The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-12-05
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The amendment Tor eQual suffrage III
Michigan was lost.
A preacher was indicted for murder in
Houlton, Maine.
An areonaut fell 1900 feet and was killed
at Jacksonville, Fla, last Sunday.
Fire last Friday destroyed seventy five
stables on the fair grounds at Rockville,
Md.
j. D. McCalmont, Millionaire of Frank
lin, Pa. suicided while his wife was at a
ball.
In 1911 steam and electric railroads of
the United States used II ,O41 900 cross
ties.
Four persons were killed and fifty four
injured in a wreck at Glen Loeb, Pa, last
Thursday.
Ten deaths and forty -one persons seri-
ously injured were the cost of football
during the year 1912.
Gov. Colquitt of Texas led procession
of $4,000 turkeys through the streets of
Cuero one day last week.
From fourteen to twenty -four inches of
snow fell at Watertown, N. Y, and other
places, Wednesday of last week.
Over thousand children formerly kept
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this week under the Child Labor Law
The Federal Supreme Court Monday
handed down decision ordering the dis
solution of the Hartman railroad merger.
| Three men were killed and four more
injured, one fatally, as the result of a boiler
explosion at Smoky Valley, KY, Friday.
| To-day the greatest commerce that was
ever known is carried on over the waters
of the Atlantic Ocean between America
and Europe.
Justine Mason, who weighed 78O pounds,
and is said to have been the largest woman
in the world, died in Montreal, Canada,
last Thursday.
State game wardens in cruise on the
destroyed 842 nets and seines said to have
been used Illegally.
Seven thousand people failed to pay
. their taxes in Henderson, County, KY, be-
fore the penalty went on last Saturday af-
ternoon at o'clock.
After an illness of several weeks dura-
ton, former United States Senator James
Gordon, seventy-nine years old, died at
Okolona, Miss, last Thursday.
i w. C. Seibert, accepted as juror in the
Sidna Allen trial for shooting up the Hills
vile, Va, court house, dropped dead at
Wytheville, Va, last Monday.
One-third of the farmers in Kentucky
hire labor and the total expenditure is
S12, PA 200, or an average of about S134
for each farmer reporting hired labor.
H. w. Parker, banker of Winnebago
Mimi, arrested st West Point, Ca, con.
, fessed to embezzling $4,000. He left wife
and two children at Winnebago, and has
since married an actress.
3 The typhoon that swept the islands O.
r Samar, Leyte and North Panay of thu
) Philippine archipelago last Thursday killee
, 260 persons at one place, fifty at another
r and destroyed much property.
Eight persons were killed and five ar.
not expected to live as result of railroad
7 wreck near Dresden, Ohio, Tuesday night
: when the engine eff another train ploughet
: through the rear coach of passenger trair
: reducing the car and its occupants to
tangled mass of broken bodies and stee
tim Der.
' William Bell, the nineteen year-old banl
clerk who, few months ago, got away
with package containing S55, 900, iron
the First National Bank at Pensacola, Fla.
later to return it, and afterwards confess
when he saw that an innocent person wa
q about to be arrested, was last Saturda,
sentenced to serve two years in the Reform
r School at Washington, D. C.