The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-08-11


England is reported to be buying Amer
lean horses and mules for army service.
About seventy-seven cases Of typhoid
fever were reported last week in Baltimore.
A stage coach was held up in New Mex
leo and robbed of $50, 900 in silver bullion.
Fully 1000 Christians and Musselmep
were slain last week in the massacres in
Syria.
Five tarpon were caught at Pass Chris
tan, Miss, Monday, one being more than
seven feet long.
The Hotel Alpin, at Hot Springs, Va,
was destroyed by fire last Friday, entailing
loss of 100000.
Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview, said
America was becoming as luxurious as
Rome just before its fall.
Believing he was shooting at burglar,
Ivey Land shot and killed his brother,
Quentius, at Albany, Ga.
Fire destroyed shirt factory at FEEDER
alsburg, Md, last Friday, throwing out of
employment 100 operators.
President Taft's adherents in Washing
ton are very blue over the Insurgents vic
tories in Kansas and Iowa.
Thirteen persons were killed and twelve
were injured in a railroad collision near
Ignacio, Cal, Monday night.
Five persons were killed and two fatally
injured by the explosion of boiler in
shingle mill at Conroe, Texas, Monday.
Fifty-dve freight cars were smashed and
then destroyed by fire last Friday when the
train jumped the track at Analomink, Pa.
Two men were killed and seven others
badly hurt in an explosion at the plant of
a corn refining company in Granite City,
Illinois.
Judge J. G. Richardson, one of the best
known jurists in Alabama, was killed in an
automobile wreck near Montgomery Tues
day afternoon.
Paris, France, witnessed demonstra-
ton of lynch law in the heart of the CAPT.
ital last Friday, when an Apache was
hanged to lamp post.
Three trainmen were instantly killed
when refrigerator train, running fifty
miles an hour, struck landslide near
Hewls, N. Y, last Friday.
The armored cruiser Lion, the largest
fastest and~most powerful cruiser in the
world, was launched at the dock yard at
Davenport, England, last Saturday.
William J. Gaynor, Mayor of New York,
was shot and dangerously wounded by an
anarchist Tuesday morning as he stood on
the deck of a steamship about to start on
a months vacation in Europe.
Two people were killed and three others
were fatally injured when an engine struck
an automobile excursion car near 'Besse-
mer, Ala, Sunday. Several others were
injured, two OF; whom may die.
News of big prices of cotton was received
Monday at Atlanta in dispatches from rural
districts in Georgia. At Camilla $4,000
was paid for 600 bales. This was all from
the 1909 crop. AT Leesburg farmer sold
one bale of new crop cotton for 500.
Forest fires on the National Forest Re-
serve in Northwestern Montana and North
ern Idaho, and on the private lands within
them, already have wrought damage
amounting to nearly half million dollars.
Five persons were crushed to death
Tuesday night when railroad train dash
ed into an automobile at Mill Lane, NJ.
One of the victims was son of Ottmar
Mergenthaler, the inventor of the Mergen-
thaler linotype.
W. H. Michaelis, publisher of the Chi
cago Stats Zeitung, was drowned at Opuea
Lake, near Depnsit, N. Y, last Saturday.
He was out in boat with his eight-year-
old daughter, who lost her hat, and in
reaching for it, fell overheard. The father
jumped out after the child and, catching
hold of her, he held her above the water
until his strength failed. Parties in boats
nearby rescued the child, but the father
sank.
Returns to the State Agricultural De-
partment, made public Monday, indicate
that the Georgia cotton crop will be finally
only 65 per cent of that of last year. In
some sections practically no cotton at all
will be gathered. In some counties the
reports state that entire fields of cotton
have been destroyed by 'black root" The
greatest damage, however, was done by