The Bossier banner., 1922-11-23
TOLD in PARAGRAPHS
Alabama Mine Horror Claims Many
Lives-BOOfieg King Gets Peni-
fenfiary Sentence and Fine.
Wealthy Californian to Make Sec
ond Attempt at Nonstop Flight
Across Continent in a Day.

six bandits held up tile Genoa
fOhio) Banking Company last week
and made their escape with several
tlousand dollars.
The railway shopnien'S strike Of the
,slst summer cost the Government up
rards of $1.2JO,OOO. according to re-
Drts from the Department Of Justice.
Congress convened at noon Monday
br the special session of two weeks,
called by President Harding for con-
sideratiOn of the administration ship
subsidy bill.
jim &. Ferguson. State Agricultural
Commissioner of Arkansas. ANNOUNCED
last week that the 1922 crop Of straw
berries netted Arkansas growers two
million dollars.
Government statistics show the corn
crop for 1922 is 30O.OOO,OOO bushels
short of last years crop and the stock
Of old corn carried over is about 1OO,-
100000 bushels smaller than a year
ago. AS a result the value Of corn has
scared II cents hushel.
six Pullman cars of Missouri. Kan
san and Texas train were ditched at an
early hour yesterday morning near Nc
Alester, Okla, while the train was trav-
cling at high rate Of speed. Two per-
sons are believed to have been seriously
injured. but there was no loss Of life.
A dust explosion yesterday in the
Dolomite mine No. 3. located about
nine miles from Birmingham, Ala,
trapped $50 workers in the mine, re-
sulting in the killing and manning OF
many 1t has been announced that the
list Of dead may reach one hundred.
The United States Commerce De-
partment reports for the nine months
ending with September exports Of cot
ton cloth of all kinds aggregated 45O,
DOp,OOO square yards. valued Mt xt4,
b0O.tNN. Il gain of II per cent In quaint
Ity and 10 per cent In value over the
corresponding period of last year.
Mart Evans, Confederate veteran
aged seventy-nine years. has been car
rying a bullet in his side for sixt!
years. He received the bullet in tin
battle Of Shiloh. in 1862. The bulle
has been causing him considerable trou
lie of late and he plans to have it re
moved Mr.. Evans is Il resident o
Maxvilie. Ark.
Mrs. Edward ffolt. of TeNarkan:l
Ark, who sought to recover damage
from the Missouri Pacific Railwa
Company In the amount Of S1NOOO bt
cause her seven year-old daughter fe
through one of the railroad company
viaducts in that city some months az
and broke her back. has been awarde
Judgement in the amount Of $4,000.
General Luke +. Wright. aged sever
ty-six years, died ut his home. in Men
phis. Tenn. Friday night of last weel
Gen. Wright was formerly Governor
General of the Philippines. He serve
with distinction during the Civil Wa
with the Fifty-Fourth Tennessee Il
fantry and later was a commissions
officer i'm Wright's Battery. He serve
as Secretary of War in the cabinet I
Roosevelt, and at one time was Unite
Atates Ambassador to Japan.
Mrs. W. II. Fenton. of Georgia. Il
first woman United States Senate
aged eighty-seven years. made we
received address before the Senate ye
telday. the first ever made by a w9n,a
Mrs. Fenton was appointed 0ctoher j
following the death Of Senator Thom
n. Watson. and was sworn in yestt
day. Her actual Senate service W
something less than day. Follows
her address. Walter +. George presel
ed his election credentials. was adml