The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-11-14
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Ten men were killed by powder explo-
sion in Arizona.
Nine prisoners escaped from jail at Can
ton, Miss, on the 9Th.
The United States now ranks second of
the worlds naval powers.
Saloons were voted out of several towns
in Illinois on the 9TH inst.
Mrs. Nora Tate shot and killed her hus-
band at Birmingham, Ala.
James R. Boyd, Cashier of the Hunts
vile (Ala.) Bank suicided.
Nine of the Kirby Company's sawmills
Texas closed down Monday.
Jacksonville, ILL.,, voted for prohibition,
and thirty saloons will be closed.
Mrs. Amanda E. Jackson, of Lewistown,
Md, was burned to death on steamer.
Thirty passengers were injured in the
derailment of trolley car at Indianapolis.
One person was burned to death and six
others injured in fire in Chicago Friday.
Prof. Fred H. Abel escaped from san
itarium at Rochester, N. Y, and froze to
death.
At Wilmington, Del, Fred Underhill
killed his wife and seriously wounded her
sister.
One man was killed and three wounded
in an election fight at Lexington, KY, on
the 9TH.
The Santa Fe Railroad was fined $3.50 600
at Los Angeles, charged with granting
rebates.
Five men were killed and three Injured
by the explosion of boiler at Steuben-
vile, Ohio.
Seven armed bandits blew open the safe
in bank at Canova, S. D., secured $500
and escaped.
James Coleman was killed by the explo-
sion of a steam valve in a compress at
Meridian, Miss.
Marina Hongoluzza, an Italian washer
woman, was murdered and robbed of 500
at Philadelphia.
Three men found dead along railroad
tracks in Indiana were said to have been
murdered by tramps.
The Great Northern elevator at Superior.
Wis, the largest in the world, was de-
stroyed by fire Friday.
Alex Johnson, negro who criminally
assaulted white woman, was lynched by
a mob at Cameron, Tex.
Mrs. Julia Wyman, former operate sin
ger, committed suicide in her daughters
apartments in New York.
George Lilly, a farmer, while trailing
negro fugitive, accidently shot and killed
himself near Clinton, Miss.
Giovanni de Chichicia, former leuten-
ant in the Italian army, committed suicide
in the Toombs in New York.
Richard S. Evans, football player,
died at Wooster, Ohio, from injuries re-
celved in game month ago.
Fire in the residence district of Iquiqui,
Chile, caused a loss of over 81 zoo, 900 and
rendered 1900 people homeless.
One thousand persons joined the church
in one day at Greenwood, Miss, as the
result of Evangelist Gates efforts.
An earthquake which shook down many
houses occurred last Thursday at Terre la
Rlbera, Province Of Huesca, Spain.
Five persons were killed and a score in
jured in head-on collision between freight
and passenger trains near Little Rock.
Attorney General Hadley, Of Missouri,
insists that 2-cent fares increase the reye-
nues OF the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Mrs. Edith Allen, boarding house keeper
at Birmingham, Ala, shot and killed ]. H.
Clouts, who attacked her while drunk.
E. H. Hall died in New York of myxe-
dema, said to have been caused by con-
slant handling of money for twenty years.
The October statement of the London
Board of Trade shows increases of S15,-
1850 in imports and S25, 426, 900 in ex-
ports.
1t is stated that 40 per cent of the saw
mills OF Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Mississippi have closed down, with
more to follow this week.
In statement at Nashville T. S, Bush
says he killed DR.. McF. Allen because Mrs.
Bush told him she had been criminallv
assaulted by the physician.
James M. Allaway, a commission mer-