The Donaldsonville chief., 1909-03-27
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Woman Burned to Death at Mobile, Ala
Ministers Fight Duel at Russ, MO.
Big Fire in Mexico City.

The union depot at Louisville, KY,
was destroyed by fire,
Severe earthquake shocks occurred
IN Spain and Portugal.
The population of England and
" ales is 5,048, 787 persons.
Fire at Sour Lake. Tex, destroyed
the Springs Hotel, causing loss of
$50, 600.
Five men were killed and score in
jured in mine explosion near Evans
vile, Ind.
Dissatisfaction in France relative to
the new American tariff bill is in
creasing.
Six children were burned to death in
a fire that destroyed their home in
Morelia, Mex.
Bishop Gillespie, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Western Mich
igan, is dead.
Rudolph Won Renters, one OF the
most eminent physicians of Germany,
died in Berlin,
Mrs. Eugenia Dodge was burned to
death at Mobile, Ala, by her clothing
tgniting from candle.
Four negroes were drowned when a
launch caps.zed in the Mississippi
eiyer at Memphis, Tenn.
At meeting of the striking tele-
graph operators in Paris, 5000 men
voted to return to work.
Ex-President Roosevelt, his son,
Kermit, and a party of scientists sailed
his week for South Africa.
The trial of William Sorsby, charged
with killing Postoffiee Inspector Fitz-
gerald, opened at aekson, Miss.
The seventy second birthday ami
vers airy OF the late ex President Grover
Cleveland was observed in New York.
Fire at Baltimore, Md, did $1,000
damage to the warehouse Of the New
York aud Baltimore Transportation
Company.
The twentieth annual session of the
Trans Mississippi Commercial Con-
gress will be held in Denver, Colo,
next August.
Joseph Brown, who shot and Sc
sionsly wounded Chief of Police Scott
White at Whitmel, W. Va, was taken
from jail and i nched.
At the new City Federation Hotel
for Working Girls. in New York city,
no guest will be admitted who receives
an income Of more than 81 week.
The Fullerton Syndicate of S t.
Louis, Mo-, will take over and operate
she properties of Camp q Hinton, at
Lumherton, Miss, valued at 81 900,
600
George W. Covington, a wealthy
resident of Hazlehurst, Miss, and his
wife were seriously injured when a
train ran into their bile atthat
place.
The lint rooms, seedhouse, Office and
electric plant of the Standard Chem
ical and Oil Company we're destroyed
by fire at Troy, Ala, causing loss
of STE, ,o0o.
On being informed that the malady
from which he was suffering was tn.
berculosis, Ollie Byrd, a travelling
salesman, committed suicide at Way.
aesboro, Miss.
The building of the chamber OF dep
uties in Mexico City, together with
archives and records for twenty fvt
years, was destroyed by FIRE. entailins
a loss of S150, 900.
Rev. 5. Odell, Presbyterian minis
| ter, was shot and killed at Russ, Mo-.
| by Rev. NJ. D. Johnson, a Baptis
preacher, in duel resulting from /
business disagreement.
Benjamin Gilbert, young whit
man, was electrocuted in the penitentt
arg at Richmond, Va, for the murdel
in Norfolk, Va, of his sweetheart
Miss Amanda Morse.
Willie Whitla, the ten-year-old bo.
who was Kidnapped from school il
Sharon, Pa, was restored to hi
father in Cleveland, o., after Mr.
Wbitla had paid the 80, 600 ransor
dema8dea by the abductors.
The japanese government is maxim
an energetic fight to prevent buboni
| plague from getting into that country
| Between 1000 and 5000 rats are kille
and examined every day In Toxic i
the search for possible source {
Infection.
Col. Duncan B. Cooper and his son
Robin j. Cooper, were found guilt
/ of murder IN The second degree TO
killing former Senator E. W. Cal
mack at Nashville, Tenn, and thei
punishment was fixed at twenty year;
imprisonment q the penitentiar!
/ They were rele ased on bond pendin
an appeal.
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