The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-13
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Remarkable Family of Boys Captain OF
U. S. Battleship Georgia Suspended
for six Months Floods
in Germany.

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property loss of $3.50, 900.
King Alfonso of Spain will visit
King Manuel of Portugal.
Many lives were lost in Germany as
the result OF serious foods.
Several persons were killed by a
cyclone near Cullman, Ala.
The great battleship Delaware was
launched at Newport News, Va.
The session of the Austrian parlia-
ment at Vienna broke up in riot.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
of England are in Berlin on a visit.
The American Ea4tleship fleet sailed
from Gibraltar for Hampton Roads,
Va.
Rev. w. j. Gregory was burned to
death and his house robbed at Chico,
Tex.
Six persons were killed as the result
OF an explosion of dynamite in Nancy,
France.
Twenty six buildings were destroyed
by fire at Macon, Ca, entailing loss
OF $40, 0O0.
One nWaskllled and three others
injured in boiler explosion at Sour
Lake, Tex.
Storms in Arkansas aud Texas
damaged property and crops to a
great extent.
More than one hundred men were
entombed in a mine in Russia as the
result of an explosion.
Will Parked, negro, was lynched
near Mexia, Ala, because he mis-
treated the child of his employer.
Heavy rains in California caused
floods and washouts which badly dam
aged railroad tracks and bridges.
One thousand employees of the
American Smelti1g and Refining Com
pany at Torreon, Mexico, went on a
strike.
Senior Cody, secretary of the Next
can embassy at Washing ten, D. c.,
has been appointed Mexican minister
to Cuba.
The governor and several admins
tration officers OF Resht. Morocco,
were murdered in an uprising of revo-
lutionists.
Fifteen persons were killed and great
damage was done to property by
storm that swept through central
Mississippi.
r. T. Stevens, claiming Washing
ton, D. c., as his home, was arrested
in Russia, charged with aiding the
revolutionists.
The freight and passenger depot of
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad at Fayette, Miss, was de-
stroyed by FIRE.
The body OF Edward Henry Strobel.
the adviser of the Siamase govern
ment, who died last year, was crema.
ted at Bangkok.
Chen Hi, president of the board of
communications of China, and three
under secretaries were dismissed in
disgrace for corruption.
Captain Miketin, of the Russian
general staff, was condemned to death
for conducting revolutionary agita.
ton in the Russian army.
Ernest A. H. Coquelin, the French
actor. known under the name of Co
quelin Cadet, and brother OF Benoit
Constant Coquelin, died in Paris.
President Roosevelt sent message
to congress urging law requiring
wireless telegraph equipment on all
passenger carrying ocean going steam
ships.
A passenger train on the Queen and
Crescent Railroad was wrecked at
Coldwater, Miss. One trainman was
killed and number of passengers
were injured.
The situation at Pittsburg, Pa, re-
sulting from repeated assaults on
white girls by negroes, is becoming
more acute and a dangerous race war
is threatened.
To keep him from entering the cabi-
net Of President-eIect Taft, the CONT
mental National Bank of Chicago
raised the salary Of George NJ. Rey-
nolds, its president, from $4,000 to
$50, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fleetwood Lester were
dismissed on charges of robbery and
kidnapping HardaWay Young in Mo-
bile, Ala, but were held under bond
for obtaining money by false pre-
lenses.
Roby Baskins, a negro who con-
fessed to numbering Rev. W. T.. Hud-
son. was lynehed at Houston, Miss,
when it became known that Judge
Sykes had refused to call special
term of court.
The American Red Cross Society
raised $3.50, 600 and will present it to
Queen Helena for the establishments
Of an orphanage for children whose
parents were lost in the Italian earth
quake disaster.
Miss Lucy Mitchell. who killed Miss
Minnie McBryde at Rocky Valley, |
Va, on the eve of the latter's wedding,
vas convicted Of second degree murder
aud sentenced to serve eighteen years
IN the penieentiary.
The largest family of boys in the