The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-06-27
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Montana, Sunday.
The revolutionary movement in Persia
is becoming serious.
Thirteen persons were killed in a balloon
accident in Hungary.
Eight miners were killed by an explosion
of gas at Priceburg, Pa.
Two young men were drowned while
bathing at st. Louis Sunday.
The British Parliament has unearthed
graft scandal in the British Navy.
Eight persons were killed Sunday in
a train wreck near Hartford, Conn.
In six months 1890 automobile accidents
in Germany have killed fifty-one persons.
/ Sergeant Weines, an American, was
killed by a landslide at Pago Page, Samoa.
Much damage was done in Oklahoma
and Indian Territory by tornado Satur-
day.
A drunken Italian ran amuck on Rock
| Island train and killed one man and wound
ed two women.
Despite an increase in production, Ala
ALBANIA iron furnaces are selling beyond
their production.
There were six deaths and a score Of
prostrations from the heat at Cleveland,
Ohio, Saturday.
/ A Mexican, while attempting to swim
Bayou Rapides, near Alexandria, was
drowned Sunday.
Sam Dizney was accidently shot and
instantly killed by his sister at Gray's
Station, KY, Saturday.
The Colorado Southern Railroad has
been completed between Crowley and
Eunice, in Acadia Parish.
A quarrel over COW ended in S. E.
caves, at Mira, Caddo Parish, killing his
father-in-law, W. E. Wilson.
Five persons were killed Sunday in
railroad wreck at Rochester, N. Y.
Senator Foraker was condemned for his
pro-negro speech at Wilberforce, O.
Cigar dealers of Havana state that the
business is threatened with death blow.
Five men were killed in an explosion in
the gelatine department of Powder Manu-
featuring Company at sinnemahoning, Pa.
Believing that his nine-year-old son
was burglar, George South, of Carmi, ILL.,,
opened fire on him, killing the boy almost
instantly.
Twenty three mad dogs were killed at
Sullivan, ILL.,, Saturday, after two small
girls had been bitten and several other
persons attacked.
A plan to build big paper factory in
Kentucky on the cooperative plan, was
seriously considered at the meeting of the
Kentucky Press Association at Estill
Springs. The idea is to supply every paper
in Kentucky with white paper and thus
reduce the price nearly one-half.
w. w. Barton, carpenter, shot and al
most instantly killedhis wife, three children
and himself at Jasper, Fla. Unhappy do
nestle relations caused the commission of
the crime. Barton left home and did not
return until late in the evening of the next
day, when he found the doors nailed against
him. He battered them down and began
his work of destruction.
Two miles into the interior of a big
swamp near New Orleans, the headless
body of Walter banana, an Italian child
between Z and 8 years old, who was kid
mapped two weeks ago and held for sc, 600
ransom, was found by police and vigilantes
just before daybreak Sunday morning.
He was strangled to death, according to
the confession of an Italian.
Pen in hand, Mrs. E. D. Ratcliff, of Oh
ney, Illinois, dropped dead while writing a
note in the waiting-room at the Union
Station in st. Louis at p. m. last Monday
evening. Her note beginning, arrived
0. K. Leave here 1902. Have quite
awhile was never finished. She proba-
bly, intended to write shave quite while
to watt little realizing how very brief q
time she had to wait before being carried off.
Louis M. Kenner died in New Orleans
recently. As member of the Infamous
Louisiana Returning Board, in the Hayes
Tilden presidential election of 1875, Ken
ner won notoriety, and he was perhaps the
last survivor of the Board which stole the
electoral vote of this State from Samuel j
Tilden. He and Gadane Casenave were
the two negro members. The Kellogg Leg
islature, composed entirely Of negroes.
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