The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-01-16
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Paris is slaughtering $4,000 horses an
nually for food.
Four New York firemen were killed by
falling walls Friday.
American capitalists are buying timber
lands in New Foundland.
C. W. Whitney, stock broker, suicided
at New York by shooting.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts
400, 900 diamonds every year.
Louisville, KY, leads as the greatest leaf
robacco market in the world.
| Riverside, N. j., is boasting population
of 1900, with no police force and no Jail.
The new subway between New York and
Brooklyn was completed last Thursday.
The first bill introduced in the Kentucky
Legislature was for the repeal of the dog
law.
A block of factory building was burned
in New York Sunday, causing loss Of
about S5OO,OOO.
An explosion of natural gas in Joplin,
Mo-, Sunday, killed the clerk and fatally
wounded lady.
Sixteen persons we're killed and forty
injured in theatre panic at Barneley,
England, Saturday.
Germany's imports of bread and bread
stuffs from the United States for November
amounted to 1874, 736, 1886.
Eight men were drowned Saturday when
barge, heavily laden with oysters, over
turned in the Eanuco River, in Mexico.
Five persons were killed and two injured
in collision between trains on trestle
ten miles from Vinegar Bend, Ala, Friday.
Two boy saloon robbers killed bar
tender at Normandy Grove, Mo-, locked
the customers in an ice box and robbed the
place.
DR.. Wiley, the Governments chemical
expert, declares that the strawberry jam
of commerce is made of glucose, hayseed
and coal tar.
Of the 1,098 marriage licenses issued in
a Pennsylvania county there were more
brides by the name of Mary than those Of
any other name.
Mrs. Dove Grady, of near Pain Lick,
KY, while looking after her stock, was
instantly crushed to death by part Of the
stable crumbling on her.
Anton Bavoria, an Italian, is charged at
Florence, Colorado, with numbering four
persons, cutting up their bodies and throw
ing the pieces into river.
The San Luis bridge at Monterey, Mex
leo, burned Sunday, destroying large
number of merchants booths and causing
loss estimated at over 100000.
Lewis B. Thomas, five times Mayor of
Bloomington, ILL.,, died Saturday. He was
the first child born in that city following
its founding, in the early 'thirties.
James Ryder Randall, author of 'Mary-
land, My Maryland" and the most famous
of all the war poets, died at Augusta, Ca,
Tuesday. He was born in Baltimore in
1843.
There was the largest sale of Indian corn
in the history of Douglas County, ILL.,, last
week. During that period the elevators of
the county bought 100000 bushels at so
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Belleville, Kas., while citing for train
Saturday morning and bbed of $4,000 in
cash and $4,000 in notes.
Robbers dynamited the post office safe
at Dibble, Ok, Saturday night and secur-
ed about s25 in money and large amount
of stamps. The explosion completely
wrecked the building and awakened the
entire town.
The Census Bureau last Thursday issued
a report showing that the number of bales
of cotton ginned from the growth of 1907
to January l, 1908, was $685., 427, as
compared with 1,741 ,O39 last year and
9,725, 426 for 1906. This counts round
bales as half bales
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.