The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-08-05
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

j. NJ. Ennis, farmer near Seymour,
Tex, killed his wife and committed suicide.
Storms in the North Sea wrecked many
vessels last week.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, voted last
Saturday to remain "dry.''
One thousand people were drowned in
floods in Manchuria, China, last week.
There were four heat prostrations and
one death in Pittsburg, Pa, last Thursday.
The first death from sunstroke in Nash
vile this summer occurred Friday afternoon.
The prolonged drouth has caused a seri-
Gus condition in the Shenandoah Valley.
Elem Powell, a merchant at Glasgow, KY,
was killed by current from an arc light
wire.
Baltimore has 50, 800 900 on hand, more
than has been in the city treasury for
many years.
There were six deaths resulting from
hest and many prostrations in New York
last Friday.
According to the New York Journal of
Commerce the cotton crop shows decline
of IS points.
George Johnson, white, who murdered
John Moore, was lynched early Monday
morning at Platte City, Neb.
John H. Deane, who once put 100000
in church collection plate, declared in
L. ~ hoh oI
John H. Stuart, respondent over losses
in Wall Street speculation, committed sui
eide near Everett, Washington.
The Federal pension roll is reported
smaller than at any time since $685. The
total number of pensioners is 947 ,7O8.
Ten persons were killed and at least sixty
injured in collision of two electric trains
at Caldwell, WASH, Saturday afternoon.
A heat wave caused two deaths in Chi
cago and was broken by terrific storm
last Thursday in which two people were
killed and much property destroyed.
A great fire in Osaka, Japan, Sunday
morning swept over an area four miles
square and destroyed 10000 buildings, in
Guiding the world famous Buddhist temples
A child was killed, four persons were
injured and considerable property was
damaged in severe wind and electrical
storm at Memphis late Saturday afternoon.
DR.. M. F. Rogers was sentenced to Jail
for contempt of court, but appealed, at
New Albany, Miss, for refusing to tell the
name of the woman who returned 5000
stolen from the express office there, through
The reports Of the damage done by last
Fridays hailstorm in South Dakota place
the loss at close to S4OO,OOO. The heaviest
damage was done near Armour. A strip
ten miles wide and thirty five miles long
was swept clean by the hail.
Central Mexico, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from Queratro, on the north.
to oaxaca, on the south, distance cover
ing more than 1000 square miles, was
shaken at an early hour last Friday morn
ing by series of the most severe earth
quake shocks felt in that region for the
past quarter of century, Many lives
were lost and millions of dollars worth Of
property destroyed. Fourteen persons
were killed in the City of Mexico. Prac-
tlcally every building in the cities of Chill
pancingo and Acapulco was DESTROYED.
During the year 1908, 81 ,231 sawmills in
the United States manufactured 80. 289.-
o69'Ooo feet of lumber, according to +;
Harper's Weekly. These mills also cut
l2'lo6, 4S3, 900 shingles and 1885, 1884, 900
laths. In 1907 the cut of 28,85O sawmills
was 4O,256, 1900 feet, the highest pro-
ductlon ever recorded. Washington ranks 2
first among the States in lumber produce .
ton, its cut in 1908 being 2,915 1928. 900
feet. Nearly all the lumber manufactured
in Washington is Douglas fir. Louisiana 2
ranks second with 2,722, 421 900 feet.
Mississippi was the third State in lumber 2
production in 1908, with total of 1851 >
Ol6,OOO feet, and Arkansas fourth with 2
l'ooe, 1871 600 feet. Yellow pine, Douglas 2
mr., white pine, oak, hemlock and spruce. 2
IN the order named, were the woods cut 3
into lumber in the largest quantity. q
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