The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-03

Charles F. Leighton, formerly promi-
nent New York cotton broker, committed
suicide in Brooklyn.
Mrs Richard Sullivan killed Mrs.
Spangler near Magee, Miss, as the result
of a neighborhood quarrel.
Alse Crosby, while fighting forest fires
near Bay Springs, Miss, was caught in
the flames and incinerated.
Europe is in accord with the American
Japanese treaty, and the French regard it
as a great diplomatic triumph.
]. N. CASTOR was killed and three others
were injured in collision of freight trains
near Birmingham, Ala, Sunday.
John McCleshy, seventy years old, will
leave Mount Vernon, ILL.,, for Scotland next
week to wed his boyhood sweetheart.
The flood in the Arkansas River caused
heavy property losses at Gutherie, Tulsa,
Becoming insane on Southern Railway
train, John Parker,>a Tennessean, began
shooting promiscuously, wounding one
man.
A score of years ago Germans intro
duced the shell button industry into Japan.
Now Japan is exporting buttons into Ger
many.
Two Japanese steamships collded off
the port Of Chefoo, China, and report
reached Toxic that 700 persons had been
drowned.
Nearly nineteen inches of snow fellin Salt
Lake City and vicinity Wednesday of last
week. The storm was general over the
intermountain region.
Six men sinking shaft for a salt mine
at Detroit, Mich, met death 800 feet below
the surface when the tube supplying them
with air became choked
Frank Simpson, aged twenty eight, was
found dead in his room in hotel in Beau
mont, Texas, Saturday evening, his death
resulting from an overdose of laudanum.
Ministers in eight cities and towns in
Kansas and Missouri offered up prayers
that the tariff on zinc be raised, so as to
protect the production in those two States.
The home of Tom Richardson, at Wood
lawn, Ala, was burned to the ground last
Thursday night, and Richardson's wife,
mother, and three children were bruned to
death.
The Federal Supreme Court reversed the
lower court and held that the railroads
should take their fight against the Virginia
2-cent rate order to the highest State
court of Virginia.
Ned Jones was assassinated at Johns,
Ala, on Nov. "a. The murdered man was
hero, and was firing boilers on the Con-
federate warship Alabama when it was
sunk. He was with Admiral Semmes in
many battles.
Beginning last Saturday and continuing
until late Sunday evening the eastern por-
ton Of Colorado was visited by one of the
heaviest falls of snow ever experienced in
that section, at some points a new record
being established.
An average yield of 1862 bushels of corn
per acre and an indicated total production
of 2,642, 687 900 bushels of corn are pre-
liminary estimates announced in the No.
vember report of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture.
A treaty covering the policy of the two
nations in the Pacific has been made by
the United States and Japan. The two
nations are to act together for the preser-
walton of the integrity and independence
of China and for the maintenance of an
"open door, for trade there.
"Going, going, gone" Hardly had the
last words left his mouth when Louis Levy.
an auctioneer of unredeemed pawned
goods, in New York, dropped dead on his
block, from heart disease. He had Just
accepted bid of 500 for watch and Curl
ously enough sixty three was his own age.
AT the home of David Slayback, an &C.
centric bachelor, who was found dead in
bed near Lebanon, Indiana, the neighbors
found in a pile of corn cobs an even $1,000,
all in gold. The money had originally
been tied up in paper, but rats had been
at work and the coins were well scattered
throughout the pile of cobs.