The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-12-28
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

outes.
Two boys were drowned Sunday while skating in
It. Louis.
Four men were killed by drinking wood alcohol
n Mexico.
United States exports to China and Japan are
Fire at Newburg, s. c., on the oath instant, caus-
ID 100000.
Hugh McCullum was cremated in his room at
Dallas, Texas.
A revolutionary movement has been started in
San Domingo.
RI. Wells was shot and killed by the City Mar
shal at Union, Miss.
The Chinese Commission to study the government
will be here in February.
Three men were killed Tuesday at Spartanburg,
S. c., by railroad train
Three persons were killed at Louisville, KY,
while celebrating Christmas
Government reports show the value of wireless
less telegraph for life saving.
James E. Martin was killed in New York by the
of his automobile.
Railways in the United States have spent $500,
OOO, 900 in equipment this year.
was killed Monday by stray bullet.
w. Bishop was shot and killed at Dallas, Miss,
by Ernest Latham, rival merchant.
James McClendon shot and killed his brother,
John, at Hot Springs, Ark, Tuesday.
Fire destroyed business block at Little Rock,
Ark, Tuesday, causing $780, loss.
negro who killed an officer at st. Petersburg,
Fla, was shot to death by mob Monday.
Two hundred thousand poor people were furnished
free Christmas dinners in New York City.
The grand dukes of Russia are implicated in a
81 ,OOO, 900 steal in the Mining Department.
Three persons were fatally burned while playing
Santa Claus at Christmas celebrations in Texas.
Highwaymen at Columbus, Miss, on the Oath
instant, robbed two victims and badly wounded the
third.
Three men were blown to pieces and a number of
others were hurt by dynamite explosion in New
York.
Saturday and Sunday collections amounting to
$34, 1896 were sent Monday to the hospitals in ST.
Louis.
An anarchist who attempted to kill Spanish
Cardinal committed suicide when arrested at Bar
celona.
One man was killed and three injured in an &C.
cident Monday in the railroad yards at East st.
Louis, Ill.
The Mississippi legislature has followed North
Carolina in passing law making burglary capt.
tai crime.
Four hundred thousand dollars was deposited in
the New York Subtreasury Tuesday for transfer to
New Orleans.
At Wathena, Kansas a farmer stabbed mer-
chant to death because he said pair of shoes was
too good for him.
| Aged Mrs. Roeder, who had never been sick in
her life, was found dead on the stairs of her home
in st. Louis, on Sunday
Two hundred school teachers from Indiana and
Ohio sailed Saturday from Mobile for Havana, to
spend two weeks in Cuba.
R. J. Gibbons, preacher bigamist, who had been
married to No. 2 only few days, suicided at Nor
folk, Va, after expressing love for both.
Advices from Shanghai tell of a great fire al
Hankow, known as the Chicago of China, in which
about 5000 houses were destroyed and about SOC
people killed
/ At Barnwell, s. c., H. S. Craddock, we'll known
white merchantwas killed by two negros who were
arrested and locked up. The men were taken Out
Friday and shot to death.
Broadway Hotel, in Los Angeles, CAL, was burn.
ed Saturday night, with loss of $220, OOO One
hundred guests driven from the burning build.
ing in their night clothes
dispatch from st. Petersburg dated Monday
at 6:45 pm. says: eat an early hour this morn.
ing the casualties at Moscow were estimated
5000 killed and IA 900 wounded, with the fighting
still prodeeding."
} At Torreon, Mexico, nine citizens who were poi
! soned at banquet Saturday night have died ane
many others were i'll. 1t is alleged that the poison
ing was part of a political plot. Strychnine wa
, put into bowl of punch.
Columbia State: The Chicago Chronicle will
please take notice that there have been ITO cases
man and woman slaughter in Chicago during thi
year and that not of the slaughterers has beel
hanged. That is a horrible condition. For the SAX
of American civilization will not the Chronicle wa