The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
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Latest News In Paragraphs.
November 14th is fixed for gen.
eral election in Cuba.
Asiatic cholera continues to
spread in st. Petersburg.
The German population of the
world is nearly 100, 100000.
Great damage was done by a
storm on the coast of Portugal.
A case of yellow fever in Ha-
vana was officially reported Mon
day.
Oscar Mason was run over and
killed by train at Birmingham,
Ala, Sunday.
Night riders in Mississippi and
Arkansas have organized to re-
duce the cotton acreage.
Low water in the Ohio River
has compelled packets plying
above Louisville to tie up.
A well-dressed woman commit
ted suicide by springing from the
Are de Triomphe in Paris.
An 18-foot shark, weighing
1000 pounds, was caught by three
men off New London, Conn.
Three persons were killed and
twenty injured in wreck on a
lumber railroad nearSamson, Ala.
Capt. Harry Simon Of Ohio won
the individual rifle shooting
championship at Sea Girt, N. J.
The Democrats say they have a
fair chance of electing majority
of Congressman next November.
The St. Vincent, the largest
battleship afloat, was launched at
Portsmouth, England, last Thurs
dry.
One person was killed and
twenty-five injured in collision
between elevated trains at New
York.
Cattle and hogs sold Monday at
the same price, the highest in a
decade, in the Chicago stock
yards.
Fearing hydrophobia as the re-
suit of the bite of pet squirrel,
Fred Peterson committed suicide
in Springfield, Ill.
Miss Burke Crisler, young
girl who Saturday attempted sui
eide at Clarksdale, Miss, died
early Sunday morning.
One child met instant death and
three other persons were fatally
burned by the explosion of an oil
can at Romeroy, Ohio.
Seven persons were killed and
thirty injured, four probably
fatally, by the explosion of a car
OF powder at Windsor, Mo.
Frank H. Bennett, formerly of
Washington, one of the best known
hotel men in the country, COM
mitted suicide in New York.
The Republicans carried Maine
Monday by plurality of less than
10000, the smallest plurality in
over a quarter of a century.
For the forty eight hours up to
noon Monday there were 256 new
cases of Asiatic cholera and sixty
four deaths in st. Petersburg.
A judge in Caracas has fined
the French Cable Company S5,-
100000 and all manner of costs,
on the ground of instigating the
Matos revolution in Venezuela.
Bryan and Taft will meet at
Chicago, October 7th, at BAN
quet to be given by the Associa-:
ton of Commerce. The addresses
to be delivered will be nonpolitical.
While playing the organ at the
close of services in the Sunday
School at Newton, N. c., Miss
Willie Bullnger, nineteen years
old, was stabbed to death by Lon
Reader, her insane lover.
Four people were killed and
twenty-six injured in a wreck on
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad Monday afternoon. Two
coaches of the passenger train
rolled downed an embankment.
Miss Flossie Davis, a clerk in a
dry goods store in Albuquerque,
N. NJ, has been notified by rela-
lives that she is heir to SAC, 900 by
the terms of a will left by wealthy
uncle who died recently in Lex
lngton, KY.
The cotton crop of the United
States for the year ending with
he close of August, 1908, amounts
o 11,571,9 1866 bales, showing a