The Bossier banner., 1922-11-23
istered the oath and became Mrs. Fen
toms successor.

toms successor.
Cancer caused the deaths of $4,000
persons in the United States last year.
the Bureau of the Census reported last
week.
A report from Calexico Calf. says
seventy persons lost their lives in the
sinking of the steamer TopolobampO. in
the Gulf of California. Sunday.
There are seven brothers and sisters
Of the Laster family. near Lexington.
Tenn. the youngest siXty-One and the
eldest eighty-six, and their ages total
80 years.
The plant of the DuQuesne Steel
Foundry Company. at Kendall. Penna.,
was threatened with destruction Mon
day night by fire. The loss is estimated
at $25O.OOO.
The resignation of United States Sen-
ator Truman II. Newberry, Of Michi
gan. the central figure of long and
bitter Senate controversy, became ef
fective Tuesday.
A second attempt to fly from River
side. Calf. to New York in twenty
four hours without stopping is to he
made by David r. Davis, a wealthy
California date grower. He will make
his start within few days.
Jesse Rector. his son and his sons
wife were found murdered at their
home near Pikeville. Tenn. Sunday
morning. The wounds were inflicted by
/: shotgun and the shots were fired
from close range. No trace of the mur-
derer has been found.
Anthony Cassese. described by the au-
thorities as the bootleg king .has
been convicted on a charge of conspir
acy to violate the Volstead act. SEN
fenced to two years in the Atlanta Pen
itentiary and fined $4,000.
Colored residents of four states
Louisiana, Arkansas. Texas and Okla
homa-plan the erection of a million
dollar hospital and nurses training
school. 1t is proposed that the main
hospital he located in Dallas. with an
| auxiliary in Kerrvilie, Texas for tu-
bercular patients.
President Harding has appointed
Walter l.. Cohen. New Orleans negro
Republican politician. Controller of
Customs for New Orleans. and has sent
| his name to the Senate for cOnfirma-
| ti0n. The position pays 5000 annually
and is one Of the most important fed
| eral offices in Louisiana.
| Papers asking 100000 damages
| and charging William II. Anderson, SUI
| rerintendent of the New York Anti
saloon League with making slanderOus
statements. have been filed by attor-
neys for Francis f. Courtright, defeat
ed candidate for the New York Leg
islature on the prohibition and socialist
ticket.
During a lasle Of memory J. f. ROg
ers. of Enid. Okla, disappeared from
his home recently. went to Wichita
Kans.. met Mrs. Clara NJ. Keith. ant
ten days ago married her while still un
able to remember that he already had {
wife living in Oklahoma, according to ;
dispatch published in yesterdays dai
lies. The second marriage occurred
after Il courtship of week.
Seventy-tw0 disasters. renderini
more than 10000 people in want. visit
: ed this hand during 1921, according t
the statasticians. Twenty-siX tioods
: nineteen tornadoes. fifteen fires. tw
theater collaspses. two shipwrecks,
+ bridge disaster. railway wreck,
mine explosion and a drouth counte
| their toll in suffering Americans.
| took 81 1,:N)O.0OO to bring relief to til
t victims of disasters right here in tn
l United States last year.
Miss Elizabeth Bowman, of NichOla:
e vile. KY. aged 1O1 years. died at he
!. home. five miles south of Nich0lasvill
l last week She died in the house
y which she was born. which was hui
|. $50 years ago. and in the room
|, which her mother died Mt the age I
s lO4 years. The furnishings have +
= mained unchanged for over /; ceDtur
IS Miss Bowman had never heen on
Z train or in an automobile. and hi;
t. never been out of Kentucky. She W;
l. te Oldest woman in Kentucky.