The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-04-30
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS,

Three persons were burned to death at
Cory, Pa, Friday.
Mrs. Isaac F. Banta dropped dead at
Brooksburg, Indiana.
In 1870 the population of Manitoba was
1900, to-day it is 100000.
The Federal Government will aid the
storm sufferers in the South.
England was in the grip of terrible
blizzard for two days last week.
James and Thomas Trimm, were killed
by lightning at their home at Anona, Tex
A steamer was capsized by storm near
Helena, Ark, and thirteen persons drown
ed.
Four persons were killed and three seri-
ously injured in a mine explosion at Ellis
worth, Pa.
The National House of Representatives
passed thousand private pension bills
last Friday.
Former United States Senator j. N.
Camden, of West Virginia, died in Balti-
more Saturday,
Henry Bell, a negro, at Water Valley,
Miss, shot and killed his wife and another
mans wife, and suicided.
Half the village of Notre Dame de
Salette, Canada, was buried under land
slide and thirty people killed.
The twelfth annual convention of the
American Cotton Manufacturers will be
held in Richmond, Va, Mayo.
Miss Julia Smith, school teacher, was
drowned in a pond near Tuscaloosa, Ala,
Saturday, while gathering flowers.
A cyclone carried a baby's body ten
miles, those of a man and his wife one
mile and devasted Nebraska county.
Because of the higher prices of the last
month the consumption of beef and mutton
has been reduced 80 per cent in Chicago.
Mrs. Thos. E. Wilson, wife of promi-
nent farmer living near Springfield, KY,
committed suicide by jumping into we'll.
Grant Dayhoof, of Maryland, cut his
throat with razor while under the strange
deluson that he was cutting his wife's
throat.
Henry Goodman, merchant in Norfolk,
Va, who was shot year ago by negro
burglar and never fully recovered, COM
mitted suicide Friday.
Unemployed foreigners in Granite City,
ILL.,, made pilgrimages to the churches and
prayed for work. A Hungarian in the
parade killed himself.
The eastern part Of Mississippi and por-
tons of Alabama experienced another
severe wind storm Sunday evening. No
loss of life was reported.
Twenty EIGHT of the crew of the British
cruiser Gladiator were drowned when the
American liner St. Paul rammed and sent
the warship to the bottom.
The New York Legislature adjourned
last Thursday with groana, Kisses and i'm
precautions for Gov. Hughes, who imme-
diately called a special session,
The damage by frost Saturday and Sun
day nights to orchards in the Arkansas
and Grand Valleys and other fruit
growing regions of Colorado is estimated
at 81 100000.
Wallace Poke, farmer residing near
Cayce, Miss, during a fit of temporary
insanity killed his wife, wounded his
daughter and sent two bnllets into his
breast, from which he died.
Harry H. Lebanon, seventeen years old,
shot and killed his wife, to whom he was
married in February, and then committed
suicide at Salem, Mass, Saturday, because
he could not secure employment.
L. K. York and his son, Earl, were
burned to death near Osmond, Neb They
took refuge in a haystack in thunder
storm. Lightning, which stunned them,
started a fire which partly consumed the
bodies.
Twenty white girls and women dined
side by side at table with black men and
women and listened to speeches on social
equality and intermarriage of the races at
a banquet of the Cosmopolitan Society in
New York Monday night.
Superior, Wisconsin, experienced one of
the heaviest snowstorms of the year last
Monday. Intermittent snow fell Sunday
night and continued Monday throughout
the northern part Of Nebraska, and there
was light fall of snow in the central part
of Missouri on Monday.