The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-12-07


Sixty coal mines near st. Louis were recently :
merged with capital of 100000. 6
Mrs. Mary B. Washington of Norfolk, Va, was
burned to death by a bursting lamp.
Secretary Root has notified the American colonist }
that the Isle of Pines belongs to Cuba.
Nine men were burned to death Friday in a pull
boat on Middle river, near Mobile, Ala. {
In 1876 there was but one bank of Importance in
Mexico. To-day there are thirty three. 3
Four negro children, locked in a cabin by their {
mother were cremated near Rosetta, Miss
The Kansas City Southern Railroad will issue
81 44O, 600 bonds for new engines and cars.
Marion j. Oman, of the District of Columbia,
committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid
In the season just closing forty-tw hunters have
been killed by accident throughout the North.
Mrs. Sarah Perkins, an aged woman, was run
down and killed by wagon at Cleveland, Ohio.
Morris Pierson was found dead in bood-stained
and disordered room. Hisstep son is under arrest
Two experiment stations are to be established by
the Department of Agriculture in Western Texas.
Eighteen miners lost their lives in coal mine
explosion Friday night at Diamonville, Wyoming.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury says the
customs receipts of the year bid fair to break all
records.
The first sugar refinery for Alabama will be erect
ed at Robertsdale, Baldwin County, at cost of
500, 900.
More than 2ooo 900 barrels of apples are said to
have been shipped out of the Virginia apple belt
this season.
Frank A. Vogel, 76years old, and Mrs. Katherine
Schneider, II years old, were married in Baltimore
last Thursday.
The charitable organizations of st. Louis donated
literally to the poor by giving Thanksgiving din
ners to the needy.
Between 1OOO 900 and 200, 900 men recently made
a demonstration at Vienna, Austria, in favor of
universal suffrage.
+ Charles DIETRICH an unemployed Chicago glass
blower, shot himself because he was unable to buy
a thanksgiving turkey.
' James B. Appleby was killed by falling 80 feet
from the roof of building in Washington, D. c.,
on which he was at work.
George W. Vanderbilt has sold the lumber on his
Psgah reserve of about 10000 for So 0OO 600
to Eastern lumber interests.
Owners and managers of hotels in Europe come
in numbers to the United States to study methods
: and architecture of our hotels.
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with suicidal INTENT and with his last breath told
} his mother he regretted the deed
) Representative Lorimer will introduce bill ir
q Congress appropriating 100000 for 14-foo
Or channel from Chicago to New Orleans.
Charles F. Douglas, his wife and two children
e were killed by explosion of natural gas, which
4 destroyed their home at Weston, w. Va.
- Further lake storm advices at Detroit, Mich, re
port that 149 lives had been lost, seventy vessel
IN wrecked and e 600 600 in property destroyed.
Captain Alga P. Berry, ordered dismissed from
the army on conviction of charges of unbecomnl
: conduct, committed suicide atVancouver Barracks
- Washington.
ed The Government estimates the number of bale
Il of cotton this year to be TO- 1877 ,818. The Nationa
u Ginners Association report gives 9,623,00 bales a
ssoo the seasons yield.
I'm According to bulletin issued by the Censu
Bureau, about 1O6 persons out of 0OOin the Unite
States over 10 years old unable to write whic
is about one in ten.
= A young wife and mother was burned to deaf
at Vieksburg Monday, as the result of her dres
IN, catching fire from crate, before which she ha
8, been standing, with her six weeks old babe
IN United States Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas
49, who was convicted of bribery in the Federal Cou
A. at St. Louis was sentenced to six months in prison
Co. fined 50 800 and debarred from holding any Fede
i am raj office.
Marvin Henderson, living in Neohsba Count,
: Miss, accidently shot and killed himself on No
%. A brother of Henderson was shot and kille
ION during quarrel Sept Is, and another brothe
OF both physicians, was shot and wounded Sept.
os- an adversary.
Sc Officers of the Commissary Department of tt
. United States Army to be taught to bake brea