The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-05-13
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
A $3.50, 900 fire occurred at Barnett, B. c.
The Pay Department Of the Cuban Army
is reported short 100000
Some Americans have had fine auto
mobile built for Pope Plus.
Mehmed V was invested with the dignity
of Sultan of Turkey Saturday.
Recent forest fires caused great damage
in the vicinity of Itacuaro, Mexico.
A negro who assaulted white woman
at Camden, Fla, was lynched Saturday.
Thirty-th Vicksburg policemen vol
unfairly asked for reduction in salary.
Wholesale smuggling Of Chinese through
Ell Paso is alleged by Federal authorities.
In fight near Vera Cruz, Mexico, six
Americans and several Mexicans were
killed.
Mississippi gains s5,OOO,O0O in timber
rights by the settlement Of the sixteenth
section cases.
Robert Aldrich was killed at Jackson
vile, Fla, by j. G. Cross, who mistook
him for a burglar.
Angus Chauvin, residing near Thibo-
daux, was assassinated while eating sup
per Saturday night.
Twenty persons were drowned when
gasoline LAUGH sank in the Ohio River near
Pittsburg Tuesday.
/ Five Cincinnati bucket-shop men, who
ale alleged to have secured S1,OO0,OOO,
were convicted of fraud.
The mixing room of the Latin powder
mill at Turk Station, Kansas, blew up
Monday, killing four men.
Becoming suddenly insane, W. L. Hal
sey of Huntsville, Ala, killed ]. r. Jones
and seriously wounded A. D. Mcdowell.
A fatal heat prostration occurred at Des
Moines, Iowa, Wednesday of last week,
the temperature being ninety -four degrees.
Unable to secure work, J. P. Matthias
kissed his wife good-by, and walking into
an adjoining room, committed suicide at
Mobile.
/ The steamer Shores went down off White
fish Point in Lake Superior with all on
board. The crew and passengers numbered
twenty one.
The new government of Turkey is TAX
ing hold of the relief work in Asia Minor
with vigor, and the Christians are begin
ming to feel secure again.
After saving one orphan from drowning
in lake near Jackson, Miss, A. c.
:. Anderson, Millsaps College student, per-
ished in a vain attempt to rescue another.
j The explosion of stick of dynamite
carelessly or maliciously placed in stove
caused the death of two men and serious
injury to three others at a coal mine near
Fredericksburg, Ohio.
!, Charles w. Morse, at one time worth
$50, 900 600, testified that he had nothing
: left of his great fortune. Morse is now
serving prison term for violation of the
; national banking laws.
/ A party Of nine, composed of six men,
one women and two children, were drown
ed in the Susquehanna River Sunday.
The party set out from Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
in a rowboat which shipped water and
sank in the middle of the stream.
The Senate, by vote of fifty-three to
nineteen, Friday adopted the amendment
fixing rate of IL cents on the lead in
lead ore. All the Republicans voted for
the provision and Hughes Of Colorado and
McEnery of Louisiana, stood with them.
Delegates representing 100000 Bap-
lists are attending the Southern Baptist
Convention in Louisville, KY, which be-
gan with banquet at the Gait House
Tuesday night. The convention will last
five days, during which time it is estimated
that $1,000 visitors will be in that city.
), An army balloon which assembled from
Fort Omaha just before noon Monday,
landed at $3.50 o'clock that night at Jack
son, Neb., after flight of about 100 miles
in six and half hours. The balloon ex-
ploded and was destroyed by fire as it
landed. The occupants escaped with
minor scratches.