The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-10
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Portland, Me-, suffered a S35O,OOO loss
by fire.
Lynchburg, Va, went for prohibition in
q local option election.
Charles W. Blow, business man, suicided
by shooting in St. Louis.
An oil barge was sunk off the coast Of
Nova Scotia and seven lives lost.
A. A. Peppard lost his life by sticking to
his post on an overturning engine.
Two persons were killed in railroad
wreck at Amarillo, Texas, Sunday.
Rockefeller is declared to be not afraid
of prosecution by the Government.
Swedish Vice Consul Eckstromer COM
mitted suicide at St. Louis Monday.
Mrs. Betty Caverly killed her obstreper-
Gus son-in-law at Elkins, West Va.
Congress reassembed Monday and will
devote its time principally to appropriations.
An engineer and fireman were killed in a
railroad wreck near Selma, Ala, Sunday.
Eleven soldiers were killed and many
injured in an explosion at Calcutta, India.
Temporarily insane, an Arkansas mother
killed herself and baby with carbolic acid.
Two men were killed and several injured
by an explosion in mine at Norwood, w.
Va.
c.. A. Gentry, juror in a criminal case
at Memphis, went insane while celebrating
on a verdict.
Four members of an Italian family were
found butchered in their beds near Trini-
dad, Colorado.
Becoming suddenly insane, H. l. Bad
ger OF Wakefield, Mass, shot and killed
his two daughters.
Two persons were killed and thirty in
jured in street car accident Friday in
Seattle, Washington.
Engineer John Green was killed Sunday
in passenger wreck on railroad near
Walker Springs, Ala.
Five burglars blew open bank at Pep
perell, Mass, and made their escape in an
automobile with $4,000.
AS the result of an old fued, DIR. C. M.
Cottongim, a wealthy physician, was as
sassinated at League, Tenn.
The German Methodist Conference of
Texas at San Antonio adopted resolutions
calling for Statewide prohibition.
Burglars blew open the Walt of the State
Bank at Port Byron, ILL.,, and escaped on
hand car with nearly $1,000 in cash.
Durham, N. c., is excited over series
of crimes, the climax being the assassina-
ton of a railraod engineer at his post.
Mrs. Gussie Boas, a patient In the Asy-
lum for the Insane at Hopkinsville, KY,
stranged herself to death by means of
bed-cord.
Joseph H. Painter, botanist in the
Government service, and a companion
were drowned in the Potomac, above
Washington.
More than a half hundred seamen lost
their lives in the last few days on the Upper
North Atlantic coast as the result of
storm of unprecedented severity.
Thirty five japanese fishing-boat were
caught in typhoon off Hatsu Island. in
Kawatsu Bay, and wrecked. 1t is reported
that $50 fishermen lost their lives.
The book Of national estimates for ap-
preparations for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, call for 1882 1893, 1893, an
increase of $1,000, 676 over 1909.
While W. J. Bryan was delivering an
address at the Texas State University at
Austin, James B. Clark, proctor Of the
institution fell dead in the audience.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and
W. R. johnson Company pleaded guilty
to rebating at Richmond, Va, the former
being fined $4,000 and the latter $4,000.
Four desperadoes held up crowded
street car in New York, throttled and
robbed the conductor, terrorized the pas
sengers and escaped with goodly collec-
ton of loot.
In Chicago the grand jury reported that
the primary elections last August were
honeycombed with fraud, and expressed
the conviction that there had not been an
honest general or city election in Chicago
in years.