The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-07-28
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LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The population of jackson, Miss, is
1882.
Sunday was the hottest day in Chicago
for nine years.
Eli Carr died of pellagra in Rockingham
County, Va, Saturday.
A diamond valued at S15O, 900 has been
found in South Africa.
An unofficial report gives the population
of Baton Rouge as II, 900.
In the last ten years East St. Louis, ILL.,,
nearly doubled its population.
Three persons were drowned in reser-
vor near Denison, Texas, Sunday.
Italy has about 5000 deported criminals,
who are maintained on eight penal islands.
In a fire on a pigeon farm near Char
lottesvile, Va, 5000 birds were cremated.
The great glacier in Rainy Hollow, Alaska,
has been found to move twelve feet day.
Stephen F. Steere, postmaster at Shreve-
port, died Monday; aged fifty three years.
Based on the school children count the
population of Chicago is estimated at
100000.
Women stenographers are apparently no
longer wanted in the United States Gov
eminent service.
Fire at Chicago Sunday destroyed twenty
homes, a grain elevator and brewery,
causing 100000 loss.
Sunday was the hottest day of the year
in New York. Eight prostrations were
reported by the police.
The local option election at Fulton, KY,
last Thursday, resulted in majority of
seventeen for the prohibitionists.
young man was seized with an attack
of epilepsy and drowned in foot of water
in Antietam Creek, Md, Saturday.
Two ladies were killed in North Ander-
son, Indiana, by an interurban car which
struck buggy in which they were riding.
Eight were killed and three fatally injured
as the result of a big gun explosion during
target practice at Fortress Monroe last
Thursday.
Bush fires which ragged in the Cootenay
district of the Rockies iu Manitoba last
week, caused five deaths and enormous
damage to property.
The English people are drinking less.
In 1909 the United Kingdom cut down it's
drink bill by s54,OOO,OOO in spite of the
higher prices for liquors.
At Danville, Illinois, Frank Sutherland,
aged sixty five years, shot and killed his
wife, aged fifty years, and bride of three
weeks, and then killed himself. Jealousy
is said to have been the cause of the act
A downpour of rain stopped street car
traffic all over Pensacola, Florida, last
Saturday, sand being washed over the
tracks at some points to a depth of six and
eight inches.
The list of dead in the cyclone which
swept over the district northwest of Milan,
Italy, Saturday, has increased to sixty, and
the injured number several hundred. The
material losses are estimated at many mill
lions.
Kid Miller, street car motorman living
in Macon, Ca, has been left fortune of
S5OO,OOO by J. F. Curley, miner who re-
Gently died in Dawson City, Canada. Mil
Ter had befriended Curley when the latter
was penniess.
The deaths from sunstroke and heat in
New York Monday numbered sixteen, and
the prostrations exceeded 100. Horses
collapsed and died all over the city. There
were four deaths from heat in Philadelphia,
two in Baltimore and one in Kansas City.
There were four deaths and twelve pros
trations in New York City Tuesday. Tens
OF thousands of persons slept Tuesday
night at the beaches on the sand.
Oscar B. Colquitt, anti Prohibitionist,
was nominated last Saturday for Governor
of Texas by a plurality of 10000. SUBJ
mission of a constitutional amendment for
Statewide prohibition was carried by
about 10000. The prohibition Democrats
are reported to have two thirds majority
OF the Legislature, which will give them
plain sailing in anti-saloon legislation de-
spite the fact that the nominee for Cover
nor is an anti prohibitionist.
Goethe: Though the centuries progress,
yet they will never surpass that majestic
grandeur which shines through the gospels.
The import value of the FOREIGN cotton