The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-04-04
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A portion Of the water front of Havana
was inundated by the sea Monday.
Six new merchant vessels are being built
by Japanese for the American trade.
Six men were killed Monday in freight
train collision near Fort Worth, Texas.
The British steamship Administer went
ashore on the Frying Pan Shoals, N. c..
Fire at Newberry, S. c., Friday, de-
stroyed property valued at over S15O,O00.
Fifty-f four persons were killed by an ex-
plosion of dynamite in mine in South
Africa.
Two men were killed and several injured
in train wreck Friday near Oklahoma
City, l. T.
Bishop John c.. Cranberry of the Meth
odist Church, South, died Monday at
Richmond, Va.
Fire last Friday in the tobacco factories
at South Boston, Va, caused loss esti-
mated at 81, 900 900.
Officers of brewing companies in St.
Louis donned overalls and went to work as
firemen in place of strikers.
Alice Strickland, eight years old, was
burned to death in Philadelphia Saturday
while playing with bonfire,
/ General Stephen D. Lee announces the
formation of twenty-five new camps of
United Confederate Veterans.
A former preacher who had murdered
and robbed woman in South Carolina
was hanged in spartanburg Friday.
The Census Bureau reports that the
United States has increased nearly s, 000,-
600 in population during the past six years.
Twenty six persons were killed and 100
injured last Friday in wreck on the
Southern Pacific Railroad near Cotton, Cal.
Col, H. L. Potter, who was with General
William Walker when he invaded Nicara :
qua in 1856, died at Railway, N. j., Sun
day.
James J. Hill declared at New York that
the improvement in the country's freight
handling facilities must come through the
waterways.
Mrs. Louisa Roth, seventy years old.
committed suicide Sunday morning at
Madison, Indiana. She leaves husband
and nine children.
Miss Lizzie Leonard, IS years old, on
account of i'll health, committed suicide by
swallowing carbolic acid and laudanum at
Paducah, KY, Sunday.
i The way to do it. The citizens of Kill
len, Texas, enforced the State law against
gambling by wrecking the den and order
ing the gamblers to leave town.
Four representative men and their wives
who were returning from an Easter picnic
in the country, were run over and instant
ly killed at Kansas City by the Alton Red
Flyer.
Having fastened their garments securely
to her own, Mrs. Otto Brittling, of Dover,
: N. j., took her two little children and
jumped into Shongum Lake, where all
three were drowned.
Five wagon loads of gambling parapher-
MALTA were seized one night last week at
Waco. The recent tragedy at Fort Worth
has crystalized sentiment all over Texas
on the subject, and gambling in doomed in
that State.
Mrs. Polly Weed Baker, of Boonville,
Indiana, has obtained divorce from John
Baker, her eleventh husband. Baker is
the ninth from whom she has been legally
separated, one having died a natural death
and another committing suicide.
W. A. Proctor, President of the Proctor
Soap Company, committed suicide by
!, shooting himself in the head while alone
in the bath room at his home at Cincinnati
Proctor's wealth was estimated at many
millions, most of which had been made by
himself. He was noted for the co-opera-
tive scheme for division of profits with
employees, which he had designed for his