The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-07-13
GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

lueSddy, hlIieu 0ltteli pOIooIlo.
The rush to market cotton con-
tinues at interior points in Texas.
Six deaths from heat were re-
ported in Philadelphia yesterday.
DR.. E. E. Holroyd, of Alabama,
committed suicide at Springfield,
Ill.
An 11-year-old boy was acci- +
IDENTIFY shot to death at Capleville,
Tenn.
Thirty nine miners were en-
tombed in burning coal mine in
Russia.
Three saloons were dynamited
by a temperance advocate at lola,
Kansas.
An explosion of fire damp in
the Welsh colleries caused the loss
Of 1875 lives.
The Japanese show great ac-
tivity in Manchuria, in spite of
the rainy season.
Arthur Nicely, of Chicago, leap
ed four stories to death in a fire
panic at New York.
Three men were killed and a
saWmill wrecked by boiler ex-
plosion at Golightly, Ala.
Thirty clubmen at Vicksburg,
Miss, were each fined S25 for
gaming in their clubhouse.
Eight men were blown to pieces
by premature dynamite explo-
sion at New Cumberland, Pa.
Ten deaths and many prostra-
tons resulted from the excessive
heat in New York last Monday.
S. s. Printiss, of Maine, bought
23,O78 acres of land near Lake
Lake Charles, La, for S646, 1877.
/ One man was killed, two per-
sons are missing, and several were
hurt in a New York fire Monday.
Four men were killed and seven
injured by the explosion of a
threshing machine near Axton, Va.
i There are 4S,072 free rural de-
livery routes in the United States,
according to a report just issued.
An unusually hot wave visited
/ Berlin, Prussia, recently, the tenn
perature in the streets rising to
1919.
Julian Condoya, wealthy
/ American, was forced to give up
/ $1,000 by bandits near Santiago,
4 Cuba.
| Cotton developed a sharp adj
vance in New York Monday, De-
tober touching lii cents per
pound.
] 1t is estimated that $4,000 per-
sons have been killed at Odessa,
in Russia, exclusive of persons
burned to death.
The failure of Knight, Donnelly
!. & Co., at Chicago, has assumed
gigantic proportions. The liabil-
. tiles are So, 100000
i The Police Jury of Iberia Par
/ ish, La, refused to approve the
assessment rolls, stating that
taxes were too heavy.
/ The Japanese occupied the Is
land of Sakhalin with but slight
resistance. News of the victory
caused great rejoicing in Toxic.
/ 1t is stated that the Illinois Gen.
4 trail Railroad has agents in Hol-
land and Sweden for the purpose
! of colonizing the Yazoo- Missis-
sippi Delta.
i Russia is anxious for an armis-
| tice, but the japanese Govern
i ment, knowing the treachery and
dishonesty of Russian officials,
sensibly refuses to give it's con-
! sent.
News of the mutiny in the the
i Black Sea fleet reached the Rus
sian Army in Manchuria through
/ the Japanese, who fired shells
charged with proclamations con-
veying the information.
4 Field Marshal Lord Roberts, in a
sensational speech in the House Of
i Lords, said that the British Army
/ is unfit for use, and he warned his
countrymen that his Government
was unable to cope with a single
first-class power.
i Assessments for the year in
Calcasieu Parish, La, will be
/ SIS, 900, 900. Rice lands were re-
i duced from $3.50 to 81 per acre,
(
and pine lands doubled. The
j Union Sulphur Company was in
creased $500, 900.
i Atlanta Constitution. Accord.