The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-21
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


A negro murderer was recently released
in Mississippi, so he could testify in civil
suit.
Texas prohibitionists have decided not
to contest the result of the state wide cleo
ton.
The battleship Oregon will probably be
the first vessel sent through the Panama
Canal.
Brazil will attempt to regain her lost
standing as cotton growing country, 1t is
announced.
Farmers of Arkansas will meet soon to
deny that the State will produce 100000
bales of cotton this year:
Three men were killed Tuesday, as the
result of young woman Of Knoxville,
Tenn, refusing a certain escort
The Southern League base ball season
closed last Saturday with New Orleans
again in possession of the penant.
Two men were indicted in Brookhaven,
Miss, recently, for offering to sell their
votes at the last primary election.
A Filipino leper was struggled away
from Washington a few days ago and it is
thought was slipped into Louisiana.
W. T. Nichols of Pine Bluff, Ark, cut
his wife's throat, enraged because she
wanted her children to make visit.
New York banks have planned to extend
their scope by having Southern and West
ern men among their vice. presidents.
agreed to sell only tomatoes put up by the
girls canning clubs of that community.
The Federal Government has sent a
transport to Galveston, Texas, to convey a
regiment of troops to the Panama Canal.
China contributed 100000 and India
100000 pounds of raw cotton to the
United States during the last fiscal year.
c. P. Rodgers started from sheepshead
Bay, New York, Sunday, as the third COM
petitor in the transcontinental aeroplane
flight.
An American, Allen Mccoy, killed a
noted bandit who attacked his mining
camp Monday night, near Gaudalajara,
Mexico.
George B. Hill, the bachelor councilman
Of Minneapolis, was offered $4,000 by G..
DeLaittre recently if he would marry and
become father.
A Kansas City man has invented bur-
glar foil. He says he will give $500 to any
burglar who can enter house when the
guard is in place.
James Oppenheim, noted desperate.
who is in California prison, killed his
cellmate Tuesday evening to add another
scalp to his string.
Hugh K. Robinson will make the Mime
apolis-to-New Orleans hydryoaeroplan
flight Of 1917 miles, starting from Mime
apolis on October II.
J. P. Morgan and other business men OF
gious crusade that aims to reach every
part of the United States and Canada.
The Philadelphia society ladies, at a
recent horse show in that city became
idignant when required to use side saddles
and some refused to enter the contest.
Four members of one family, together
with their servant, were killed by train
in Illinois, Sunday. They attempted to
drive over crossing before fast moving
train.
Nine were killed and fourteen wounded
when racing automobile crashed through
fence at Syracuse New York Saturday.
Automobile accidents are becoming more
numerous every day.
c. S. Barrett, president of the Farmers
Union, has announced that he has closed
a deal whereby French English syndi-
cate will advance S75,0OO,OOO to finance
holding this cotton crop.
Frederick Suydam, jr., the young mil
lionaire Of Blue Point, Long Island, whose
young wife is reported to have run away
with Frederick Noble, son Of plumber,
says that his wife was very impulsive and
al nd hn
make any effort to find her.
Mrs. Bonnie Snow Dickson Sinsinsshei-
mer- williamson Clark, twenty-six years
old, of Chicago, was married last Sunday
to her fifth husband. Her first mate was
seventy years old, while she was seven
teen. The second was sixty-eight, the
third fifty six. the fourth twenty four, but
the age of the fifth man is not given.
-Four young white girls, inmates of the
Park Ridge Girls School of Chicago, who
were placed in the care of negro restau-
rant keeper by the "nigger'' loving
authorities of that city, were forced to do
mental labor for him, were flogged and
otherwise ill-treated by both the negro and
his wife. Now the county is investigating
the matter.
The cruel old days Of witchcraft have
been revived in Allentown, Pa Mrs. Meta
zimmerman, poor seamstress from New
York, was put in Jail there recently and
then driven out Of town. Mrs. zimmerman
went to Allentown to take the Kneipp bare
foot treatment in the hope Of restoring her
eyes, almost destroyed by overwork. She
had begun the treatment under local
practitioner and had found board at the
home Of a man named Kipp. when another