The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-04-17
THE WORLDS NEWS.
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Near and Far.


triot Of Lenox. Miss.
There are 400 pol olicemen IN Chicago.
The postofice at Maben. Miss, vas
robbed of $1,000.
A severe earthquake shock was ex-
perienced in Peru.
A violent earthquake shock sas
felt at Messina, Italy.
Fifteen persons were killed in riot
at Velardena, Mexico.
A. Charles swinburne, the English
poet and essayist, died in London.
Elk President Castro, of Venezuela,
will probably seek refuge IN Spain.
| Night riders are again causing
trouble in western Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
4 Mrs. G. A. Sampson was acquitted
at Lyons, N. Y, Of the murder Of her
husband.
Three cases of bubonic plague were
discovered on a British steamship At
Antwerp.
| The funeral of the late f. Marion
Crawford. the novelist, was held at
Sorrento, Italy.
A handsome new Masonic Temple,
to cost $4,000, will ha erected IN
i Meridian, Miss.
A revolutionary outbreak occurred
at Constantinor is aes the Turkish
eabinet resigned.
Nine. Helena Modieska, the famous
Polish actress, died at her home on
the coast of California.
Several women and children were
suffoeated in panic that occurred in
a church at Lima, Peru.
The annual conference of the Missis-
sippi Medical Association was held
this week at Jackson, Miss.
DR.. S. B. Alexandra, q dentist,
was shot and killed at Mariana, Fla.
by Deputy Sheriff j. v. Smith.
Fire at Elyria, Ohio, destroyed the
principal business establishments OF
the city, causing q loss OF $3.50. 600.
Captain Graham E. Johnson, Of
Alabama, has been appointed military
aide to President William Fl. Taft.
Two thous sand persons we're rendered
homeless and property valued at s10g
600 destroyed BY fire at Manehester,
N. Fl.
The Cumberland Telephone Com.
pany was fined $500 at Meridian,
Miss, for violating the anti.trust
laws.
Disorders growing out of strike
among the button makers OF Meru,
France, caused a veritable reign OF
terror.
A. w. Back, charged with grating
as an oficeholder at Binghampton. n.
Y, committed suicide rather than go
to trial
The eightieth anniversary of Gen.
William Booth, founder of the Saliva
tion Army, was celebrated in New
York city.
Ten persons were seriously injured
and score badly hurt in head.on
collision between interurban cars near
Gary. Ind.
An effort is being made to have the
widow of the late Senator g. w.
Carmack appointed postmistress at
Columbia, Tenn.
Six passengers and two trafnmen
we're seriously injured BY the derail-
nent OF d Southern passenger train
near Old Fort, N. G.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Black Water was sunk off the coastof
Dungeness as result Of collision
with the steamer Hero.
The date of the presentation OF the
silver service to the United States bat-
'leship Mississippi has been changed
rom May Is to June /.
Fire at BroWnwood, Tex, destroyed
he plant of the Brownwood Eiectr C
Company and an adjoining building,
causing loss OF s75, QUO.
The sizes of loaves of bread 10 New
York and Chicago were diminished
wing to the high price of Hour,
'aused by mauipulations In wheat.
Seven miners were killed and many
,shers narrowly escaped death when q
explosion of dynamite oe-
'urred IN a coal mine near Wtnder-
,er, Pa.
An Indian woman near Port Arthur,
dont., cut a strip Of hesh from her
,ody to use as fish bait and secured
ood for her starving children until
Ielp arrived.
The Oldest living graduate Of Yale
is Chester Dutton, 50 years
I'D, who vas graduated in the class
i 1888, and is now living near Con-
ordia, Kans.
A negro sneak thief seized Grip
obtaining $4,000 in cash Belonging %
7. q Evans, a passenger, and leaiasd
rom a moving Southern Railway
rain at Denmark. s. G.
Six persons were killed, three OIL eas
injured and property los
# between $500, 600 and $500, GOO caused
y fire in the heart of the business
district Of Lenox, Mass.
W. A. sorsby. charged With the
murder OF Postofice Inspector Charles
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