The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-09

rlYed at SQez TWO days aAedu VI 49e
schedule.
Two cyclones swept through the
country near Batson, Tex, destroying
much property.
A two cent postage rate between the
United States and Germany went into
effect on Jan. 1.
A port for the landing of airships
was opened at Juvisy- Sur. Orge, near
Paris, France.
While fording swollen stream near
Roanoke, Va, Clarence and Luther
Dent were drowned.
The National Democratic Associa-
ton will establish weekly newspaper |
in w ashington, D. G.
Jesse Schottland, seaman OF the |
United States battleship Illinois, was
drowned in the Red Sea.
Three thousand bales OF cotton on |
the Spanish steamer NJ arte were dam |
aged by fire at Havre, France.
The American Red Cross Society
has sent s270, 0O0 for the relief of the
Italian earthquake sufferers.
Over 5000 people attended the New
Year reception given by President
Roosevelt at the White House.
Rioting followed the prohibition Of
4 Mon ammedan sacrifices of COWS at
Titteghun, near Calcutta, India.
Two persons were killed and a score
Injured when the Frisco "A1eteor" and
freight train colljded near Fisher,
Okla.
Typhoid fever has broken out in
the earthquake-stricken cities of Italy
and it is feared the result will be Sc
rious.
! E. B. Fitzgerald, planter, shot and
killed o. H. Mcclure, a lawyer, in
street duel with pistols at Rosedale,
j Miss.
Three negro laborers are believed to
have been killed when a cotton seed
| house collapsed at Aberdeen, Miss.
The suit of Count Boui de Castel-
| lane for the custody of his children
| was decided against him By the French
court.
/ Aaron Doas. aged ninety, and his
wife, aged eighty FIVE, celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary in New
York city.
Methodists in the United States and
Canada will erect monument to Bar
bara Heck, the founder of Methodism
in America.
& Four men were killed as the result
of collision between steamer and a
lumber raft in the Green river, near
Rockport, KY.
In the Bronx geological park at
New York there are nearly twice the
number of animals that there are in
the London zoo.
Rev. Filomena Sian0 Catholic
priest of Newark, n, j., eloped with
ffteen-year-old girl, whom he mar
ried in New York city.
DR.. H. W. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry, will attempt to
prohibit the importation of absinthe
into the United States.
During 1908 Andrew Carnegie do
mated S., 437 900 to libraries, colleges,
the hero fund of Great Britain and
Industrial organizations.
A third attempt to secure the release
of Harry K. Thaw from the Matteawan
asy 1un for the criminal insane was be-
GUN at White Plains, N. Z.
Yuan Shi Kai, the deposed grand
councillor of China, escaped from Pc
king, and is under the protection of
Great Britain in Tien Tsin, a treaty
: port.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Attorney General Caldwell, who is
prosecuting the alleged night riders at
Union City, Tenn, but he escaped nn-
, harmed.
The Corean who assassfnated Dur
ham White Stevens in San Francisco
some time ago, has been sentenced to
serve a term of twenty five years in the
t penitentiary.
The supreme court of the United
: St ates has denied the pet1t1On OF the
government for writ of certiorari in
the 1929, coo, 900 fine case of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
: Colombia has granted a concession
to a number of its citizens, conveying
the exclusive privilege of the manu-
facture of denatured alcohol in the
District of Bogota.
An unidentified white man was killed
and his body thrown from freight
/. train near New Albany, Miss, by
It ! John Mcdaniel, a negro brakeman,
because the victim had informed on
u him.
o Because she has such excellent infu
: epee over them, Mrs. Mary weaver h as
Q been appointed in one of the neighbor
d hoods OF Chicago, ILL.,, to take the
j. place of a police officer Who is unable
/ TO control the small boys of the dis
! triet.
: Look over the For Sale ads in
! today's Chief Somebody may wish
/. TO sell just what you wish TO buy.