The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-27
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

American stoves are in great demand in
Italy.
Chicago pedestrians walk in the middle
of the street after nightfall.
Four persons were drowned in the Ohio
River at Cincinnati Sunday.
Shipping casualties of all nationalities
last year totaled 1O8 vessels, with a tonnage
of 114,231.
A Louisville, KY, man testifies under
oath that it takes forty bottles of beer to
make man drunk.
Forty-four thousand dollars has been
paid for painting by Corot, the celebrated
French landscape painter.
Marion G.. Jackson, clubman, hurled him.
self to death from the ninth floor of an
Atlanta, Ca, office building.
The total profit of British banks in 1911
was ST. ,211 ,494, which was equal to re-
turn of 1854 per cent upon the paid-up
capital.
The Ohio Supreme Court in recent de-
cision holds that a woman who steps off a
street car backwards is not entitled to
damages.
During one day at the New York fruit
of California fruit are disposed of in lots
of varying size.
By roll call vote of 2O8 to 149 the State
Constitutional Convention rejected pro-
posed amendment to the constitution grant
ing votes for women in New Hampshire.
Chinese do not take kindly to beer and a
corporation that built and equipped a
brewery on the mainland near Hong Kong
has failed and is attempting to sell its plant.
To date 800 official boards of Methodist
churches in Canada have voted in favor of
union with the Presbyterian and Congre-
gational churches and forty against union.
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, was
made temporary chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Convention and Senator
Ollie James of Kentucky, permanent chair
man.
Southern Baptists propose to raise for
their foreign work fund of ST 900, 900 for
schools and equipment and S250,OOO for
printing plants and publications on the
foreign field.
Reports received from the eleven princi
pal cotton growing States, estimate total
cotton acreage reduction of 6,071, $50, and
that the 1912 crop will be 100000. bales
less than the crop OF last year.
The Missouri corn crop will be larger than
than that of last year. One sixth of the
area of the State, including untillible land,
rivers and cities, is planted in corn. The
acreage is 8 per cent larger than last year.
The minutes of their General Assembly
show the total number of communicates of
the Southern Presbyterian Church to be
292, 845. The total contributions to benev-
client causes during the past year amount
ed to 81 ,293, 044.
The case against the Armours, Swifts
and other packers at the trial held in Chi
cago cost the government S126, 86O.46, and
then the case against the packers was lost.
One special assistant attorney received a
fee of $50, 800 and another fee of $40, 500.
A week after the skirmish at Aguaie,
Mexico, a Mexican ranchman, riding over
the battlefield, found saddled and bridled
horse, starving and thirsty, held fast by
rope clenched in the hand of dead Fed
eral officer. In the saddlebags were found
$1,000.
1t is claimed that the army worm is a
pest in South Mississippi because of the
scarcity of birds. It is said that the citi-
zens have recklessly destroyed birds dur
ing recent years. The birds live on worms,
and are, in that way, of great value to the
farmer
The latest report on the postal savings
banks shows total of about SIT 1000, 900
now on deposit in these government banks.
More than two-fifths of the total, or ST.
O35, 545, has been deposited in the banks of
thirty three cities having population of
$50, 900 or more each.
Clyde Haun and his wife, both aged
twenty-five years, unable to live together
happily, carried out suicide pact at La
porte, Indiana, by drinking acid Sunday.
Haun swallowed the acid first, then kissed
his wife good-by, and she then drank from
the same bottle.
In the debate over the temporary chair
manship of the National Democratic Con-
vention, Talbot of Maryland, severely
criticised Bryan, and said the Nebraskian
had assumed the role of dictator to the
Democratic party, and that he did not pro-
pose to submit to the dictation of Bryan or
any one man.
The report of the publishing agents of
the Methodist Church, South, for the year
ending February 80, 1912, shows net in
crease in the sales of the Publishing House
of $4,000 over last year, and gain in
profits Of $4,000. The present capital of
the Publishing House is ST, 167, 949.12, an
increase of S59, O49.97
During the absence of her husband, Mrs.
Clara B. Cross of Springfield, Mass, took
three of her children into darkened room
and turned on the gas. When the husband
returned all were dead. In note the
woman declared she knew that she was in