The Bossier banner., 1922-12-14

J0hn Kay, tWenfy-elgnt years OLD. or
Dallas. Texas. was electrocuted yester-
day when he came in contact with a
live wire
Through efforts of the club women of
Jacksonville. Fla, 1000 half-pint bot
ties of milk day are served to the
school children of that city.
Fire, originating from heater in the
kitchen caused loss of $4,000 to be suf-
ferred by the owners of the Ginocchio
Hotel, in Marshall. Texas. some days
ago.
Fire that started Monday night in
the Pontiac lumber yard at Pontiac,
Mich, caused loss estimated at $3.50
600 before it was brought under
control.
A loan of S10,0oO,00O from the Gov
ernment to the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST Paul Railroad was authorized Tues
day by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Elmer Qualleo, fireman, and B. A.
Rroyles. brakeman. bo-.l OF Grand
Junction. Colo, were killed yesterday
when Denver and Rio Grande West
ern freight train went through Il
bridge west of Deseret, Utah.
George Gay. a negro, arrested Mon
day in connection with an alleged at
tack on a young woman at Streetman,
Texas. was shot and killed by a mob in
that city that afternoon. More than
I three hundred shots were fired into the
negroes body.
A report from Houston, Texas is to.
the effect that twenty persons were
killed and fifty others injured last
| night at ten o'clock in Houston East
and West Texas train wreck near
Humble. that state. seventeen miles
| north of Houston.
The Geneva Kathleen, the boat be-
| longing to A. III. Tarver. of Shreveport.
which was lost in the Carribean Sea
for seventy days during an autulnn
storm has returned to Mobile ..:s.. Cd
her return trip. according to a report
| from Mobile Tuesday.
Monday four bandits entered and
| robbed the bank at Pieru. Calf, of
$4,000 and forced c. f. Spencer. its
| ride with them to Los Angeles, a dis
| tance Of about Is miles, according to
| the bank officials report to Los Angeles
| police. So
Prohibition officers who raided a
suite of Offices in the Garrick Theater
building, Of Chicago, Monday seized
| nore than 100 gallons of liquor and
arrested two men, said to be the mana
gers of the place A number of persons
who We're found drinking in the Offices
were allowed to go free.
A concrete bridge to cost $4,000 is to
be constructed across Cypress River at
| Jefferson, Texas, the need of which is
| felt because Of the proposed constrslc-
4 tion Of good roads in Marion County to
connect with Harrison County roads.
Contract for the construction of the
bridge has been awarded.
Charging that the wealthy parents
of her Young husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lorenzo Z. Woodhouse, of New York
city. had alienated his affections. Mrs
Doritt WOodhouse entered suit for
s1,O0O.0O0. A Burlington, Vt. jury some
days ago awarded her damages in the
amount of $465, ,0OO. The case viii be
appealed.
Fire which swept through the heart
of Astoria, the oldest city i'll Oregon
Friday of last week caused loss esti
mated at $10,000,000 The fire chief has
given out the statement that the fire
got beyond control because it burned
Eeneath the buildings on pilings upoI
which the business section of the city
was built
4 Texas Attorney General has been re
auested by the Commissioner of Agri
culture of that state to investigate the
cause for the alleged exerbitant price:
OF cotton seed meal and htills in tht
Lone Star State The mill owners arr
accused Of profiteering, according tt
report SIG to SIS per Ton being asked
for hulls and $40 to 500 per ton fol
meal.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesda.
reads: This years cotton production
is the smallest in twenty years, except
ing last seasons small crop but base,
on farm prices of December Ist it is til,
. fourth most veluaiile ever grown. wiz
an aggregate of 1,134, Cos. 1856, not in
, Guiding the value of Inter cotton an,
cotton seed, which will total many mil
lions OF dollars more
. / - = ".
\ family cf four was wiped out an,
i tho mother of three children was kille.
when a motor car in which they wer
/ riding plunged off culyert into
ditch filed with water near 0klahom
= City, Okla. last Saturday night Also
! three children and their father wer
] injured. The binding light of anofhe
: automobile is said to have been respol
| sible for the catastrophe. Those VIII
J lost their lives were pinned beneath til
ear and were drowned.
Two officers and ten men of th
/ 10th Infantry. Oklahoma Nations
Guard. were ordered to Madill Menda
5 night to protect state and local official
!. who are investigasing the operations {
: gang Of automobile thieves Th