The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-12-05
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. C. H. Wilkins suicided at Lambert,
Miss.
S. v. Nagele committed suicide at Read
ing, Pa.
The postal deficiency for the year is
S6,6OO,OOO.
Great Britain's annual import of apples
is nearly 100000.
The Sixtieth Congress opened at Wash
ington at noon Monday.
Miss Minnie Rudisil jumped fifty feet to
death in Baltimore hospital.
Thirteen Italians lost their lies in ten
ement- house fire in New York.
William Norwood died at Admission, Ala,
as result of football injuries.
1t is said there are dozen members of
Congress who were once printers.
Two men were drowned Sunday in the
st. Johns River at Jacksonville, Fla.
Seven men were cremated and two fatal
ly iTj::~cd in fire at Kansas City, Mo.
The football receipts for the season for
Yale will reach approximately $4,000.
c. L. Ferguson tainted while in bath
tub and was drowned at Ossining, N. Y.
Cornelia B. Leverage, of Buffalo, suicid-
ed by throwing herself over Niagara Falls.
One man was killed and four injured in
an automobile accident at Escanaba, Mich.
Five men were killed at Waterbury, Ct,
in collision between a freight train and
trolley car.
Forty nine children have been stolen
from their homes in Mexico City in the
past two months.
DR.. F. NJ Blake, of Tampa, Fla, suicid-
ed by taking morphine and shooting him
self in the mouth.
Japanese newspapers are calling for a
reduction of armament on the grounds of
excessive expense.
John Whitney shot and killed his wife
and suicided by leaping from the ninth
| floor of New York hotel.
| At Burts, Va, passenger train struck
and killed three unknown negroes who
were walking on the track.
One man was killed and other person
injured in the explosion of a gas plant in a
residence at Adrian, Mich.
George Rea, of Brownsville, Pa, BRIDE
groom of a few hours, was set upon and
beaten to death by rejected suitors.
Lillian Humphreys, 16 years old, was
killed Sunday at Hopkinsville, KY, by her
sweetheart, Melvin Powell, aged II.
Fire at Houston, Texas, broke out in the
business part of the city Monday, doing
damage estimated at about 100000.
Mrs. S. F. Taylor, of independence, KY,
was shot and killed by her nine year-old
child, who was playing with an old musket.
Following a triple assassination at Clio,
Ark, the court ordered the Bluff City
Lumber Mills which are in the hands of a
receiver closed.
Despondent when she heard that she
had been made part of a mock marriage,
Miss Oslo Pierce committed suicide at
Powhatan, Ohio.
A fire which started from the overturn-
ing of a lamp in barber shop destroyed
three fourths of the town of Granite, a
small mining station in Colorado.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir-
ginia has decided that man could not be
held by the police as suspicious charac-
ter and that there must be aspecifc charge
against him.
While Hugo Scherer, wealthy banker
of Mexico City, was giving dinner to a
number Of friends, $4,000 worth of jew
elry and several hundred dollars in cash
were taken from the house.
The infant child of Ernest Burns, oil
Morgantown, KY, was shot and killed
when gun lying across table, was &C.
cidently discharged in some unknown
manner. The baby was in it's mothers
arms.
The Secretary of the Treasury Monday
sent to Congress the estimates of appro.
priations required for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1909. The figures show an
increase of SIT ATS, 819 over the estimates
for 1908.
Lying dead in bed with her husband
who on account of paralytic stroke, could
neither move himself or give the alarm
Mrs. Margaret Rothwel was found in theil