The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-11
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

To date seventeen candidates for mayor
have announced in Boston.
The number of suicides in this country
in 1908 was the highest yet known.
A livery stable and eight horses were
burned Friday at Chestertown, Md.
E. j. Perry, at Greensburg, Pa, killed
his four year old child and suicided.
Albert Koch, merchant, was murd cred
and robbed of $1,000 at Bernstadt, KY.
One girl employee was killed and sixteen
injured in factory fire at plymouth, Pa.
Halstead Street, Chicago, is as straight
as an arrow, and twenty eight miles in
length.
Forest fires have destroyed miles of val
liable timber in the great North Mountains
of Virginia.
Building operations in Washington, D.
c., for the past fiscal year amounted to
SD, 1875, 1874.
The Republican plurality in Massachu-
sets this year was 5000, while year ago
it was 10000.
Eight men, prevented from escaping by
iron barred windows, lost their lives in a
New York fire.
Judge Gaynor, Democrat, was elected
mayor of New York on Tuesday of last
week by 10000 plurality.
The next annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held in Mobile
on April 26th, 9th and 28th.
AS result of an epidemic of typhoid
fever at the Athens (Ala.) Female College
four young women are dead.
Black Rock Springs Hotel and twenty
seven cottages were burned in the forest
fires in Rockingham County, Va.
Expectations of American wheat have
fallen off considerably, while the home
consumption has greatly increased.
Four persons were killed and a score
injured in an accident on an elevated rail-
road at Jersey City, N. j., Saturday.
After making 1925 knots, the North
Dakota was declared to be the fastest bat
tleship of the Dreadnought type afloat.
The plant of the Norfolk and Southern
Railroad, at Newborn, N. c., was destroyed
by fire Saturday, entailing 100000 loss.
Only twenty-one per cent. of the Rus
slams are educated. The seventy nine per
cent. who do not read and write toll and
starve.
The German Government has been
robbed of not less than S1,5OO,OOO worth
of naval stores in consequence of system
attic grating.
Nine persons have already been killed
and sixteen wounded since the beginning
of the hunting season in Wisconsin and
upper Michigan.
Joe Webb and John Clark, his son-in-
law, killed each other at Mount Springs,
Ala, in duel over the possession of a
bottle of whisky.
The total production Of corn in the
United States for 1909 is 2,767, 316, 900
bushels. against 2,668, 651 900 as finally
estimated last year.
Mrs. Ella Palmer, who during the War
Between the States organized the hospital
corps of the Confederate Army of the
Tennessee, died at Denver, Col, Sunday,
aged eighty years. he's
At reception rendered in his honor at
Versailles, KY, last Thursday night Gov.
Blackburn, of the Panama Canal Zone,
announced that he would resign and spend
the rest of his life at his old home.
Thieves broke into church in Russian
Poland and stole jewels worth 100000.
Finding they could not safely sell the
stolen gems, they impudently offered to
return the loot for cash consideration.
A man who is believed to have been an
American or an Englishman dramatically
committed suicide in cafe at Paris,
France, last Thursday night. He had
asked the orchestra seven times to play the
waltz "When Love Dies,'' and as the last
strain died away he placed pistol to his
head and shot himself dead.
John Stewart Kennedy, one of Americas
little known rich men, who died of whoop-
ing cough in his New York residence on
October 31st, left requests Of more than
S25, 1000 to religious, charitable and {
educational institutions in his will filed for
probate Friday in New York. The gift is i
the largest single contribution of its kind