The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-08-08
Nothing But News.
Texas crops are flourishing.

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Crops in South Carolina are report
ed exceptionally good.
Snow storms and icy rains prevailed
throughout Switzerland last week.
Every mandatory in Ripley, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire Friday morning
! The sale of real estate at Dallas for
the last week in July was 1920, 600.
At Birmingham, Ala, the contract
has been closed for building steel
works.
Florence, Ala, has secured wrought
iron works and foundry and a bagging
factory.
Philadelphia bankers have paid
! 100000 for $1,000 acres of land
near Dallas, Texas.
Near Fort Worth, Texas, 5000 acres
of land have been sold to Denver
people for 100000.
Frost caused some injury to grow
ing crops in the vicinity of Galena,
ILL.,, last Friday morning.
There are 1902 licensed liquor sa
looms in Ohio, which pay into the
State Treasury 1922, 600.
English capitalists are spending
ten million dollars in developing the
town of Middlesborough, Ky.
Crops in New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey have been damaged
$500, 900 to 100000 worth by heavy
rains.
Wheeling, W. Va, is excited over
the crime of Harry Seybold, popu-
lar young bank teller, who is S27, 900
short.
The Chicago Farmers Review says
that the oat crop this year will be the
largest ever harvested in the United
States,
Andrew G. Drumm, manager of a
Kansas City cattle company, has dis
appeared with $4,000 of the FIRMS
money.
The return of land grants made in
Western Australia shows that one
man owns and controls nearly 4, 0OO,-
900 acres.
Forest fires were burning in Mon
tana all of last week and the loss
sustained is estimated at half a mil.
lion dollars.
The Missouri State Board of Equal
ization has increased the valuation of
railroad bridge and telegraph proper
ty $6,000,OO0.
The total enumeration of school
children in Missouri is 865,75 and
the forty-fourth annul apportionment
is $843, 800 10.
Minnesota, with its 8, 5000 acres
of wheat fields, anticipates a larger
yield of the leading ceral than in any
year since 1886.
The payments by the United States
government on account of pensions
alone last month amounted to fifteen
and a quarter million dollars.
A bold thief in Kansas City grab.
bed handful of diamonds valued at
$500 while examining trayful in
a Jewelry store and made his escape.
Five large companies engaged in
the manufacture of artificial ice in
the South have formed trust to con
troll the entire business in the South.
Minnesota capitalists have investi- |
gated the Bessemer ore districts of |
Llano and Mason counties, Texas, |
and have bought interests there for |
100000.
1t is said that the Standard Oil |
Company has bought all the white
lead companies in the United States.
the estimated amount paid being
$50, 100000.
OF the 1922 miles of railroad track
reported in process of building in
his country through the first half of
he current year 900 were in the
Southern States.
Melbourne, Australia, is to have a
public clock, which will roll off a
popular air every hour excepting
Turing Sunday, when only sacred
music will be played.
Gov. Eagle of Arkansas is a practi-
'al farmer, and not on small scale.
ither. He will raise ten thousand
bushels of corn on his Lonoke county
plantation this year, besides big
rop of cotton.
The City Railway stables in Rich
aond, Va, were struck by lightning /
n last Thursday morning, the struc,
IRE consumed by fire and sixty I
lules and horses and seven street I
ars we're burned up.
Arkansas City Journal: eve heard