 600
/ Of the institutions IS funds.
i Arrangements have been completed
/ for the Iaymen S missionary confer.
ence OF the Methodist Episcopal
Chnreh, which will be held in Chatsa-
nooga, Teun., this month.
During the target practice at Mag-
aalena Bay last Saturday 14o inches
OF the muzzle Of one Of the six.inch
broadsids guns of the United States
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