The Bossier banner., 1922-12-07
GENERAL NEWS NUBS
Zero Weather Visits Many States.
Suit in Name of Government
to Recover Three Million.
Nine Men are Indicted at Texarkana
For Taking Part in Lynching.
Fires, Crimes, Casualties.

For Taking Part in Lynchlng.
Fires, Crimes, Casualties.
The negro Y NJ. G. A. building at
Crossett, Ark, has been destroyed by
a fire of unknown and mysterious or
igin. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Four Colby College students lost
their lives early Monday morning in a
fire which burned the North half Of the
century-old North College, at Water
vile, Me-
NJ J. Barb, Of Breckenridge, Texas,
was perhaps fatally injured when a
500-gallon gasoline tank on which he
was working exploded. The tank was
thought to he empty.
A woman passenger and an express
messenger are reported injured as the
result of the wreck Of a Missouri Pa
cific passenger train six miles north Of
Benton, Ark, Sunday night.
A news dispatch from Arkadelphia,
Ark. says W. E. Pettus, of near Okla
homa, Ark, has in his possession
Bible that has been in possession of the
family for more than 155 years. !.
Four men lost their lives in a fire
Friday of last week, in the Ben Hur
Hotel, of Portland, Ore. ~All the other
guests are reported to have escaped.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
James Couzens, appointed to the
| United States Senate one day last
| week, to fill the unexpired term Of
| Thurman Fl. Newberry, resigned as
Mayor Of Detroit, Mich. Tuesday.
X. NJ. Mcfarland, well known cattle
man of Tenaha, Texas, was seriously
injured Monday while driving cattle.
| The horse he rode stumbled and turned
a somersault, pinning him underneath.
James E. Mahoney was hanged Fri
day of last week at the state peniten-
tiary, s,t Walla Walla, WASH, for the
murder of his aged wife, Kate Mooers
Mahoney, at Seattle, during April, 1921.
State Ranger Pat Sheedy and George
McKeckney, of Center, Texas, We're
4 seriously injured Friday Of last week
when the car in which they We're driv-
| ing turned over in ditch near that
place.
| Clara Phillips, under ten-year sen.
| tence to the California penitentiary
and being held In Jail in Los Angeles
pending formulation Of an appeal, max
ing use of steel saws, effected her es
cape Tuesday.
An increase from $125,000,OOO tt
S140, 100000 in the capital stock of thu
Consolited Gas Company, of New York
was approved Monday at stockhold
ers' meeting, according to dispatch
from New York.
George w. Garrett, representative il
the State Legislature from Hill County
Texas, was instantly killed by the ac
cidental discharge of gun in tn
hands of his tifteen-year- son, on
afternoon last week.
Fire at an early hour Sunday de
stroyed the main building OF the Wi
. mona (AIinn.) State Teachers Colleg
and damaged the library building an
+ the central heating plant. The loss
estimated at $50O,OOO.
Lamar Tucker, fifteen years old, Q
i. Hattiesburg, Miss, was instantly kille
= Friday Of last week, while hunting
: when the shotgun he was Carrying wa
accidentally discharged by hitting ii
hammer against log.
A news item from Texarkafla, Ark
: says the Southern Pine Lumber Con
: | pany, of that city, has obtained authol
a ity from the Secretary Of State {
+ Texas to raise its capital stock frol
= 81 ,23O,OGO to S5,O00,OOO.
: Franks of boy hunters caused J. Y
@ Carnes, seventy-seven years old, {
s Temple, Texas, to fire in their mid
= with an old model breechlOading sho
s. gun, killing Preston Jones, sixtee
years old, also Of Temple.
Green A. Cheatham, eighty years ol
= Confederate veteran, of TeNarkan
: Ark, died Sunday night in that pla'
Of heart disease. Mr.. Cheatham was
:. some of the notable battles of the gre
!: . conflict. including Corinth. Murfree
: . Eoro. Nashville. Franklin, Missiona
Ridge and Shiloh
George Augur, Of New York, is dea
- He never had any fun from the time
4 passed six-feet-eight and became
ar giant, says news paragraph of t
10 week. Augur was found dead in /
+ room in a boarding house after su
~ den seizure. His funeral had to WI
- until the undertaken could have a cof
in made, for he was eight feet four inch
4 tall by confidential measure. althou
re the circus people always said he sto
rt nine feet
N. Further help will be extended to ar
t; less, legless and blind veterans of I
nd | World War under a new bill passed
IL the House. it was announced fri
Washington Tuesday. 1t already /
Int | PASSED the Senate, and now goes to
IL, President. The proposed act increa
M. the allowance for hire of attendal
ng frem $40 to $50 month. Three h1