The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-12-14


Secretary Shaw reports that the Treasury deficit
the last fiscal year Was S23, Coz, 22S.e0.
The Untsd States Senate decided to ignore the |;
death of Senator John H. Mitchell, Of Oregon:
John B. Simmons, Treasury clerk, fell dead
while walking along street in Washington City.
mother and five children were burned to death
Monday in an apartment house fire in New York.
Edward Atkinson, the noted social and political
economist, died suddenly last Monday in Boston.
An explosion in gas plant in Washington, D. c.,
wrecked the building and caused $4,000 damage.
In his report Secretary Taft tells in detail how the
$50 000, 900 of Panama Canal money has been spent
A robber chloroformed Mrs. H. Williams in her
home in Frostburg, Md, and carried of 800 in
cash.
| Comparative statement of st. Louis banks shows
net increase in all totals OF $50 eco 0C0, against
1903.
| Mrs. Leonard Harding, of Henrico County, Va,
was almost burned to death by the explosion of a
lamp.
The Federal Grand Jury at Topeka, Kansas, re-
turned twenty four indictments for land frauds Sat-
urday.
young negro was killed by companion near
Toomsuba, Miss, in scufle over piece of to-
bacco.
Five persons were burned to death last week by
various accidents in towns near Parkersburg, West
Virginia
1 Gov. Chamberlain of Oregon being Democrat,
Democratic Senator will succeed the late Senator
Mitchell.
Republicans as well as Democrats are complain
ing about the extravaganza of the Panama Canal
Commission.
The Italian budget, rendered before the Chamber
OF Deputies in Rome, showed remarkably pros
porous year.
Roy Mahoney, years old, of Washington, D. c.,
died from eating piece of bread smeared with
rough on rats.
Woody Melton, Is years DID, was killed by A.
year-old companion while hunting turkeys near
Fordyce, Ark.
Lee Durham, 9 years DID, put in Henrico
County, Va, Jail for attacking his school teacher,
Miss Dickinson.
j John Powell waylaid Will Hope near Walkers
Bridge, Miss, and killed him because he won his
money at craps.
The corn crop of Oklahoma this year is the larg-
in the history of the Territory and other crops
are unusually good
cry Of fire during performance at theater
80 frightened Sarah Huss, II years old, of Balti-
more, that she died.
Comptroller of Currency Rdgely's report shows
that deposits in national banks have increased more
than 81 ,0OO, 900 in 1905.
= Ten persons were killed last Thursday by COL
lision between passenger and freight train near
Rock Springs, Wyoming.
/ The turpentine operators of Georgia, Alabama
) Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have decided to
curtal the production by so per cent.
Estimates of the amount needed for the different
departments of the Government for the next fiscal
3 year reach total of S8O4, 246,415
crazy negro fatally wounded former Sheriff
Pace, of Tallapoosa County, Ala, with an ak, and
was shot to pieces BY the wounded man.
1t is reported from Charleston that successful
. cross had been made with sea island and upland
cotton, the product worth now nearly 20 cents.
The Russian Government is massing Cossacks in
st. Petersburg for death struggle with the revo-
lutionists. The city resembles a great military
: camp.
l An express wagon in Houston, Texas, was rob-
; bed of package OF jewelry worth So 800. week
ago package worth $1,000 was also mysteriously
taken.
United State Senator John H. MITCHELL recently
, sentenced to Jail for fraud died suddenly at the
Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon, last
J Friday.
Mary Mabel Rogers was hanged last Friday at
Windsor, VT, for the murder of her husband over
three years ago, tho crime having been prompted
by q desire to marry again
Representative Champ Clark, OF Missouri, during
debate in the House. demanded to know why the
Government is discriminating against New Orleans
and the Mississippi Valley, and in favor of New
I York, in the Panama Canal trade
Texas, with nearly half million beehives, claims
TO produce more honey than any other State