The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-06-22
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Gen. Gomez, noted Cuban, died
in Havana Saturday.
Caterpillars and grasshoppers
are damaging cotton in Texas.
Five hundred persons were killed
in a mine explosion in Southern
Russia.
Seven men were drowned in a
canoe accident in northern British
Columbia.
The Japanese are reported to be
making preparations to invest
Vladivostok.
Papers for six contests for seats
in the Lower House of Congress
have been filed.
Four negroes escaped from Jail
Saturday by assaulting an officer
at Gate City, Va.
There has been sixteen fatal
cases of sunstroke in Pittsburg,
Pa, since Sunday.
Mobile will try to get in wireless
communication with New Orleans
Friday or Saturday.
Thirty five Coreans were killed
by a torpedo, which washed ashore
on the coast of Corea.
Twenty-three persons are known
to have been killed in the railroad
wreck near Baltimore.
Bishop Galloway of Mississippi
has been elected President of
Vanderbilt University.
Eleven negroes we're killed on
an excursion train during a fight
Saturday near Griffin, Ga.
Mrs. Lucy Pearman, of Rich
mond, was burned to death Friday
by an explosion of coal oil.
A Philadelphia broker has
swindled financial institutions out
of ST 1000, 900 by raising"
No developments in the peace
negotiations between and Russia
are expected for some days.
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild
has bequeated 100000 of his
estate to charitable purposes.
The boycott of American goods
has spread to seventeen out of the
nineteen provinces of China.
Three hundred defendants of
the Fries family gathered in a re-
union Friday at Winchester, Va.
News has been received at San
Francisco of the massacre of $50
natives on the Siberian coast by
pirates.
Three men were shot and killed
Sunday as the result of a battle
on a picnic party near Poplar
Bluff, Mo.
One man was killed and one in
jured in a street duel between
detectives and thieves at Mont
gomery, Ala.
Seven persons were Frustrated
by heat at Washington City Mon
day. The maximum temperature
was SO degrees.
A report shows q loss of about
$35, 10000 through corruption
and criminal waste in dealing with
war stores in South Africa.
Armour's icehouse at sMilwau-
kee was practically destroyed by
lightning Sunday, alongwith other
property valued at 100000.
Forty-five State banks were or
gained in Mississippi during the
last year, the aggregate increase
being 1906, HAP, or17per cent.
Elsie, the baby of Jack Penow,
of Lynchburg, Va, was strangled
to death, its clothes having caught
in the spring as it fell out of bed.
The President has appointed a
committee of five to investigate
the business methods of the Gov
eminent and suggest needed re-
forms.
! Q. M. Baldinger, a political
worker in Norfolk, Va, was con-
victed of offering forged voters
transfers and was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
i Lieutenant General Stephen D.
Lee was reelected Commander
Chief of the United Confede-
rate Veterans, and New Orleans
was selected as the next place for
holding the Confederate Reunion.
Nine people, six of whom died,
were Frustrated by the heat in
Pittsburg, Pa, Sunday. Eight
deaths and six prostrations were
reported on Monday. One of the
steel mills closed because of the
, weather.
One death and several nrostra.