The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-01-31
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Activity in the sale of dwellings con-
tinues in Baltimore.
Severe earthquake shock were felt in
Switzerland Monday.
Several lives were lost in mine disas-
ter at Levin, France.
A national corn exposition will be held
at Chicago every year.
The levee at Luxora, Ark, broke Mon
day and flooded the town.
Twenty men were killed by an explosion
in coal mine in Colorado.
Bitterly cold weather was reported Mon
day in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Three firemen were killed and twelve
others injured in fire at Buffalo, N. Y.
Thirteen men were killed by an explo-
sion of fire damp in coal mine at Lorentz,
w. Va.
Republican tariff revisionists have
started movement for an extra session OF
Congress.
Senator Russell A. Agar, of Michigan,
died suddenly last Thursday at Washing
ton, D. G..
Three men were seriously wounded as
the outcome of schoolboy fight at Abbe-
vile, Ga.
Over 200 men were killed Monday morn
ing in mine explosion at ST. Joahnn-on-
Saar, Prussia.
Three men were killed and sixteen in
jured by the explosion of an ammonia
tank at Chicago.
The United States Census Bureaus re-
port shows IL, 1877 1878 bales of cotton GIN
ned up to Jan. Is.
Henry Bell, negro, who criminally as
saulted Mrs. Graves, was lynched at
Greenwood, Miss.
Gov Vardaman authorized the employ
ment Of convict labor to strengthen the
Mississippi levees.
Fifty vessels were sunk and over. 100
natives were drowned during storm at
Hong Kong, China.
The Texas Legislature appointed COM
mittees to investigate the newspaper men
attending the session.
District Judge Robert F. Cochran pub
licly horsewhipped H. W. Jenkins, a drum
mer, at Meridian, Miss.
For the first time in it's long history the
Chinese Government is rendering organ
lied relief to famine victims.
Thousands of people fled from Chicago
last week on account of an epidemic Of
contagious diseases in that city.
A woman of Plant Rest, Mo-, is accused
of branding little adopted daughter with
hot iron and of beating the child.
The Mayor of Augusta, KY, telegraph
ed Friday to Chicago asking assistance
for the flood sufferers of his town.
Six lives were lost and half million
dollars property loss was caused in cot
ton mill fire Saturday at Dover, N. H.
Detailed figures on the estate of the late
Marshall Field, of Chicago, show that he
had accumulated more than $4,000 900.
Appropriations for Missouri institutions,
recommended by legislative committee,
aggregates S3,6O1, 1915 for next two
years.
The influx of buyers to the st. Louis
wholesale market reached unusual pro-
portions Monday. Values in staples ad-
vanced.
President Yoakum of the Frisco has
contracted for 5000 new freight cars and
locomotives, the new equipment to cost
S7,8OO,OOO.
The severest blizzard for years was ex-
perienced last Friday in the Indian Ter
ritory, and it was reported that several
Indians had been frozen to death at Hol-
denville.
The tobacco crop in Pinar del Rio Prov
ince, Cuba, probably has been saved by
the rains of last week. This crop had
been given up as almost a total loss be-
cause of the extreme dryness.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
Fire at New iberia Sunday destroyed the
First Methodist Church.