The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-02
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Electric Plant Destroyed by Earthquake
at virginia city, Mont Explosion in
Coal Mine in West Virginia. New
Brick Jail Completed at
Forest, Miss.
eermany is auserIng from an egg

Germany is suffering from an egg
famine.
Admiral George Dewey celebrated
his seventy first birthday.
New York city will have an Ice skat-
ing rink 300 feet in the air.
/ The United States has resumed Dip
/ lomatic relations with Venezuela.
An earthquake destroyed the electric
power plant at Virginia City, Mont.
A new $50, ,o00 waterworks system has
been inaugurated at Columbia, Miss.
Twenty men were arrested at Wav-
erly, Tenn, on charge OF Whitecap.
/ ing.
Several men were killed in battle
with revolutionists near Moscow,
Russia.
Eleven persons were injured as the
result of train wreck near Reids.
vile, Ga.
A fine new brick jail, erected at q
cost OF $4,000, has just been completed
at Forest, Miss.
Dutch warships have been instructed
not to permit President Castro to re-
turn to Venezaela.
i Lloyd G. Griscom, United States
ambassador to Italy, will retire from
the diplomatic service.
The board of trade building at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, was destroyed by fir .,
1 causiny p loss af 800. GOO
Sixteen persons were seriously IN
iured in wreck on the Lake Shore
Railroad near Angola, Ind.
4 More than score of men were en-
tombed as the result OF an explosion
in a coal mine in West Virginia.
| Count johann Heinrich Won Bern
storff, the new German ambassador,
has arrived at Washington, d. G.
II. NJ. Cox, 8 capitalist Of Portland,
Me-, was killed by falling from win
| dow of hotel at Hot Springs, Ark.
i Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the presidents
youngest daughter, made her formal
debut into society at the White House.
One thousand families were made
homeless and $1,000 worth of prop
erty destroyed by a fire in Brooklyn,
N. 7.
A battle occurred n Venezuela be-
tween the adherents OF Gomez and
Castro, in which several men were
killed.
Forty persons were injured BY the
collapse of a court building at Eli
licott City, Md, during the trial Of
negro.
Eleven persons we're killed at Tun-
Egen. China, in riot resulting from
an order to stop the growing Of
poppies.
Claus spreckles, the Western SUI
gar millionaire, died in San Fran
cisco, Cal, leaving an estate Of nearly
$50, ,ooO, 900.
| Mistaking a drunken man clad In q
fur overcoat for bear, Thomas Deck
mar shot and killed Thomas Andrews
near Lafayette, Tenn.
DIR. q. s. Richardson, a prominent
physician, was shot and killed by IN
unknown person ID front Of his drug
store at Sturgis, Miss.
The suit Of Count Boni de Gastel-
| lane for the custody of his children
I was given another hearing in the
courts in Paris, France.
The worst earthquake of recent times
devastated three provinces OF south
west Italy, and ii Is estimated that
nearly 200, ,00u persons we're killed.
An up-tosdate packing plant, with a
capacity of approximately 1000 hogs
and 1000 beeves week, will open for
business on April l at Atlanta, Ga.
By the use OF Improved methods,
the percentage of sugar in beet crops
!, has been increased on an average
within decade from 1880 per cent to
1886.
Harvey Hazel, seventeen year.old
youth Of Toledo, Ohio, was convicted
of the murder OF his mother and sem.
fenced to serve life term IN the peni-
tentiary.
A recent hurricane in Nicaragua
drove the water from the river against
the houses In the town Of Prinzapolea
with such force that they were nearly
all destroyed.
i President Roosevelt has invited
Canada and Mexico to participate ID
a North America Conservation Com
gress, to be held IN Washington, ID.
O., on Feb. 18.
While hunting in Africa Presided
: Roosevelt will make a special efforttn
secure two white rhinoceros, they being
i considered the hardest beasts to shoot
! in that country
An experiment to determine the de-
! velopment Of the brains Of moneys
will Be undertaken by scientists at the
George w ashin gton University ID
!, Washington, D. G.
Leon Gasse, the official viper killer
IN the forest OF FontaineI,Ieau, France,
Z is now resting after an arduous season,
during which he killed nearly 100
= snakes. He has been bitten so mani
:, = times by the vsnomous reptiles that be
8 has become an immune and IS known
as the father Of The vipers. .