The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-01-28
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS


Sam Davenport was lynched near Tus-
cumbia, Ala, for arson.-
Assailant OF Miss Rinlay at Bolivar, Ala,
was lynched Sunday night.
President elect Gomez, of Cuba, will be
inaugurated at Havana to-day.
Steam and surface subway roads in New
York City killed 444 persons during 1908,
The dates for the Memphis reunion of
the Confederate Veterans has finally been
fixed for June 9Th, 9th and 10th.
Planters near Austin, Miss threatened
to lynch the keeper of blind tiger.
A State wide prohibition bill was intro
duced in the Utah Legislature Monday.
Two soldiers died Monday at Fort du
Pont, Del, from drinking denatured alco-
hol.
A juror in murder trial at Canton,
Miss, went insane by worrying over the
case.
John Cage, fagman, soon to have been
married, was killed by his train at Harris
ton, Miss.
The earthquake loss in Messina is esti-
mated at SITS, 200, 600 and at 500, 900
in Reggie.
Fifty-six persons were killed in an ex-
plosion of fire damp in mine in Hungary
last Friday.
Three miners were killed and ten injured
in coal mine accident near Piedmont, W.
Va, Monday.
The tax assessments for 1909 in New
York City show a falling off of about
5000, 100000.
May Freshour, fifteen years old, was
criminally assaulted and murdered at
Dayton, Ohio.
Two prominent farmers of. Alabama
fought duel near Beatrice in which both
men were killed.. " ~ !.
The estimated value of realty in New
York is S6,861 ,OO0,O and Of personal
propertys 3O0,OOO,O0O. ..s
In Pittsburg an insane convict stabbed
his nurse and fatally wounded a guard.
The latter killed the convict
Mules, horses and cattle valued at SIS, 900
were killed in an Illinois Central freight
wreck near West Point, Miss.
J. B. Rineheart, former cashier of bank
at Waynesboro, Pa, was sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary.
The inventor of absinthe sold his secret
for trifle to man who disposed of it for
$4,000 to third person, who made mil
lions.
There were 1887 1921 running bales of
cotton ginned from the growth Of 1908 to
January 18th last, against 10,339, $50 a
year ago.
Racing men and others concede racing
in California is doomed and predict the
present meetings will be the last conducted
in that State.
Floods in California are said to have
done considerable damage to railroad traffic
last week. More than fifteen inches of
rain fell in that section in four days.
Phenomenally high tides, assuming in
places proportions of tidal waves, were re-
ported from all points along the Pacific
Slope Saturday, Much damage was done.
Eastern and English capitalists have
bought site at Gainesville, Fla, and will
;n,,oct GO OnO nOO - ,,;ll. e.. II. ~...,e.
ture of paper from the fibre obtained from
pine stumps.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was pelted with eggs
in London music hall Monday night, one
of them striking her in the face. From
the very beginning the audience main
tanned chorus of boos and Kisses, and
she was obliged to quit the house under
police protection.
The earthquake shocks at Monteleone,
Italy, average dozen day andapparently
they are increasing in number and inten-
sity. The refugees are in constant state
of alarm and the vast majority of them
have decided to emigrate to America as
soon as they can secure transportation.
President-elect and Mrs. Taft and party
including a small staff of distinguished
civil engineers, selected to inspect with
the President-elect the Isthmian Canal
sailed from Charleston, S. c., on the big
cruiser North Carolina for Panama early
Monday morning. The party will reach
New Orleans on the return trip on Feb. Is