The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-16
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires Feon.
Near and Far.
GuilIotine Method of Executing Murderers
Revived in Franee-Western States
sweptb by Blizzard-British Elk
p'orer Killed in China.

Swept by BIiZzaFd-Bratlsh Elk
plorer KILLED in China.
Vienna is suffering from water
famine.
Nine ships of the Atlantic feet have
arrived at Port Said.
Severe earthquake shocks occurred
in the western part of Mexico.
The shah of Persia has again issued
a manifesto revoking the constitution.
An alleged plot to dethrone the king
OF Portugal was discovered at Lisbon.
Four murderers were put to death
by the guillotine method at Bethune,
France.
Two thousand persons attended the
first rally of the Anti Saloon League
at Mobile, Ala.
j. W. Brooke, a we'll known British
explorer, was killed by natives In
Lololand, China.
More than 100 men were killed as the
result of an explosion in coal mine
near BIuefeids, W. Va.
George D. Emery, said to be the
largest mahogany operator in the
world, died in Boston, Mass.
The worst blizzard in twenty years
swept through the western states DUR
ing the early part of the week.
The Bulls stave factory was com
pletely destroyed by fire at Natchez,
Miss, causing a loss of $40, 900.
The packet ]. A. Townes struck
snag and sank in the Yazoo river, a
negro cabin boy being drowned.
Supplies from the American naval
vessel Culgoa were distributed to the
earthquake survivors at Messina.
Twenty i've men were killed as the
result of an explosion of gas in Joseph
Letters coal mine at zeigler, Ill.
The annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held at
Memphis, Tenn, on June i, and 3.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
Vancouver, Seattle, Victoria and
other cities on the North Pacific coast
Huzzein KAHN Bey, the new
Turkish ambassador to the United
States, arrived at Washington, D. G.
Five schoolboys were arrested in St.
Louis, Mo-, being charged with the
murder of peddlersWhom they stoned
There have been more than 5000
cases of cholera and 1899 deaths in ST.
Petersburg, Russia, since the epidemic
began.
A mob at Lexington, S. c., lynched
negro who attacked white woman
and wounded the sheriff while resisting
arrest.
Steve Vaazey, negro, who MUIR
dered BOSS Veazey, was sentenced
to be hung at senatobia, Miss, on
Feb. II.
The Italian authorities have deter
mined to isolate Messina as the only
means of preventing an outbreak OF
serious illness.
Three persons were killed and an
other fatally injured as the result OF
fire that destroyed tenement house
in New York city.
The United States and Great Britain
have decided not to protest against
the dismissal Of Yuan Shi Kai by the
Chinese government.
During services in church near
Sion, Switzerland, the building col
lapsed and practically the entire con-
gregation was killed.
The Southern Commercial Congress
has made arrangements to construct a
southern building at Washington, D.
c., at cost of 81, 100000.
Owing to a row among negroes in
Atlanta, Ga, over entertainment plans
President. elect Taft withdrew his &C
ceptsnce of an invitation to address
them.
The body of Lieutenant Foertsch, the
German aeronaut who lost his life at
sea last October, was recovered in the
North Sea by the fishing steamer
Orion.
Swiss millers will boycott German
grain in retaliation for Germany's
failure to remove or modify the sys-
tenn of payment of bounties on -four
exported to Switzerland.
The British authorities are investi-
eating the strange disappearance OF
Miss Violet Charlesworth, Welsh |
woman, who is alleged to have been
killed in an automobile accident.
Charles P. Taft resigned from the
board of trustees OF Presbyterian
church in Cincinnati, Ohio, because
the pastor criticized the liberal relig-
ious views OF his brother, William
II. Taft.
Forestry officials in number of the
New England states will ask their
legislatures to pass bills making rail-
roads and individuals responsible for
forest fires and liable for the resulting
damages.
After being in service continuously |
for the past $50 years, the .Leasowe
lighthouse, which has stood on the
Wirral shore of the Mersey estuary |
at the entrance of Liverpool, England, !
has been abandoned.