The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-11-07
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

California S citrus crop was over 200 cars
larger than last year.
The annual fish catch of England is
valued at s53,96O,OOO.
Pittsburg, Pa, claims gain of Is, 1856
in population in ten months.
The city Of Gadsden, Ala, voted for
prohibition by large majority.
Mary Donnelly, nine years old, was as
saulted and murdered at Renova, Pa.
Henry Kreiss, of New York, worried SO
about his wealth he committed suicide.
1t is estimated that the ultimate cost of
the Panama Canal will be 1864 100000.
Philip. Richardson, of Natchez, Miss,
drummer, committed suicide Saturday.
The fight for prohibition in Delaware has
become very warm, with women taking the
lead.
A dozen men were killed or wounded
during mutiny at Vladivostock, Russian
Siberia.
John H. Stockslager, 70 years old, COM
mitted suicide by drowning in Antietam
Creek, Md.
Three persons we're killed in fight be-
tween United States troops and Indians in
Southern Utah,
j. W. Lansdale, 6S years old, committed
suicide in Washington City by inhaling
illuminating gas.
A student in an Illinois school obtained
verdict of $4,000 damages against five
others for hazing him.
Samuel Banks Powell, bookkeeper,
suicided by shooting at the store Of his
employer in Baton Rouge.
Sixteen lives were lost and fifty houses
destroyed Saturday in cloudburst at San
Jose del Cabo, Lower California.
A blight of the tea plants caused by the
bite of mosquitoes is causing much alarm
among the tea planters in India.
Over 100 convicts were released from the
penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, as result of
conflict of authority between courts.
j. B. Rutherford shot and killed his wife
and Eugene H. Pace and committed sui
eide in Memphis last Thursday night.
st. Louis is third as grain market, the
receipts for September showing an increase
of 100000 bushels over 1906 period,
Mrs. Marie Hickey, while insane, cut her
sleeping husbands throat at Apalachicola,
Fla, and suicided in the same manner.
B. H. Stockwell shot and killed W. B.
Campbell at Tulsa, I. T., and then MUIR
dered his own son and committed suicide.
A premature explosion of dynamite oc-
Cured at Venice, Pa. Four men were
killed and two others were seriously in
jured.
Congressman Gillespie, of Texas, de-
clares that Cortelyou has Disseminated
against the farmers in favor of "stock
gamblers"
Abe Sumrall, a negro murderer, and
Frank Lucas, who aided him to elude ar
rest, were lynched Saturday at Vinegar
Bend, Ala.
Suits against saloon keepers about Ell
kins, W. Va, for selling liquor to drunken
men are so numerous MANY are going out
of business.
The weekly statement issued Saturday
showed the New York banks held $685.
838:S25 less than the requirements of the
rule.
A thousand people got up early in order
to see the first Baltimore and Ohio train
run into the new Union Station at WASH
ington, D. C.
Hawaii's sugar crop for 1907 is the larg-
est in the history of the islands. The in
crease is due to the extension of ACREAGE
and irrigation.
Miss Josephine Hill, ateacher in char
table school in New York and said to have
been former resident of Kentucky, COM
mitted suicide last Thursday by shooting.
Thirteen saloons at Bristol, Tenn, were
closed last Thursday night under the PEN
dleton law and henceforth the town will
be "dry." Over 100 were closed at Knox
vile.
Mile. Ragozinnikovo, who on Monday of
last week killed Gen. Maximoffsky, Direc-
tor OF the Department of Prisons in Rus
STA, was hanged the following Thursday in
st. Petersburg.
Judge 0. P. Temple, 88 years old, who