The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-03-06
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Five Miners Killed Near Joplin. Mo-Mrs,
Nv. Beekman and Her Four Chill
dren Cremated Near Bak-
ersfleId. Cal.
Several Americans were presented a

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A sharp eartt quake shock was felt
at Constantinople, Turkey.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, caused q
$500, 200 loss in the business section.
Floods in the Ohio river and tri5-
utary streams caused heavy damage
Four letters signed by George
Washington we're sold in London for
s2I0.
Princess M aria Theresa, wife OF
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. died in
France.
Mrs. Theresa j. Freeman, the noted
southern author and poet, died in ST.
Louis, Mo.
Five miners we're killed and twenty
entombed as the result of an explosion
near Joplin, Mo.
Several women suffragists who Gre
ated distur Dances in London were given
prison sentences.
The shah of Persia is hard pressed
financially, and is offering the royal
treasures for sale.
The CHILEAN government will erect a
wireless telegraph station for the
Straits of Magellan.
Raisuli, the bandit, has been ap-
pointed governor of a province by
the sultan of Morocco.
The European powers are expert
eocing great difficulty in settling the
dispute in the Balkans.
Two women and three men were
killed in battle between Mexicans
and Gypsies in Mexico.
Sarah Bernhardt announced in Paris
that1s she would appear in the title role
of "Cyrano de Bergerac. ="
At Mardi Gras ball in San Fran-
cisco, Cal, Miss JEANNE Croker was
robbed of a 500, 900 pearl necklace.
Two cruisers have been ordered to
Honduras to protect American inter-
ests should serious trouble develop.
1. L. Dege, a Y year-old boy, was
accidentally shot and killed at Mobile,
Ala, while playing with a companion.
Several counties in Indiana adopted
prohibition, making total OF twenty
three in the state where no liquor is
sold.
AS result of.prohibition s40O, 600
brewing plant at Memphis, Tenn,
brought only ST, 900 when offered for
sale.
Baron Won Meyendorff, who COM
manded regiment in the Russo-J APP
anese war, was accidentally killed
while hunting.
Vladimar PurishkeYich, monarchist
member Of the Russian douma, was
sentenced to jail for sending an in
sulting letter.
Mrs. ". K. Vanderbilt, ST., has
given million dollars for the cree
ton of modern tuberculosis tenements
in New York.
A Boston inventor claimed that he
has solved the problem of storing the
sun rays and converting them into
electrical energy.
Frederick William, the crown prince
Of Germany, has decided not to come
to America for the Sonderclass yacht
races next summer.
The University of Paris announced
that President Roosevelt has
accepted an invitation to deliver an
address there in 1909.
Cipriano Castro issued statement
declaring his innocence Of any attempt
to bring about the assassination of
President Gomez of Venezuela.
Frank Smith, proprietor of the
Windsor Hotel at Memphis, Tenn,
was shot and killed in a street fight
with Presley Garrett in that city.
Judge Sidney M. Smith, of Lexing-
ton, was appointed associate justice of
the Mississippi supreme court for the
nine year term beginning May 10.
A new malady which has made It's
in the West Indies has
G aused fever experts to assemble at
and Kingston to study it.
The carnival celebrations at Portu-
gal resulted in serious rioting and a
number of encounters with the police,
Turing which many persons we're in
ured.
Mrs. NJ. W. Beekman and her four
were cremated in their home
1aar Bakersfield, Cal, which is be-
ieved to have been set afre by MUIR
1erers.
In order to break a quorum and de-
eat the intent of election laws passed
over the veto of Gov. NJ. r. Patterson,
thirteen Tennessee sen fed from
he state.
Cltlzsns OF South Chicago have
aunched a crusade to protect children
rom niekle theatres, public parks and
other alleged sources of juvenile de-
inQuency.
Jim Brown, a negro, while hand
,uffed at Bes. emer, Ala, was shot and
killed By James Robinson, whose
laughter the prisoner had attempted
= assault.
Bob Clements was convicted OF the
murder of five members of the Edmond
100 family at Decatur, Ala, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
Deputy sheriffs ]. c. Taylor and n.