The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-02
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
l.. A. Bickle suicided at Augusta, Ga.
The wheat crop in the Northwest will be
larger than usual.
Over $50 cases Of pellagra are reported
in the Illinois Insane Asylum.
Miss Myrtle Dorsey, sixteen years old,
of Chattanooga, suicided by drowning.
Louisville, KY, made record last week
as the hottest place in the United States.
Five persons were killed Sunday when a
train struck an automobile near ST. Louis.
The postoffices of this country show a
tremendous increase in business over that
of last year.
Richmond, Va, will employ 1000 more
men at the locomotive works on orders for
forty engines.
Seven children were suffocated in fire
which destroyed the Children's Home at
Long Island, New York.
Moving pictures and illustrated songs
were successfully tried Sunday night in
Methodist Church in Atlanta, Ga.
Arthur Brown, colored, confessed to the
murder of youth for $3.50 before going
to the gallows at Wheeling, w. Va.
':After prolonged fight with famine and
frost,'' says DR.. Frederick A. Cook, 'we
have at last reached the North Pole.''
Seventeen and one-half inches of rain
fall is the official record at Monterey, Mex,
during Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
! About 100000 babies were born in the
United States last year, and $4,000 or 10
per cent. of that number died within the
year.
Mrs. John Winkleman, murdered near
! Fayetteville, Tenn, was robbed of $40, 600
which she carried in belt around her
waist.
1t is estimated that 1000 lives were lost,
and damage to the extent Of $50, 900, 900
was done by the great flood at Monterey,
Mexico, last week.
A total of 5000 bags Of coffee from
Brazil arrived in New York August 25th,
breaking all records for one days receipts
in the United States.
In the United States women possess
suffrage upon equal terms with men at all
elections in four States: Wyoming, Idaho,
!, Colorado and Utah.
Five of the crew were lost, but 1913 pas
sengers saved through the efforts of the
wireless operator when the steamer Ohio
sank off the Alaskan coast Monday.
One negro was slain, another lynched, a
posseman was killed and five others were
wounded as result of an attempt to arrest
an escaped negro convict at Soperton, Ga.
The Isthmus of Panama experienced an
earthquake shock shortly after O'Clock
Monday morning. The people were greatly
alarmed, but no serious damage has been
reported and no one was injured.
The report Of the National Ginners' AS
ISOLATION, made public Monday, gives the
condition of cotton up to and including
, August oath as 64.1 per cent. This is the
, lowest condition in a number Of years.
A yield of 1914, 900, 900 bushels of corn
for the crop of 1909 is indicated. The
) greatest increase in acreage is reported in
Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and one OF
two other Southern States, with Louisiana
, leading the list.
The temperature at Norfolk, Nebraska
dropped fifty eight degrees within forty
eight hours, falling from ninety eight Fri
day to forty Sunday. The cold wave Of
Sunday is said to have brought light frosts
on the lowlands.
With normal conditions obtaining the
remainder of the season it is very doubtful
that Alabama's cotton crop this year viii
be within 100000 bales of last year. Or
account Of the hot, dry weather cotton is
opening very fast and picking has become
general in the Southern counties.
Twelve men were killed, five probably
fatally injured and many others were seri-
ously hurt by the explosion of 700 pounds
of dynamite at a railroad construction
camp near Key West, Fla, Monday. The
explosion was caused by member of the
force carelessly throwing lighted Gig
arctic into box of fuses.
Our exports of cotton cloths to China
and HONG KOnp durinu tho twelve months