The Bossier banner., 1909-03-18
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

uncounted millions within her borders.
Many deaths have resulted from an cpl
demic of typhoid fever in Madrid, Spain.
At the head of every important river on
the Atlantic or Gulf Coast is large city.
Twenty lives were lost in collision Mon
day between two ships of Rotterdam, Hol-
land
Mexico will declare off all wheat duties
by April 1st in order to prevent a bread
famine.
Southern cotton manufacturers met
Tuesday at Atlanta, Ca, to discuss the
tariff situation.
Hundreds of persons were killed in a
landslide which buried three villages in
Pendjolo, Java.
The exports from the United States in
January, 1909, were $50, ,0oO, 900 less than
in January, 1909.
The Texas House of Representatives
adopted resolution requesting Speaker
Kennedy to resign.
The First Baptist Church of somerville,
Mass, is barred to women who refuse to
remove their hats.
| Urey Jones, on trial at Mascatine, Iowa,
for two murders, committed suicide in the
county Jail by hanging.
Many Southern rivers are on the ramp
age, even the Mississippi showing flood
eft ra "a rliar than l1sral
The saloon interests in Iowa were dealt
severe blow, when three most drastic
measures passed the Senate.
The sixty-first Congress convened in
special session Monday. Joseph G. Can
non was reelected Speaker.
Gen. William J. Palmer, the founder of
Colorado Springs, Colorado, died 6atur.
day, leaving s15,0OO,00O estate.
Robbers, after beating Mr.. and Mrs.
David Smith into insensibility at their home
near Pineville, KY, robbed them of S582.
DR.. James W. Bennett, eighty-one years
old, pioneer physician and Confederate
veteran, died Sunday at Brookhaven, Miss.
The Arkansas and the Wyoming are the
names selected for the two monster &c, 6,00O-
ton battleships recently authorized by
Congress.
In purchasing plot of ground in New
York bank paid S3O7 per square foot,
thereby establishing new high record for
real estate.
The United States Treasury is confronted
by big deficit, and either the issuance of
bonds or war taxes will be necessary to
provide funds to pay bills.
Five persons were drowned in the Ala
bama River at Montgomery Wednesday of
last week as result of the rising waters
which followed the storm of Tuesday night.
The drouth has been so severe at Saltillo
and that section of Mexico, and the result
ant suffering so great, that Bishop Jose
Maria Echeverria ordered prayers in all
churches for three days.
Nearly one-third of the worlds supply
of coffee is said to be stored in New York,
with steamers making their way. to the
city with all haste, in anticipation of the
proposed tax on the berry.
Judges in Pittsburg, Pa, refuse to issue
licenses for saloons where negroes and
whites were served indiscriminately, as
serting that in the future the city would
have "Jim Crow saloons.
DR.. Charles Eliot, an eminent educator,
in an address at Atlanta, Ca, declared
that high tariff is unfortunate because
it prevents the competition from which a
nations strength is developed.
By vote of 1875 to 70 the Georgia Di-
vision Of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy decided on Andersonville,
Ca, as the location for the monument to
Captain Wirz, having recinded its former
action in voting the monument to Rich
mond, Va.
| A cable from London dated March 18th
says influenza is extending its grip in
every direction. Last week there were
sixty six deaths in London from influenza,
as against thirty six the week before; 314
from pneumonia, as against 237, and 348
from bronchitis, as against 262 the week
before. An abnormally large number of
deaths were printed in the London papers
last week.
Scores of persons were poisoned by eat
ing meat at the noon banquet of the cele-