The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-06-24
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

SCOrmS In AuStrla ldSC Week CduScu SToeI
loss of life.
Monday was the hottest day of 1909 in
New York.
The men of Australia outnumber the
women by 247,0O0.
Saturday in New York was the coolest
June 10Th ever recorded.
By vote of A to 80 the Senate fixed a
duty of 81 ton on print paper.
Worms are doing great damage to the
rice in the coastal country of Texas.
A severe earthquake Sunday shook
buildings down in the Canary Islands.
A prisoner was cremated when fire de-
stroyed the Jail at Kirbyville, Texas.
Russian robbers, refused money, killed
a landowner, his mother and servants.
In fight between robbers and train
crew in Oklahoma constable was killed.
The damage of the recent earthquake in
South France is estimated at $4,000, 900.
E.. H. Nall, State Land Commissioner of
Mississippi, died suddenly at Jackson on
the 18th instant.
1t is estimated that heavy rains have
caused loss of S25O,OO0 to farmers in
Garrard County, KY. :
Twelve persons have been drowned in
the vicinity of st. Louis since the swim
ming season began.
Five men and sixty-eight horses were
burned to death Saturday afternoon in a
fire at Duluth, MINI.
Rev. Theodore T. Tabb, formerly of
West Virginia, was drowned while SWIM
ming in Hagi, Japan.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad state
ment for May shows an increase in net
earnings of over S725, 535.
While attempting to ford Kaw Greek,
near Boyton, Okla, Mrs. Rentie and her
two children were drowned.
In an office building elevator accident in
Cincinnati one man was killed and seven
others injured, four seriously.
Seventeen miners were killed and sixteen
injured by coal mine explosion at War
houm, Pa, yesterday morning.
A net increase of 81 ,848, O75.71 in re-
sources is shown by the 1854 banks of
Mississippi reporting on June I'd.
Ten persons we're killed and forty others
injured, many seriously, in the collision of
two electric cars near Michigan City, Ind.
The local option election in Warrick
County, Ind, last Thursday, resulted in a
a prohibition victory. The vote was close.
| A highwayman held Up the cashier of a
bank in the heart of the. business section
of Fort Worth, Texas, and escaped with
$500.
Rather than be taken home by the police
two eighteen-year-old girls carried out q
suicide pact in Springfield, ILL.,, by taking
poison.
Albert Monroe and his bride were found
dead-from eating poisoned candy, it is
thought their apartments at Williams
burg, Pa.
For five hours Sunday rain fell at Mobile
in torrents. The rainfall was the heaviest
in recent months, being total of over
four inches.
John S. Holmes, sixty-seven years old,
a Confederate veteran, musician of note
and prominent business man, died at Mo-
bile Sunday.
Three men were killed and four injured
by the explosion of powder works Monday
at Pompton Lake, N. j. Six buildings
were wrecked.
There are nearly 8O,OOO,0OO acres OF
swamps in the United States. Enough OF
this land can be reclaimed to support
10000, 900 people.
Several business houses were destroyed
at Key West, Fla, by fire last Thursday.
The loss was $4,000, with insurance OF
about 20 per cent.
Because he was spanked by his mother,
the five-year-old son of Mrs. Samuel Scott
committed suicide by throwing himself into
a well at Central City, KY.
i With the hands bound and weighted
down with iron, the body of w. C. Bridges,
a sawmill owner of Waverly, Miss, was
found in the Tombigbee River.
Miss Ray Burkhalter, Of Pine Bluff, was
decoyed into an Office building at Little
Rock, Ark, beaten into unconsciousness,
bound and gagged and assaulted.
Mrs. Sallie A. Hammond, sixty years