The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-25
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on March 10Th.
A bank at Kilgore, Texas, was blown
,pen and robbed of So, 400.
Two persons were killed and five wounded
n riot at Grenada, Spain.
Three men were killed in powder ex-
olosion near Golfers, W. Va.
Three Frenchmen were killed and eaten
by natives in the Congo, Africa.
Sausage supposed to have been poisoned
killed three persons at Memphis.
Gov. Gillett, of California, has signed
the anti-race track gambling bill.
Myer Brothers, at Meridian, Miss, sus-
tanned $4,000 fire loss Saturday.
Mrs. William Erb, Of Carroll County,
Nd, drowned herself in spring.
G. w. Franklin was killed with maui
at Norfolk, Va, by fellow-workman.
Albany, y, was damaged by high
floods in the Hudson River last Saturday.
Seven men and an educated horse lost
their lives in railroad collision in Della
ware.
Mrs. Thomas Cooper, bride of four
days, was murdered in her apartments at
Chicago.
Carroll D. Wright, former United States
Commissioners of Labor, died at Worcester,
Mass, Saturday.
A complete survey of the Atlantic inland
waterway is provided for in the Rivers
and Harhors. Bill.
G.. E. Kanaut, while in a taxicab at
Reading, Pa, with Stella Rocktasha, killed
the girl and suicided.
j. w. OFT was blown to pieces at Bloom
ington, Md, by the explosion of 100
pounds of dynamite.
The price Of steel rails was recently cut
from S28 to S25 per ton, the first change in
price in eight years.
The type Of the Panama Canal is re-
garded as definitely and finally settled in
favor of lock canal.
Secretary Haldane declares the British
| Government hopes to have an army as
strong as that of Germany.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
has, issued s82,O0O,00o Of bonds for i'm
provements and extensions.
l. Six persons were killed and thirty seri-
ously injured during a fire in moving
picture theater in lula, Russia.
| Grand Duke Vladimar Alexandrovitch
blamed for Russia's "Red Sunday Of
/ 1905, died last Thursday in st. Petersburg
H. K. Smith, Commissioner Of Corpora
lions, says the American Tobacco Com
pany now dominates the industry abso-
lutely.
| .4At Montovi, Wis, an insane farmer
murdered his four children, killed his live
stock and the house cat, and committed
suicide.
! A mob in Omaha, Neb., wrecked thirty
buildings occupied by Greeks. The out
break followed mass meeting to denounce
the murder Of policeman by Greek.
Sixty villages in Lursitan Province
Persia, were wholly or partially destroyed
and between 5000 and 5000 persons los
their lives in the earthquake Of January %
Twenty London suffragets were arrested
!. when they endeavored to place resolution
in the hands of Premier Asquith. They
refused to pay fines and were sent to Jail
/ Robert Bledsoe, who attempted to extor
1000 from a Kansas City merchant b,
threatening him with bomb, was sen
fenced to thirty years in the penitentiary
j A Chinaman, arrested in San Francisco
t on gambling charge, had q number Q
society women summoned to prove tina
} his club is no more a gambling joint thai
are the white clubs.
Four persons were killed, thirty seriousl
; ly wounded and forty more slightly injure
} by tornado at Fisher, Union County
Ark, Tuesday. Practically the entir
} town Of Fisher was wrecked.
A negro confessed to assaulting an
; numbering fourteen-year-old Mary Dobb
: in Boutetourt County, Va, and was con
victed and sentenced to death With
Q twenty four hours Of the crime.
The American battleship fleet steame
into Hampton Roads, Va, on schedul
time last Monday, completing the cruise
10000 miles, lasting fourteen months, an
the greatest cruise in the history Of tt