The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-11-30


mother and her five children were murdered
Friday near Marshalltown, Iowa.
A storm caused loss of life and great damage toI
property on the coast Of Europe.
Japan has big naval programme to build ships
of $4,000 tons and big gun factory.
German activity in cotton planting in Brazil will
be investigated by the United States.
Bandits looted and burned the postoffce, a large
store and residence at Clifton City, Mo.
Five men were killed and one fatally hurt in a
railroad accident near Albion, Indiana.
Miss Ada Wells, of Brunswick, ILL.,, was fatally
burned few hours before her wedding.
William Human was killed by premature blast in
quarry in st. Louis County, Mo-, Friday.
The latest news from Russia reports the mutineers
as masters of the situation at Sebastopol.
Out of 1000 voters at Newport News, Va, only
131 have qualified for the spring election.
Fifteen or more lives were lost Sunday in pas
senger train collision near Lincoln, Mass.
On her standardizing test the battleship Virginia
made Ia knots, new American record.
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison was killed in an
automobile accident in Long Island, N. Y.
Many women victims of footpads in Chicago
The town of Dickson Texas, was swept by fire
Friday, which destroyed S150,000 property.
Four men were blown to atoms by an explosion
at smokeless powder works at Parlin, NJ.
John Brown, negro, at Meridian, Miss, shot
and killed his wife, her father and her mother.
One man was killed and nine were injured in
hotel fire in st. Louis early Tuesday morning.
The discretionary movement in the province of
Catalonia, Spain, has assumed serious proportions.
Six cadets were put under arrest and will be tried
for hazing at the South Carolina Military Academy.
The commerce of the United States with noncon-
tiguous territory in 1905 will show sharpincrease.
The 25Oth anniversary of the coming of the Jews
to this country was celebrated TN New York last
Saturday
Miss T. A. Simmons killed herself in Cumberland
Md, with opium in order to avoid death by con-
sumption.
Governor Davis, of Arkansas, and former Con-
gresham Dinsmore exchange blows in hotel at
Fayetteville, Ark.
Twenty-one persons were injured in four street
accidents in various parts of st. Louis on We'd
nesday of last week.
Secretary Cortelyou asks for an appropriation of
crease of s12,ooO,00o.
Charged with conceang $4,000 of his assets
Peyser Abraham bankrupt merchant of Norfolk,
Va, was sent to jail.
Former Superintendent Of Schools Dougherty, of
Peoria, ILL.,, plead guilty to five charges of forgery
and was sentenced to penitentiary.
| Two officers were killed and three other men were
injured during an attempt of four convicts to es-
cape from the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo.
An unprecedented famine of freight cars is being
experienced by the railroads of the South, due in
large measure to the growth of the lumber industry.
The Department of Agricuture's ninth annual
report declares the crop year the most generally
prosperous on record, the values the highest yet
attained
More than 200 persons were converted as the re-
suit of two weeks tent revival at Laurel, Miss,
conducted under the auspices of the Presbyterian
and Methodist Churches.
/ Forty suits have been brought in Louisville, Ky.,
contesting every office concerned in the recent city
and county election, broad charges of intimidation,
fraud and force being made
In 1900 the value of the manufactured product of
st. Louis was S193 ,691 $685. In 1905 the manufac-
tured product is 1857 O04 314. This is an increase
in five years of s73,312, 719, or 37.9 per cent.
i W. A. Martin, well-to-do farmer living near
Blytheville, Ark, while in Osceoa, Ark, recently,
in attempting to climb fence to examine some
fruit trees which were being delivered, fell over
dead from heart failure
Washington Post: The truth is that our colleges
have all gone mad on the subject of athletics,
and this whim has bred myriad of false ideas and
brutal standards. The present idea is that rough
play is the best possible thing for schoolboys.
Give 'em plenty of hard knocks and make men OF
them," say the apostles of this ruffan propaganda.
And it has come to pass that otherwise sensible
people take pride in having their sons win fame on
the gridiron, where, to be hero, he must either
break another boys bones or have his own broken