The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-30
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

Eight persons persisted in fire Friday
at Hillsvile, Pa.
Ten persons were killed in a railroad
wreck Saturday in Bohemia.
Out of 200 cases of pellagra in Missis-
sippi, ninety-one deaths occurred.
The Japanese residents Of Seattle sent
ST 200, 900 in cash to Japan in Christmas
gifts.
Nine miners were killed and over
score entombed last Thursday at Marion,
Illinois.
More than 100000 of the poor of New
York City were provided with Christmas
dinners.
The United States Steel Corporation is
to spend S1OC,O00,OOO in new plants and
additions.
Five men were killed and many injured
by the explosion of locomotive boiler at
Shawnee, Okla.
Fire at Crystal River, Florida, Friday,
destroyed the Dixon cedar pencil factory,
causing 100000 loss.
Twenty eight persons persisted in land
slide caused by the floods in village near
Viana Navarro, Spain.
Heavy ice closed the Ohio River at Can
Melton, Indiana, and Hawesville, KY, and
people crossed on the ice.
Shortly after marrying Miss Rose Butler
at Lynn, Ca, Gabriel Len was shot AM
killed by Joe Jackson, rejected sutton.
DR.. William H. Taylor was recently re-
appointed Coroner of Richmond, Va, hav-
ing served in that capacity thirty-seven
years.
Agosta Dema was killed at Sandusky,
Ohio, by Frank Benah, who confessed that
he was given $500 to do the job by jim
Primer, who wanted to marry the victims
wife.
Rain storms in Southwest Europe last
week caused the most disastrous floods
experienced in fifty years. The towns Of
Burgos, Zamora, ValladoIid in Spain suf.
fered most. Many houses were swept
away.
"Dixie" has finally been officially pro-
claimed as first in American songs anc
music in ''patriotic popularity Such is
the verdict Of O. G. T. Sonneck, chief Of
the division of music of the Library Of
Congress, who has just issued from the
Government press an exhaustive report or
four famous American musical compost.
tons.
After killing an enemy, then being
wounded by the latter's wife and in turr
shooting her and her two children anc
being captured only after officers agar
wounded him, Henry Pennington, white
was lynched at Hurley, Va, late Saturday
night. Pennington shot his enemy, Baker
while the latter was on his way to Sun
dhy School Christmas tree with his wife
his two children and a friend.
New England was swept Saturday nigh
and until late Sunday by a terrific vino
and snow storm. Three persons lost thiel
lives near Boston, two near Seymour
Conn.,, and almost every city of conse.
quence where the storm reached, reports
suffering or deaths due to exposure. No
since 1851 has such gale and high tide
swept the coast at Boston. In that city
the tide went across Atlantic Avenue or
the water front, and filling hundreds O
cellers, caused an estimated damage O
over ST 100000 AtChelsea, Mass, 2,50(
people were driven from their homes by
the flood, and fifty families in the vicinity
of Sagus River were driven from thei
homes by the tide. The snow storm hell
up 1900 freight cars at Youngstown, Ohio
about 1000 at Buffalo, N. Y, and abou
1900 at Cleveland, Ohio. Delaware re-
ports the most severe snow storm that has
occurred since 1883. No less than a dozer
trains were stalled in snow drifts within
fifteen miles of Wilmington. In Maryland