The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-04-15
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

May wheat went to S1.254 at Chicago
Tuesday.
Fire in Rochester, N. Y, Tuesday did
100000 damage.
A heavy snow fell in the northwest part
Of Missouri Monday.
A wave Of depravity is said to be sweep
ing over Germany's children.
Seven men were killed in mine explo-
sion last Thursday near Johnstown, Pa.
One thousand bales of cotton from New
Orleans wers burned at Dunkirk, France.
N. S. McNeal of Howe, Texas, commit
ted suicide on train at Gurley, Ala,
Sunday.
During the last fifteen months 1O1 per-
sons were killed by automobiles in New
York.
Out of 548 prisoners sent to the peni-
tertiary from Mississippi in 1908, 1853 were
for homicides.
Heavy frosts Monday night seriously
damaged the fruit and corn crops in north
and east Texas.
Considerable damage to property was
done by Mondays storm at Pelahatchie,
Sanford and Magnolia, Miss.
A young negro was lynched last Thurs
day for attempting to assault the daughter
of farmer near Hopkinsville, Ky.
When Pennsylvania woman became
the mother Of twins her mother dropped
dead and her husband killed himself.
Three inches of snow fell last Saturday
in the western part Of Maryland and in
many places the ice was half an inch thick.
A. W. T. Back, charged with wholesale
grating as Republican ffice-holder at
Binghampton, N. Y, suicided rather than
60 to trial.
Four persons were injured by a tornado
that struck Aurora, Kansas, Monday, and
the Catholic Church and other buildings
demolished.
In st. Louis the Republicans elected
their Mayoralty candidate and all the city
ticket, except five members of the House
of Delegates.
A party of five former Kentuckians who
dined together in Louisville fifty years ago,
met at independence, Mo-, last week and
broke bread together.
Gov. Campbell, in calling a special ses-
sion of the Texas Legislature, scored the
lawmakers for ignoring platform demands
and accomplishing little work.
The sizes of loaves of bread in New
York and Chicago have been diminished
on account of the high price of flour,
caused by manipulations in wheat.
Denver reported another heavy fall of
snow Monday, the forty forth since the
beginning of winter. At Cripple Creek
Monday night the mercury was six degrees
below zero.
Algernon Charles Swinburn, poet and
essayist, died Saturday morning at Lon
don, England. He had been suffering
with influenza, which developed into
pneumonia.
The number of passengers coming to
American ports in 1908 was 1,O48,OOO less
than the previous year, and number leav-
ing $4,000 more. The shipping trade suf-
fered terrible losses.
Six persons lost their lives, three others
were badly burned and property loss of
between 100000 and $500, 900 was caused
by fire in the heart of the business Sec
ton Of Lenox, Mass, Sunday morning.
Democrats and "insurgent'' Republic
cans bowled over the House organization,
reduced the ad valorem tax on petroleum
and its products from Is per cent to 1 per
cent and put coffee and tea on the free list.
The voice. of Niagara Falls was mute
last Sunday for the second time in the
of man. The first time was late
in February when following a severe north
erly blow, the falls ran dry. Sunday, fol-
lowing a severe Southwestern, the river was
frozen from bank to bank.
A windstorm at Admission, Ala, Monday
night wrecked church, four houses and
two stables. At Birmingham roofs of
houses, out houses, many trees and tele-
phone poles we're blown down. About
midnight at Chronicle several out houses
were blown down and number of big
trees uprooted. Many chimneys and
fences were blown down at Columbus, Ga.
Albert Smith, the negro who late Satur-