The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-27
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Queen of Portugal Dangerously Hi Many
Persons Injured By Tornado in Ar
kansas-Powder xplosion At
VIM. Osman. tho Oldest
Editor in Illinois,
is Dead.

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Great damage was done By foods at
Louisville, KY.
A large and brilliant comet vas seen
at Cnerbourg, France.
Fire destroyed property 1t Meridian,
Miss, valued at s45, 900.
Dowager Queen Maria PA, Of Por-
tugal, is dangerously Ill.
Mexico will celebrate the centenary
OF her independence In 1910.
Three Frenchmen were killed and
eaten by natives in the Congo, Africa.
Three persons were killed In pow-
der explosion near Golfers, W Va.
Six persons we're killed and over q
score injured by tornado at Fiaher.
Ark.
Seismic disturbances we're felt In
Porto Rico ana the Danish West
Indies.
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandlo-
witch died suddenly In St. Petersburg.
Russia.
Fire at Kyle, Tex, destroyed the
Kyle Oil and Gin plans, causing loss
OF 800, 600.
Two persons we're killed and five
wounded as the result OF riot at
Granada. Spain.
The brother OF the shah OF Persia
was kidnapped by revolntionists and
IS being held for ransom.
A plot to dethrone the car OF Russia
and establish regency was dis
covered at ST. Petersburg.
Sir Frederick Wills, organizer Of
the Imperial Tobacco Company Of
Great Britain, died in France.
The Servian government has given
orders that no passports be issued to
men under twenty five years Of age,
Frederick William, crown prince Of
Germany, will probably visit tha
United States during the coming ysar.
Geronimo, the noted Indian chief,
died At Fort Sill. Okla. where be had
been 8 prisoner o5 war for many sars.
French exporters arc gra@lssss. ra@sssess.s 81 II
armed over the prospects OF a tariff
war between FraEce and the United
States.
A bill prohibiting foreigners from
owning property in Cuba has been in
troduced in the Cuban congress at
Havana.
An order to put Corean strikers In
jail as agabonds put quick end to
the strike Of plantation laberers In
Yacatau, Mexico.
Sixty villages were destroyed and
5000 persons perished as the result OF
an earthquake IN the Lursitan pro-
vince Of Persia.
The Argentine steamer Presidente
Roca was wrecked on the coast of
South America and more than 200
lives were lost.
A mob IN Omaha, Neba wrecked
thirty buildings occupied by Greeks
because man OF that nation alisy mur-
dered police officer.
Fearing that his hancee would be-
come the wife of another, Auton Tuna
MS, of Chicago, Ill, shot and killed
the woman and then committed suicide.
Twelve lives we're lost, many per-
sons were injured and heayy damage
60 property was caused By Lornadoes
and rainstorms 10 Arkansas, MissIs-
sippi, western Tennessee and Ken
lucky.
Robert Bledsoe, who attempted 10
extort $1,000 from merchant in Kan
sas City by threatening him with q
bomb, was tried and sentenced 30
serve q term OF thirty years In the
penitentiary.
Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs.
Hettg Green of New York, one Of the
wealthiest women IL America, was
married at Morrittown, N. j., 10 Mat
thew Ast0r Wilkes, 8 Great. grandson
OF John Jacob As1or
Aurellus Christian, 8 negro, con
fessed 30 assaNItzng and murderinr
fourteen year-oId Mary Dobbs ID Bot.
etenrt county, Va, and was convicted
and sentenced TO death within twenty
four hours after the crime
William Osman, 30 years old, who
died recently at Ottawa, ILL.,, had the
distinction OF being the Oldest editor
in Illinois, working actively at his
desk each day. He entered the am.
pl0y of the Ottawa Freetradsr il Ig4o
and had since been connected with that
paper. owning the plant since the civil
war.