The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-09-05
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Four boys were killed by lightning
near Matamoras, Mexico, recently.
The wine product of California for
this year is estimated at 100000
A Kearney county, Kansas, school
treasurer has skipped with $4,000.
The Ohio Democrats have nomi
mated Jas. E. Campbell for Governor.
Exceptionally good crops are re-
ported by the Illinois Board of Agri-
culture
The 0regonian Railway has been
purchatrd by G. P. Huntington for
f180,0O0.
An earthquake on the Russian
frontier buried 129 persons alive on
August 26.
Cattle are said to be dying by the
hundreds of Texas fever in the In
dian Territory
A movement for higher wages is
going on in nearly all the industries
of Central Europe.
Spain allows children from 8 to 10
years old to work fac hours daily;
from IL to IS, eight hours.
A trust has been formed by East
ern window-glass, table-glass and
crockeryware manufactures.
Montana Democrats have nominat-
ed J. K. Toole for Governor and
Martin Maginnis for Congress.
Jacob Rogers, veteran of the
war of 1872, died at Oakland Mills,
Iowa, on last Thursday, aged 112.
Mrs. W. E. Cristian, the only child
of Stonewall Jackson, died at Char
lotte, N. c., last Friday, of typhoid
fever
September % has been fixed by
Presidential decree as the date for
holding the general elections in
France.
The first bale of cotton was sold in
New York last Thursday, 10Th ult.,
for 101 cents per pound The quail
ity was inferior.
A cloud burst at Rockingham, N.
G., on Aug. 27, caused damage of
100000 to dams, machinery and
railroad tracks.
Rev. j. o. S. Huntington. who has
been through the Illinois mining dis
trict, tells touching story Of the
awful poverty there
wolocomotiyes were smashed and
two men badly injured in collision
on the Nickel-Plate tracks in Buffalo
last Thursday night.
The Operatives of the Bombay
cotton mills, India, have commenced
movement toward securing Sunday
as complete day of rest.
A lone highwayman held up a stage
near Bessemer, Michigan, recently,
robbed the passengers and shot two
who resisted, one Of them fatally.
A company is to be formed at On
aha, Neb., with capital of $500,000,
to erect and operate a tanery, with
a capacity of 1000 hides day.
President HARRISON and ex Attor-
ney-General A. FL. Garland were last
Friday chosen in the list of vice-pres-
idents of the American Bar Associa-
ton.
In year the people Of London
drink 200,000,000 quarts of beer, and
consume 100000 oxen, 100000
sheep, 100000 calves and 100000
swine.
John Turner, negro, who killed
Robert Walker, in Fayette county,
Va, last July, was taken from Jail |
last Thursday night by mob of 800
men and lynched.
The Piedmont Fair Association of
Georgia has offered prize of $500 |
for the best twelve ears of corn the
growth of 1889, and also prize of |
$4,000 for the best drilled military
company In the United Stares. The |
fair viii open Oct. 80 and close Nov.
7.
The assessors report for Tarrant
county, Texas, of which Fort Worth
is the county seat, shows the assess
ed value of property to be $14, $780,
912, being an increase over last year
years assessment of $2,43I. 1856.
showinS rapid growth and pros.
porous condition.
London, Aug. 3O.-Advices from
Yokohama state that disastrous
storms have recently occurred at
Ten thousand persons
persisted in the floods following the
storms, and twenty thousand persons
we're rendered homeless. The loss
If property was enormous.
Memphis Avalanche: A married
nan ran away with his neighbours
wife. They tired of each other, re-
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