The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-06-03
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Six men were drowned at Vicksburg by
the capsizing of launch in storm.
The Mexican Congress approved S97,- |
300, 900 budget and adjourned Monday.
President Gomez of Cuba will send his
two daughters to school in this country.
Owing to the alleged scarcity of cattle
and sheep meat prices have been put up.
Twenty one Governors are to act as an
escort to President Taft when he goes to
Colorado.
The flood situation in Mississippi is
proving disastrous to farming interests of
all kinds.
Sixty fishing vessels foundered in a
storm off the Spanish coast and 100 lives
were lost.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange will
erect an eighteen story building, costing
ST ,25O,0OO.
Naval Academy graduates at Annapolis
this year will receive their diplomas from
Admiral Dewey.
The cotton crop raised by convicts on
penitentiary farms in Mississippi had net
value of 100000.
Floods last week caused great damage
in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Oklahoma.
Rioting and the stoning Of women were
features of the hat factories strike in the
Orange IN. J.) district.
A woman died in Massachusetts from
the effects of a surgeons pad left in her
body after an operation.
The engineer and first mate Of a British
steamship at Gulfport, Miss, were drowned
while in bathing in the harbor.
A conductor, an engineer and fireman
were killed in freight wreck Saturday
near Mobile, caused by a washout.
A farmer living near Florence, Miss,
has shipped his third car load Of cabbage
this season, and reports fancy prices.
Fire which broke out May 18th at Novo
Nicholaiev, Siberia, destroyed 800 houses
in the city before it was extinguished.
Carroll Pierce, fifteen years old, shot and
killed his stepfather, Park Willard, at
Knoxville, Md, because Willard had pun
ished him.
Alvin Jenkins, seven years old, shot and
killed his five.year old brother with an old
gun while at play at their home near Re-
lance, Va.
The rainfall for five days during the al
most incessant rainy spell last week was
1880 inches at Lake, Miss, and 1928 at
Yazoo City.
Reports to the state Department at
Washington show that affairs in Cuba are
serious, and indicate that intervention may
again be necessary.
A telegram from Berlin announces that
the Prussian military authorities have de-
cided to discontinue the enlistment Of ne
groes in their army.
It is estimated that more than three
hundred thousand Americans will visit
Europe this year for the purpose of recre-
alton and sightseeing.
Naval officers in Washington were loud
in their praises of Capt. John c. Fremont,
Of the battleship Mississippi, for his sue
cessful trip up and down the Mississippi
River.
The silver service from the citizens of
Mississippi was presented to the battleship
named for the State last Tuesday at Pas
cagoula, and the brilliant ceremonies closed
with a banquet and ball at Biloxi.
The race Of pilots is rapidly dying, and
in the past ten years only twenty men
have received sufficient training to pilot a
steamboat on the Mississippi anywhere be-
tween st. Paul and New Orleans.
There has been marked increase in
immoral performances at the theatres Of
Havana, accompanied by general spread
Of vice and an outbreak Of gambling since
the American occupation. came to an end
At Enterprise, Miss, the Chickasawhay
River>rose twenty seven feet from Tues
day night to Thursday of last week. The
water stood in the stores at Enterprise from
three to five feet deep. The merchants
took in the situation before daylight We'd
nesday morning and stacked their goods
up above the water mark, hence there was
little damage to the goods. Quite num-
Der of live stock were drowned.
A slight earthquake shock lasting only