The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-04-23
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.


twenty story hotel in Chicago.
Several Japanese were killed by a snow
slide in Alberta Province, Canada.
Bubonic plague is spreading at an
alarming rate at La Guayra, Venezuela.
Forty one persons were killed and sixty
injured in railroad wreck in Australia.
Lewis English, of Westmorland County,
Va, was run over by his wagon and killed.
Mistaken for burglars two boys were
killed by policeman in Columbus, Ohio.
Bids for 4,917 900 pounds of provisions
for the battleship fleet will be opened April
30.
A negro who committed criminal assault
at Atlanta, Texas, was taken from jail and
lynched.
Rev. George W. Tomson, a Presbyterian
clergyman at Woodbury., N. j., killed him.
self by shooting.
While bringing Mrs. Ezra Lucas body
to Luray, Va, for burial one of her chill
dren died on the train.
Records up to April II show 203, 799 of
the alien labor element have left the United
States since January 1.
Three men were killed and four seriously
burned in an explosion in mine at Can
more, Alberta Province, Canada.
George Danfelt committed suidide at
Chambersburg, Md, because he feared he
would be put in an insane asylum.
DR.. Wallace Rouse, aged thirty six
years, was instantly killed by lightning
while fishing near Galveston Tuesday,
Overflow waters from the Mississippi
River inundated $4,000 acres of rich cult
vatable land in Adams County, Miss.
| O. F. Sturmer, of Easton, Md, commit
ted suicide by jumping from train into
the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace.
Two daylight robbers at Chautauqua,
Kansas, locked bank cashier and a bust
ness man in vault and looted the place
of So 900.
High water in North Texas last week
caused great damage. Seven persons
were reported dead and thousands of Fort
Worth citizens homeless.
Because his daughter had taken part in
an April fool prank, DR.. C. @. Swinney, at
Ashville, N. c., shot and fatally wounded
the girl and killed himself.
Mrs. Jane Smith, of near Gloster, Miss,
looked upon as demented for some days,
committed suicide Sunday morning by
cutting her throat with razor.
Because he quarreled with his wife, who
evicted him from home with rolling pin,
Frank Hubka, of Chicago, committed sui
eide by swallowing a bottle of carbolic acid.
Luther M. Watkins, of Hyattstown, Md,
aged sixty three years, rising from bed in
apparent good health started to hight fire
in a stove, when he suddenly fell, dying
Immediately.
At Warrensburg, Mo-, ayoung man, be-
lieved to have been demented, killed the
town marshal and a Waterman, fatally shot
another officer and was himself killed by
the negro porter of hotel T.
Edward R. Taylor, of Washington City,
in fit of jealous rage, after telephoning
and finding his sweetheart had gone for
walk with a rival sutton, hung up the re-
ceiver, drew pistol and killed himself.
Mrs. Jessie Llewellyn Mccall, daughter
OF former Gov. Llewellyn, of Kansas, and
we'll known in Chicago as versatile news
paper writer, ended her life by taking
prussic acid in her room Sunday in Chi
cago hotel. Nervous trouble, relief from
which Mrs. Mccall had sought in vain in
European sanitariums, was the cause as
signed in letters she left.
Unable to bear any longer a retirement
that left him without occupation after
forty-five years spent in active business,
Thomas H. Nice, a retired grocer, whose
fortune is estimated at half million dol
lars, last Sunday night stood on the brink
OF the Schuylkill River, in Fairmont Park,
Philadelphia, and shot himself in the
mouth The position he took was such
that when he fell he dropped into the river,
thus making death doubly sure.
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