The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-08-12
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Connecticut Legislature has repealed
the Sunday blue laws of that State.
AS the result of fight following joke,
Joe Burnfin was killed at Chaska, Tenn.
The new battleship South Carolina will
be given her official trip on August oath.
Thirty-five persons were injured when a
railroad train struck street car in Chicago.
Five men were killed in free for all
fight at Sunday picnic near Minneapolis.
The tariff bill was signed by President
Taft and Congress adjourned last Thurs
day.
Misses Rebecca Womack and Ella Free
man were drowned at Havana, Fla, while
swimming in mill pond.
The body of woman, believed to have
been assaulted and murdered, was found
in thicket near Detroit, Mich.
The New Orleans Picayune says the
expected large corn crop of Mississippi
may offset the cotton shortage.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Crayens were killed
when an intururban car struck their auto
mobile near Alexandria, Indiana.
In cemetery at Rochester, N. Y, the
body of fifteen year-old girl was found.
She had been criminally assaulted.
Peter jackson, while drinking a bottle
of pop at Punxsutawney, Pa, diglodged
his false teeth and swallowed them.
The first white Collector of the Port at
Savannah, Ca, since President Mckin-
ley's first term, was sworn in Friday.
Herman Henning, merchant, was MUIR
dered, apparently for the purpose of rob.
berry, in the heart of Nashville, Tenn.
Jim Wilson, his eleven year-old son and
fifteen-year-old daughter were drowned in
coal mine in Henderson County, KY.
The Agricultural Department estimates
the total yield of winter wheat at 1872, $780,
600 bushels as against 437 ,9O8, 900 last year.
After wounding his wife in the arm and
trying to kill their young son, Walter
Gipson committed suicide at Cardova, Ala.
/ Thirty-two sailors were drowned in the
wreck of the British steamer Maori off
Slang Bay, South Africa, on the night of
the 4th instant.
The largest irrigation project in the
world will be included in the government g
plan to reclaim 10000 acres of land in the
Rio Grand Valley.
Thomas Mcdonald, farmer of Center
Junction, Iowa, was beaten to death by
two masked robbers early Friday morning.
The robbers escaped.
Miss Bertha Define, after quarreling
with her sweetheart at Roanoke, Va, at
tempted suicide by shooting, but heavy
frat" in her hair saved her life.
John Thompson, eighteen years old, was
convicted at WEIGH, W. Va, of criminally
assaulting End numbering ten-year-old
girl and sentenced to life term.
One man was killed and several persons
were injured in wreck Sunday afternoon
; at Galloway, Tenn, due to the carelessness
of negro porter in throwing switch.
Former Mayor r. H. Thomas fell dead
from heart disease, superinduced by ex-
IRENE heat Sunday, while sitting on the
front porch of his home at Parkersburg,
West Virginia.
The State Fair of Texas will open at
Dallas on Saturday, October 18th, and
continue sixteen days. The premiums,
awards, purses and stakes listed in the
general catalogue total $4,000.
Capt. Robert E. Houston died at Aber-
deem, Miss, recently, aged seventy-one
years. During the Confederate War he
served under Major Generals Earl Van
, Dorm and John H. Morgan, being with the
latter when he was killed at Greenville,
, Tenn.
, The heat was intense in New York Mon
day. Seven persons died during the day,
thousands slept during the night on the
sand at Coney Island Beach and others
} rested in the city parks in the open air.
Six deaths occurred from the heat in Phil
adelphia.
Mansfield Journal: Not within the recol-
lection of the writer has Louisiana had q
Governor s0 closalv idenf;f7od with the in