The Bossier banner., 1922-12-14
GENERAL NEWS NUBS
Twenty Reported Killed in Train
Wreck Near Houston, Texas.
John Wanamaker Dead.
Two Airplanes Collide in Mid Air.
$Io,ooo,o0o Fire Reported.
Shows in Northwest.

rear Mount Sterling, NY.
Seven fires, all of unknown origin,
ISfe last Saturday night, resulted in
q estimated loss of $4,000 in Mon
loe, Mich.
Fire that originated at the Culver
Military Academy Tuesday afternoon
6used a loss in Culver. Ind, estimated
Z at$2Oo.000.
Eight bandits held up the Mayor
Storage and Van Company, in Chicago,
Yesterday and escaped with truck
lad of liquor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Sawyer, of Tenn
pie. Texas, were killed Sunday when
their automobile was struck by Sante
s Fe train near that place.
A lone highwayman held up ]. B.
Smith of Nacogdoches, Texas, Tues
day and took 5000 in currency and 500
in checks from his victim.
Ed Jett, of San Antonio, Texas. was
fatally injured when the automobile
{ IN which he was riding turned over, six
miles south of Austin, that state, early
Tuesday.
The 49th anniversary Of the found
! ing of TeXarkana, Ark, was celebrated
by residents of that city last Saturday.
It is claimed the city's population is
now 10000.
"A few minutes after he had been
served with divorce papers, Charles
Williams, of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, end
ed his life Monday by hanging himself
IN his garage.
Daniel Mcintyre was killed at Gary,
Ind. Sunday, while standing on top Of
d trolley car. when his head came in
contact with the heavily charged troll
ley wire above.
During the fiscal year ending last
June, according to the annual report of
the Commissioner of Patents, just is
sued, there were 1O7.656 applications
for llew patents.
-. A news item of the week says Eu-
fene Berue, sixty-three year old street
e3ealer. of Elizabeth, n. j.. has become
the heir OF a Si.000,000 estate left by
& fis syife's brother.
Miss We've Divan, of Monroe, Wis.
during the past season won nearly 100
4 fibbOns and gathered In more than
~ 500 in cash prizes by showing her six
Il pigs ut county fairs.
Robert E. Duff, federal prohibition
agent. was snot and killed from am
bush in battle with alleged moon
y shiliers in the hills near Mount Ster-
ing, KY, last Saturday.
The Tristate Medical Society meet
ing was brought to close in MARSHALL,
Texas. Thursday of last week. Tex
arkana was selected as the next meet
Ing place of the society.
les Smith, negro, who shot and
probably fatally wounded Deputy Sher-
In Gran Parish. Of Morrillton, Ark,
last Saturday night, was taken from
j0il and lynched near that place.
Six persons were injured, one per
= haps fatally. and the lives of dozen
others endangered in series of auto
mobile collisions and accidents in Dal.
las Texas, Thursday of last week.
One man was killed, two policemen
Mere wounded, one probably fatally
and a companion of the dead man is in
4 hospital, as the result of shooting
affray at Crestline. Ohio, Sunday night
Five persons dead and six injured is
HE toll of the explosion that destroyed
fur mills and several smaller build
iilgs of the Black Diamond Powder
Celnpany's plant ut Suscon Pa, las
Saturday.
The new moving picture machine re
Gently bought for the public schools o1
Lufkin. Texas, by business men, wa!
cperated for the first time last Frida,
uight In the high school auditorium o.
that place.
A news item from Washington. d. C.
says James Couzens. Of Detroit. ap
Iointed by Governor Groesbeck, q
Michigan, to succeed former Senato
sewberry, took the oath of offic,
Thursday of last week.
Roy Counts. of Mulberry, Ark, ant
g. b. Marier. OF Fort Smith. that state
arrested i'll Lonyview, Texas, one da.
ltlst week, confessed that they had stol
en- a Coffeeyille, Kans., automobile
Which they later drove to 0klahom;
City. Little Rock. Texarkana an,
Shreveport. They were taken back t
kansas for trial.
When Charlie Gordon. Of Longview
d Nexas was taken to his home last Sat
~ Mday night after having been injure,
8 "a fall from a building where he wa
ss rking, he found that his wife ha,
a g fallen down the stairway at home
8 9 that shortly after. she had bee
sd in bed and medical assistane
s ahloned his aged mother fell througl
e!e IN the back porch and was bati,.
sa5sed' All these accidents occurre,