The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-03-23
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Governor Frazier, of Tennessee, will succeed the
late Senator W. B. Bate.
A "sinner' has sent 1000 to the concience
fund of the government.
B. F. Appler, aged 50 years, shot himself to death
at his home in Baltimore Friday
The operation of meat trust in Mexico is causing
suffering among the poorer classes
The great storm along the South California coast
last week caused So, 900 damage.
Twenty four men were killed in mine explosion
at Rush Run, West Va, Saturday night.
A report just issued shows that every fortieth
person in England and Wales is pauper.
Mrs. Vardaman, mother of Gov. Vardaman, of
Mississippi, was buried at Greenwood Sunday.
Peasant disorders are spreading in Southern Rus
STA, reign of terror existing in some districts.
A fashionable gambling house, patronized, by
wives of wealthy men, was raided in New York.
F. Kiehler, merchant, was killed Sunday night
between Ensley and Pratt, Ala, by trolley car.
Gen. Arthur Campbell Cummings, veteran of the
Mexican and Civil Wars, died at Abingdon, Va.
Nineteen persons were killed and forty injured in
tenement house fire in New York on the 14th inst.
A girl who supposed she had taken $3.50 from an
aged man in Washington found that only s18 of the
roll was good money.
W
county, Texas, crazed by the grip, shot and killed
himself last Sunday.
A ST. Louis woman who will recover from her
seventh attempt at suicide says she ought to be al
lowed to die if she wishes.
It is declared in Berlin paper, on reliable au-
thority that 80 per cent of Russia's rural popua-
lation is without sufficient food.
Russia is prolonging the war in hope of bring
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securing more favorable peace terms.
The Spanish war cost US $3.50, OOO, 900. Eight
years of warfare and expansion under Mckinley
and Roosevelt will cost US 81, 625, 00O,O
Maj. William Warner, of Kansas City, has been
elected by the Missouri Legislature to succeed
Francis M. Cockriu in the United States Senate
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of the Confederate vete-
rams, has issued proclamation of thanks to Con-
gress for the return of the Southern battle flags.
The largest glass bottles blown recently
made at the plant of the Illinois Glass Company.
The capacity of each bottle is forty-fve gallons.
Nancy Kelly, the oldest white woman in Mary
land, is dead at Baltimore at the age of 107 years.
Her oldest living son is u and her youngest daugh
ter is &c.
Two little girls who escaped from an orphanage
in st. Louis started out to walk to Willow Springs,
using baby carriage for their s'baggage car"
They were caught.
A bank at Petersburg, Tenn, entered by
burglars at an early hour last Thursday morning
and about ST. 900 stolen The steel vault was blown
open with nitro glycerin and completely wrecked.
Petroleum was discovered in Kentucky seventy
five years ago; as it was then supposed to have
healing properties it was bottled and sold through
the United States and Europe for medicine.
! The Russians at last reports were outrunning the
Japanese in their retreat to Hardin No serious
fighting has been reported during the pastfew days
The Russian troops are destroying the railway and
neglecting precautions to impede their pursuers
At Goodhope, Ala, j. M. Woodall dropped dead
Saturday night upon viewing an improvised corpse
Closing school exercises were in progress and in
one scene student representing dead man was
brought on the stage, whereupon Woodall collapsed
The impersonator was son of the dead man.
Gen. Joseph Roswell Hawley died at Washington
City last Saturday morning. He was born at Stew
artsville, Richmond county, North Carolina, Oct
81, 1925. Gen. Hawley became editor of the Hart.
ford (Conn.) Press in 1857; was Major General in
the Federal army during the civil war; was elected
Governor of Connecticut in 1885; was President O
the Republican National Convention of 1878; was
three times elected to Congress and three times
elected United States Senator from Connecticut
His last term of service expired March 8, 1905.
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