The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-04-10
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Tarnado at Marion, Il.-Mississippi Bar
Association to Meet ON May 4-Youth
Sends Threatening Letters TO Sum
day School Teacher at
Atlanta, Ga.

Fire at Santiago, Chile, caused a
loss of 81. 600, 900.
There is general strike in the coal
mines in western Canada.
The town of La Maya, Cuba, was
practically destroyed by fire.
Fire at Fort Worth, Tex, destroyed
property valued at 81, 600, 900.
Adolph Ritter Won sonnethai, the
famous actor, died in Prague.
The leaders Of the recent insurrection
in Cuba were sentenced to death.
Six persons were burned to death in
a fire on a ship at Colon. Panama.
Pope Hill, prominent attorney of
Macon, was assassinated at McRae,
Ga.
Marion Crawford, the famous
novelist, is seriously i'll at Sorrento,
Italy.
Fire at Jackson, Miss, destroyed
three residences, causing loss of
s12, 600.
The car of Russia is making prep
arations for an extended tour through
Europe.
A revolutionary movement among
working classes is causing great alarm
In France.
Six children we're burned to death in
fire that destroyed their home in
Morelia, Mex.
Four men were killed and a number
injured in cyclone which swept over
Aberdeen, Miss.
Charles E. Ellis, railway magnate
worth SIC, 1000. 900. committed suicide
at Philadelphia.
An atmosphere of uncertainty, pre-
saying an approaching revolution,
prevails in Honduras.
TWenty-s women suffragists
were sent to jail in London for attempt
ing to storm parliament.
Students at Cairo, Egypt, precipi-
tated riot and troops were called out
to suppress the disorders.
Many people were injured and Sc
rious damage was done to property by
a tornado at Marion, Ill.
The British government will not
allow ex-President Castro, of Vene-
zuela, to land at Trinidad.
Will Sorsby is on trial at Jackson.
Miss, for the murder OF Postofice IN
spector Charles Fitzgerald.
The capital stock of the Standard
Oil Company will be increased from
800, 900, 600 to $500, 900.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Mississippi Bar Association will be
held at West Point on May 4.
Servia formally accepted the for
mula prepared by the powers for the
settlement Of the Balkans dispute.
The French tank bark Jules Henry
blew up at Marseilles, France, twelve
men being killed and several injured,
Ludwig Kruger and his wife we're
murdered by robbers in their home at
Toledo, Ohio, and the bodies cremated.
DR.. William Jones, a famous
scientist of Chicago, Ill, was killed
by natives in the Philippine Islands.
Admiral Cervera, who commanded
the Spanish fleet during the battle of
Santiago, died at Puerto Real, Spain.
The British steamer Oak Branch
was wrecked of the coast of South
America and number of lives were
lost.
By surgical operation in Philadel-
phia, Pa, a patient was relieved of
two forks and three spoons that he had
swallowed.
David Alexander, negro accused
of the murder of police officer, was
taken from jail at Pensacola, Fla,
and lynched.
Harvard students are preparing q
monster celebration to welcome Presi-
dent Eliot upon his return from his
southern tour.
Mrs. Eunice M. Lockwood was
elected superintendent of the Missis-
sippi Masonic Widows and Orphans
Home at Meridian.
Miss Virginia Carter was burned to
death in FIRE which destroyed her
home, .Yellow Rest an historical
mansion near Winchester, Va.
Prince Kasatkin Rostofsef, a mem
Der of one of the best known families
in Russia, was killed at Moscow by q
concert hall singer nance Rosa
Bauer.
Bareheaded and in irons, Kittsni,
the Moroccan priest who preached a
s'holy war; in support of the pre-
tender, was dragged through the
streets of Fee.
The body of Harold Moon, the ten
year old boy who was thought to have
been kidnapped from Flint, Mich, was
found in q pond, where he perished
while skating.
General Gustav Mans, who holds a
record in the Mexican army as an
Indian fighter, has been sentenced to
death for the killing of Lieutenant
David Olivarez,
Ex President Roosevelt was received
bv KING yietor Emanuel of italy at