The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-08-04
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

to heredlty.
Only one ounce of soap per head is an
nually used by the people of India.
In 1895 there were three cremations in
England; last year there were 1916.
The debts of American cities are rapidly
increasing, says Census Bureau report.
Coolies in the Borneo pepper fields get
S18 to S36 per year, with board and clothes.
It is estimated that the Oklahoma corn
crop has been damaged $40, OOO, 900 by the
heat
At one time railways in England were
prohibited from carrying persons going to
prize fight.
About one in ten letters passing through
the Russian Postoffice are opened on gen.
eral principles.
/ An infant six months old was found de-
serted in swamp near Mappsburg, Va,
by two gunners.
Ostrich feathers valued at 5000, 345
have been exported from the Cape of Good
Hope in one year.
i Scientists of the Smithsonian Institution
think the earth is from IS, OOO, 900 to TO-
600, 900 years old.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has ordered
breweries to stop supplying policemen and
firemen with free beer.
President Taft has approved the plan of
his political advisers to bar Roosevelt's re-
entry to the White House.
Two young women we're stripped, tarred
and feathered and ridden on a rail by
young men near Pittsburg, Pa.
The Department of Agriculture is ex-
perimenting with wild cotton from Jamaica
with view of breeding in with the native
plant.
William Richardson shot William Major
Reed dead at Mount Zion Church, in Acco-
mac County, Va, in quarrel over bot
tie Of whisky.
Nine young men and six girls were
drowned Sunday in the Lake of Tram,
near Munich, Bavaria, by the capsizing of
OdfS0 Ill d SLOftU.
The official figures show that 289, 784
fewer immigrants landed in the United
States during the last fiscal year than in
the year previous.
A freight train ran down an automobile
near Etna Green, Indiana. Two women
were killed instantly and two men were
injured, one of whom died.
Census bureau figures show that liquor
licenses in the leading cities of the country
during 1908 cost over $4,000, 900, which
the drinking men have to pay.
The education of each officer in the
Russian military school cost 1880, COM
pared with the German average of 1915
and the Austrian average of 1888.
The largest illicit still in the history of
Alabama was captured Friday near David
son, in Tallapoosa County, the plant hav-
ing capacity for manufacturing 200 gall
Ions of moonshine daily. The operators
were not arrested.
Lack of conservation in the Southern
yellow yine industry has brought crisis
in the naval stores market. Shortage in
production of turpentine and rosin leads to
the suggestion that substitutes must before
many years be found.
About 1000 acres of tobacco, nearly as
much wheat and more than 500 acres of
corn were destroyed by cloudburst in
Lincoln Bowie and Mercer countioa wv
Friday night and Saturday. A flock of
sheep were washed away. Several farm
ers and their families barely escaped death.
At least eighteen negroes were killed in
a racial clash in the extreme eastern Sec
ton of Anderson County, Texas, Friday
night and Saturday. The rioting began
near the village of Slocum. The daily
press of Texas is practically unit in the
denunciation of the slaughter, it being
as "Atrocious and nnwar-
Last Thursday night torrents of water
from 3 to an finch rainfall swept over the
fertile fields of Daviess, Hancock, Mclean
and Ohio Counties, KY, carrying away
crops, valuable timber, bridges and prac-
tically everything in the path of the swiftly
moving currents. The damage in Han
cock County to crops alone is estimated at
100000. At Philpot the water ran through
the stores and residences four feet deep.
In the lowlands of Hancock County the
uatop NO ~ foot Joo~