The Bossier banner., 1910-07-07
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Fire at Bonneville, MISS, Monudy, ulu
lamage estimated at 10000.
Fifty naval officers will be promoted as
J result Of the recent settlements.
A woman and two men were killed in an
amateur bull fight Sunday in Mexico.
Eleven commanders and captains have
applied for voluntary retirement from the
navy.
Twenty soldiers were killed by the
wrecking of troop train in Mexico last
Thursday.
Forty five years after the Civil War
there are nearly a million names on the
pension list.
Two young women were killed at Valley
Stream, L. l., Sunday, when train struck
an automobile.
A rolling rock killed Abner Ice and his
fourteen -year-old daughter at Folsom,
West Virginia.
A hundred Confederate veterans were
entertained by New York Grand Army
Post Saturday.
Not less than ninety-five dwellings, be-
sides other buildings are going up in
Hagerstown, Md.
After shooting and fatally wounding his
mother-in-law, at Moscow, Texas, c. H.
McFall beat his wife to death with the butt
of revolver.
Two negroes were lynched at Charles
town, Mo-, for the murder of farmer. 1t
took the mob two hours to batter down the
doors. of the Jail.
Robbers in the District of Columbia at
tackled William Helmus, seventy five years
old, beat him into unconsciousness and
stole his watch and $75.
There we're 1876 business failures in the
United States during the week ending
June 30th, against 1877 the previous week
and 213 in the like week of 1909.
Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
died suddenly of heart failure at Sorrento,
Maine, Monday, aged seventy seven years.
One person was killed and several in
jured by storm which swept over Hills
boro, Texas, Sunday night. Considerable
damage was done to buildings and crope.
Frank T. Howser, the telegraph operator
who sent the news of John Browns mur-
derous attack on the citizens of Harper's
Ferry, Va, October Is, 1859, died recently.
Caught by the raging waters of Licking
River, swollen by rains and cloudburst,
seven persons were drowned Wednesday
morning of last week at Saylersville, Ky.
New York City postofice receipts for the
year ended June 3Oth show an increase of
So, ,413, ,204 over the preceding year, or II. l
per cent. The years total receipts are
S22 ,339, 500.
A heavy storm prevailed throughout the
Bluegrass region of Kentucky Monday,
doing much damage to bridges and vege-
tation. Several persons narrowly averted
drowning at Winchester.
Nineteen persons were killed outright,
three probably fatally hurt and about a
dozen seriously injured in head-on col
lision between a freight and passenger
train at Middletown, Ohio, Monday.
Fire at Benton, Columbia County, Pa,
caused by fire-cracker lodging in barn,
destroyed half the town. A newspaper
plant, a hotel, bank and principal stores
and twenty five dwellings were destroyed
Former United States Senator Thomas
B. Turley of Tennessee and a Confederate
veteran, died last Friday in Memphis. He
was in Maney's Brigade, wounded in the
Battle of Shiloh and captured at the Battle
of Nashville, December 13, 1854.
A Washington special of July 1st says
the condition of the cotton crop was 8O.7
per cent. of normal on June 25th, as
compared with 1922 on May 25, 1910, 74.e
on June 25, 1909, 81.2 on June 25, 1908
and 1858 June 25, ten year average.
| An estimate that the total number oil
immigrant aliens admitted at all ports ol
the United States during the past fiscal
year reached 1,035, ,545 was made Commis.
sioner General Keefe last Friday. Thisie
an increase of 283, 759 over the number o1
immigrant aliens admitted last year.
The census of 1910 will show the South
ern States, including Missouri and Okla.
homa, to have made gain in population
since the census of 1900 of 81 per cent, OF
from 26,747,677 to 32,415,29 The gair
! of all other States of the limited States to.