The Bossier banner., 1922-11-30
GENERAL NEWS NUBS
Ark, Gets a Clean u p.
Skeleton Found Near Camden.
Mine Horrors Reported.
Gift of 100000 for New Churches.
Two Children Burn to Death.
Bill Alexander Captured.

American cotton.
Fire destroyed the building occupied
by the Hubbard shingle mill. in Tex
arkana, Ark, one nightIast week.
George F. Miller, a salesman of Den
yer, Colo, was found dead in clump
of bushes near that city Sunday night,
with his throat cut.
Federal tax collections during the
fiscal year ending June 30th last fell
off almost 81, 100000, according to
reports from Washington.
Three men were severely burned, one
perhaps fatally, in a dust explosion in
mine No. of the Hooking (Iowa)
Coal Company some days ago.
Four persons were killed when the
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a California mail train
at Elmhurst, Ills, one day last week.
Bill Alexander, who was wanted in
Haynesville for committing murder
about a year ago, has been captured
near Smackoyer, Ark, according to re-
ports.
A man hurled a brick through the
window of the Jaccard Jewelry Com
pany, in Kansas City, Mo-. one day
last week and seized diamonds amount
ing to $4,000.
Damage estimated between $4,000
and $4,000 was done the residence of
DR.. J. F. Roseborough, of Marshall,
Texas, by fire of undetermined origin
one night last week.
Two children were burned to death
and more than a score of others had
narrow escapes from fire that de-
stroyed the High Point School, of Cow
iHgton, Ga, Tuesday.
s. L. Green, negro Methodist preach
er, of Little Rock, Ark, has been ar
rested and charged with the embezzle.
ment of funds of a school he was con
nected with, totaling 500.
Five armed bandits held up the Gen
eral Cigar Company, in Detroit, Mich,
one day last week and succeeded in
making their getaway with the Com
pany's payroll amounting to $10,73S.
A news dispatch from Washington
d. c., says an increase of more than a
thousand is noted in the number OF
prisoners in the various federal institu.
tions during the year ended June 3Oth
last.
Henry n. Cary, of Chicago, general
manager of the Chicago Newspaper
Publishers Association and nationally
known in newspapers circles, died last
week. Mr.. Cary had reached his sixty
second milestone.
AS the result of weeks raiding IL
the Freestone County swamp, in Texas
| Federal prohibition officers destroyed
fourteen stills, poured out go gallons
| of moonshine liquor, arrested eight
persons and captured one automobile.
After blowing the safe in the State
| Bank at Rendena, kans.. one day las
week and taking several hundred dol
| lars in bonds, securities and govern
ment stamps, and some cash, bandit.
| then stole an automobile in which the.
made their escape.
James w. Smith, fifty years old, {
grocer, his wife, their two-year-Olt
daughter. Ruby, and their niece, Mrs
Delline Burchfield. and her thirteen
year-old son, Charles, all of Bristol
Tenn. were murdered early Sunda.
morning and the house in which the,
/ lived burned over their heads.
| Coincident with the death of II. J
| Thomasson, of Murfresboro. Ark, las
i week, a gold watch belonging to hi
son, C. b. Thomasson, of Minden-'
gift from his father-stoppen suddenly
All efforts to make it resume running
have thus far proved Intellectual .Th
time at which the death occurred an
at which the watch stopped are th
same.
i Mrs. Eliza Lott, who slipped pistC
to her condemned brother. Henry Bone
j while held in the Kinds County. Misi>
sippi Jail, yesterday pleaded guilty t
; the charge and was sentenced to tw
years in the penitentiary. Her sistel
who accompanied her, pleaded guilty t
q being an accessory, and was sentence
to six months in the penitentiar.
About two months ago, Bond. maxim
use of the pistol given him by his 81.
ters, fatally shot Jailer Russ Harris
who in turn then shot and killed him.
) According to Sheriff Ed Harper, {
Ouachita County. Arkansas, that pal
u the country lying north of Smacl
. over Creek and adjacent to the he
J Arkansas oil field, is now free Of gaml
lers. hijackers and other undesirable
. This condition follows cleanup Tue
day night by body of vigilantes an
. the better element of oil field worker
J. F. Woods, aged twenty-five year
. who went to the oil field from Missi
sippi. is said to have been the only ma
. killed during the cleanup. He aftem
ed to escape from detachment Of Il
!. vigilantes. who intended whipping hiT
a dozen shots being fired at him. It