The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-01
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Monday
Hartman will invade Mexico with a
S75, 900 railroad.
The 'Hope diamond was sold at auc-
ton in Paris for $4,000.
Jacob H. schiff advocates Jewish set
Element on site near Galveston.
A Chicago paralytic saw his wife commit
suicide and was unable to stop her.
The prohibitionist at Roanoke, Va, won
the election by majority of 104 votes.
Prohibition went into effect throughout
the State of Tennessee at IL O'Clock last
night.
The Senate passed the House Bill appro-
priating $4,000, 900 for the taking of the
census.
The campaign for prohibition was opened
at Omaha at a meeting attended by 10000
persons.
/ Promoters of an electric street railway
at New iberia asked the City Council for a
| franchise.
President Reyes, of Colombia, it is said,
fled from his country because he feared
assassination.
A hundred and seven persons died OF
bubonic plague in Annoy, China, in the
past two week.
/ A negro was killed by the heat Friday,
and several men were Frustrated at Wash
ington, D. c.
Sick and driven to madness by the heat,
Joseph l.. Woodson committed suicide at
Midlothian, Va.
There were ten deaths from the heat in
Chicago Monday. Two deaths were re.
ported in Indiana.
A force of women police to stop girls
from swimming unclothed has been pro-
posed in Beloit, Wis.
An Italian in love with girl of fourteen,
shot her and her mother and ended his
life, at Albany, N. Y.
Fire at Lake George, N. Y, last Thurs
day, caused s250,000 damage to the Fort
William Henry Hotel.
Joseph B. Hamilton, farmer living near
Salem, Ind, committed suicide by shooting
himself with shotgun.
| Louise Cunningham, three years old,
was smothered to death between pillows at
her home in Danville, Va.
Several cotton mill companies in the
Carolinas announce that they will extern
sively enlarge their plants.
A mob at Cuthbert, Ca, lynohed a negro
who assaulted Miss Mary Taunton, chop
ping off her arm with an ak.
The report of the new ginners' associa-
ton issued late Monday gives the cotton
average up to June oath as 1913.
A negro horse thief, who had escaped
Jail twice, was taken from officers and
shot to death near Maben, Miss.
Only 1872 out of the 274 young men who
took examinations for admissions to the
Naval Academy were successful.
Mrs. James Reid, thirty years old, al
bride Of six weeks, committed suicide at
Temple, Texas, Monday morning.
Two boys who took refuge under tree
during a storm were killed by lightning
near Birmingham, Ala, Tuesday.
England, with only 10000 miles of
public road, spent last year more than
S89, OOO, 900, or an average of s593 per mile.
George Burney, formerly of New Or
leans, killed his father, wounded his sister,
in-law and blew out his brains at Quincy,
Illinois.
heat wave extended over the entire
Eastern section of the country last week.
Many deaths and much suffering were
reported.
State Senator |. w. Durham, former
head of the Republican organization in
Philadelphia, dropped dead in Atlantic
City Monday.
Nine more deaths were added to the list
of heat victims in Philadelphia Monday.
This makes total of more than forty for
the present hot spell.
Thomas Shields, aged fourteen years,
was instantly killed near Corpus Christi,
Texas, by the accidental discharge of a
shotgun while hunting.
Five American and four English tourists
and two Irish boatmen were drowned dur
ing storm on Lake Killarney, Ireland,
Wednesday of last week.