The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-03-04
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Mexico will celebrate the centenary of
her independence in 1910.
Russia is taking an increasingly gloomy
view of the Balkan situation.
May wheat went up to s1.17A a bushel
on the Chicago Exchanges Friday.
Transatlantic travel in 1908 showed a
shrinkage of almost 100000 persons.
On her ninth attempt; at suicide Mrs.
Elizabeth Lowry of St. Louis was success
full.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, Wednesday OF
last week, caused $500, 600 loss in the bus
mess district.
G. W. Warner died in buggy from ex-
posture while driving to his home near
Smithsburg, Md.
Conductor F. w. Bevans, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, was shot in the back and
killed near White House, Va.
Two men were instantly killed near
Cincinnati Monday by q passenger train
colliuing with their automobile.
The Shah of Persia, pressed for money.
offered to sell cheap his celebrated collec-
ton of manuscripts and pictures
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
forty wounded by railroad wreck near
Guayaquil, Ecuador, February OATH.
The New York Health Commissioners es-
Inmates the eity's population at 4,442,0S5.
an increase of 49,, $50 during last year.
Mrs. Willard KitsQn and two small chill
dren were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed their home at Huntersville, KY.
The Argentine Republic contains more
horses than any other country, the proper
ton being about 112 to every 100 Of the
population. ....5
In London the rush for the $50, 600. 900
Argentine loan was so great that subscrip-
ton lists were closed Immediately after
their opening. -
The House of Representatives voted
down the proposal to make the Presidents
salary 100000 per year., and fixed the
amount at $4,000. - r4t.se.
Gov Marshall, of Indiana, vetoed the
bill legaling Sunday base ball. The bill
had passed both houses of the Legislature
by good majorities.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt recently gave a
million dollars for building sanitary tene-
ments for persons, afflicted with tuberculo-
sis in New York City. ,t......-
A blizzard enveloped all of France last
Saturday andSunday. Snow fell for forty
eight hours in Paris. Many deaths were
reported from exposure.
A negro in custody at Ottumwa, Iowa,
confessed to the murderaof Miss Clara
Rosen four weeks ago. This was the fifth
recent murder Of white women at Ottumwa.
Eight of the quorum breaking Tennes-
see Senators who are at Hopkinsville, KY,
announce that they would remain out Of
the State year if necessary in order to
prevent the election of State Election Com
missioners.
Three Indiana counties-Fountain, Fay
cite and Hendricks-voted out booze last
Thursday, putting fifty three doggeries
out of business. And two more Indiana
counties-Carroll and Gibson-voted dry
in local option elections Friday by large
majorities. I'll
William Howard Taft, of Ohio, will be
inaugurated President of the u nited States
to-day: Following is his Cabinet: Sec
rotary of State, Philander C. Knox, oil
Pennsylvania; Secretary of the Treasury,
Franklin McVeagh, Of Illinois; Secretary
of War, Jacob M. Dickinson, Of Tennessee;
Attorney General, George W. Wickersham,
of New York; Postmaster General, Frank
H. Hitchcock, of Massachusetts; Secretary
of the Navy, George Won L. Meyer, Of
Massachusetts; Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger, of Washington
Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson
of Iowa; Secretary of Commerce and
L Dor, Charles Nagel, of Missouri.
THE STATE PRESS.