The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-06-29
GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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operations in Manchuria.
A maniac shot nine persons and
then killed himself at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Charles E. Davis and daughter
were murdered at Miami, Fla.
Dividends aggregating $780,
SOC, 600 will be disbursed in New
York on July 1.
Extensive Government land
frauds are reported in the artesian
belt of New Mexico.
American swimmers have great
ly improved in the past five years.
Columbia is trying to sell the
Galapagos Islands to the United
States.
Fourteen persons were injured
in a railroad accident at Chicago
on Monday.
Francis r. Lubbock, former
Governor of Texas, died at Austin
last Thursday.
Prentiss Chapman killed Tom
Head at Griffin, Ga, and then
committed suicide.
Five bandits, trappedin a freight
car in Chicago, were Captured,
the sixth escaping.
Newspapers in St. Petersburg
are not allowed to print accounts
of disorders in Russia.
One man was killed and six in
jured in an automobile accident
in New York Saturday.
Pierce Moberly was lynched
near Roberts Mill, Miss, Friday,
for killing Ed G. Jones.
A wheat expert places the win:
ter crop at between $4,000, 600
and $40, 900, 900 bushels. ).
Extreme protectionists urge an
increase in the beer tax to meet
Panama Canal expenses.
Two men were killed and two
injured by a boiler explosion at
Ridersville, Ala, Saturday.
British warships will notify
Russian cruisers that they must
cease interference with shipping.
Three passengers were killed
and fifteen injured in a railroad
collision Monday near Vine Grove,
KY.
Mrs. Watt G. Gregg shot and
killed her four children and at
tempted suicide at Grand Lake,
Colorado.
st. Louis Union Station officials
estimate that nearly SO, 900 excur-
sionists passed through the gates
last Sunday.
Nineteen persons were killed
and number injured in the wreck
of the twentieth century flyer at
Mentor, Ohio.
The arrival of u, 900 immigrants
since June Is breaks all records;
estimated total for year will ex-
coed one million.
A severe wind and rain storm
visited New York Monday, dam
aging property and injuring a
number of persons.
The British House of Commons
has authorized a loan of 500, 0OO,-
600 for railway equipment and
extension in India.
Chairman Foss of the House
Commute on Naval Affairs will 60
to the Far East on a special mis-
sion of observation.
DR.. Thomas B. Steele, a sur
vivor of Commodore Perry's Japan
expedition in 1866, died Thursday
in Cambridge, Nd, aged SO years.
Fire last Sunday in the retail
shopping district of Nashville,
Tenn, destroyed between $780,
600 and $3.50, 600 worth of proper
ty.
The Sunday Law was strictly
enforced in Austin, Texas, last
Sunday, and it was impossible to
buy drink, cigar or shine during
the day.
1t is estimated that 1000 persons
were killed or wounded in Fridays
disturbances in LODI, Poland.
An army of 10000 laborers took
part in the rioting.
Two persons were killed by
lightning, eight persons were Sc
riously hurt, and much property
damaged by a storm in and around
New York on Friday.
Presidents of big insurance
companies in New York are in
favor of Federal supervision OF
insurance along lines suggested
by President Roosevelt.