The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-04-03
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Hundreds of White People Attends Negro
Funeral at Montgomery Ala Italian
Killed Near Treverton, Pa.
Steamer Sinks of the
Coast of Nicaragua.

1u6 pOpul&bIOQ OF new LeaIHpu Oh
Dec. 81, 1908, was /, 102, 900 persons.
Four laborers were killed By fall
Ing wall at the stock ards in Chicago,
Ill.
It is reported that King Peter, Of
servia. is preparing to abdicate the
throne.
Six steamships arrived at Ellis
Island, N. Y, bringing in 1886 immi-
grants.
Three trainmen were injured when .
passenger train was wrecked at Grit
in, Ga.
A case Of sleeping sickness has tesn
discovered in the heart OF Paris,
France.
r. W. lexington, Methodist min
lister, was convicted of manslaughter
at Florence, Ala.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, de-
stroyed The Drew printing plant, caus
ing $3.50, 900 loss.
. Charles Lawler, a locomotive engi-
neer, was killed at louisville, Miss, by
r. T. Duff, his fireman.
Twelve thousand five hundred dol
lars was paid for a seat In the New
York Cotton Exchange.
Three persons were killed and seven.
teen Injured in collision of electric
cars near Pittsburg, Pa.
Fire destroyed the plant OF the Carr
Leather Company at Salem, Mass,
entailing loss of $3.50, 600.
TIE United States battleship Missis-
sippi will be ordered to Horn Island
to receive her silver service.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was eleetrocuted
at Auburn, N. Y, for the murder last
year OF Mrs. Sarah Brennan.
Two men were killed and one Sc
riously injured by the collapse OF a
warehouse at Jacksonville, Fla.
Ten persons were injured as the re-
sult of an explosion of natural gas in
dwelling house at Pittsburg, Pa.
The preliminary hearing Of james
Boyle, the Whitla kidnapper, was
postponed and his bond set al S25, 900.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
road paid $40, 0o0for 800 acres OF land
Eve miles east of Ocean Springs, Miss.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., a promi
nent society woman, committed sui
eide at her home in W Washington, D. G.
George A. spengler, an aged mer
chant OF Yazoo City, Miss, was
robbed and fatally wounded by foot.
pads.
Wiudstorms caused heavy damage
TO property and small loss of life in
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South
Carolina.
James Vange, the confessed negro
murderer of Isadore De Valiant, ho-
tel clerk, committed suicide in his cell
In New York.
One man was roasted to death as the
result of gasoline explosion follow.
ing the wreck OF an automobile at West
Palm Beach, Fla.
Tie daughter OF the archdeacon Of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese Of
California was married to japanese
In Seattle, Wash.
Anderson Wileman, a farmer Of
Prentiss county, Miss, committed
suicide when his sweetheart eloped
with another man.
An Italian. sleeping in a bunk car
near Treverton, Pa, was blown VI
with dynamite, supposedly by mem,
bers of the Black Hand.
Three negroes were killed, Ave
wounded and forty one captured in 9
battle bet veen police officers and cat
tie thieves in Oklahoma.
It is reported that Mr.. Roosevelt
will use silencers on his guns while
Ia Africa, and thus equiueed, he may
break all hunting records.
= Ore Indian was killed, severa
wounded and eight captured in bat
tie between officers, soldiers ani
renegade Indians in Oklahoma.
Llewellyn 81. Hatchett, Jr., was sho
and seriously wounded by Mrs. G. E
w atson, who then attempted to com
nit suicide, at Columbus, Miss.
Twenty persons were drowned, wher
the sloop Kearsarge sunk of tbs
coast of Nicaragua, eighteen of tbs
victims being womea and children.
Cipriano Castro sailed from France
for the Island of Trinidad and de
nounced President Gomez for refusing
to permit him to return to Venezuela
The New York Central Railroad wa.
fined $40, 600 in the United States Cir
cult Court of New York on a plea o.
guilty of rebating in the transports
tion of coopersge supplies.
Hundreds of white persons at Mont
gomery, Ala, attended the funeral Of
Bob Goodwin, negro hero, who was
drowned while attempting to rescue
several white men from the Alahama
river.
A law has bee- passed prohibiting
opium or any other compound con.
tanning or representing opium in any
form rom being brought into the United
States or any of It's outlying posses
sions, except for strictly medical pur.
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