The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-03-12
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Famine is threatened in some parts of
Cuba.
Our exports to China amount to nearly
S7O,00O,OO0 year.
Three young women were drowned near
Greenville, N. c., Sunday.
VIM. Daley, Louisiana ex convict, was
caught picking pockets in Detroit.
The New York Legislature will pass the
bills prohibiting betting at races.
Four hundred houses were destroyed by
fire in Nod Soy, Japan, causing loss of
50, 100000.
Fourteen laborers were overcome by gas
in railroad tunnel near Baltimore, and
four of them died.
Despondent and in i'll health, Fritz Klotz,
a carpenter at Houston, Texas, put bull
let through his head.
Elwood T. Hance, first vice president of
the Union Trust Company Of Detroit, COM
mitted suicide Friday.
Workmen excavating cellar, near Full
lerton, KY, dug up a pot of gold contain
ing $1,000 in gold coins.
Germany is now gaining more by immi-
grafton than she loses by emigration; the
reverse is true of Great Britain.
When the herring fishing season is at its
height something like 5000 miles of nets
are set nightly in the North Sea.
At Rapid City, S. D., Saturday, Mrs. c.
S. Barbour shot and killed her adopted
daughter during trivial quarrel.
The President signed proclamation
Saturday creating the Ozark National
Forest in the western part of Arkansas.
The excavations on the Panama Canal
during the month of February were the
greatest since the work of construction
began.
After attacking and severely wounding
the County Commissioner at Navasota,
Texas, negro was taken from the Jail and
lyhched.
Two negroes who murdered an aged
farmer and his wife, were hanged and their
bodies burned by mob near Hawkins
vile, Ga.
Two thousand children marched out OF
a New York school in perfect order without
being injured while the building burned
last Friday.
Mrs. J. S. Arnup, former secretary OF
the Nebraska Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, killed herself at Tecumseh by drink
ing carbolic' acid.
/ Nearly 1000 men were rendered idle and
seventy-five homes damaged by the high
waters of the Wabash River, which was
out of its banks at Peru, Ind, Friday.
William c. Bonney, aged eighty Eight
years, a resident of Woodville, Miss, since
1845, when he was employed as printer
on the Woodville Republican, died at that
place Friday.
At Munising and Marquette, Michigan
thunder and lightning were features of q
severe snowstorm Friday. This is the frs
time snow was ever accompanied by ar
electrical display in Northern Michigan.
Monetti Montrezza, musician, of Wa.
terbury, Conn.,, who had been out of work
and respondent, administered carbolc acic
to his young son and daughter and ther
swallowed poison himself. The father anc
son died. The daughter will recover.
Three life convicts attempted to escape
from the Deer Lodge (Montana) Peniten.
tiary by cutting the Threats of Warder
Conley and Assistant Warden Robinson
Robinson died almost instantly, but Conley
managed to shoot down two of the convicts
Penned in narrow hallway and damned
up against doors that opened inward, be.
tween 100 and 10 children in a school ir
the suburb of North Colinwood, Ohio. or
Wednesday of last week were killed BY
fire, smoke and beneath the grinding heels
OF their panic-stricken playmates.