The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-10-24
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Helen Bayard, magazine writer, has in
herited 100000.
Fire at Florence, Ala, Monday, caused
more than $4,000 loss.
Five hundred and eighty-fiv persons
have been drowned this year.
| Fire last Thursday destroyed ST, 800, 900
worth of property at Cakes, N. D.
One was killed and several injured in a
Santa Fe wreck in Colorado Friday.
Wheat jumped nearly four cents and
corn one cent in Chicago Saturday.
While racing an automobile in Chicago
Tuesday Adrian Sibson was killed.
President Roosevelt killed bear in the
canebrakes Of Tensas Parish Friday.
Three persons were killed andfi five injured
Tuesday on railroad at Versailles, O.
Twenty seven persons were killed or in
jured in a railroad wreck at Orio, Spain.
Snow fell over the upper Great Lakes
Friday, accompanied by high winds and
heavy seas.
Four were killed and score injured by
a street car collision in Chattanooga last
Friday.
With $4,000 worth of wedding presents
on hand, a Philadelphia girl decided not
to marry.
A San Francisco minister says that no
other American city has been so neglected
religiously.
Three persons were killed and thirty
seven wounded in railroad wreck Friday
near Rudd, N. C.
Six were killed and sixteen hurt in
Southern Railway wreck near Greensboro,
N. c., last Thursday.
Near Steubensville, Wayne County, KY,
Sunday, John Coxell shot and killed his
brother, Charles Coxell.
Mrs. Julia Pile, of New York, was rob-
bed of $4,000 worth of jewelry while en-
gagged in bargain counter rush.
Two persons were killed and eight seri-
ously injured in an automobile collision
near San Sebastian, Spain, Saturday.
At Ingram, Pa, two women were caught
in folding bed, one of them dying from
her injuries and the other being seriously
Injured.
j. H. Hicks, the negro Pullman porter,
at Many, Sabine Parish, was sentenced to
twenty years for attempted assault on a
young lady.
Halter, Shehle & Co., an old banking
house of Hamburg, Germany, failed last
Thursday with liabilities of from Sc, OOO, 600
to 100000.
Twenty-Five applicants successfully
passed the examination prescribed by the
State Board of Medical Examiners in New
Orleans Friday.
More than 700 bales of cotton held by
the Farmers Union at Advance, Miss,
were destroyed by fire Tuesday. No in
surance was carried.
President Roosevelt stated at Vicksburg
that he would recommend to Congress an
appropriation for digging the deep water
way from the Lakes to the Gulf.
The annual report of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for the fiscal year ended June
30, shows gross earnings of S88, 552, 1924, an
increase of more than Sc, 600, 900 over 1905. /
Gov. Hughes declared, at banquet of
the Republican Club in New York, that he
was not candidate for the Presidency,
and that he had no desire to be political
boss.
DR.. j. W. Carter, of Spencer, w. Va,
one of the founders of the West Virginia
General Baptist Association, and for forty
years leading minister of that denomina-
ton, died suddenly at Huntington Friday.
Frightened by her sister, who entered
her room at midnight with sheet wrapped
about her, Clara Osgood, living near Ash
and, KY, jumped from second story
window, breaking her neck in the fall and
lying almost instantly.
The Raleigh (N CO. Times comes out
pretty flat-footed for prohibition when it
says: 1t has been the cry of those favor
ng the selling of whisky that prohibition
Ices not prohibit. Laws furnishing men
or committing murder do not prohibit, but
here are none who will say that we should
'epeal the laws Furnishing the guilty ones