The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-22
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Confederate Reunion at Memphis, Tenn
Rress Association Meets at vicksburg,
Miss Government Employees End
Strike in Paris, France-Fire at
Akron. o., Cause heavy loss.

Natural gas was discovered at
Honey Island, Miss.
George Meredith, the noted English
novelist, died Id London.
There Is a school In every town Of
the Panama Canal Zone.
The strike of government employees
IL France has virtually ended.
Three persons were Injured in
trolley car collision at Columbus,
Miss.
Charles 3. Eliot, for forty years
president OF Harvard University, has
retired.
The eight,year old son of F. Dasset
was killed By falling tree near Gulf
port, Miss.
Fire At Akron, Ohio, destroyed
seven story building, causing loss
OF 81, 500. 900
70 escape arFest, man in Mitchell.
s. D., killed his sister and then com.
mitted suicide.
The annual Confederate re.union
| viii be held At Memphis. Tenn, on
June s, 8 and 10
a chair Of asronautics was estab-
Hshed recently at the Gottingen Uni
versfty in Germany.
a cotton compress at Fort Smith.
Ark, was destroyed BY fire, the loss
entailed being $500. 900.
The forty fourth adnnal convention
OF the Mississippi Press Association
was he1d at Vieksbnrg Miss.
". F. Forsets and aged farmer, and
his wife were found murdered in their
home near Leonard dstown, Nd.
Six bandits held up q train near
Spokane, Wis, looted tse mail car
and escaped with nearly $40, 600.
One Of the estates Of the czar of
Russia covers three times as much
area as the whole of Great Britain.
Several persons were seriously in.
iured when passenger train went
through q bridge al Randolph, No.
10 a dispute over contract, Tom
Curry, president of the GIarksville,
Ark, mine workers union, vas killed.
Fire IN the Woodworking plant Of
the Walker. Neville Manufaeturiag
Company. at Piuehnr, Miss caused 9
1000 loss.
Capt. J1hn Henley veal
citizen and former mayo 81 Birming
ham, Ala, eommitted suicide because
of Ill health.
| The thirteenth annua convention of
the Interstate Cotton Seed 0rushers
Association was held this week as
Memphis, Tenn.
More than Q ton and quarter of
quinine was dispensed by the United
States government 10 the Panama
Canal Zone last year.
Serious riots occurred at Blue6eIss,
Nicaragua, and the cruiser Mariesta
was ordered to the scene 10 protect
American interests.
Two robbers looted the express car
Of Southern Railway train near
Warrenville, s. c., ara made away
with several hundred dollars.
Because his wife gave him skinned
milk instead Of cream, ]. ID. Roselair
OF Hillsboro. Oregon, killed the
woman at the breakfast table.
Preparations were begun IN De1a-
ware to harvest the greatest crop OF
Strawberries the state has ever known,
estimated at 80, 100000 quarts.
-Four men were injured and property
valued at $50, 900 was destroyed BY
| fire which consumed the seaboard Air
Lines warehouse at Portsmouth,, Va.
Capt. Peter @. Hams, str., was san.
fenced TO serve from eight to sixteen
years il the Sing Sing prison for kill.
| ing William e. Annis at Flushing,
n Y.
| King Manual Of Portugal conferred
special medals. on his mother and
others who showed bravery IL the st.
tack on himself and his father and
brother.
lo ChiA6Q II 4 u : GQMpdHy
steamer Admiral Dewey was badly
damaged IN a collision with a German
vessel ii The harbor of Port Antonio,
jamaica.
Mississippi militiamen wef6 aenl
from ackson to Winston county to
capture Tom Atkinson, white con.
yict, who escaped twenty years ago,
aud Who deaed arrest
The University of Heidelberg bal
received from foreign benefsctor IL
terested in the advancement Of scienc,
the sum of sso, 600 to be used toward
the foundation Of photographic i'd.
stitution.
Lieut.. Gen. Anatole stoesseli, vi1e
was serving q ten year prison sentence
for surrenderfng the fortress Of Per
Arthur to the Japanese during tlle
Russo Japanese war. has been re.e asee
from the fortress Of ST. Peter aad st
Paul il ST. Petersburg. Russia.
" omen cutters of precious stones III
France receive about 81 30 q aav
seamstressea receive SO cents a DAY
These are res espeetivsly the highest aue
lowest wages paid to women ID France
Ii is said that .0oe, 900 women, one