The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-08-06
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

In July $50 infants under one year Of
age died in Chicago.
Twenty-one death sentences were pro-
nounced in Russia Friday.
One life was lost and much damage done
by cloudbursts in Nevada.
Four negroes were lynched by mob at
KY, Saturday.
Storms last week caused great loss of
life and damage in Austria.
The new marriage law has resulted in a
large increase in marriages in France.
Mrs. Annie E. Lynch, who died at Pitts
burg, Pa, Friday, weighed $40 pounds.
The Chinese Customs Service estimates
the population Of China at 438, 900.
Five persons were killed in an automo-
bile accident near Burlingame, California.
Three persons were drowned near Pitts
burg crossing the Monongahelain launch.
The annual output of beer in the United
States is between 81, 900 900 and &C, OOO, 900
barrels.
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured in an explosion in a colliery near
Shenandoah, Pa.
An explosion Of gunpowder wrecked
nearly every building in the mining town
of Stamford, West Va.
Mabel Timbel, 9-years old, was struck
by a fast passenger train at ST. Matthews,
KY, and instantly killed.
European governments will send their
experts to assist the United States in the
effort to prevent loss of life in mines.
Six men were killed and twenty five
wounded in battle between Italians and
Slavs near Masontown, Pa, Sunday.
Heavy rain and wind swept Louisiana
Wednesday and Thursday of last week and
did considerable damage to growing crops.
Rev. George J. Mason, ninety two years
of age, the oldest Methodist minister in
Alabama, died July Goth at Columbiana.
Miss Elsie Green Of Savannah, Ga, and
Porter Parish of Memphis were drowned
at Lake Chautauqua, New York, Sunday.
A New York girl was found in the bay
clinging to rope, and said she had been
abducted in boat and then thrown over
board.
Eastern North Carolina was swept by a
severe storm Friday. Two persons were
killed and traffic was brought almost to a
otenustill
The deepest hole in the world has been
bored in Silesia. 1t has reached depth
of about 1000 feet, and passes through
eighty three beds of coal.
The earnings of Indian railways during
the fiscal year, April 1st to March 81,
1eo7-08, were s155, 100000, compared with
S129, $3.50, 900 last year.
James Kelley, nineteen years old, near
Metropolis, ILL.,, shot and killed his rival,
Link James; fatally wounded his sweet
heat, Eva Sleeter, and suicided
The Mississippi Valley Medical Associa-
ton has announced that it will hold its
thirty fourth annual convention in Louis
vile, KY, October Is, IA and Is.
During 1907 the Chinese government
spent nearly 100000 for students studying
in foreign countries. Japan got nearly
half the money and the United States about
one-fourth.
Willard Collins was killed near Benhur.
Va, by shotgun mechanically arranged
to shoot any one entering John Wilson's
ginseng patch. Wilson had notice posted
warning intruders that the gun had been
set.
On account of poverty, widow and
mothero Of four children, committed suicide
last Friday by leaping from the Central
bridge into the Ohio River at Cincinnati.
Henry Hockney, out of work and despond-
ent, hanged himself the same day.
A conflagrtion, starting from brush fires
last Friday, swept the Kootenay Valley Of
British Columbia. Over 100 lives were lost,
seventy four of them at Fernie, B. c.,
which was entirely destroyed. Three
thousand persons. were made homeless.
The property loss is estimated at $780,
900 to S1O,OOO,OOO.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.
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