The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-10-31
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The apple orchards of Arkansas are ia
nous the world over.
The United States holds the worlds SUI
premaco in the production OF iron and steel.
Indiana crude oil went above the dollar
mark Monday for the first time in eight
years.
Postmaster General Hitchcock asks
1888, 8O5, 700 for the support of the postal
service.
arrested in Philadelphia on charge of
embeZZlement.
Statements of foreign crop production
show that the yield Of staple cereals is
ahead of 1911.
The nude body of woman, supposed to
have been murdered, was found in vacant
St. Louis house.
Chicago's registration shows total of
445, O75 voters, an increase of 35, 644 over
the total of four years ago.
Five persons were killed and three fatal
ly injured when mill at Haileybury, Ont,
was blown up on the 23d inst.
The new navy wireless station at Airing
ton, Va, the most powerful >station in the
world, was opened Monday night.
Gold mines in the United States last year
were valued at S96, 100000. The value OF
gold produced was greater than in any
year except 1909.
Judge A. W. Fite of Atlanta, Ca, Mon
day paid fine of $500 assessed by the
State Court of Appeals for contempt in
criticising reversal.
More homicides were committed in Mem
phis, Tenn, in proportion to population
during the last ten years, than in any other
city in the United States.
A telephone pole was found wedged in q
trestle on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
near Meridian, Miss, and serious trair
wreck was barely averted.
Vice President James Schoolcraft Sher.
man died at his home in Utica, NJ, Y, al
GAP o'clock last night of uraemic poison
caused by Bright's disease.
! The aviation, death list has reached 200
France leads with sixty victims; the United
States is second with forty two; Germany
thirty nine; England, twenty -one.
A party of eight automobiles were
, knocked from ferry while crossing thu
Delaware River near Belvidere, N. j.
Sunday, and four of them were drowned
More than one thousand lives were los
and property damage totaling more thar
, $40, OOO, 900 was cuased by a typhoon which
, swept several islands in the Philippine
group on October 10Th.
Rev. T. U. Vaughn confessed to jury a
, Greenville, S. c., to criminally assaultin&
t little girls in his care as superintendent o
, State Odd Fellows Home, and was sen
t fenced to electrocution.
, The Government arsenal at Benecia
CAL, the principal storehouse for arm!
supplies on the Pacific Coast, was destroy
| ed by fire on the night of October 18th
8 The loss is estimated at nearly $4,000, 900
: The German Government will bar tn
f Standard Oil Company from that countr,
4 by the organization of national stool
Y company which will handle the wholesal
oil business under government supervision
!. Reports that had been current for NOR
4 than year that the Union Trust Compan,
7 of Philadelphia had been robbed of 81,
Il coo, 900 in securities and $500, 900 in cas
by an employee we're confirmed on the %
: instant.
The iniative and referendum are opera
Q tive in fourteen States of the United States
and in seven more constitutional amend
ment providing for this method of direc
legislation will shortly be submitted to
y vote of the people.
!, = The public school teachers of Philadel
= phia have been given full authority to pu
g stop to the use of cosmetics and gaud
!, : dress by their pupils. They may even g
: so far as to wash the paint off the faces {
. the young girls and order them home
= change their clothes.