The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-19
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Postoffce deficit is S16,OOO,OOO.
Ben Holmes of Orange, Texas, was as
sassinated in his home.
Fire in the business district Of Little
Rock, Ark, Saturday, cased 500, 900 loss.
In an explosion and fire in mine at
Hamm, Westphalia, over 800 men we're lost
Steamship men predict a tide of heavy
from Europe to the United
States.
Warrants calling for 1929, 815.85 were
recentlo sent to 1928 Confederate PEN
sioners
At Wyoming University, in Laramie, the
registered 24o below zero last
Saturday.
Fire in the retail shopping district of
Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, caused loss of
S2OOO,OOO
Four persons were killed and four in
jured in saw mill boiler explosion at
Pound, KY, Friday.
Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, an uncle
of Emperor Nicholas, died in Paris last
Saturday Of pneumonia.
Search of the hotel fire ruins at Gulfport,
Miss, revealed the body of a second man
who had been burned to death.
In an alteration in a saloon at Youngs-
town, Ohio, cab driver struck railroad
man with his fist, killing him instantly.
Education was the keynote of last Thurs
days session of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy Convention in Atlanta.
A motor boat was wrecked on the break
wall at Buffalo, N. Y, and six Cinnamon
we're dashed to death against the rock
ribbed sea wall.
Rev. G, Brinley Morgan, rector Of Christ
Episcopal Church in New Haven, Conn.,,
was struck by an automobile and died from
injuries sustained.
Nine men lost their lives in the collision
of two Union Pacific freight trains at
Borie, Wyoming, and in fire which broke
out in the wreckage.
Eight men we're killed and ten others
wounded in fight Sunday at Okmulgee,
Okla, between barricaded negro despe-
RADIO and officers of the law,
Debrutalized" football has been as
brutal as ever in the season of 1908. Ten
persons have been killed and 272 have
been wounded during the season.
Harvey W. Watterson, son of Henry
Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, met death in New York by falling from
the window of nineteen story building.
Burglars tunneled fourteen-inch vault
Of the postofice at South Bend. Indiana,
Saturday night and secured S18,64O in
stamps while night force Of clerks were
in the building.
Morris Haas, the former convict who
shot Assistant District Attorney Heney in
the San Francisco courtroom, committed
suicide Saturday by shooting himself in
his cell in the county Jail.
The Emperor of China died at 5 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. At the moment of
his death the Dowager Empress own death
chamber chair was in the palace court
yard in Pekin awaiting its burden.
The campaign of education in Kentucky
will begin Sunday, November 10Th, and
last for one week. Many educators will
speak in nearly every county in the State
for the uplift of the children of the Com
monwealth.
Gen. j. Holmes Smith, Confederate
veteran, dropped dead Saturday afternoon
as he was entering the gate at his home in
Lynchburg, Va. He was captain Of Com
pany G, Eleventh Virginia Infantry, and
commanded the regiment for a time as
senior officer.
The Memphis Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, in session at
Covington, Tenn, adopted resolutions de-
claring that Ex-senator f. w. Carmack
died martyr to his convictions of duty
and to the cause of temperance and of
righteousness.
The Cotton Growere' Association at
Memphis last week had heated debate
about night riding. It adopted resolutions
in favor of most of the features agitated,
including the New Orleans warehouse and
cotton bank, and urged holding cotton for