The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-07-23
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Inc next census Will cost Sl4 ,UOU,UUU.
There is much anti American feeling in
Mexico.
Two thousand persons were drowned in
floods in Asia Minor.
Two men were drowned in creek at st.
Marys, VIVA.
Fifteen persons committed suicide in ten
days in Pittsburg, Pa.
A Taft man was defeated for Mayor of
Walla Walla, Washington.
The French Government has forbidden
further emigration to Brazil.
John T. Hodge, telegraph operator,
dropped dead at Dwight, Va.
Two negro children at play near Clinton,
Miss, were killed by lightning.
The was snow storm on the Ration
Mountains, New Mexico July 4th.
l. M. Travis fell dead while entertaining
a party of friends at Laurel, Miss.
Nine persons were killed by powder
magazine explosion at Cleelum, Wash.
Seven miners were killed and ten injured
in an explosion in mine at Pottsville, Pa.
Claire Hoshall, young of near Haas
vile was drowned while in swimming with
a companion.
Darius Eastman, Professor in Columbia
University, was drowned while boating
near Oxford, NC.
Mrs. Isabella Zahlen, at Buffalo, N. Y,
killed her three small children and then
attempted to kill herself.
The Rev. DR.. Artemus Jean Hynes, Con-
gregational minister of New Haven, Conn.,,
was drowned while fishing.
Twenty five persons were drowned by
the capsizing Of launch during storm
at Manila, Philippine Islands.
Maj. Walter Carlin, brother of former
Gov. Thomas Carlin of Illinois, dropped
dead Of heart disease at Jerseyville, Ill.
Two men and four women were killed
when an automobile collided with passen-
ger train near Warsaw, Indiana, Saturday.
The Georgia Railroad Commission has
ruled that newspapers in that State may
accept transportation in exchange for ad-
vertising.
Ernest Block and his wife were found
dead in their home in New York. The
wife evidently killed the man and commit
ted suicide.
1t has been figured that an increase of
10 per cent in freight rates would cost each
person in the United States an additional
So per year.
Three persons were killed and four in
jured at Boston when customs inspectors
broke open box of decorating caps, an
explosion following.
The Western Federation Of Miners ex-
pended $685. for the defense of Hay
wood, Meyer, Pettibone and Adams on
murder charges.
A convention favoring the draining of
the swamps and improving the roadways
of the lower Mississippi Valley, will meet
in Memphis next Monday.
Appropriations at the last session of
Congress amounted to S1,OO8, 1897 ,543. SO,
an increase Of S87, 599, 1899 over the last
session of the Fifty ninth Congress.
Federal Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago de-
cided that railroads can not issue transport
tation in pay for advertising. Notice of
an appeal to the Supreme Court was given.
Because he ran down with his automo-
bile and killed laborer, Col. Catrow, Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the
Third Ohio District, withdrew from the race.
Before being hanged at Moundsville,
W. Va, Frank johnson, negro, confessed
to the prison chaplain that he had COM
mitted four murders previous to the one
for which he was executed.
The Prohibition National Convention at
Columbus, Ohio, last Thursday adopted
probably the briefest platform on record
and nominated Eugene S. Chain of Illinois
for President and Aaron S. Watkins of Ohio
for Vice President.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.