The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-11-21
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Legislators of Oklahoma have been
called to meet Dec. 2.
R. S. Rather, Mayor of Huntsville, Tex,
committed suicide Friday.
Fire caused $50, OOOloss Friday in fur
niture house at Norfolk, Va.
Two men were killed in an explosion in
a pickle factory in Cincinnati.
Two thousand cases of violations of the
postal laws have been filed in Chicago.
Seven persons were killed in wreck on
the Canadian Pacific Railroad Friday.
w. F. Shiebler, who received the first
Atlantic Gable message, died in New York.
Six pedestrians were run down and killed
by railroad train near Milwaukee, Wis.
Thirteen tattered Confederate flags have
just been turned over tothe State of Mary
land.
Six thousand tons of steel rails for
Hartman property in Mexico were bought
in Russia.
]. B. Thomas, cashier of the bank of
Albany, Mo-, committed suicide Friday in
Kansas City.
Two hundred and fifty nine failures were
reported last week. There were 224 the
week previous.
Fire at McGhee, Ark, destroyed fifteen
stores, two hotels and five saloons, caus-
ing $4,000 loss.
Two men were killed and four injured in
an explosion at a nitro-glycerine factory
at Bradner, Ohio.
The business section of Bay st. Louis,
Miss, was destroyed by fire Saturday with
a property loss Of 100000.
| C. T. Barney, deposed President of the
Kniokerbocker Trust Company, killed him
self in New York last Thursday.
Geo. W. Ewell, of Deer Lodge, Tenn.
committed suicide in Washington by shoot
ing himself while riding in cab.
The exports of wheat last week were the
largest for any week in five years, except
| for one week in November, 1905.
Prof. Lucian F. Underwood, after stab
bing his wife and attempting to kill his
daughter, suicided at Redding, Ct, Friday.
Lawrence Exum, twelve years old, ac-
cidently shot and killed his younger sister
at West Point, Miss, while playing with
"a pistol.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, a wealthy woman
of Milwaukee, Wis, was given prison
sentence in Chicago Friday for burglary
and larceny.
A fire Of unknown origin at the Baltic
Shipbuildings yards at st. Petersburg de-
stroyed two gunboats and damaged several
other vessels.
Worry over the financial situation caus-
ed Oscar Nelson, wealthy business man
of Rockford, ILL.,, to commit suicide by
inhaling Illuminating gas.
The Mexican Government announces
that Magdelena Bay, off the coast of Lower
California, has been coded to the United
States as coaling station.
Lyman Smith, merchant, was struck
down with Ratchet and killed near Column
bia, Miss, while presenting bill Saturday
to man named Slater, who, charged with
the crime, was hurried to the jackson Jail
for safe keeping.
President Roosevelt has invited the Gov
ernors of all the States and Territories, the
members of both houses of Congress and
the Inland Waterways Commission to meet
him at the White House May Is, IA and
Is, 1908, to discuss the rapid exhaustion Of
the natural resources of the country and
adopt some plan of action for their preser-
walton.
AS she was about to sit down to the sup
per table at her home in Hampton, Va,
on the 18th inst, Mrs. Roswell Burton
about 80 years old, dropped dead from ar
attack of heart disease. She had appar-
entity been in good health, but when she
reached the table she told her husband that
she was going to faint, and fell into his
arms, where she died in few seconds.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.