The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-06-05
WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes oI the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
The aaval seanaal IL F'ranee Is.

sfaas IN Java lsts
The naval scandal II France Is
growing
Fire i Pert Llmon caused great
loss Of propsrty
Niagara Falls has been IN existence
for nearly 80 900 years.
A statue 81 braham Lincoln was
unveiled at Hogenviile, Ky.
4 five story department store, to
cost 300 600. win be erected at V1eks-
burg, Miss
Tom Barnett. convicted OF murder,
was shot to death bs mob in Taylor
county, Tex.
Thirty-two persons we're killed aud
seventy injured by q tornado at
Zephyr, Tex.
One woman was killed and man
fatally injured 81 tornado near
Amory, Miss.
Sixty fishing vessels foundered il a
storm off the coast of Spain aud 100
lives we're lost.
Fire On the docks Il Porta Costa,
Cal, destroyed 81 100000 worth Of
fgrain and hops,
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
ION the Isthmus Of Panama, but no
damage resulted
Street car motormen and conductors
in Philadelphia and Evansville, Ind,
went On q strike.
Ii some Of the pubic schools Of
Norway cooking Is taught 70 ne boy
as well as the girls.
Six persons were injured in b wreck
on the Central OF Georgia Railroad
near II artlndale, Ga.
Fifteen persons were killed and half
& hundred injured ina series Of sor-
nadoes IN Or aaoin
Floods caused serious damage 20
property and crops ID Alabama, sr-
q nessee and Arkansa
i revolution airy outbreak occurred
! al Lima. Peru, and several persons
Wers killed and wounded.
James barnes and 3 @. launsf,
two Americans, wera killed bg 9 dgna-
. nlf6e explosion n Mexico.
The New York ear supply eas ge-
ported many ID 8llfon dozen sflof95and
higher arIces are predicted.
Croshys charged with sase @ ~
der Of r Meshann, " AZ assEai ted
bY d jury al Hast1as burg
The Cotton Exchange of
Tenn will erect 40 ory
building At q cost Of 81 $50
David Henderson,
killed his daughter and then Il d,
rnitted suicide in Paris, France
: Nearly three-fourths of the seeF Il 8
S prod uesion Of diamonds Is bought By
the. people. Of the United States,
The cotton crop raised By eonviets
on the penitentiary farms in Missis.
i. sippi had . net value Of s3680oo
t The annual convention 81 she pa.
:. tionaI Travellers Protective Assocfa;
ton vas held At AshevIIIe. n. q
Thirty two thousand rifles iron
Europe, eensi gned to a South ArlsEl
E can firm, we're received n New York
Three thousand delegates attended
8 the opening she seventh fnterna
4 tIonaI congress q chemistry in Lon
]. dor.
The engineer and first mate Of /,
BrIt5sh steamship we're dfowued Will
Z bathiug ID Tie has.bor 81 GaEfpots
: Miss.
The Austrian government has re
fused 10 allow the STANDARD Oil Com
d paoy 50 get possession Of the 6 4Iieial
u fields
Il William e. Darragh, q chauffeur
who ran down and killed q boy in Ne,
York, was tried and convicted Of man
F. aIaughfer.
Cold meaals will be presented i
S. tbs Wright brothers. The successful
American aviatofs, b. Presi 1ent Tai
on. June 10.
|n There are not more than 1000 resi-
3 dent Americans on the Iaiand Of Cubs
third Of one per cent OF the t1ta
= population,
IS Thirteen men were hanged publieI
81 id Canssansinople because they yer
& found guilty OF completely il the reve
8 lutionary outbreak Of A pru I3
81 Uaabie 10 capture tbs negro n1ui
S. dsrer If Deputy Sheriff Cain, citizen
81 Izof Portland, Ark Ivnehss his brother
81 NJ q had threatened q y fli e inaa
There has been q mark d increase
81 Immoral peFfOfl aacgs ct tbs Ise arr
81 10 EI ana, accom- anIesl by gees:
81 spread Of vice and an outbreak /
q gambling. since the American oecupi
s. kt9f cane TO al end.