The Bossier banner., 1910-12-08
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
The population of the State of Illinois is
1885, sol.
Floods last week caused great damage to
property in France.
A million dollar meat-packing plant will
be established at jackson, Miss.
Three men were killed Saturday in a
railroad wreck at Clinchport, Va.
Petersburg, Va, had $3.50, 900 to $780,
600 in the business district Saturday.
China is seeking to effect S32,0OO,O 600
loan for the purpose Of. building it's navy.
The population of the State of Maryland
is 1 1,294, ,45O and that of Nebraska is l, 1922
214.
The next Confederate reunion will be
held in Little Rock, Ark, May 16, II and
18, 1911.
Increase in consumption of tobacco and
liquors brings the internal revenue receipts
up to $3.50, 100000.
Four men arrested in Chicago confessed
their participation in more than 100 hold
ups there within four months.
Portugal is preparing decree separat-
ing church and state, and permitting
priests to marry if they desire.
Over a thousand deer were ruthlessly
slaughtered in central and western Massa-
chusetts during the week ending Saturday,
November 26th.
Thirty-two barrels of butter, containing
5000 pounds, was recently shipped to New
York parties from Harrodsburg. Ky. It's
value was about ST 800.
The population of Pennsylvania isl $685.
III, an increase of 21.6 per cent over 1900.
The population of West Virginia is 1,123,
119, an increase Of 27.4 per cent.
The notorious Lupo gang of counterfeit
ers, black handlers and alleged nsurderers
was put out of existence last Thursday by
the arrest of thirteen Italians in New York
In suit filed in Chicago Monday stock
holder in the Illinois Central Railroad Com.
pany declared that road was mulcted to the
extent of Sc, 500 900 in fraudulent car repair
bills.
James Ogilvie Clephane, known as the
"father of the linotype" and pioneer
inventor of type writer's, died on the 1s
instant at Englewood, N. j., following 9
stroke of apoplexy.
The Kentucky State Board of Valuation
and Assessments last Thursday fixed tht
assessment on whisky at $40 per barrel
This is raise of ST per barrel over any
previous assessment.
/ One hundred and thirteen lives were los
during the hunting season in the North
which closed last Thursday. This is con
siderably more than were killed during any
previous season of which there is recorh
I A new court was established in Chicago
last Thursday which win have exclusive
!, jurisdiction over domestic tangles, the re
uniting of estranged couples, the settle
ment of lovers quarrels and the rightint
> OF the wrongs OF cnllQren.
Jessamine County, KY, it is claimed
has produced the largest yield of corn eve
known. In 1910 Gen. James Shelby o
, Fayette County received from the Agri
cultural Society premium for the mos
productive five acres of corn. The fv
acres yielded $50 bushels, or ITO bushel
, per acre.
The month of November produced
surplus of S1,000,000 where October ha
? produced deficit of $1,000, 900 in tn
, finances of the United States Treasury
+ The working balance on hand is S34, ,00O, 90
(, and the general fund amounts to $50, 900,
600. The total deficit for this fiscal yea
is SIC, 100000 as against S44, ,000, 900 thi
time last year.