The Bossier banner., 1909-03-25
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Floods in Peru last week entailed con-
siderable damage.
Four assaults on white girls within a
week occurred in Pittsburg, Pa.
Henry Wheatley, of Culpeper County,
Va, murdered his wife with an ak.
Grafton, W. Va, went dry by majority
of sixty-six votes on the 17th instant.
The next census appointments will be
made by the Civil Service Commission.
Fire at Sour Lake, Texas, destroyed the
Springs Hotel, with about $50, 900 loss.
More than eighty vessels and 221 lives
were lost in Northern waters last winter.
The Consul General at Havana predicts
sugar crop of 100000 tons for Cuba.
Hans A. Herzfelt, of Lynchburg, Va,
committed suicide because he lost his po-
sition.
The census report on cotton stocks shows
that 8, ,252, 1868 bales are held in the United
States.
Fire last Thursday destroyed the Union
Passenger Station in Louisville, KY, with
S4OO, 900 loss.
Under new vagrant law in Washington
more than 200 arrests Of negroes were
made in four days.
Four negroes were drowned Sunday
when a launch capsized in the Mississippi
River at Memphis.
The Emperor of Russia has asked the
Ministers for advice as to how to deal with
the crisis in Finland.
Five men we're killed and score injured
in mine explosion Saturday afternoon
near Evansville, Indiana.
The Government Census Bureau reports
that 13, ,405, ,841 bales of cotton Of the 1908
1909 crop have been ginned.
Six children were burned to death in a
dwelling house fire started by the upsetting
of lamp, in Morella, Mexico.
In the presence of widow of whom
both were enamored, William Kirby was
killed by Phil Hartford at Dyersburg, Tenn.
A Baptist preacher shot and killed a
Presbyterian minister in Russ, Mo-, Tues
day, as the outcome of business difficulty.
In White School, Indiana, student was
strung up by his heels to sapling and left
hanging by fellow-students. Death re-
suited.
Excited women wanted to kiss the de-
fendant's attorney when L. c. Mann was
declared not guilty of the murder of a
woman in Chicago.
Informed that the malady from which
he was suffering was tuberculosis, Ollie
Ryndy a traualing salasman, enmmittad
suicide in Waynesboro, Miss.
The seventy second birthday anniver-
sary of. the late Ex-President Cleveland
was observed in New York last Thursday.
An address by. President Taft was the
feature of the celebration.
The bursting of the water tanks, which
supplied the city of Parkersburg, W. Va,
resulted in three deaths and the serious
injury of other residents of the city whose
homes were in the path of the flood.
Oklahoma farmers have formed a CO.
operative organization which, if present
plans are carried out, will enter the meat
packing business and will also build elava-
tors at every grain shipping point in the
State.
Mrs. Thomas Fulgham, aged ninety
years, committed suicide by hanging her.
self with pillow line at her home in Dickson
County, Tenn. She leaves husband
ninety-four years old and large family
of sons and daughters.
In minority report to the House the
Democratic members of the Ways and
Means Committee criticised the Payne tariff
bill as increasing the cost of living, as be-
ing crude, indefinite, sectional and prohib-
tive, and as being an open challenge for a
trade war with every nation on earth.
DR.. John William Jones, who by his his
torical works and close association with
General Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant
General Stonewah Jackson, gained the
title ''Historian of the Confederacy," died
on the 17th instant, at Columbus, Ga. He
was born at Louisa Court House, Va,
September 25, 1886.
Snow was general over the State of
Virginia last Sunday, which began falling
early in the morning and continued without
cessation until night. At Petersburg the