The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-12-08
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

.ohio's wheat crop has been damaged by drouth-
Russians are coming to the United States in great
numbers.
Arizona has racial antipathy to consolidation with
:: New Mexico.
Franklin Paddock, New York lawyer, was found
dead in bed.
The Japanese lost II, 900 men in the storming of
2o3 Meter Hill, at Port Arthur.
Germans debt has increased to $500, 0O0 900 since
1887, when it was S121 500, 900.
12-year old boy was torn to pieces in saw mill
machinery at Brookhaven, Miss.
Edward L. Gray, civil engineer, suicided at New
York because girl rejected him.
Twenty persons died at Kieff, Russia, from the
effects of drinking poisoned brandy.
John Plummer was assassinated at his home near
Jacksonville, Florida, on the LIST inst.
Charles J. Kellogg, of New Orleans, was killed by
fall from street car at Washington.
Otto Mayer was found dead in his bed in hotel
in Meridian, Miss, Sunday afternoon.
On the LIST instant Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated
President of Mexico for the seventh time.
Kentucky's exhibits at the Worlds Fair will be
placed in the new State Capitol at Frankfort.
Three persons were burned to death Sunday night
in roomng house fire at Dennison, Texas.
Worlds Fair structures that cost S15 OOO 900 have
been sold to a wrechng company for S386,O00.
D. Rttenberry, of Match, Tenn, severed the head
of his brother-in- law, Ben Jackson, with an ak.
Two trainmen were killed and four injured on the
1st instant in railroad collision Danville Va
Young ladies saved the Tennessee building at the
Worlds Fair from being destroyed by fire on Nov. go
About $50 persons were injured in railroad
wreck at Holden, Mo. Eighty were seriously hurt.
More than 1000 skilled workmen have left the
the French factories in France within year for the
year.
President Francis, of the Worlds Fair, was pre-
sented with $4,000 silver service by the manage
ment
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will ask Congress
for more funds with which to fight the cotton boil
weev.
DR.. R. o. Painkard, druggist of Washington,
D. c., suicded at Charlottesville, Va, by swallow
ing carbolic acid.
John Harrison Wagner, well-known writer and
member of a wealthy Austrian family committed
suicide Sunday in New York.
The November statement of the United States
Treasury shows an Indebtedness of $685. 140 917, an
increase of So, As, 46 for the month.
President Roosevelt has promised his support to
the South in the movement to secure Government
aid in fighting the cotton boil weevil.
The annual report of the Director of the MINIS
shows the largest coinage output on record at New
Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
The December report of the Department of Ag-
riculture estimates the total number of bales Of
cotton produced for the year 190405 at H. 1872 OOO
j. Madison James, mailman, killed his wife and
her brother at Kellytown, S. c. An officer was
compelled to kill to kill the double murderer in self
defence.
Irrigation plans already outlined in California,
Oregon and the Dakotas will involve the expenditure
of S2 Co., and reclaim million of acres of land
capabable of supporting a population of 100000.
The development of the dairy industry in the
United States is scarcely realized by business men,
In 1898 the butter haul the Minneapolis and St.
Louis was 900 pounds. Last year it was nearly
IA, 900 900.
The coal properties at Danville, ILL.,, belonging to
Michael Kelly, were sold recently to Eastern capt.
asts for So This is said to be the largest
transaction of its kind ever consummated in the
United States.
Col. Tobias Gibson, aged 66 years, died suddenly
at his home in Lexington, KY, Sunday night. He
was former resident of New Orleans, and had
been prominent editor and was on the staff of
his brother, the late General and United States
Senator Randall Lee Gibson, of this State, in the
civil war.
J. M Williams, farmer living near Alvarado,