The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-04-30
NUMBER N96
THE WORLDS NEWS
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires
From Near and Far

Gov. Hughes Of New York Appointed gusts
ice of United States Supreme Court
Steel Safe Containing Valuable
Jewels Recovered from Gulf
After Being Immersed
Thirty-Five Years,
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwegian
poet and novelist, died in Paris.
The 2-year-old son of S. H. Pope was
burned to death at Columbia, Miss.
A. j. Fem, prominent naval stores
operator, was drowned at Bristow, Fla.
Anti-foreign riots have broken out
again with renewed fury in Changsha.
China.
Memorial services for the Confederate
dead were held during the week at Pen,
Sacola, Fla.
1t is estimated that 10000 visitors were
attracted to Mobile. Ala by the ConfedO
crate reunion.
A consistory viii be held in Rome durp
ing June, at which some twelve cardinals
will be created.
The trial of DR.. Z. c. McKowen, charged
with the murder of E. X. Judson, began in
Baton Rouge last week.
Herman C. Kellner, who. during the
civil war, spared the life of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, died in Milwaukee, Wis
The cold wave which swept over the
| cotton belt this week caused the heaviest
loss the south has sustained in years.
At a recent meeting the Pointe Coupes
grand jury condemned the state game
commission and the Juvenile court law.
c. H. Millironso, of Memphis, Tenn, fell
two floors from hotel in Vicksburg, Miss,
and landed on a tin roof, but escaped
without serious injury.
The New Iberia lodge of Elks celebrated
their tenth anniversary by laying the
corner stone for new theatre and home
which they will erect.
| Arthur Nevin's opera, "Poia." based on
legends of the Blackfeet Indians, was pro-
duced at the Royal Opera in Berlin and
proved a great success.
In suburb OF Atlanta, Ca. three ne
| gro highwaymen murdered the notorman
of a trolley car and fatally wounded the
aehhed -
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck an Illinois Central passenger train
near Hammond, a spike being driven be-
tween switch point and the rail,
Governor Charles E. Hughes. of New
York. has accepted the appointment of
justice of the supreme court of the United
States to succeed the late Justice David
J. Brewer.
| Eight fire insurance and three adjust
ing companies were made defendants in
a suit for $250,000 filed at Crowley by
Major J. D. Marks, who charges conspiracy
and libel
The torpedo boat destroyer John May
rant, the third of the five vessels of its
! type in course of construction at the
Cramp shipyard, was launched at Phila-
| delphia. Pa.
| A wireless telegraph station will be es-
| tablished at the meteorological observa-
tory on Mount Mirador. in the Philippines,
to give warning of typhoons to vessels in
the China Sea and points along the coast
of China.
A large steel safe, containing diamonds
and money estimated to be worth be-
tween $4,000 and 100000, which was
lost in the hurricane and tidal wave that
destroyed the town and seaport of
Indianola, in Calhoun county, Tex. in
1875, has been recovered from the Gulf.
The Crowley Signal says: THE people of
the country parishes should take as much
interest in the Panama Exposition as the
city takes, for the big fair win benefit the
country as much as it will the city. The
exposition will bring to Louisiana inn
mense throngs of people who are inter-
ested in opportunities for investment
The people who 90 to expositions are peo-
pie who are able to invest. They will
have an opportunity to see the chances
for profitable investment in Louisiana