The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-01-14
--LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.


for the restoration of his sight.
Three lives were lost in a New York
tenement house fire last Thursday.
w. A. Andrews, married Christmas, and
missing for week, was found hanging on
q tree.
Twenty five lives were lost in gas ex-
plosion in a mine at Zeigler, ILL.,, Sunday
morning.
June LIST, I'd and Sd have been fixed as
the dates of the 1909 Confederate Reunion
at Memphis.
Earthquake shocks in the Canary Islands
and along the entire coast of Africa were
Saturday
The Jail at Poplarville, Miss, was storm
ed, and negro who attacked young
lady was lynched,
= John w. Gates gave 100000 to Port
Arthur, Texas, for memorial hospital in
honor of his mother.
: One man frooze to death and two men
were drowned at Rockport, Texas, during
the blizzard Tuesday.
While on her way to church, Miss Marie
Stumpf was attacked by negro in the
heart Of Richmond, Va.
John w. Gates, millionaire capitalist,
says that iron ore, coal and lumber should
be placed on the free list.
Secretary Wilson has announced the
names of six experts appointed to fix nine
standard grades of cotton.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
on the National Banks for S25, 900 900 of
the Governments deposits.
Austria Hungary offered to pay Turkey
$40, 100000 indemnity for the annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In a collision between two steampships
near Novorossisk thirty-four members Of
one of vessels were drowned.
>. Five school boys in st. Louis were ar
rested last Thursday, charged with MUIR
der of a peddler, whom they stoned.
One woman was killed and two men
loGdlly "OuHAOA III a StlCOt OdUVlO OdGUFudy
at Williamstown, KY, between feudist.
The Democrats in the Illinois Legislature
combined with the Republicans and elected
Edward D. Shurtleff Speaker of the House.
There were 81 1923, 819 males of voting
age in the United States at the last census.
Only 13,969, PA of them voted In the GEN.
sus year. =
= The entire western coast of Mexico was
shaken by an earthquake last Friday.
The damage was trivial and no fatalities
have been renorted.
). Pennsylvania is erecting monument on
the siet Of Fort Malone to the memory Of
her soldiers who fell in front of Peters
burg, Va, in 1864-5.
Oysters are reported to be plentiful in
the Chesapeake and tributaries in Mary
land, but prices are so low that tongers are
planting their catches.
Six of the night riders who we're con-
victed at Union City, Tenn, we're SEN
fenced to death, and two were given
twenty years in prison.
Over 100 men were killed by an explo-
sion Tuesday in a coal mine near Blue
fields, West Virginia. Two weeks ago fifty
miners were killed by an explosion in this
mine.
;, The crime statistics for 1908 show that
there were 1852 homicides in the United
States, 1882 suicides and $50 persons
killed and lila injured in automobile ac-
cidents.
The bill to prohibit the sale of intoxi-
eating. liquors in Tennessee which passed
the Senate Monday passed the House
Wednesday by vote of 81 to SO, and will
go to the Governor for his action. The
bill provides that prohibition become eff
fective July 1, 1909.
The House of Representatives Monday
formally rebukcd President Roosevelt for
his message on the limitation by Congress
of the activities of the Secret Service. The
Senate adopted resolution inquiring into
the Presidents right to approve the abb
sorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company by the Steel Trust.
i;>T. Gems of Thought.
Irish: Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Smythe: Duty first; pleasuse second.
Ronnho fouconld. uonn;no., :, :. ~.