The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02
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Fl. E. Turner of Louisville, Ky,
committed suicide by shooting Fri
day.
At Covington, Ga, Thursday, two
children of G. Beauford were killed
by lightning.
The corn crop of Missouri promises
to be larger than ever before produc-
ed in the State.
The sum of $4,000, 1000 has been
expended in drainage under the Illi-
nois drainage law.
It is reported that the King of
Corea will prohibit the preaching Of
Christianity by missionaries.
Gen. Alger, of Michigan, has really
given the Republican National Com
mittee his check for 100000.
c. III. Grass, a blacksmith, went to
sleep on the railroad track near Van
dalia, Ill, and was killed by the cars.
It is reported that Middle Tennes-
ses has shipped North this season
early potatoes to the value of $780,
900.
Tired of life, Miss Lula Chandler,
aged 20 years, drowned herself in
the Mississippi, at Rock Island, ILL.,,
on the 23rd ult.
Robert Haden, '21 years of age,
near Jackstown, Ky, while trying to
capture squirrel fell out tree and
broke Lis neck.
Nellie Burke, deserted 17-year old
wife of Charles Burke, committed
suicide with strychnine at Little
Rock, Ark, Friday.
Because her lover was untrue to
her, Anna Bailey suicided by taking
an overdose of morphine, at Dallas,
Texas, last Thursday
Lightning Thursday night burned
out nearly all the lights of the electric
plant at Wabash, Indiana, leaving
the town in darkness.
James E. Wyndham, farmer who
killed his neighbor, Hon. P. w. Bal
ley, in Dale county, Alabama, was
driven to suicide by remorse.
John Ayers, aged ~ years, COM
mitted suicide at Waverly, Mo-, by
drinking an ounce of chloform. He
bad been on a protracted spree.
Frank Bull, bartender, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
through the head with pistol, at
Birmingham, Ala, on the 23rd ult.
Becoming respondent, J. Fl. Athey
committed suicide by placing pistol
to his breast and firing a ball through
his body, at Memphis, Tenn on the
25rd ult.
A negro was lynched in Danville,
Va, for assaulting his employers
wife, and a deputy sheriffin Dakota
town shared the same fate for muir
dering girl.
VIM. Henry, prominent lawyer of
Hopkinsville, Ky, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the
heart, on the 22nd ult. His suicide
was caused by dissipation.
Jacob Moore, a Detroit carpenter,
killed his sister-in-law because she
asked him to pay his board He also
shot at her 16.year-old daughter, but
missed her; then shot himself, infict-
ing slight injury.
During prayer-meeting services in
a Methodist church Thursday night
at Indianapolis, Indiana, Eugene
Zengius entered, seated himself and
swallowed carbolic acid with suicidal
intent. He died in few minutes.
Over 5000 is said to be the number
of the unfortunate ones in the City
of Mexico, both males and females,
that are obliged to remain every
night in the streets, exposed to all
sorts of miseries, for want of a
shelter
A dispatch from Shanghai of July
~ says: "a volcanic eruption at
Bandaisan, fifty leagues from Yoke
hama, Japan, has destroyed several
villages and killed 1000 persons. A
fresh crater has formed and the erup-
ton is still active"
At Scranton, PENN, last week
Vincentson Myers, an old man, blew
his head off by placing a musket in
his mouth and pulling the trigger
with his toes. He was moody over