The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-17
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Labor agents were warned to leave
Adams County, Miss.
: India has about $50 different languages,
most of them unwritten.
Three men were killed in mine explo-
sion near Mt. Vernon, Ill.
W. H. Stiner, at Bloomsbury, Pa, shot
and killed his wife and suicided.
Oklahoma and Kansas got 5000, 900 more
for their oil in 1907 than Pennsylvania.
Federal Internal Revenue receipts dimin-
ished seventeen millions during the year.
The United States produces more corn
than all the rest of the world put together.
Frank E. Gibson, printer, suicided at
DeFuniak Springs, Fla, by cutting his
throat.
A Norwegian law provides that three
saplings must be planted for every tree
cut down.
A $500, 900 paper mill will be erected at
DeSoto, Miss, to utilize waste from naval
stores plant,
Between $4,000 and $4,000 workmen
were accidently killed lastyear and 2,OOO,-
600 injured.
William Barnhart, at Roodhouse, ILL.,,
shot and killed his bride of three months
and Carl Clapp.
John Gore was shot and killed by Mum
roe Mize, his father law, at a dance at
Ravenna, S. c..
Reports received from IS per cent Of the
gold mines indicate an output for this
country Of S11O,OOO,OOO.
An increase of $50, 600, 900 over the 1907
appropriations was asked for in the annual
report Of the Secretary Of War.
Texas will ship almost 100000 dressed
turkeys to the Chicago and st. Louis mar
kets during the present month.
A saloon keeper killed three negroes and
wounded two others in a barroom brawl at
Memphis, Tenn, last Thursday.
Ten men were killed and fifty injured by
the premature explosion of dynamite at
Bas Obispo, Panama Canal Zone.
A clerk at Oakland, CAL, who embezzled
$4,000 from his employers, attributed his
stealing to betting on horse races.
On his special. train J. Pierpont Morgan
travelled from Chicago to New York in
seventeen hours, establishing new record.
A two-cent letter rate, to 60 in effect
January LIST, was agreed to between the
government Of Germany and the United
States.
The value of American manufactures
exported to Europe in the fiscal year 1908
was, in round terms, 1868 900, against
1855, 0OO, 900 in 1907.
During the year ending June 30th last
there were 789 deaths among employees
of the Panama Canal, and of these 157
were due to violence.
George Middleton of Chicago, who was
a Union soldier, has contributed $50 for.
the fund now being raised to erect mon
ument to Gen. John H. Morgan, the Con-
federate cavalry leader.
Thirty hours continuous snowfall in
Montreal and throughout large portion Of
the Province of Quebec last Friday and
Saturday gave the railroads and municipal
transportation companies severe battle.
The November fire loss in the United
States and Canada totals up Sic, 1884, $50,
as compared with $40, 122, 200 for Novem-
Der, 1907. The total waste for the eleven
months of the year foots up 1924, 593, 900,
as against s199, 879, 900 for the correspond
ing period of 1907.
1t is reported that practically every one
of the 5000 S2O-gold pieces that formed
what may be called the first edition Of the
st. Gaudens eagles has already been with
drawn from circulation, and having been
carefully laid away by coin collectors, will
never again serve as currency.
Under Ohio's county option law, Lick
ing County voted on the 7th instant for
prohibition by a majority of $50. The
county seat is Newark, city with about
10000 population. Eighty-four saloons in
that county will be closed by the popular
mandate. On the same day, Hardin
County voted to go "dry" by 1900 major
ity, closing twenty-one saloons. To date
Ohio has fifty-seven prohibition counties
and 1883 saloons have been voted out of
existence.
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