The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-04-04
From Over Our Great State

Two children were burned to death at
Houma Sunday.
A new barge line is to be put on from
St. Louis to New Orleans.
Senator J. G. Madden, of Claiborne Par
ish, died at Homer Saturday.
Warves, warehouses, coaling station,
etc., are to be built at Southwest Pass.
Joseph Moses was killed by touching
crossed electric wires in New Orleans.
The Louisiana Pension Board has added
Johannes to the roll, increasing it to 5000.
Fire at New iberia destroyed round
bale press and cotton gin, causing S15, 900
loss.
An apartment house to cost more than
100000 will be erected in St. Charles
Avenue, New Orleans.
High temperature records for March in
Louisiana for the past thirty years
were broken last month.
The United States Government has or
dered census of divorces in New Orleans
for the past twenty years.
Judge H. L. Lazarus was fined 500 for
striking Attorney Blair in Judge Summer
ville's Court, in New Orleans.
Three steel barges Of Pittsburg coal ar
rived in New Orleans Friday, inaugurating
a new river trade with Cuba.
Miss Aline Herpeche was scalped at
Avery Island, when her hair caught in
machery. She was not fatally injured.
The temperature dropped % degrees in
New Orleans, "but women wore their
Easter finery unafraid, says the Picayune.
r. Sofia, aged IS years, a restaurant
owner in Shreveport, died Sunday after
noon, after being sick three days with
pneumonia.
Unknown persons attempted to wreck
the Louisiana Southern train in St. Bernard
Parish, near Ysclosky, by chaing crossties
on the tracks.
The Director of the Mint at Washington
has purchased 100000 ounces of silver for
delivery at New Orleans at 66.OO6 cents
per fine ounce.
The Broussard Rivers and Harbor Con-
gressional party visited Abbeville, Crowley,
Gueydan, New iberia, Jennings and Shreve-
port last week.
Three new corporations with an aggre-
gate capitalization of more than half
million dollars filed their charters in New
Orleans few days ago.
Figures compiled by the government
Census Bureau show that Louisiana in
creased in population from 1881, 1925 in
1900 to ], $3.50, 449 on June l, 1905.
A Washington special says: Senator
Foster, of Louisiana, has been doing some
adroit work in the investigation of negro
soldiers for shooting up Brownsville, Tex.
Mrs. Conn, of Monroe, died Tuesday
from hydrophobia after suffering intense
agony. She was bitten on the hand about
two weeks ago by small dog, but nothing
was thought Of it at the time.
There are 165 State banks and trust COM
panies doing business in Louisiana. These
institutions combined have resources of
practically one hundred million dollars,
the actual figures being 500, 996, 1889. The
resources increased to the extent of about
a half million of dollars within the past
three months. The individual savings de-
posts aggregate S19,012,441.
Nine arrests we're made and fines as
sessed in New Orleans one day last week
against violators of the ordinance relative
to throwing refuse in cutters. Every town
in the State ought to prohibit the throwing
of refuse in its cutters, and fine all persons
who violate the law. Instead Of committing
such nuisances, every citizen ought to take
pride in helping to keep the streets and
cutters of his town clean. tits said that in
ancient times the streets of Jerusalem were
kept clean by every man sweeping before
his own door.
THE MAN Who SNEERs.-The sneer is