The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-30
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Mine Accident Near Piedmont, W. Va.
Wreck Near West, Mtss.-Fire at
Galveston, Tex.-FIoodsin
South America.

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| Guayaquil, Mexico.
The third wife of the Sultan of Tur.
key died at Constantinople.
/ Six Chinaman were killed in riot
at Johannesburg, South Africa.
An explosion In powder mill at
Gibbsto#n, N. j., injured twelve men.
Ernest Won Wildenbruch, the Ger
man poet and dramatist. died in Ber-
| lin.
| A garage containing 34s automobiles
was destroyed by fire at Boston,
Mass.
Six hundred houses were destroyed
by an earthquake at Phocaea, Asiatic
Turkey.
Two Americans and eight foreigners
were entcmbed in coal mine at
Boswell, Pa.
A negro was taken from jail at
Hope, Ark, and lynched because he
insulted q woman.
Fire at Galveston, Tex, destroyed
two piers and vast amount of freight
valued at $3.50, 600.
Three miners were killed aud ten In
iured in a coal mine accident near
Piedmont, W. Va.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was pelted with
eggs while delivering lecture in a
music hall in London.
Ten white men and $50 natives lost
their lives when a dam broke near 8
mine in South Africa.
While playing in pond near Petal,
Miss, Harry Reeks, an eleven year
old youth, was drowned.
The Southern Hotel at Fort Worth,
Tex, was destroyed by fire and four
men we're burned to death.
Sixteen deaths and thirty-four new
cases of cholera was the record OF q
day in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Two persons were killed and twenty
injured in a wreck on the Union Paci,
fc Railroad near Dana, Wyoming.
Diplomatic relations between Chill
and Peru have been broken of and
the CHILEAN minister has been recalled.
Slight earthquake shocks continue
TO oe experienced in Italy at intervals.
showing that the earth has not yet set
tleda
Rev. Arthur Sweatman, chbishop
of Toronto, the highest dignitary OF
the Anglican church in Canada, lie
dead.
An order for $1,000, 900 worth of
electrical supplies was placed in the
United states by the government of
Japan.
Mules, horses and cattle valued at
$4,000 were killed in freight wreck on
the Illinois Central Railroad near
West, Miss.
The bodies OF Consul A. S. Cheney
and his wife were recovered from the
ruins of the American consulate in
Messina.
W. L. Seeley. an ex- bank examiner,
killed his wife and daughter and then
committed suicide at his home in Seat.
tie. Wash.
President j. c. Hardy, OF the Mis-
sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical
College, is dangerously Ill at Stark.
vile, Miss.
Miss Violet Charlesworth, the Eng
lish woman who was reported killed
In an automobile accident, was located
in Scotland.
immigration from Europe is turning
to Chill, scarcely steamship arriv.
ing at that port without a number of
immigrants aboard.
Eastern capitalists will erect mills
In GAINESVILLE, Fla, for the purpose of
manufacturing paper from the fibre OBJ
tanned from pine stumps.
Mrs. Brodt, an American, was
awarded $50, 900 for personal injuries
received in the Salisbury train wreck
that occurred in 1905.
The American battlesh;p fleet is as
sembling in the Mediterranean Sea
to sailing on the last leg
OF the voyage around the world.
The Chinese government has
announced that the dismissal
of Ynan Shi Kai will not cause any
changes in the foreign policy of China.
Twenty persons were killed and
forty injured 10 collision between
trains on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad near Glenwood Springs,
Colo.
The United States battleships NJ afne
and Mississippi anchored at Havana
on the eleventh anniversary OF theF'
blowing up Of the old baLtIeship
Maine.
The trial of Duncan B. Cooper,
Robin J. Cooper and John o. Sharp,
with the murder OF Elk Sena-
tor e. W. Carmack, began at Nash
vile. Tenn.
By . vote OF so to SO, the Tennessee
house OF representatives passed q
bill to prohibit the manufacture OF In
joxicating liquors in that state after
Ian. l, 1910.
Four men were killed and q number
injured by the explosion OF several
,ons OF dynamite IN building OF the
Forcite Powder Works at Lake Hop