The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-04
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
americans sent Italy ST, 800, 900.


The 1908 yield Of gold in the United
States was 500, 313, 256.
Two hundred lives were lost in fire at
Canton, China, last Monday.
Two fires in Dublin, Ca, Saturday night,
caused loss of about $4,000.
Fire at Mobile, Ala, Friday, destroyed
lumber plant, causing $780, 900 loss.
Bad water made 1900 persons ill in
Bellevue, suburb Of Pittsburg, Pa.
A New York business man suicided by
leaping from vessel bound for Norfolk.
Seventeen miners were killed Tuesday
in an explosion in shaft near Birmingham.
Ships arriving in New Orleans report
that the Gulf storm was felt far into the
tropics.
Walton Bryan committed suicide at
Hopkinsville, KY, by shooting himself in
the head.
The damage by earthquake, fire and
flood at Messina and Reggie is estimated
at s273 100000.
The United States Government has
brought suit to recover 1853, 1888 acres of
land in Oregon.
Huntington, Parke and Switzerland
Counties in Indiana voted "dry" Tuesday
by big majorities.
Revelations concerning the fee system
in Maryland have aroused strong senti-
ment for its abolition.
Statistics for 1908 show that the number
of marriages in the State of New York
have fallen off greatly.
| A dozen robbers held up New York
Central freight train and got away with
several wagon-loads Of loot.
An aged couple residing on farm near
Easton, Pa, were found by neighbors
murdered in their barnyard.
Two Mississippi prisoners were killed
while attempting to escape from camps of
the Sunflower convict farm.
Ben l.. Jones, one of the wealthiest and
best known business men of Macon, Ca,
committed suicide Tuesday.
Five thousand American cats have been
shipped to Japan to aid in the war on rats
Other shipments are to follow.
Fire destroyed number of buildings
and the county Court House at Nowata,
| Okla, Saturday. Loss 100000.
Three masked men held up a saloon at
Goldfield, Nevada, and robbed the place of
over $1,000. The robbers escaped.
| The Indiana Senate last Tuesday adopt
ed resolution calling for the election Of
United States Senators by popular vote.
| Six hundred bales Of long-staple cotton
were sold Saturday at Port Gibson, Miss,
to Eastern mills at 171s cents per pound.
The forests Of the United States now
cover about 550,OOO,OOO acres, or about
one fourth of the land of the whole country.
Reports Of widespread distress, due to
the failure Of last years crops, have been
received at Constantinople from Asia
Minor.
Chicago meat packers are said to have
burned books which might have furnished
evidence in the Government rebate inves-
tigation.
The bill giving equal suffrage to women
was defeated in the Nevada House of Rep
resentatives Monday. The bill had passed
the Senate.
Four children were cremated and their
parents seriously injured in fire which
destroyed the home of A. M. Kendall, in
Dunbar, Pa.
Two railroad brakemen were crushed to
death near Waxahachie, Texas, Monday,
the head of one of the victims being sew
cred from his body.
"A man is drunk when a public nuis-
ance,' was & definition given by the Court
when one Of tie Carmack jurors at Nash
vile was challenged.
Abraham London, who suicided in New
York, left note saying: eft is a mans
duty to help nature kill off those who can
not fight against human beasts.''
Plans for a central warehouse at Nc
Raven, with capital stock of ST 900, 900,
to handle all the cotton Of the Mississippi
Farmers Union, were perfected at meet
ing in jackson.
Considerable opposition has developed
among members Of, the Business Associa-