The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-08
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The grain and grass crops OF Canada
are reported good.
Three men died in Washington, D. c.,
Friday from heat prostration.
Ten soldiers were killed in railroad
wreck in Hayti Sunday night.
A bank at Rainy River, Canada, was
robbed Of $4,000 by three men.
Hyman Levy was killed in an automo-
bile accident in Houston, Texas.
The railroad systems in northern Mexico
have been denloralized by floods.
Hannah McAuthon, aged thirteen years,
was burned to death at Bond, Miss.
A negro was lynched at Berwick, Ga,
Friday, for attempted criminal assault.
A Boston girl entered convent to keep
from disappointing two of three suitors.
A heavy rain Monday caused property
damage in Colorado estimated at $500, 900,
M. H. Taylor, of Richmond, Va, shot
and killed his wife and attempted suicide.
A. G. Langham, of Louisville, KY, was
killed by the explosion of a cannon cracker.
One hundred and fifty thousand tons of
iron were recently shipped from Stockholm
to America.
Twenty men were killed last Friday by
the collapse of the wall of dock at New
port, England.
Fire at Cobalt, Canada, Friday, caused
a loss of between S35O,OOO and 100000. |
One life was lost.
Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for
one Of whisky, L. D. O'Kelly drained the
contents and died.
Fire swept 5000 acres Of grain last
Thursday near San Fernandino, California.
The loss is S125,OO0.
Tramps seeking hidden wealth near Ru-
dolph, S. D., murdered a farmer, his wife,
daughter and farm hand.
For the fiscal year ended June 30th, the
government disbursements exceeded gov
eminent receipts by S89,811, 1855.
Several lives were lost and considerable
damage was done to property by storm
on the Texas coast last Thursday.
One hundred and forty-nine lives were
lost by the burning of Japanese steamer
Off the cost of China on June 14th.
Three miners were killed and six seri-
ously hurt in powder explosion at Toplitz,
Utah, caused by stroke Of lightning.
H. A. Savage, Confederate veteran,
and five children were cremated in resi-
dence fire at South Boston, Va, Monday.
During the months of January, February
and March, 1909, 663 persons were killed
by railroad accidents in the United States.
The corporation tax amendment to the
tariff bill was adopted after the income tax
proposition had been voted down in the
Senate.
Forty six dead and 984 persons seriously
injured is given as the number of Fourth
of July victims this year. Fire loss,
1912, 45O.
Citizens of the United States bought
S1O,OOO,OOO more in diamonds and other
precious stones during the fiscal year of
1909 than the year previous.
The American Sugar Refining Company,
six officials and two lawyers were indicted
by a Federal grand jury in New York for
violations of the antitrust laws.
Ten minutes after his marriage to a
young woman at San Antonio, Texas, Earl
Clark was arrested on charge of bigamy
and few minutes later he attempted
suicide.
Chicago experienced its hottest day of
the year Friday, and new precipitation
record for 1909 was also set when rs inch
rain fell in twenty minutes shortly after
o'clock. Two deaths were reported.
The United States Senate adopted the
joint resolution providing for the submits
sion to the States of an amendment to the
Constitution authorizing the levy of tax
on incomes. There were no votes against
the resolution.
| The Treasury statements issued on the
LIST instant show the Government receipts
for the fiscal year ended June 3Oth to have
been 1904 ,432, 846. The disbursements
aggregated 1904, 344, 002. making deficit
for the year Of S89,811, 1855.
It is estimated that $1,000 people will at
tend the International Christian Endeavor
Convention, which will be held in st. Paul,
Mimi, July 7th to 18th. Delegates are