The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
: $3.50, ,000 dre occurred at Barnett.

4 s35o,ooo FIRE occurred at Barnett,
B. g.
terrible famine is reported At
Hadiin, Persia.
John Rist, : negro accused Of ar
son, was lynched at Summit, Miss.
Fifty houses were destroyed By fire
at Mazatian, Mex
A sawmilf TO cost CSC, 900 will be es-
tablished at Eilisville. Miss.
The labor problem on the Panama
Canal Zone is very serious.
Forest fires caused great damage in
the vicinity Of Itacnaro, Mex.
The Duke OF Abrazzi, brother of the
king Of Italy. attempted to commit
suicide.
a general strike Of postal and tele-
graph employees was ordered in
France.
The king of England returned to
London after an absence of two
mouths, spent principally IN the south
of France.
Fire in the Wherle Stove Company's
plant at Newark, Ohio, caused q loss
of $500, 900.
Beunos Ayres will make great i'm.
proVements In It's harbor at a cost OF
$50. 800 900.
Mrs. Augusta Evans wilson, the
noted authoress, died suddenly at
Mobile, Ala.
James 4. Hackett, the well known
actor, fled petition Ia bank
ruptey in New York.
Thirty.three Vieksburg policemen
Voluntarily asked for reduction in
their respective salaries.
Twenty persons were drowned when
q gasoline launch sank in the Ohio
river near Fittsburg, Pa.
An American electrician was killed
in . pitched battle between the Panama
police and canal laborers.
Robert Aldrieh was killed at j acls-
sonvllle, Fla, BY !. q. Cross, who
mistook him for a burglar.
Twenty men were killed by the pre-
mature explosion Of dynamite II
quarry near Albany, N. Y.
Count Cassini, former Russian asa--
bassador to the United states, has
resigned his post at Madrid
Three negro prisoners escaped from
jail at Jesup, G a., after seriously ID.
juring Deputy Frank Madray.
The ninth annual convention Of the
Mississippi Kings Daughters and
Sons was held at Brookhayen.
A monument erected to the memory
Of Henry W adsworth Longfellow was
unveiled at " Washington, D. g.
Several cases of smallpox were dis.
covered among the porters of the
Roosevelt expedition in Africa.
The next conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will be held
next January IN Nashville, Tenn.
The steamer Shores was sunk of
the coast of White Fish Point, Ia
Lake Superior, and twenty.one lives
were lost.
Nine persons we're drowned By the
eapsizing of a pleasure boat in the
susquehanna river near Wilkes
Barre Pa.
Rev. Chas. B. Galloway, bishop of
the Mississippi diocese oil the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, died at
Jackson, Miss.
The Grow Drug Company 3 stock
and building, at Memphis, Tenn, was
severely damaged by fire, causing q
loss of $50, 900.
Fourteen men we're convicted of
night riding at Wayerly, Tenns and
were sentenced to Jail for ten days and
fired $500 each.
Capt. Peter G. Hams was found
guilty Of manslaughter in the FIRST de-
gree at Flushing, n. V, for killing
William &. Annis.
A score of negroes we're seriously
injured in panic following the par
tial wrecking OF church by a atornado
near Somervilie, Tenn.
The two carmen held at Pensacola, :
Fla, in connection with the fatal col.
lisioa between an automobile and
trolley were exonerated OF blame.
Royal 3. Cabe1l, Of Richmond Va.,
has been selected TO succeed ]. G..
Capers, Of South Carolina, as United
States commissioner of internal rev
enue.
Fred. Warren, business manager of
Appeal to Reason, Socialist paper,
was convicted Of sending scurrilous
and defamatory matter through the
mails.
There Is considerable disorder III
the country surrounding Constants
nople, and brigandage is being car
ried on il the very suburbs d she
capital.
James q. Boyle and his vile gers
convicted of kidnapping Willie sYhitIa
at Mercer. Pa, Boyle being sentenced
TO serve life term 10 the peufteaf arg
and the woman twenty FIVE years
Charles w Cannon, al American,
who says he is native Of saera-
meuto, Cal, was found guilty. 81
safndling the French public through
the selling Of shares In California
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