The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-10-17
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Fourteen feet through the valley will
cost $50 100000.
A disastrous storm swept the east coast
of Mexico Sunday.
1t is to cost 50, 100000 to coal the fleet
that goes to the Pacific.
Two tramps were killed in bad freight
wreck near Hydman, Md.
Solomon Frank and five daughters were
suffocated at Gloversville, N. Y.
The American crops aggregate 81 ,OOO,-
900 900, or $50 worth for every inhabitant.
Government reports show considerable
aeortage In the wheat, corn and oats crop.
Fire in New York car barn destroyed
1876 cars and crippled the crosstown SER
vice.
An aged woman and three children per-
ished in a burning house near New Hol-
land, Ohio.
Richard Walters, of Sharpsburg, KY,
committed suicide in Lexington, by taking
carbolic acid.
One man was killed and eight injured
Saturday in collision of railroad trains
at Pratt City, Ala.
The cholera in Russia shows no signs of
diminishing, but on the contrary, it is
spreading steadily.
Mrs George W. Castle, eighty years old,
of Hays, KY, dropped dead in the garden
of her home Monday,
Campbell slemp, the only Republican
member of the Virginia delegation in
Congress, died Sunday.
Twenty one lives were lost Saturday in
the wreck Of the steamer Cypress in Lake
Superior, off Deer Park.
Four out Of seven persons lost their lives
when a burning skiff was overturned in the
Delaware River to put out fire.
Every fifteen hours a life is lost in the
City of New York under the wheels of a
passenger car, surface, elevated or steam.
The official time of the steamship
Lusitania across the Atlantic was four
days, nineteen hours and ffty-two min
utes.
The docket of the United States Supreme
Court, which convened last Monday in
Washington, contained more than $50
cases.
Sixty thousand workmen paraded in
Budapest, Hungary, last Thursday, as a
demonstration in fauor of universal suf-
frage.
Early Sunday morning the safe of the
Kirby Lumber Company, at Silsbee, Tex,
was robbed of S., 500. All was in currency
except $500.
Tae assessment rolls at jackson give the
total taxable values of the State Of Mis-
sissippi at S9, 1886, 4O7, an increase of more
than million over last year.
The Grand Jury of Terrebonne Parish,
in it's final report, recommended that La
fourche and Terrebonne authorities work
in unison for the protection of game.
Thomas ]. Warnoch, a paper hanger,
and his two sons, aged twelve and thirteen
years, respectively, were drowned Friday
near Nashville while crossing Cumberland
River in skiff.
Numerous Western investors have been
swindled to the extent of more than a
third of million dollars through the dis
covery that mines near Lander, Wyoming,
have been sailed.
A passenger train from Scotland and
the north Of England to Bristol, left the
rails as it was entering the station al
Shrewsbury at an early hour Tuesday
morning, killing sixteen persons and in
juring many others.
i Fontanet. Indiana, was practically de.
stroyed Tuesday by the explosion of the
plant of the Dupont Powder Company
The dead number from % to IS. Over COZ
persons were injured ande very building ir
the town was wholly or partially leveled tt
theground.
Mrs. Lydia Paeschke, of Chicago, has
been left fortune of 100000 by Senol
Juan Joe Manda, of Mexico. The Seno1
saw a photograph of Mrs. Paeschke ane
fell in love with it. He wrote letter te
the young woman ardently expressing his
love, but she did not respond.
During pistol duel with burglar who
: had robbed residence in Peoria, ILL.,, O
, several thousand dollars worth of dia.
! monds, Ed Barrett, a policeman, was sho
; and killed Sunday. The man who free